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Good for business lunch

Steak frites.

A new Eurocentric bistro and wine bar opens in Middle Park

Middle Park European is the latest venture by Tartine’s Matteo Bruno.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Red Cliff.
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This city restaurant’s signature dish has been served 100,000 times

Red Cliff is a sensory assault and heartfelt celebration of China’s spiciest cuisines.

  • Frank Sweet
Raw tuna with stracciatella and a fragrant lemon-myrtle dressing.

A new day-to-night restaurant arrives with a globetrotting menu

Banksia serves dishes that take inspiration from across Europe, Asia and beyond.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Ima Asa Yoru in Brunswick.

Ima Asa Yoru

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Mains, such as inside skirt steak, come with a salad, Colombian-style sauces – one a lemony sour cream, the other a zesty tomato – and a choice of fries, rice, plantain fritters, cassava chips or golden potatoes (pictured).
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This surprising steakhouse serves limousine food at rust-bucket prices

Juan Berbeo of Berbeo Bar & Grill isn’t our best-known steak specialist, but it’s hard to imagine many local chefs have cooked as much meat as he has.

  • Dani Valent
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This landmark guesthouse is one of Sydney’s oldest restaurants. Is it still worth the drive?

The century-old Barrenjoey House at Palm Beach welcomes day-trippers seeking water views and dolled-up versions of pub and cafe standards.

  • Callan Boys
Prawn laksa made with dairy milk.
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Does this reborn Malaysian institution still deliver after six decades? Here’s our verdict

Beloved family-run restaurant The Malaya has served Sydney since 1963. Now it’s opened slick new digs near Circular Quay.

  • Kevin Cheng
Cressida is, fundamentally, a nice place to sit with a coffee and read the paper.
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Our critic doesn’t like to eat out for brunch. This neighbourhood cafe changed his mind

You can now book for dinner at Cafe Cressida too, whose menu comes from “one of Sydney’s most proficient cross-pollinators of cuisines”.

  • Callan Boys
The urban dining area at Young’s Wine Rooms in Hawthorn East.

Young’s Wine Rooms

Swish suburban crowd-pleaser.

Clarence River baby octopus skewers at  St Siandra.
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St Siandra

We’re all going on a summer holiday.

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