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Duan Wong and Isabella Wong at The Malaya’s new home.

Beloved 60-year-old family-run restaurant The Malaya opens at new location

It might be a new chapter for the Malaysian institution, but old favourites such as its signature laksa (made with cow’s milk) and beef rendang will still entice regulars.

  • Scott Bolles
Bun bo hue
14/20

Visit this shopping strip eatery for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

It’s worth trawling the menu at bustling Bankstown eatery VBites for Hue and Central Vietnamese dishes not often found in Sydney restaurants.

  • Helen Yee
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

This family-run cafe and pasticceria is an old Italian soul worth visiting

In a quiet suburban shopping strip, Maggio’s offers a cornucopia of maritozzi, sfogliatelle and excellent chicken schnitzel sandwiches.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Papi’s Birria
13/20

This petrol-station food truck on Parramatta Road is serving some of Sydney’s best tacos

The lines are long, but Papi’s slow-cooked, spice-throbbing beef folded into cheesy tacos are worth the wait and messy hands.

  • Callan Boys
Bougatsa and coffee.

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Smoked burramundi curry.

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Shady Pines Saloon soon after opening in 2010.

Swillhouse’s bar Shady Pines Saloon to close after dispute resolved with landlord

The venue helped redefine the city’s bar culture, before allegations of sexual misconduct rocked its parent company. Now the site is being turned into a private members’ club.

  • Scott Bolles
Tomato, strawberry, oyster, prawns, lemon aspen and green ants.
Good Food hat15.5/20

New chef, new tricks for ultra-hip rooftop restaurant Kiln

One of Australia’s most internationally lauded chefs never to have run a restaurant in his home country writes a delicious new chapter for Sydney’s Ace Hotel.

  • David Matthews
An artist’s impression of the forthcoming 25hours Hotel The Olympia in Paddington.

Trio of hip London hospo venues to launch Sydney spin-offs at historic Oxford Street site

The Palomar restaurant is one of three venues to open at the former home of the Grand Pacific Blue Room when it relaunches as a hotel.

  • Scott Bolles
Chocolatier Tina Angelidis at her shop Adora in Earlwood.

Sky-high chocolate prices are here to stay. What will be in store for sweet tooths?

Sydney’s pastry chefs and chocolatiers are getting creative to stay afloat during the global chocolate crisis. Here’s what you’ll be eating more – and less - of.

  • Scott Bolles

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/goodfood/topic/sydney-fp5