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Good for solo diners

Choose a seat to suit your mood at basement bar Mr Mills.

Mr Mills

A moody basement bar that’s all about Spanish snacking.

  • Emma Breheny
Chashu pork, nori and bamboo shoots top the original bowl.

Kajiken

Serving aburasoba (soupless ramen) inside a busy train station.

  • Emma Breheny
Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.
14/20

This Korean restaurant only sells one type of soup, but the queue starts early

Sydney has a new holder for the title of Koreatown. “I didn’t expect it to be so popular,” says the chef of Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang in the thriving new hub.

  • Kevin Cheng
Crullers and spiced almonds.

This semi-hidden CBD spot for two-hatted snacks takes orders until 11pm

Clocktower Bar at Shell House is a deep-red cocoon of cocktails and crullers nine storeys above the street.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Mister Grotto is set among a new strip of venues on Australia Street.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Mister Grotto is the ‘smart-casual fish shop that’s long been missing from Sydney’

The Continental Delicatessen crew blend South American cuisines with North Carolina fish camp vibes at this inner west seafood bar.

  • Callan Boys
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Wood-fired fennel, spinach, chicory and ricotta pie.
Good Food hat15.5/20

A restaurant for the share-plate generation: Bessie’s clocks up a second hat for the Bar Copains team

The Surry Hills hotspot is all about snacks, fizzy wine and a wood-fired pie.

  • David Matthews
Assorted sandwiches, the San San salad and deli plate.

San San

  • Erina Starkey
Chef Kirbie Tate has flipped James into the eponymous Kirbie.
14/20

Restaurant goes from modern Korean to broadly European and finds its identity

Chef Kirbie Tate finally has her name up in lights at her eponymous bistro Kirbie (nee James).

  • Dani Valent
Temaki platter, nori sheets and rice, ready for DIY assembly.

Get hands-on with this sushi platter with a difference at this 10-seat city restaurant

Tiny Temaki Sushi joins Melbourne’s growing number of Japanese specialty venues.

  • Dani Valent
The king-size thali at Namaste Haifa in Ormond.

This affordable, female-led eatery provides an ‘extraordinary’ discount to certain diners

Create your own vegetarian thali from the day’s 20 specials, all cooked by a team of mothers.

  • Dani Valent

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