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‘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
We rated 37 of Sydney’s takeaway hot chips to find the city’s best
From vintage suburban classics dating back to 1971, to the hatted and the hyped, we disregarded our cholesterol in our comprehensive search for deep-fried potato perfection.
- Good Food team
Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best hot chips, and a surprise westside fish and chipper took top spot
From Mount Waverley to Maidstone, chicken shops to burger bars, we tasted 32 different hot chips. These 11 are the ones to know.
- Good Food team
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
We’ve crowned Sydney’s best steak frites sandwich, plus eight more chip sangas to try
It might be hard to smoosh the ingredients together so you can pick it up, but its superb chips-to-meat-and-sauce ratio makes our number one unmissable.
- Erina Starkey, Isabel Cant and Sarah Norris
From the bleachy to the bubbly: The ultimate plain-salted crisp taste test
In a quest to find the best, Frank Sweet blind taste-tested 17 plain-salted crisps. Which home-brand supermarket crisps knocked the posh ones off the podium?
- Frank Sweet
- Opinion
- Chip Month
Australia is the hot chip capital of the world, but this is how we could do it better
Belgium invented them, America’s famous for them, but there’s no food more universally loved by our multicultural country than chips. Let’s embrace it even more.
- Adam Liaw
Some chefs wouldn’t be caught dead serving frozen fries. For others it’s essential
To hand cut or buy frozen – that’s the question we put to restaurants. Some declined to answer, others say it’s a necessary corner to cut.
- Tomas Telegramma
This brilliant new Brisbane bar is closing permanently
Its owners are blaming its demise on rising costs (taxes in particular) and inconsistent patronage. You have just over a week to see what made it so special.
- Matt Shea
‘Plagiarism, lies, dishonesty’: restaurateur accuses competitor of menu theft
In a remarkable Instagram post, the owner of Joe’s Deli has accused a former manager of ripping off numerous recipes in the creation of his own sandwich shop.
- Matt Shea