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Meatballs and marinara pizza.

‘This is a perfect pizza’: The 10 best things our restaurant critic ate (and drank) in 2024

After a year spent tracking WA restaurants, WAtoday food writer Max Veenhuyzen assembles a dream menu starring his favourite dishes of 2024.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
It’s merry everything at Santini this Christmas.

From city to coast: what’s open on Christmas Day in Perth

Including options for post-swim coffees, breakfast by the beach, Christmas feasts and Japanese-Italian fusion.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
WA’s best new restaurants main image/GIF. Pictures: Supplied

The top 12: Western Australia’s best new restaurant openings of 2024

From intimate secret restaurants to sprawling regional pubs, 2024’s most impressive newcomers reflect the continued diversification of WA’s food scene.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Chef Somer Sivrioglu on the set of MasterChef Turkey.

Turkish-Australian celebrity chef Somer Sivrioglu sentenced to prison in Istanbul

The host of MasterChef Turkey and owner of former Balmain restaurant Efendy says he will appeal against the decision.

  • Scott Bolles
The grand dining room at Armorica.

20 private dining rooms in Sydney for Christmas catch-ups

Finalise your guest list (and check it twice), then make a reservation at these Sydney restaurants with a private or semi-private dining space.

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A selection of iconic dishes from Sydney restaurants for the 40th anniversary of the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.

The 40 defining dishes from 40 years of the SMH Good Food Guide

From Berowra Waters Inn brioche to fish liver chermoula: A dish-by-dish snapshot of the past 40 years of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.

  • Callan Boys and David Matthews
Canteen Pizza.

Mid-week wonders: dining bargains and meal deals to get you through the hump day slump

Including approachable fine dining, one-dollar chicken wings, half-price pizzas and all the mussels you can eat.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
New dining room Ah Um in Perth’s Chinatown.

Intimate 25-seat restaurant from the Astral Weeks crew opens in Perth’s Chinatown

The clubby, dimly lit dining room of Ah Um might be hard to pigeonhole, but it’s all too easy to like.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
WAtoday/Good Food. South Bird, Northbridge. Nashville-style hot fried chicken. Picture: Jacqueline Jane van Grootel

The chicken shop bringing a red-hot taste of Nashville to Northbridge

The North Bird space is flying (and frying) south and rebooting as a 50-seat diner focusing on “crunchy as hell” fried chicken, spice-friendly drinks and good music.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Things are changing for the better at Alberta’s Busselton.

The big change coming for soulful Busselton eatery opened by Noma alumni

“For our business to remain sustainable, it needs to serve us as well as we serve others.”

  • Max Veenhuyzen

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