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Central is just one of numerous group-operated venues that have opened in Brisbane in the past two years.

‘Feels like a spree’: Are restaurant groups really taking over Brisbane?

Together, just three have accounted for 15 major openings over the past 24 months. Independents are asking if we should be concerned.

  • Matt Shea
Hot chips

We ranked 37 of Sydney’s takeaway hot chips to find the city’s best

  • Good Food team
Good Food tried hot chips from 32 Melbourne venues.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best hot chips, and a surprise westside fish and chipper took top spot

  • Good Food team
Bar Local Drop is an extension of wine delivery business the Local Drop.
14.5/20

This all-day wine bar and its handwritten little black book has our reviewer hooked

  • Dani Valent

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All the combos at this Italian-inspired panino shop are ‘killers with delicious fillers’

More than 50 sandwich options have been created for tiny regional paninoteca and wine bar Arno Deli.

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Buvons is a bar with "Vietnamese roots, French spirit".

Buvons

Elegant French-Vietnamese cocktail bar.

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Portside prepares seafood as it would at a restaurant, such as Hervey Bay scallops and half rock lobsters.

Portside Market

A fishmonger with a fine dining difference.

  • Emily Holgate

Ru Yi Dim Sum

Pumping shopping centre eatery with an extensive yum cha offering.

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Southside runs its yum cha menu every Sunday.

Southside

Yum cha and cocktails in bucolic surrounds.

  • Matt Shea
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Mulga Bill’s opened today for its first service.

Mulga Bill’s

Day-to-night venue by the Tassis Group.

  • Matt Shea
Stilts is an elevated steak and seafood restaurant.

Stilts Dining

Steak and seafood with cracking 270-degree river views.

  • Matt Shea
Poles Patisserie's custard hot cross bun.

From a vanilla slice version to an ice-cream sandwich, these are the hottest hot cross buns of the season

We’re seeing filled hot cross buns, hot cross scrolls, chocolate buns and raisin-infused latte takes, and that’s even before we get to gloriously unhinged options.

  • Erina Starkey
Bar Di Stasio and Cafe Di Stasio were both groundbreaking for Melbourne.

One of Melbourne’s pioneering Italian restaurants is up for sale

The restaurant that set the standard for Italian finesse in Melbourne, Cafe Di Stasio, is being sold by its founders after nearly 40 years.

  • Ardyn Bernoth
Somewhere between shoestring and thick-cut, the chips are painstakingly placed vertically on the buttered bread, creating four or so layers, and the perfect cross-section.

No ifs, only butties: This Melbourne chip butty is a carb-on-carb crowd-pleaser

Not one to underestimate the power of simple, nostalgic food, this cafe is serving a “crispy-chewy” chip butty supercharged by house-made HP sauce.

  • Tomas Telegramma

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No one can stop at one of these frittelle di zucchine (zucchini fritters).

The veg fritters that went viral, plus 19 more of March’s most popular recipes

It doesn't get much better than this, the ones from Frank's Deli.

We’ve crowned Sydney’s best steak frites sandwich, plus eight more chip sangas to try

  • Erina Starkey, Isabel Cant and Sarah Norris
Australia's beer scene is getting incrasingly fruity.

Find the one for you, and fruit beers can be riotously fun and breathtakingly refreshing

  • Mike Bennie
Australia invented the Halal Snack Pack (HSP)

Australia is the hot chip capital of the world, but this is how we could do it better

  • Adam Liaw
Ricotta gnocchi feature on Gran Torino's menu when tomatoes are at their sunny best.
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Handle with care: Neil Perry’s secret to delicate ricotta gnocchi

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