The Empty Plate

When settling in for an 18-course degustation, I’ll be needing upholstery, writes Terry Durack.

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My heart stubbornly belongs to the plain, round white plate.

The weekly roast dinner may have gone the way of church attendance, but new rituals have sprung up in its place.

Gone are the days of the expensive long lunch. Here’s where to find some of the best express lunch deals right now.

There’s plenty of reasons to love dining alone, not having to share your meal being just one of them. Just don’t apologise about doing it.

This way you can abandon the bamboo spoon and queues for the loo and actually sit in a seat.

Like it or not, it makes sense, and not just for the property developers.

Terry Durack buys oscietra caviar for himself every birthday. And time stops whenever he eats it.

Dining “a la cart” is doing the rounds again at these Melbourne and Sydney restaurants, writes Terry Durack.

Drinking beer from a can is like drinking coffee from a takeaway coffee cup. I want to ogle my beer before I wear my ‘beer goggles’.