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The Cornwall-style fish and chips from Rick Stein’s new restaurant at Coogee beach.

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The 15+ restaurants, bakeries, bars and cafes to put on your list for January, Sydney

From Rick Stein’s Coogee Beach restaurant to Happyfield cafe’s spin-off, plus the verdicts on two Melbourne imports (Grill Americano and Lee Ho Fook), catch up on all the hot, new, coming soon and just-reviewed places around town.

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The Aambra courtyard.

A converted church to an English pub: The hottest openings in Sydney’s east

  • Scott Bolles
Happy Shop Cafe owners Chris Theodosi and Jesse Orleans in Haberfield.

Happyfield spin-off Happy Shop opens with a hot item you won’t find anywhere else

  • Erina Starkey
Flaminia.

Team behind two-hat Pilu open harbourside Italian restaurant Flaminia

  • Scott Bolles
The Cornwall-style fish and chips from Rick Stein’s new restaurant at Coogee beach.

Rick Stein’s new Coogee restaurant showcases his most loved dishes

  • Erina Starkey
Gingerbread bun with cinnamon cognac glaze and gingerbread cookie at Ard, Stanmore.

Plant-based Ard, one of the most anticipated bakeries of 2025, launches in Stanmore

  • Bianca Hrovat
Tantanmen ramen.

Towzen vegan ramen’s first Australian outpost generates long-distance buzz

  • Lee Tran Lam
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Owner-chef Andrea Bettini and partner Katherine Daza at Betto Deli, Newtown.

Underrated Betto Deli serves incredible value lasagne, gnocchi, $3 glasses of wine

  • Bianca Hrovat
The spicy vodka chicken cotoletta panuozzo.

You haven’t lived until you’ve eaten Tommy Panini’s spicy vodka cotoletta panuozzo

  • Sarah Norris
Grill Americano.
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Buzzing with Italian energy, Grill Americano brings the theatre back to a night out

  • David Matthews
Lee Ho Fook Sydney.
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Does Melbourne’s ‘revolutionary’ Lee Ho Fook live up to the hype in Sydney?

  • David Matthews
Pork and fennel sausage with fior di latte, zuni pickle and confit garlic.
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Neighbourhood gem Ember captures the seasons with its vivid pizza toppings

  • Lee Tran Lam
Claret Club owners Bridget Raffal and Harry Hunter.

Old boys club gets Where’s Nick makeover at charming new wine bar Claret Club

  • Bianca Hrovat
Bar Demo.

Dive into cult wines and deliciously unhinged cocktails at Bar Demo

  • Myffy Rigby
Pain au chocolat.

Your first look at Self Raised in Merrylands (plus four more bakeries in the west)

  • Lee Tran Lam

Sydney’s appetite for a 9000-year-old ingredient pulls crowds at Hoa Hung kiosk

  • Lee Tran Lam
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