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Sarah Norris

Sarah Norris

Head of Good Food

Sarah is Head of Good Food and a former national editor at Broadsheet.

The Age Good Food Guide 2025.

Meet the people behind our Good Food Guide

The launch of the Herald’s Good Food Guide is one of the most anticipated events of the year. We talk to the people behind the chef’s hats.

  • Bevan Shields, Sarah Norris and Callan Boys
The Airport Chauffeur cocktail at Maybe Sammy.

Good Food Guide 2025: Sydney’s top 20 bars

Our annual list of the best gin joints, cantinas and cocktail lounges across town. Cin, cin.

Martinis any way you like ’em at Bar Planet.

The Good Food guide to Sydney’s best 20 bars, right now

Cin, cin. It’s our annual list of the best gin joints, cantinas and cocktail lounges across town.

  • Callan Boys, Matty Hirsch, Sarah Norris and David Matthews
Le Foote in The Rocks.

The Good Food Guide drops Swillhouse venues, introduces workplace culture award

It’s the biggest evolution to the Guide’s approach to reviews in its four-decade history.

  • Sarah Norris
North Sydney has become a banh mi bonanza.

These are the six best things to eat and drink at North Sydney’s Victoria Cross Station

The Good Food team checked out the new food vendors at the metro line’s much anticipated new station. Here are their picks of the lunch bunch.

  • Callan Boys, Sarah Norris and Bianca Hrovat
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There’s no menu at this choose-your-own adventure inner-west deli. Best of all, no matter what you choose, your sandwich will be $15.

I lined up for 65 minutes for this $15 sandwich, and I’d do it again

There’s no menu at this family-run inner west Italian deli. Instead, let the experts, who’ve been doing it for 43 years, guide your panini adventure.

  • Sarah Norris
The Unicorn Hotel at 106 Oxford Street, Paddington.

The Unicorn calls last orders, ending an era for the pokie-free ‘proper Aussie pub’

Fans of its wing-on chicken schnitzel and Jatz with French onion dip still have time to visit the Paddington boozer before the operators finish up.

  • Sarah Norris
Fans watch the World Cup match between France and Australia at the Coogee Bay Hotel.

Seven places to watch the Paris Olympics in Sydney

Including a French rooftop restaurant serving martinis and fries, a Japanese sports bar with snacks, and a spot showing the swimming finals, with croissants.

  • Bianca Hrovat and Sarah Norris
Lit Canteen’s juicy pho-mi sandwich with slow-cooked brisket.

This banh mi-pho hybrid is inspired by The Bear’s Chicago beef sandwich

Is this juicy, limited-edition sanger a smart union or a flawed creation? Sandwich watch hands down its verdict.

  • Sarah Norris
On A Roll’s brisket sandwich.

A tiny shack in a nondescript arcade is serving some of Sydney’s best brisket sandwiches

The meat is smoked for 14 hours at the owner’s home then served from a no-frills kiosk in a tired arcade.

  • Sarah Norris

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/by/sarah-norris-p536sd