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Your May hit list: The hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

From a petrol-station food truck serving some of Sydney’s best tacos to a reborn 60-year-old family-run restaurant, here’s where (and what) to eat and drink in Sydney this month.

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From left: Black sesame and Vietnamese yoghurt and sugarcane and calamansi sorbet.

‘The most refreshing scoop’: Visiting Kreamu dessert parlour is like taking a tropical holiday

  • Lee Tran Lam
Papi’s Birria
13/20

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

  • Callan Boys
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

Family-run cafe and pasticceria Maggio’s is an old Italian soul worth visiting

  • Lenny Ann Low
Fish of the day and chips.

Seaside fish shop Rosie’s Fish and Chips may sell the best fish 𝄒n𝄒 chips in the state

  • Lenny Ann Low
Bun bo hue
14/20

Visit VBites for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

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

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

  • David Matthews
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Lunetta, Canberra.
Good Food hat15/20

Canberra’s newest hatted restaurant Lunetta is a beacon of big-night energy

  • David Matthews
Egg salad fried sandwich.

Are these viral Japanese sandwiches at Age.3 worth a 40-minute wait?

  • Lenny Ann Low
Billy Wong.
14/20

If little of the original Golden Century remains, is it still Golden Century? The verdict

  • Myffy Rigby
14.5/20

Itching to get out of town? Chillis Cottage in Davistown is your new weekend destination

  • Callan Boys
Double Happy.
11.5/20

Dead flies in the soy sauce: Our critic’s verdict of George Calombaris’ Chinese restaurant Double Happy

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

Beloved 60-year-old family-run restaurant The Malaya returns to George Street

  • Scott Bolles
The Collective in The Rocks.

‘No one is opening 300-plus seat venues like this’: Rockpool team rebirths The Argyle

  • Scott Bolles
Sippenham.

Find French snacks, espresso martini slushies and BYO wine at Sydney’s new bars

  • Bianca Hrovat

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