‘Back with a bang’:The restaurants with new hats (and lost hats) in The Age Good Food Guide 2025

‘Back with a bang’:The restaurants with new hats (and lost hats) in The Age Good Food Guide 2025

An iconic fine diner reclaims its three-hat status. High-profile operators take hits. And omakase restaurants rise and fall.

  • byTomas Telegramma

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Five regional restaurants worth a road trip – and the best spots to stop on the way

Five regional restaurants worth a road trip – and the best spots to stop on the way

Destination dining in 2025 will be defined by these restaurants. The cheese shops,laidback pubs and cosy cafes along the way are a bonus.

  • byEmma Breheny andGood Food Guide reviewers
The finalists for the three biggest awards at The Age Good Food Guide Awards,revealed

The finalists for the three biggest awards at The Age Good Food Guide Awards,revealed

Ahead of The Age Good Food Guide awards on Monday night,these are the finalists for the biggest awards. You can be guaranteed they will be great.

  • byEmma Breheny andGood Food Guide reviewers
The 40 defining dishes from 40 years of the SMH Good Food Guide

The 40 defining dishes from 40 years of the SMH Good Food Guide

From Berowra Waters Inn brioche to fish liver chermoula:A dish-by-dish snapshot of the past 40 years of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.

  • byCallan Boys andDavid Matthews
The complete list of winners at the SMH Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

The complete list of winners at the SMH Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

From the coveted major prize categories to our two new awards,meet the best the NSW and ACT hospitality industry has to offer right now.

Australia is leading the world in bringing joy and friendliness to fine dining
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Australia is leading the world in bringing joy and friendliness to fine dining

As we announce the Service Excellence Award finalists for this year’s Good Food Guide,Melbourne’s chief restaurant critic celebrates the death of pompous,robotic service.

  • byBesha Rodell
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Can the dud end of Sydney’s CBD be saved? This heritage restoration sure thinks so

Can the dud end of Sydney’s CBD be saved? This heritage restoration sure thinks so

A warehouse building from 1886 has new life as a Japanese-inspired precinct of six restaurants and bars,in what some believe is a turning point for an unloved patch of the city.

  • byMichael Koziol
As Charles ate airline food heading to Australia,I ate like a king in his own stately home

As Charles ate airline food heading to Australia,I ate like a king in his own stately home

It is a new private dining experience which allows the public to enjoy the mother of all 18th-century feasts,served by a traditional butler,in the royal chamber.

  • byRob Harris
Top food critics to visit Ben Shewry restaurant after ‘oppressive’ rebuke

Top food critics to visit Ben Shewry restaurant after ‘oppressive’ rebuke

Weeks after one of Melbourne’s best-known chefs,Ben Shewry,excoriated food media in a new book,some of the world’s top critics will visit his fine dining restaurant as part of a taxpayer-funded tour.

  • byCalum Jaspan andTom Cowie
Chris Lucas reveals opening date and name of his hotly anticipated four-level Bourke Street ‘dining house’

Chris Lucas reveals opening date and name of his hotly anticipated four-level Bourke Street ‘dining house’

Long-awaited Maison Batard will arrive with an executive chef who honed his craft at The Fat Duck and Noma,a subterranean supper club,and more.

  • byTomas Telegramma
How meeting a famous cook changed my whole relationship to food

How meeting a famous cook changed my whole relationship to food

My friendship with Stephanie Alexander marked a turning point in my life.

  • byAnnie Smithers