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Canteen Pizza.

Mid-week wonders: dining bargains and meal deals to get you through the hump day slump

Including approachable fine dining, one-dollar chicken wings, half-price pizzas and all the mussels you can eat.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
New dining room Ah Um in Perth’s Chinatown.

Intimate 25-seat restaurant from the Astral Weeks crew opens in Perth’s Chinatown

The clubby, dimly lit dining room of Ah Um might be hard to pigeonhole, but it’s all too easy to like.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
WAtoday/Good Food. South Bird, Northbridge. Nashville-style hot fried chicken. Picture: Jacqueline Jane van Grootel

The chicken shop bringing a red-hot taste of Nashville to Northbridge

The North Bird space is flying (and frying) south and rebooting as a 50-seat diner focusing on “crunchy as hell” fried chicken, spice-friendly drinks and good music.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Things are changing for the better at Alberta’s Busselton.

The big change coming for soulful Busselton eatery opened by Noma alumni

“For our business to remain sustainable, it needs to serve us as well as we serve others.”

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Karen Martini’s potato cake with whipped cod roe and avruga at her new restaurant, Saint George.

The latest trend in fine-dining is … the potato scallop (or cake)

From powdered seaweed to caviar, chefs across NSW and Victoria are finding new ways to modernise the milk bar classic.

  • Scott Bolles
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Sean Hong, owner of tonkatsu restaurant Katzu Katzu in Victoria Park. Picture: Supplied

What is tonkatsu? The Japanese soul food at the heart of this new Victoria Park restaurant

Operating out of a cosy 32-seat dining room, a former Nobu chef is using heritage breed pigs and house-made panko to create fried pork cutlets of a higher order.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Gerard’s Bistro owner Johnny Moubarak and executive chef Jimmy Richardson.

Celebrated restaurant Gerard’s Bistro announces new executive chef

Former Leonard’s Bar & Bistro chef Jimmy Richardson returns to Gerard’s after it receives a facelift from a Sushi Room and Same Same designer.

  • Matt Shea
The terrace at Stokehouse.
For Gemima Cody column Good Food, Oct 19, 2021.

15 of Victoria’s best places to eat and drink on the waterfront

Make the most of the warmer weather with a sunny perch overlooking some sparkling water views. From bayside to riverside, here are some of the best.

Me-Gal in the Wildlife Retreat at Taronga Zoo, Sydney.

50 of Sydney’s best long lazy lunch spots that go beyond the sandwich

Whether they’re on the waterfront, in the inner city or worth a longer drive, Sydney’s leisurely lunch spots are just perfect for sitting back, relaxing and soaking it all in.

An artist's impression of the Fink restaurant group's upcoming Surry Hills restaurant.
For Good Food, June 14, 2022

Restaurant group Fink scraps plans for Surry Hills Village venture

A year after the deal was inked, plans to open a 160-seat restaurant at the Cleveland Street development have been axed.

  • Scott Bolles

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