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Good Food hat15.5/20

This country spot is the ‘pub’ every town wishes it had on the corner

If you can’t find an old pub, make one. That’s the approach the You Beauty team has taken to create this award-winning community-led venue.

  • David Matthews
The 1110-person Hickens Hotel now has two additional levels.

A mega pub with a rooftop bar, private karaoke and more opens in Melbourne’s CBD

Hickens Hotel is now open in the four-storey space once housing the Crafty Squire.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Bistecca al pepe - eye fillet steak topped with a pepper sauce-filled raviolo - at Gambino restaurant in Glen Waverley.
14.5/20

Bet you’ve never had steak and pepper sauce like this before, Melbourne

Gambino restaurant and rooftop bar brings tricksy Italian dishes and Big Night Out energy to the ’burbs.

  • Dani Valent
A spread of crab blini with hollandaise, chips, steak Diane and Skull Island prawns with black pepper butter (clockwise from left).
Good Food hatGood Food hat16.5/20

Why this perpetually busy restaurant is one of Sydney’s most meaningful dining experiences

Cafe Paci might have the look and feel of a bistro, but the food tells a more complex story.

  • Myffy Rigby
Le Pub is the latest addition to the Kirk’s empire on busy Hardware Lane.

Le Pub

Aussie pub plus bottleshop by the French Saloon and Kirk’s team.

  • Kosa Monteith
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Vera Wine Bar in Newcastle has plenty of natural wines to choose from.

Snack on tinned fish and cheese at a tiny light-filled wine shop in Newcastle

Vera Wine is one of the smallest bars in the state, with a mighty natural wine selection.

  • Callan Boys
The Argyle nightclub has been reborn as The Dining Room.
14/20

Have we hit peak luxury grill? It seems so, at the new restaurant by the Rockpool team

There’s a lot to like at The Dining Room, but somehow it manages to mask complex and assured cooking behind decisions that strip it of the magic.

  • David Matthews
Dawn and Mabels feels cosy and classic inside.

Dawn and Mabel’s

An Art Deco-style bar with a globetrotting wine list.

  • Emma Breheny
Mixed Business.
14/20

The family-run bar our critic would be stoked to have on his own street

From the fried chicken sandwich on good-on-ya-mum white bread to the puffy salt-and-vinegar potato scallops, Mixed Business Enmore is nostalgia made manifest.

  • Callan Boys
Eurocentric snacks and cocktails are available at Lane’s Edge.

Lane’s Edge

Laneway hot spot serving Eurocentric bar snacks until late.

  • Emily Holgate

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