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Olympic Meats proves takeaway food can offer the same level of care as a fine-diner.
14.5/20

The stakes are high in Sydney’s gyros heartland. Does Olympic deserve the hype?

Large families, pilgrims from far-flung suburbs and locals flock to Olympic Meats for briney octopus, crunchy spanakopita and barbecued chicken, pork and lamb.

  • David Matthews
Yan’s dining room feels much cosier than the building it inhabits.
Good Food hat15/20

‘Damn good value’: Why it’s worth visiting this humble suburban bolthole

Locals flock to one-hatted Yan for natural-born-killer dishes humming with garlic, a towering dessert and moments of elegance.

  • Callan Boys

Spicy Wicket

Roomy restaurant for great-value lunch set and more.

Hanoi-style bun cha with grilled pork.

Thy Thy Counter & Canteen

Joyful new iteration of a Viet-Naarm institution.

Preparing the duck.

Simon’s Peiking Duck

A singular dining experience, at once casual and celebratory.

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Sarma (cabbage rolls) at Balkan Skara.

It’s worth the drive just for the cabbage rolls at this suburban Macedonian diner

Marijan Nikolovski and his family serve kebapi sausages, flavour-forward dips and more at Balkan Skara in Melbourne’s north.

  • Dani Valent
The prawn toast uses fluffy Japanese shokupan bread.
14/20

You’ll hit the jackpot at this suburban Chinese restaurant with heart – and perfect prawn toast

Come for the dumplings and prawn toast, stay for the warm, cosy atmosphere at convivial Potluck.

  • Dani Valent
Mami’s owner Erendira Mercado with her mother Lidia.

Sydney’s best BYO restaurants (and the wines to bring)

There’s no such thing as a cuisine that can’t be wine matched, from Italian reds with pizza to something fizzy to drink with Thai.

  • Billy De Luca
Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.
14/20

This Korean restaurant only sells one type of soup, but the queue starts early

Sydney has a new holder for the title of Koreatown. “I didn’t expect it to be so popular,” says the chef of Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang in the thriving new hub.

  • Kevin Cheng
Lamb plate at Kababi.

Kababi

Where Melbourne and Persian influences meet.

  • Emma Breheny

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