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The liquor license at Trading Post Laguna dates back to 1879.

Good Food’s must-visit bakeries, cafes and wineries on the Sydney-to-Brisbane drive

Turn your road trip along the New England Highway into an adventure starring a bar with the drinks list of the year, a mill used by top Aussie bakeries and more.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Duan Wong and Isabella Wong at The Malaya’s new home.

Beloved 60-year-old family-run restaurant The Malaya returns to George Street

It might be a new chapter for the Malaysian institution, but old favourites such as its signature laksa (made with cow’s milk) and beef rendang will still entice regulars.

  • Scott Bolles
Cypriot grain salad.

Is it possible to improve the greatest salad of all time? Good Food gives it a crack

The cult Cypriot grain salad has had more than 5 million downloads and is a mainstay of many a family table. But can we make it even better? Only one way to find out.

  • Good Food team
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The Builders Arms fish pie is a year-round favourite.

Try this fish pie recipe and you’ll see why it’s a menu fixture at this famous Melbourne pub

Comforting but not too heavy, this creamy fish pie is a year-round favourite. So don’t be shy – bust through the golden pastry cap and dive right in.

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
There’s no shortage of wraps in Sydney (even Woolies has a chicken caesar wrap), but no one is making one quite like Cross Section.

This hole-in-a-wall shop sells 200 mammoth chicken caesar wraps daily

The first wrap to be inducted into Sandwich Watch, this rock star of a sanger delivers a satisfying crunch, proving size does matter.

  • Howard Chen

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The Builders Arms fish pie is a year-round favourite.

Try this fish pie recipe and you’ll see why it’s a menu fixture at this famous Melbourne pub

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
Roasted garlic, onion and lemon become the dressing for this simple lamb roast.
  • Recipe collection
  • Lamb

11 fall-apart lamb shoulder recipes (plus the perfect roast potatoes) for your Easter feast

Helen Goh recipe: Hot cross buns.

Helen Goh tested it five times before cracking the secret to these perfect hot cross buns

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Chocolate caramel tart.

‘Chocolate caramel slice for grown-ups’: This tart is buttery, rich and chewy all over

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Emelia Jackson
Barbecued lamb leg with tomato and mint.

Plan now and cook later: 30+ mix-and-match recipes for your Easter feast

Eating out

Bun bo hue
14/20

Visit this shopping strip eatery for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

It’s worth trawling the menu at bustling Bankstown eatery VBites for Hue and Central Vietnamese dishes not often found in Sydney restaurants.

  • Helen Yee
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

This family-run cafe and pasticceria is an old Italian soul worth visiting

  • Lenny Ann Low
Sippenham.

Find French snacks, espresso martini slushies and BYO wine at Sydney’s new bars

  • Bianca Hrovat
The Cricketers Arms Hotel former chef Martial (Max) Cosyn and current chef Wesley Cooper Jones, with fish and prawn terrine on gazpacho coulis and lemon tart, with double cream and almond.

Sydney pub turns back time, reviving its 1980s menu with prawn terrine and gazpacho

  • Bianca Hrovat

Lists & guides

The Ester Spirits x Aplenty Viva Pomodoro! Tomato Party is a one-day celebration of the long lunch.

Chef takeovers, restaurant pop-ups, unusual locales – food festivals worth travelling for

Humble’s hot cross bun comes with salted butter ice-cream.

The Good Food Guide to Sydney’s softest and hottest cross buns (but not as you know them)

Rocket Kulfi , Chulho.

Eat streets: Where to eat along Wigram Street (aka Sydney’s Little India)

Pork kalamaki (pork souvlaki).

March hit list: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

A selection of the 25 croissants sampled as part of the Good Food croissant taste test.

Good Food taste tests 27 plain croissants from top Sydney bakeries

Happyfield source their maple syrup from Quebec.

Batter up! The best pancakes in Sydney, from souffle stacks to hotcakes

Julia Busuttil Nishimura will prepare the World’s Longest Brunch in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Grilled pork jowl with smoked chilli nam jim at Porkfat.

Eight of the best Thai restaurants to visit in Sydney, right now

Go Go Yaki at Burwood’s Chinatown hub.

The Good Food guide to Sydney’s ‘second Chinatown’

Beverly Hills Chinese Restaurant.

