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Local designer Luchetti Krelle captures all the best bits of Australian life by the coast.
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This breezy new beach spot from a top Italian chef ‘feels made to go from surf-to-seat’

Ormeggio chef Alessandro Pavoni’s Manly venture has a bar, cafe-gelateria and restaurant, Cibaria, serving exciting, saucy carbs and scorched treats.

  • Myffy Rigby

The Farm Cafe

This venue is a finalist for best family-friendly cafes in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

The roast chicken roll with house-made stuffing and fried chicken skin.

Levi

This venue is a finalist for best family-friendly cafes in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

A selection of coffees at Rosso.

Rosso Coffee Experience

This cafe is a finalist for best coffee in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Mains, such as inside skirt steak, come with a salad, Colombian-style sauces – one a lemony sour cream, the other a zesty tomato – and a choice of fries, rice, plantain fritters, cassava chips or golden potatoes (pictured).
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This surprising steakhouse serves limousine food at rust-bucket prices

Juan Berbeo of Berbeo Bar & Grill isn’t our best-known steak specialist, but it’s hard to imagine many local chefs have cooked as much meat as he has.

  • Dani Valent
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Prawn laksa made with dairy milk.
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Does this reborn Malaysian institution still deliver after six decades? Here’s our verdict

Beloved family-run restaurant The Malaya has served Sydney since 1963. Now it’s opened slick new digs near Circular Quay.

  • Kevin Cheng
Cressida is, fundamentally, a nice place to sit with a coffee and read the paper.
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Our critic doesn’t like to eat out for brunch. This neighbourhood cafe changed his mind

You can now book for dinner at Cafe Cressida too, whose menu comes from “one of Sydney’s most proficient cross-pollinators of cuisines”.

  • Callan Boys
The spacious tavern is great for groups.
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This city laneway favourite has fed up to 650 diners a night since 1968. Is it on your radar?

I was doubtful about this boisterous beer-hall in Chinatown, but I’ve been disarmed and charmed, writes Dani Valent.

  • Dani Valent
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This mood-lit Japanese grill house isn’t just another tick-a-box yakitori joint

A seat at Ibushi’s handsome bar is the perfect spot to watch chefs grill meat and fish over charcoal at Sydney’s expansive new fine-dining precinct.

  • Callan Boys
The family-made food of Philhellene in Moonee Ponds.

Philhellene

Family-run institution for Cretan-influenced feasts.

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/topic/events-lbj