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Road trip! Must-visit bakeries, cafes and wineries on the Sydney-to-Brisbane drive

Turn your road trip along the New England Highway into an adventure starring a bar with the drinks list of the year, a mill used by top Aussie bakeries and more.

  • Bianca Hrovat
There’s no shortage of wraps in Sydney (even Woolies has a chicken caesar wrap), but no one is making one quite like Cross Section.

This hole-in-a-wall shop sells 200 mammoth chicken caesar wraps daily

The first wrap to be inducted into Sandwich Watch, this rock star of a sanger delivers a satisfying crunch, proving size does matter.

  • Howard Chen
Rooster Bar’s chicken fillet sandwich.

‘Best $10.50 I’ve ever spent’: This no-frills chicken shop has a sanger you’ll want to eat on repeat

With pudgy pita bread and juicy chicken breast, Rooster Bar’s budget-friendly roll is one Sandwich Watch correspondent Tomas Telegramma can’t get enough of.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Gracie’s lush courtyard is popular on weekends.

From lofty rooftops to leafy courtyards, five new bars for this gloriously sunny weekend

From South Yarra to Thornbury, these new watering holes (some of them sun-drenched) are worth making plans around to soak up the last of the warm weather.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The Cricketers Arms Hotel former chef Martial (Max) Cosyn and current chef Wesley Cooper Jones, with fish and prawn terrine on gazpacho coulis and lemon tart, with double cream and almond.

Sydney pub turns back time, reviving its 1980s menu with prawn terrine and gazpacho

The Cricketers Arms’ former head chef has returned to his old French bistro kitchen for the first time in decades.

  • Bianca Hrovat
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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
Love a croque monsieur? Chances are you’ll be a fan of the American monte cristo, a truly decadent sandwich that’s said to have French origins.

Ham and cheese, but make it ‘hectic’: this salty-sweet monte cristo is seldom seen in Melbourne

For the unacquainted, think of it as a ham and cheese sanger on steroids. Why? When ordered, it’s deep-fried until gloriously golden.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Loulou’s baguette has triangles of sliced gruyère on both sides of the roll, a sensible thickness of thinly sliced ham and lots of house-made butter.

Butter is the essential third ingredient in this simple yet decisive baguette

This chewy roll might only have ham, slices of nutty gruyere and a generous smear of cultured butter, but those ingredients collide into something magical.

  • Sarah Norris
A big and bubbly crust defines the pizzas at Magma.

A slice of the action for a fraction of the price: 12 bargain Melbourne pizza nights

Discover dining deals at all points of the compass, from $15 margheritas to all-you-can-eat slices.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Rocket Kulfi , Chulho.

10 years ago this Sydney suburb was dead. Now it’s brimming with brilliant Indian eateries

From samosa chaat to all manner of sweets, we’ve rounded up the best Indian food on the east side of Parramatta.

  • David Matthews

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