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Good Food Guide’s first Cultural Change Champion in Victoria is crusading against sexual assault
For Jamie Bucirde, what started out as an Instagram account has grown into a bone fide nationwide movement.
- Tomas Telegramma
Snacky skewers, wonky forks: The dining trends we loved (and hated) in 2024
- Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
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‘Back with a bang’: The restaurants with new hats (and lost hats) in The Age Good Food Guide 2025
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Hold our beer, the pub is back. Here are Melbourne’s 20 best right now
In the lead-up to The Age Good Food Guide on sale from November 19, we raise a glass to the return of the pub, in a big and welcome way.
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Our annual list of the top brewpubs, cocktail lounges, gin joints and dive bars across town. Plus the city’s go-to drinking snack, served in a glass.
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The brunch bunch: Melbourne’s top 30 cafes right now
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Loaded lobster rolls, best-in-class brisket, and noodles tossed expertly in the wok: our reviewers reveal their hitlists.
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Snacky skewers, wonky forks: The dining trends we loved (and hated) in 2024
- Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
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