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Falafel with tahini, pickles and zhoug.
14/20

One of Melbourne’s favourite falafel crosses the river to get to this southside bar

It’s worth coming to cocktail bar Nobody’s Baby for the crunchy-fluffy falafel alone.

  • Dani Valent
The arayes pita with tomato salad and amba.

Kepos Street Kitchen

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Sydney Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Nabil Hassan, owner of Half Moon Cafe in Coburg.

Half Moon Cafe

Inside Windsor’s Maha East.

Maha East

The Windsor offshoot of a hatted CBD restaurant.

  • Emily Holgate
Mohammad Ismail with the first batch of Palestinian nabulsi knafeh at his Lakemba Nights stall.

From stretchy knafeh to top-value biryani: Where to eat during Ramadan in Sydney

With feasts spanning Sydney from Liverpool to Surry Hills, try these delicious events and specials during Ramadan this year.

  • Isabel Cant
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Jamsheed’s converted industrial dining room.
14/20

The mash-up of cuisines at this suburban winery makes our critic ‘giddy’ (in a good way)

Clara Luna serves bar food, but it’s also soul food; Middle Eastern and South American, but also Australian.

  • Besha Rodell
Skewer medley with batata bi kizbara and cheese sambousek from Al Aseel in Liverpool.

This restaurant started in western Sydney. Now it’s taking on airline food, stadiums and precincts

The ambitious group began by serving Lebanese food in Greenacre in 2002, but says real estate agents suddenly began calling.

  • Scott Bolles
Mirza ghasemi (eggplant and tomato) tahdig sandwich.

This prized dish is often fought over, but here the crispy rice is twice as nice, and all yours

Saffron-hued Tida Persian Food serves the crisp-bottomed tahdig in sandwich form, no sharing required.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Baba’s Place is a vibe, even at 9:30pm at night.
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How this converted warehouse became Sydney’s most trailblazing restaurant

The Good Food Guide’s inaugural Bill Granger Trailblazer winner is redefining its “suburban cuisine”.

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Henrietta’s charcoal chicken with condiments, bread and pickles.

Henrietta

Get reacquainted with the delights of charcoal chicken, and then some.

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