Fine dining
These restaurants will pay for your petrol. Plus, hatted daytrip dining with free PT
Like you, Victorian restaurants are feeling the fuel crisis. But some are using it as a chance to give back to customers, offering petrol discounts, cash back and more.
- Tomas Telegramma
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Top globe-trotting chef returns to Sydney to lead kitchen at two-hatted Aalia
Chef Adam Wolfers, who has worked at Marque, Monopole and NY’s WD-50, replaces former Good Food Guide Chef of the Year Paul Farage.
- Scott Bolles
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‘We need cheaper options’: Two-hat Italian restaurant to open waterfront pizza spin-off
A renowned Italian chef-restaurateur will offer fine-dining views and culinary direction, for up to half the price.
- Bianca Hrovat
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- Restaurant news
Flying Fish to close in Pyrmont after more than 20 years
But it’s not the end of the story for the popular seafood restaurant.
- Scott Bolles
Bangkok’s renowned chef Gaggan Anand to cook in Sydney and Melbourne next month
The inventive chef, best known for creations such as “rat brains” and a menu entirely out of emojis, will be in Australia for a series of dinners, a progressive Indian lunch and more.
- Erina Starkey
Head chef steps down at Icebergs Dining Room and Bar
Alex Prichard, who led the Bondi restaurant through the tumultuous departure of founder Maurice Terzini, announced plans for a restaurant in Berry, NSW.
- Bianca Hrovat
Cheap as chips? Not in Australia, where a side of fries costs up to $20
How chipflation has made the nation’s most-ordered dish more expensive, from McDonald’s to fine dining.
- Bianca Hrovat
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Leichhardt legend Grappa to take over iconic former Rockpool site
While the other Rockpool site will be reborn as an Italian restaurant with a former Young Chef of the Year in the kitchen.
- Scott Bolles
Free pizza, two days of pastry: An insider’s picks of Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Unsure how to tackle the program of 200-plus events? Start with pizza from a leading London chef, hot bakery collabs in the heart of the city, and a barbecue like no other.
- Rick Stephens
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Quay chef joins Three Blue Ducks to create ‘our most elevated experience yet’
Without copying The Farm in Byron, the Ducks are transforming a Southern Highlands farmhouse in partnership with billionaire philanthropist Annie Cannon-Brookes.
- Bianca Hrovat