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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
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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Guy Grossi has issued an apology in response to a claim he groped a female journalist at a restaurant industry event.

‘Unreserved and sincere’: Guy Grossi apologises after groping allegation

Guy Grossi is one of Australia’s most celebrated chefs. Now, following a months-long investigation, he’s issued a public apology after allegations he groped a woman.

  • Charlotte Grieve and Ellen Fraser
 Battle of the chopsticks

Whose food is it anyway? Why share plates are all wrong

When did this insidious trend begin, where restaurants dictate the way its customers would like to eat, right down to the order in which the requested meals are served? 

  • Victoria Cosford

‘Super complex’: Why do humans love some flavours and hate others

We love a taste “sensation” but where do flavours actually come from? How might rainforest taste? And what’s sonic seasoning?

  • Jackson Graham and Angus Delaney
Tobin Kent

‘Unethical, appalling’: Ex-staff take aim at Victoria’s top restaurant

Moonah was crowned Victoria’s best restaurant in November, but former staff allege that behind the great food was a bad culture.

  • Charlotte Grieve

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