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Good Food hat15.5/20

Discover a tucked-away 12-seater jewel that goes beyond its Japanese roots

You can still go hard on the tempura at Haco. But its intimate omakase experience now also embraces grilled meats and international flavours.

  • David Matthews
Florentino's storied dining room.
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Melbourne’s iconic Florentino enters a new era, but it has never been of this era

The Italian fine diner is a piece of living history. Its new stewards are leaning into its Old World spirit, but can they meet the expectations of modern diners?

  • Besha Rodell
The elaborate dining table.

Three-Michelin-starred American restaurant coming to Sydney with $690 menu

First came the L’Enclume residency. Now Bathers’ Pavilion will host a lauded Californian fine diner, complete with its showstopping signature floral course.

  • Callan Boys
If you crave raw fish, the Sachi don is one of the best uses of $35 you’re going to find.
13.5/20

This ‘bargain’ rice bowl is one of the best ways to get a fancy − but not too formal − sushi fix

Sachi proves dining on premium raw fish does not have to mean spending big bucks on a fine-dining omakase menu.

  • Besha Rodell
Wonderful, natural light gleams on black floorboards of The Lodge Dining Room on level one of Rodd & Gunn’s flagship store.
Good Food hat15/20

Why a fashion label’s fine-dining restaurant won over our cynical, shopping-phobe critic

Rodd & Gunn’s newly hatted restaurant is a very charming place, reviews Dani Valent. Plus: there’s free bread that’s good enough to pay for.

  • Dani Valent
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Orson restaurant is housed in Rosebud’s former Broadway Theatre.
14.5/20

‘A true revelation’: Why you should book this peninsula destination diner in an old theatre

At Orson, you pay for the number of courses that suits you, and the value gets better as you get greedier.

  • Besha Rodell
East Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens are part of the room at Yiaga.
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Melbourne has a new three-hat restaurant that’s beautiful and pointedly Australian

Vue de Monde “wunderkind” Hugh Allen’s ambitious Fitzroy Gardens project achieves a significant accolade out of the gate.

  • Besha Rodell
Shelanous bills itself as an “experience restaurant”.
14.5/20

Katy Perry booked out this entire venue, and you might find yourself belting out a tune, too

Dani Valent said this experience restaurant initially had the awkwardness of an office team-building exercise, but the ick was erased by a sustained good vibe.

  • Dani Valent
Marinated salmon roe.

Sushi Takezo

One of the hottest omakase tickets in town.

  • Dani Valent
Charcoal Skull Island prawns with sweet corn and a galangal, turmeric, tamarind, coriander, and kaffir lime sauce.
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Kazuki’s

A quiet riot in the very best way.