The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Critics’ Picks.

Tacos to char kwai teow:20 restaurants you’ll find Good Food Guide critics dining in their downtime

Loaded lobster rolls,best-in-class brisket,and noodles tossed expertly in the wok:our reviewers reveal their hitlists.

  • Emma Breheny andGood Food Guide reviewers
The woodfired pizza at Paesino.
Critics'Pick

Paesino

Praise-worthy,neo-Neapolitan pizzeria.

Burrata and anchovy pizza.
Critics'Pick

The Hills

Top-tier wine to toast pizza time.

Critics'Pick

Signor Vertelli

The closest thing to Naples in the Northern Tablelands.

’70s Brooklyn vibes flow at Pocket Pizza in Avalon.
Critics'Pick

Pocket Pizza

Retro-chic red-and-white chequered Italian.

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The piselli pizza merges pancetta,peas,mint,fior di latte and parmigiano.
14.5/20

Ciro’s

A step up from your everyday pizza parlour.

The cavolo nero and fermented chillli pizza at Bella Brutta.
14.5/20

Bella Brutta

Enriching Sydney’s pizza scene since 2018.

Boscaiolo pizza with pork sausage,mushrooms,garlic cream and grana padano cheese.
14/20

Fill up on first-rate pizza then fill your trolley five metres away at this supermarket spot

The Tonino’s International menu is built around pizza and pasta with a big ol’ fried chicken sandwich thrown in for good measure.

  • Callan Boys
Look out for classic buffalo wings (or garlic-and-parmesan) at JollyGood Diner,Collingwood,on Wednesdays.

$4 pizza,free gelato,ramen happy hour:12 top dining deals to stop you overspending in October

We’ve rounded up a smorgasbord of Melbourne’s best dining-out deals for you to try.

  • Tomas Telegramma
MMC head chef Mohamed Matar with co-founders Sal Senan,Huss Rachid,and Amani Rachid.

Massive New York-style pizza and ’90s Pizza Hut nostalgia is coming in hot to Marrickville

The team behind My Mother’s Cousin and Self Raised Bread Shoppe are set to open a family-friendly pizzeria in the former Barzaari space.

  • Bianca Hrovat