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Emma Breheny

Emma Breheny

Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor

Emma is Good Food’s Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor and editor of The Age Good Food Guide.

Assorted dishes at Obanzai Mama.

Obanzai Mama

For Kyoto home-style ‘grandma food’ and make-your-own bento boxes.

  • Emma Breheny
Inaugural award winner Nicole Sharrad at The Age Good Food Guide Awards in 2025.

A $10,000 opportunity for young guns of restaurant service launches

Applications are now open for a prize for the most talented front-of-house star in Victoria. The winner will be recognised by The Age Good Food Guide in October.

  • Emma Breheny
Booln Booln serves jaffles with fillings like kangaroo and lemon myrtle chicken.

Booln Booln Cafe

The gum-tree fringed Surf Coast Highway cafe spotlighting First Nations ingredients.

  • Emma Breheny
Dawn and Mabels feels cosy and classic inside.

Dawn and Mabel’s

An Art Deco-style bar with a globetrotting wine list.

  • Emma Breheny
Inside Project Zero on King Street.

Project Zero

Hole-in-the-wall King Street cafe serving coffee, matcha, pastries and more.

  • Emma Breheny and Emily Holgate
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The popular Daylesford wine bar is moving - but not far.

A favourite hatted Daylesford restaurant is saying goodbye, but not for long

The team behind this award-winning spot, loved by locals and daytrippers, have big plans for a new site. And it’s just a stone’s throw from the original.

  • Emma Breheny
Khanom jeen (rice noodles with curry and condiments).

R.Harn

A Southern Thai diner by the Soi 38 team.

  • Emma Breheny
Mortadeli’s meatball sub with basil pesto and parmigiano.

Mortadeli

A sandwich shop, deli and pasta bar under one roof.

  • Emma Breheny
Mortadeli in Torquay is combining sandwich shop, pasta bar and deli under one roof.

Torquay’s favourite sandwich bar is moving, but it’s good news for fans of carbs

There’s more to love at the new Mortadeli, including carbonara-inspired breakfast wraps, pasta all day, and Roman drinking food. Plus, a nearby cafe has an all-Australian menu led by jaffles.

  • Emma Breheny
Inside Tiny Bar, Brunswick East.

Tiny Bar

There’s only room for 15 people at this tiny Brunswick East venue.

  • Emma Breheny

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/by/emma-breheny-h29n1a