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Hokkaido’s famous cheese tarts.

Westfield Mt Gravatt Food Court

If you need to eat while you shop, Garden City is the spot.

  • Matt Shea
Noodle dishes are topped with your choice of pork, chicken or tofu, plus other toppings like braised greens and wonton skin.

Bakmi Lim Noodle Project

Not your average food court lunch.

Sydney’s frenzied appetite for a 9000-year-old ingredient pulls crowds at this fast-food kiosk

Fans of Hoa Hung include an ex-Aria chef. They come for tofu “chips”, spongy snackable triangles and soy milk that’s like drinking liquid popcorn.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Thai Asia Unique Cafe is found inside The Paramount shopping centre on Bourke Street.
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Thai Asia Unique Cafe & Tavern

A food-court find dishing up a huge swathe of Thailand’s cuisine.

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Ceylon Wok

Standout stall in a destination food court.

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Hainanese chicken rice.
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East West Gourmet

Join the queue early at this retro food court stall.

Il Mercato Centrale is housed in a light-filled heritage building on Collins Street.

‘It’s so hit or miss’: One year on, Il Mercato Centrale hasn’t lived up to the hype

The brand’s first location outside Italy was supposed to replicate an Italian market square, but most of the original stallholders have departed, with more changes to come.

  • Tomas Telegramma
EatAlley in Melbourne’s CBD is a curated collection of 10 hawker stalls, brought from Malaysia as an edible showcase of the country’s best street food.

‘The excitement I used to feel when queuing for a club’: Our critic can’t resist this food hall

Whether I’m by myself, towing a tribe or looking for a place to meet people, I know this multi-outlet eatery will hit right.

  • Dani Valent
Hay St Market.
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Haymarket’s revamped Paddy’s Markets vowed to be a first-rate food hub. It didn’t deliver

It might serve a very good martini and excellent chips, but Callan Boys chalks it up as another entry on Sydney’s board of missed opportunities.

  • Callan Boys
Il Mercato Centrale in Melbourne’s CBD.

Il Mercato Centrale

An Italian food hub where 23 artisans sell their wares across three floors.

  • Dani Valent