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Bar Local Drop is an extension of wine delivery business the Local Drop.
14.5/20

This all-day wine bar and its handwritten little black book has our reviewer hooked

Lunch, dinner or snacks and drinks at Bar Local Drop can stretch happily from “a quick one” to “one more” to “we might as well”...

  • Dani Valent
Sabudana vada, an Indian potato and tapioca fritter, topped with crab.
14.5/20

Orson

Country fine dining in a historic silent picture theatre.

  • Besha Rodell
Terrace seating looks over the CBD, Pyrmont and tree-lined Glebe.
14.5/20

Efendy chef’s new Sydney Fish Market venue is a winner for seafood lunches on the water

Stunning views, chardonnay by the glass and a smart Mediterranean menu is the winning trifecta at Turkish chef Somer Sivrioglu’s latest Sydney venture.

  • Callan Boys
The bruschetta of the day changes with the seasons, with the charred bread perhaps topped with ricotta mousse, tomato, shaved zucchini and prosciutto.
14/20

Lunchtime BYO, ‘glorious’ bruschetta: Count yourself lucky if this Italian is your local

The 30-seater from two ex-Caffe e Cucina stalwarts is slicker than your average middle-suburban restaurant, reviews Dani Valent.

  • Dani Valent
A throng of cider lovers at Gurneys’ cellar door: The grand plan is to attract some 50,000 people a year.

Gurneys’ Cidery

A slice of Somerset in South Gippsland.

  • Roslyn Grundy
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Lucette Bistro in Bowral.
14/20

Bowral restaurants do well with the twice-a-year crowd. This bistro impresses everyone

Monopole’s French former head chef runs the kitchen at Lucette, a bistro-brasserie that suits many speeds. 

  • David Matthews
John Jeong’s background includes eight years working in French fine-dining restaurants.

‘Heart-thumpingly good food’: This corner spot puts creativity back into cafe fare

Forget the big breakfast or bacon and egg roll. Cafe Baby Finger ditches cookie-cutter menu items in favour of eggplant curry and chicken pot pie.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Paranormal Wines.
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A bottle shop with a chefs’ hat? This surprising spot lives up to the hoo-ha

Intuitive service and bracing flavours are at the heart of Paranormal Wines, which created a “small hoo-ha” when it became the first bottle shop in NSW or the ACT to be awarded a hat.

  • Callan Boys
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‘High-definition flavour’: Bentley Group’s new venue proves Med-cooking reigns supreme

It’s high-voltage Mediterranean snacking and staff who never miss a beat at the latest two-hatter by the team behind the Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year.

  • Myffy Rigby
The Corner.
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This beachside bistro from The Boathouse Group feels like dining at an island resort

Palm Beach scores a hat for its new grocer-cafe-restaurant-bar-kiosk The Corner, which serves excellent produce and offering top-drawer deli goods and groceries.

  • Callan Boys