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Frank Sweet with the perfect chip.

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
Chips for Chip month

Want to find your new favourite crisp? Good Food has it in the bag

We have the perfect crisp tip for your own personal preferences – whether you’re a cheese fiend, spice-meister or just like it as vinegary as hell.

  • Good Food team
On Friday's, indulge in a $65 all-you-can-eat Southern feast at Bluestone American Barbecue, including twice-cooked fries dusted with smoked paprika.

Melbourne is the capital of bottomless chips. Here’s where to find them

Southern American smokehouses in industrial zones, after-dark pop-ups and steak frites specialists: these are the places to go when you want chips, and lots of them.

  • Haymun Win
Frank Sweet puts chocolate hot cross buns to the taste test.

‘Slimy undercarriage’: Supermarket choc hot cross buns ranked from worst to best

Not a fan of fruit and spice? Increasingly popular chocolate-filled HXB (plus one cheesy wildcard) bravely hop up to Good Food’s taste test plate.

  • Frank Sweet
Boomtown is set within a Castlemaine winery.

The Good Food guide to a road trip in Castlemaine from beers to bang-on banh mi

Castlemaine has lately become a destination in its own right – particularly for anyone who’s hungry. These 15 bakeries, bars, coffee windows and fine diners are our top picks.

  • Dani Valent and Emily Holgate
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Assorted pastries from Born and Bread in Newtown.

The Good Food Guide to a road trip through Geelong and the Surf Coast

From wine bars to bakeries, pub meals to cocktails, here are our top picks for spending a delicious few days in this rapidly changing coastal region.

  • Emily Holgate and Good Food Guide reviewers
Olympic Meats’ fabulous chips.

‘They’re elite’: Sydney chefs on their favourite chips and crisps (with one clear winner)

Danielle Alvarez and Junda Khoo dig salt and vinegar, Neil Perry says a spot in Rozelle is “as good as it gets”, and Josh Niland is into dill pickle.

  • Good Food
Northern Soul chips, doused in malt vinegar.

‘Outrageous’ portions, ‘cooked with love’: Chefs share their favourite crisps and hot chips

Rosheen Kaul loves a pack that’s always on sale, Tom Sarafian goes to a Greek restaurant for his chips, while Thi Le hits up a fast-food chain for her faves.

One of the sundae fruit cups.

The Good Food guide to eating (and drinking) well on the Central Coast

From old-fashioned fishmongers to waterfront restaurants and sunny gelato parlours, here are the best places to eat and drink in Wyong, Woy Woy, Terrigal and beyond.

  • David Matthews and Mike Bennie
The author hard at work.

18 fast-food chips tasted and ranked from worst to best

We taste-tested all the major franchises to find the best, but also found the worst, and discovered sog, salt, surprises and a winner that takes its chips very seriously.

  • Callan Boys