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Potato bolani at Afghan Bolani comes with many different choices of sauce.

What to eat at Melbourne’s booming new Ramadan night market

This Dandenong market wants to match the roaring success of its Sydney equivalent. Find camel burgers, Persian stews and loaded Malaysian pancakes, many under $20.

  • Quincy Malesovas
The premium Indian restaurant seats 130 in booths or on elegant folding chairs.
Good Food hat15/20

This hatted restaurant is a jewel, nestled in our critic’s least favourite location in Melbourne

Toddy Shop chef Mischa Tropp’s fire-driven, premium restaurant at Crown feels real, right and resonant.

  • Dani Valent
The ottoman breakfast with menemen.

You’d be unlikely to stumble upon this 170-seat Turkish restaurant, but it’s a true find

One Stop Kebab and Cafe has it all: tea and eggs, tradie kebabs and gozleme, and rice pudding and sturdy coffee.

  • Dani Valent
A huge spread of Filipino food.

Pinoy Diner

A no-frills Filipino favourite in Melbourne’s south-west.

  • Cheyenne Bardos
Sisig at Mrs Parks Kitchen.

Mrs Parks Kitchen

Contemporary Filipino cuisine in Melbourne’s west.

  • Cheyenne Bardos
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December will mark the ten-year anniversary of Embla.
Good Food hat15.5/20

This dark, moody wine bar is our critic’s go-to because it’s exactly what Melbourne does best

This decade-old CBD favourite is still as dynamic as the day it opened.

  • Besha Rodell
Pictured: Crispy Bicol Xpress (spicy fried pork belly in coconut curry), Humba na Manok (braised soy chicken), Cebu Lechon (charcoal roast pork) and Longanisa Rice Fried Rice from Sydney Cebu Lechon in Enmore, Sydney on Thursday, June 25, 2020. Photo by Cole Bennetts

Cebu Charcoal Lechon Belly

Where crispy Cebu-style pork belly is king.

  • Cheyenne Bardos
Enjoy a Greek feast at Taverna.
14.5/20

‘Olive oily, lemony, salty deliciousness’: This corner is a rollicking Greek party once more

Taverna was created in a hurry, but it’s instantly timeless, writes Dani Valent. And there’s a lot of Hellenic history here.

  • Dani Valent
Prawn Nerano pizza.

Rossi

Pizza, pasta and cocktails with live jazz on Wednesdays.

  • Emma Breheny and Tomas Telegramma
Mami’s owner Erendira Mercado with her mother Lidia.

Sydney’s best BYO restaurants (and the wines to bring)

There’s no such thing as a cuisine that can’t be wine matched, from Italian reds with pizza to something fizzy to drink with Thai.

  • Billy De Luca

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