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Classic rooftop club Birdees is now a salubrious beer garden, bar and eateyr.

Storied Brisbane club reborn as a sun-kissed beer garden and eatery

There are 16 beer taps, stacks of cocktails, and a food menu much better than it perhaps has any right to be. Take a look inside.

  • Matt Shea
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
The great Good Food Melbourne croissant taste test.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best croissants, and a surprise suburban bakery took top spot

Six Good Food judges blind tasted 23 buttery pastries to find the city’s No.1, from Baker Bleu to Bread Club. Spoiler alert, Lune, isn’t number one.

  • Emma Breheny
Inside the Barragunda dining room.
Good Food hatGood Food hat17/20

The Mornington Peninsula’s newest two-hatted fine-diner is very fancy – but still a bargain

Barragunda gives critic Besha Rodell hope for the future of dining in Victoria.

  • Besha Rodell
Chadstone

Chadstone’s shiny new Market Pavilion is a spectacle, but does it deserve the hype?

Recipe bots, pre-packaged meals and sweet treats are all there. But where do you sit down and eat? Here’s Good Food’s guide to the enormous food precinct.

  • Emma Breheny
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11.5/20

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

Callan Boys digs the cosplay dining room, but wonders if diners should spend their money at a theme-park tribute or a family-run original.

  • Callan Boys
Matt Okine and Dan Wilson at their newly opened LPO wine store in Tarragindi.

Comedian Matt Okine opens a cosy wine spot in Brisbane’s south

Locals are flocking to this former post office for rare – but affordably priced – bottles from Australia, France, the Czech Republic, Canada and beyond.

  • Matt Shea
Billy Wong.
14/20

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

For devotees of the Cantonese icon, the reborn GC might feel like your parents have moved from your childhood home into flash new digs. But you’ll be hard-pressed to find yum cha with a better view.

  • Myffy Rigby
A drizzle of lemon juice and a scatter of basil leaves and feta adds spark to this one-tray wonder.

This gluten-free one-tray chicken and veg from a nutritionist is your new midweek go-to

These easy family-friendly recipes are packed with lean proteins and vegetables – and they’re naturally gluten-free.

  • Sarah Pound
Bar Miette’s muffuletta sandwich.

A Hector’s Deli founder is behind one of Brisbane’s tastiest sandwiches

Stuffed full of LP’s Quality Meats cold cuts and built on Agnes Bakery bread, this exactingly constructed creation keeps getting better.

  • Matt Shea

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