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Sheng jian bao (pan-fried pork buns) are a signature at Hong’s Dumplings.

10 of Melbourne’s best Chinese restaurants from the Good Food Guide

Melbourne’s good fortune when it comes to Chinese restaurants is worth celebrating all year, but especially during Chinese New Year, with a feast of prosperous dishes.

  • Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
Cocktails at Olympia sneak in Greek ingredients like ouzo.

From posh to party, these 10 new rooftop bars and restaurants are built for anything

Around Victoria, you can take your pick of seaside gems, suburban finds and rollicking rooftops, as the options for open-air drinking and dining multiply.

  • Emma Breheny
Motokichi Yukimura of Kyoto’s Kichi Kichi

How to nail the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival if you’re from interstate

From free tacos to cult wine, an Indian feast in the mountains and a famous British restaurant, this is a guide to the country’s most exciting food festival.

  • Myffy Rigby
Siconi Gelato offers puppy ice-cream at its shops.

11 new and underrated ice-cream spots for this sizzling hot day

Melbourne’s growing ranks of gelato and ice-cream shops are bringing tea, viral chocolate bars and tropical desserts into the mix.

  • Emma Breheny and Dani Valent
Handmade pasta is a focus at Abbiocco.

10 of Melbourne’s best Italian restaurants (and how to dine for less at each)

Find $16 margherita pizza, weekend lunch menus with endless focaccia and drinks, and a date-night deal with a price that’ll have you feeling loved up.

  • Good Food Guide reviewers
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The Salad roll served at St Paul’s General Store, 69 St Pauls Rd Sorrento.

‘I once ate two in one sitting’: A peak summer salad sandwich from a seaside general store

Take the rainbow road right to the beach with this ready-made, reasonably priced and remarkably constructed sanger.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Lily McGrath is a chef at MoVida restaurant in Melbourne’s CBD.

Lob up to these 10 highly rated restaurants within a 20 minute walk to the tennis

When it comes to quality dining mere minutes from centre court, Melbourne smashes it. Here are 10 of the best spots to eat out before or after the tennis.

  • Andrea McGinniss and Good Food Guide reviewers
Clockwise from top: Piccolo Panini Bar’ Stephen Hatzikourtis and Damian Iaconis; Entrecote’s Jason Jones; A1 Bakery owners; Ostro’s Julia Busuttil Nishimura.

Top serves: Your essential guide to eating and drinking at this year’s Australian Open

Whether you’re taking the kids or maxing out the credit card, this year’s tournament has a menu to match. Choose from shattery fried chicken, two-hat restaurants, vibrant noodle salads or money-can’t-buy moments.

  • Donna Demaio
Stokehouse Pasta & Bar: sand adjacent.

Victoria’s 10 best waterfront restaurants for great food with a beautiful view

From seaside stalwarts to breezy new arrivals, the Good Food Guide to the best food with a sea or lake-side view this summer and beyond.

  • Good Food Guide reviewers
Sunny vibes at Astoria.

Melbourne’s Greek wave builds with this sunny new taverna (plus three more to try)

At Astoria Bar Ke Grill, owner Nik Pouloupatis is drawing on his mum’s home cooking for a menu of Greece’s greatest hits – plus ouzo mojitos and mastiha sours.

  • Daniela Frangos

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