10 of Sydney’s best Chinese restaurants from the Good Food Guide

***EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, MARCH 5/22 ISSUE*** Pellegrino 2000 - GOOD WEEKEND - Ravioli di gamberi at Pellegrino 2000 in Surry Hills Sydney on the 25/02/22 (Photo by Christopher Pearce)

The Good Food Guide to 10 of Sydney’s best hatted Italian restaurants

Nine regional restaurants the Good Food team can’t wait to dine at this year

Nine regional restaurants the Good Food team can’t wait to dine at this year

Recent reviews

Bun bo hue
14/20

Visit this shopping strip eatery for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

  • Helen Yee
Papi’s Birria
13/20

This petrol-station food truck on Parramatta Road is serving some of Sydney’s best tacos

  • Callan Boys
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

This family-run cafe and pasticceria is an old Italian soul worth visiting

  • Lenny Ann Low
Tomato, strawberry, oyster, prawns, lemon aspen and green ants.
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New chef, new tricks for ultra-hip rooftop restaurant Kiln

  • David Matthews
Fish of the day and chips.

This seaside fish shop may sell the best fish 𝄒n𝄒 chips in the state

  • Lenny Ann Low

Recipes

Hot cross bun pudding.
EASY

Make the most of leftover hot cross buns and Easter eggs with Adam Liaw’s bun-and-butter pudding

Hot cross buns and butter are a match made in heaven, so you’re sure to love this matching of bun-and-butter pudding with Easter egg ice-cream

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
One-pan rosemary chicken and potatoes.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s one-pan rosemary chicken and potatoes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
Perfect on its own or served with greek yoghurt or ice-cream.
EASY

Chocolate, zucchini and hazelnut loaf

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Barbecued lamb leg with tomato and mint.
EASY

Adam Liaw’s barbecued lamb leg with tomato and mint salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw

Recipe collections

Spring greens and cheese pie

Say cheese (and veg)! 30+ family-size vegetarian pies and tarts for easy entertaining

Japanese strawberry milk.

Shake things up with these fun and easy recipes for relaxed holiday get-togethers

Neil Perry’s cacio e pepe.

10 simple recipes to cook while you’re camping or caravanning (plus packing tips)

Serve these lamb cutlets with tzatziki (pictured).

10 basic but beaut barbecue recipes to grill this unseasonably sunny weekend

Adam Liaw's spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter recipe.

20 of Adam Liaw’s all-time best autumn recipes to have on hand

Cilbir with Ramazan pidesi (Turkish eggs with flatbread).

Five simple but impressive brunch dishes to whip up this weekend

This budget-friendly tray bake is an all-in-one dinner winner.

20 fantastic foolproof recipes guaranteed to work every time

Romesco pasta with ricotta.

Five things to do with romesco, the Spanish flavour bomb (and how to make the sauce at home)

Steak with artichokes

14 high-protein, low-carb meals to cook this week

Jill Dupleix's green herb isotto with optional poached eggs.

10 recipes that make the most of garden herbs

Andrew McConnell’s blood plum crostata.

At their peak, plentiful and affordable: Five plum perfect bakes for the weekend

This Thai-inspired green curry-flavoured chicken dish comes together quickly.

14 simple meals made in under 30 minutes using 12 ingredients or fewer

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Tips & advice

Pre-prepared casseroles make great camping food.

Camping this Easter? These are the foods to take (and the ones to leave behind)

  • Dani Valent
Greek lemon chicken and potatoes.

The experts reveal their most underrated ingredients – and how to use them

  • Nina Rousseau
Chocolate

Can chocolate ever be healthy? A dietitian breaks it down (plus her five top picks)

  • Susie Burrell

Dining solo? Put down the book and follow this essential advice instead

  • Terry Durack
Frozen dumplings are good to have on stand-by.

The frozen foods a dietitian always has on hand (and how to use them)

  • Susie Burrell

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Joji bar manager Pino Montis.

Why are non-alcoholic cocktails as expensive as the boozy ones?

  • Daniel Herborn
Cilbir with Ramazan pidesi (Turkish eggs with flatbread).

Five simple but impressive brunch dishes to whip up this weekend

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Duan Wong and Isabella Wong at The Malaya’s new home.

Beloved 60-year-old family-run restaurant The Malaya returns to George Street

  • Scott Bolles
Cypriot grain salad.

Is it possible to improve the greatest salad of all time? Good Food gives it a crack

  • Good Food team
The Builders Arms fish pie is a year-round favourite.

Try this fish pie recipe and you’ll see why it’s a menu fixture at this famous Melbourne pub

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Andrew McConnell
The liquor license at Trading Post Laguna dates back to 1879.

Good Food’s must-visit bakeries, cafes and wineries on the Sydney-to-Brisbane drive

  • Bianca Hrovat
There’s no shortage of wraps in Sydney (even Woolies has a chicken caesar wrap), but no one is making one quite like Cross Section.

This hole-in-a-wall shop sells 200 mammoth chicken caesar wraps daily

  • Howard Chen

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