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Blackheath

Frankie & Mo serve natural wines and snacks.

Frankie & Mo’s

A natural wine bar and bottle shop that only sells organic and biodynamic drops.

  • Erina Starkey
The potato and leek soup at Megalong Restaurant.

The Good Food Guide to a road trip to the Blue Mountains

Ham and bechamel croissants from Black Cockatoo bakery, loaded Lebanese wraps from Cedar Kebab Cafe and dinner at Megalong Restaurant should be on every Blue Mountains food trail.

  • Erina Starkey and Good Food Guide reviewers
Ex-Comedor chef Alejandro Huerta has taken over the kitchen at Blaq restaurant.
14/20

Blaq

A hotel restaurant worth staying for.

Charcoal grilled market fish at Ates in Blackheath.
Good Food hat15/20

Ates

Wood-fired food that captures the spirit of the upper mountains.

Terry Durack review at Ates, Blackheath. Wood-roasted half duck. burnt butter, mandarin. 19th August 2022. Photo: Edwina Pickles / SMH Good Food.
Good Food hat15/20

Hot oven, cool nights at Ates in Blackheath

Before Ates, the Amos oven was the engine-room of Vesta, Fumo, and, most famously, of Vulcan's.

  • Terry Durack
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Miso pumpkin wedge.

Vulcan's mighty oven fires again with Fumo

It's a whole new era and a whole new reason to hop on the mountains train for a long weekend lunch.

  • Myffy Rigby
13/20

escarpment

The Great Western Highway may be one of Australia's busiest strips of bitumen, but once you reach ...

13.5/20

Ashcrofts

As this white-on-white bistro room fills each evening, a friendly hum rises, each table of diners ...

Tommy Ruff Fishmonger

It might be a three-hour drive from the coast, but this brilliant addition brings the ocean to the mountains.

Anonymous Cafe

It might be far from coffee-crazy Sydney, but locals queue daily at this quaint cafe for a cracking Golden Cobra coffee.