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Leave your dog at home.

The 10 most irritating habits of restaurant diners these days

From using phones at the table to taking your four-legged friend for dinner, these eating out crimes should result in an immediate red card. How many are you guilty of?

  • Jack Rear

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The vada pav sandwich at Calcutta Sweets & Savouries in Bentley.

Hidden assets: seven secret Perth sandwiches worth seeking out

Including Pakistani burgers, deeply smoky Brazilian barbecue, plus a beloved Indian (vegetarian!) snack synonymous with the city of Mumbai.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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What’s up, Colonel?

An urban myth for the bucket list.

Chiara Mezzasoma and Andrea Brunelli of Maestro Pizza.

Making the cut: One of the world’s best pizzerias can be found in suburban Perth

Book in for the new tasting menu and explore the diversity of Italy’s wide world of pizza.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Palestinian-style knafeh from Knafeh by Omar.

After 300-odd test trays, could this be Perth’s best dessert?

Originating in Palestine, this sweet and salty treat effortlessly solves that eternal end-of-meal dilemma: “cheese or dessert?”

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Spoilt for choice: Australia’s surprising foodie capital

People used to come to Hobart, stay one night, eat at one restaurant, then fly out. Now you can be here for a week and you’re spoilt for choice.

  • Jim Darby
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Comedor

The Sydney kiosk that killed off an award-winning restaurant

Few neighbours were aware of Comedor owner Walter Shellshear before he applied to expand his restaurant into a Newtown park last year. Then things turned ugly.

  • Eryk Bagshaw and Bianca Hrovat
Guy Grossi.

Defiant Grossi addresses staff after allegations of inappropriate behaviour

Celebrity chef Guy Grossi used an all-staff meeting to slam this masthead’s reporting as “manufactured and contrived”.

  • Charlotte Grieve
The Grossi group restaurants on Bourke Street.

It’s time the hospitality industry got serious about cleaning up its mess

The stories have kept coming, and they will keep coming, until the sector grasps the need to explode long-standing norms.

  • The Age's View
Phoebe Rizzoli reported sexual harassment to Grossi Florentino.

Kissed without consent: Phoebe’s joy at Grossi Florentino job turned to tears

A sommelier at the famous restaurant kissed the young waitress, but when she reported the incident she was let down.

  • Charlotte Grieve

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