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Good Food Guide 2025

Hospitality worker Jamie Bucirde was honoured with Victoria’s first Cultural Change Champion award.

Good Food Guide’s first Cultural Change Champion in Victoria is crusading against sexual assault

For Jamie Bucirde, what started out as an Instagram account has grown into a bone fide nationwide movement.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Forks

Snacky skewers, wonky forks: The dining trends we loved (and hated) in 2024

Sweet touches such as chocolate with the bill were a delight. But disintegrating sandwiches, edible flowers and mangled cutlery stood out for all the wrong reasons.

  • Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2025, held in the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne.

Everything you need to know about The Age Good Food Guide 2025

Catch up on all the action, hats, finalists and winners from The Age Good Food Guide, presented by Vittoria Coffee and Oceania Cruises, at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom on Monday, November 18.

Guests at The Age Good Food Guide Awards.

Red carpet, cocktails and colour from The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

The cream of Victoria’s dining scene gathered at the Plaza Ballroom on November 18 for the glittering Good Food Guide Awards. Here’s a snapshot from the big night.

Who’s up and who’s down in 2025?

‘Back with a bang’: The restaurants with new hats (and lost hats) in The Age Good Food Guide 2025

An iconic fine diner reclaims its three-hat status. High-profile operators take hits. And omakase restaurants rise and fall.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Greg Malouf at MoMo’s, the Melbourne basement restaurant where he was awarded two chefs’ hats.

Patient, kind and generous: Chef Greg Malouf’s enduring kitchen legacy

Before anyone had heard of Yotam Ottolenghi, this year’s Vittoria Coffee Legend Award winner was introducing Melburnians to Middle Eastern flavours.

  • Besha Rodell
Chef of the Year Jung Eun Chae.

The complete list of winners at The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

From the coveted major prize categories to our three new awards, meet the best the Victorian hospitality industry has to offer right now.

The Age Good Food Guide 2025.

The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2025: The full list of hats

From one hat to three, the essential list of every hat-winning restaurant from The Age Good Food Guide 2025.

The Albion Hotel pours mostly Bodriggy beers.

Hold our beer, the pub is back. Here are Melbourne’s 20 best right now

In the lead-up to The Age Good Food Guide on sale from November 19, we raise a glass to the return of the pub, in a big and welcome way.

  • Daniela Frangos and Jay Clough
Emils’ Turkish eggs with sujuk sausage and simit bread.

The brunch bunch: Melbourne’s top 30 cafes right now

In the countdown to The Age Good Food Guide 2025, we celebrate the cafes that provide perfect cremas and brunch every which way, always with a side of joy.

  • Dani Valent

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