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Emma Breheny

Emma Breheny

Emma is Good Food’s Melbourne eating out and restaurant editor and editor of The Age Good Food Guide.

Chef Teage Ezard portrait March 2017 supplied by Lauren Millar to Good Food.

Celebrated Melbourne chef dies at 59

Teage Ezard, the chef responsible for venues including Gingerboy and Ezard, was diagnosed with an incurable neurological disease in 2024.

  • Emma Breheny and Roslyn Grundy

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Chilli prawn pizza.

Bring the gang: This pizza spot opposite the sea is a big, friendly party

It’s beach, pizza, spritz, repeat at this easy-breezy eatery that makes a perfect full stop to a day on the Mornington Peninsula.

  • Emma Breheny
A new burger window is selling up to 800 of its smoky, halal-friendly burgers per day.

Charrd

A hole-in-the-wall window selling just two types of burgers.

  • Emma Breheny
The assorted tasting plate, grilled at the table.

‘All-in fun’: It’s always barbecue weather at this DIY, group-friendly Japanese spot

Grab your pals for a night of DIY charcoal grilling - smoke-free - at a spot specialising in Japanese yakiniku, with cuts galore to choose from.

  • Emma Breheny
Steak frites made with Angus rostbiff at Common Cuts, a new city grill.

Common Cuts

Where steak night is every night.

  • Emma Breheny
Leo Donati and son Marcello of Donati’s butcher shop on Lygon Street, Carlton.

Lygon Street’s last butcher has a new owner with a familiar name

Customers of the legendary Donati’s butcher shop in Carlton feared the end was nigh when its founder announced retirement. But their prayers may have been answered by a buyer who wants business as usual.

  • Emma Breheny
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Grilled octopus at Tzaki in Yarraville.

From old-school to new-wave: 19 of Melbourne’s best Greek restaurants

Consider this your hitlist for halloumi, tarama, octopus and more.

  • Dani Valent and Emma Breheny
Steak frites made with wagyu flank at Common Cuts, a new city grill.

It’s wall-to-wall wagyu, starting at $28.50, at this new CBD grill

Offering steak and chips for under $30, the new venue is banking on bargain pricing to shake up Melbourne’s steak scene.

  • Emma Breheny
Brian Nunn assesses the destruction at Harcourt Cooperative Cool Stores.

‘Zero income’: Locals rally behind small businesses wiped out by fires

Raffles, donations and other fundraising efforts are underway for 80-odd businesses devastated by fire in Harcourt, from wineries to cafes, distillers to cider-makers.

  • Emma Breheny, Emily Holgate and Bianca Hrovat
Schooners (centre) are creeping into Victoria, perhaps rivalling the pot for popularity.

The schooner invasion: Victorian pubs are embracing the northern beer glass

More Victorian pubs are pouring schooners. Some are even phasing out pots in favour of the size some say is the “sweet spot”.

  • Emma Breheny