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Venner opened last week in the old West End timber shopfront previously occupied by Gum Bistro.

Find one of 2026’s most ambitious openings in this old West End shop

The brains behind one of the CBD’s best bars have joined forces with a star of regional cooking to create this unique 60-seat suburban diner.

  • Matt Shea
Gum Bistro’s last service was on the weekend.

One of West End’s best small restaurants has closed permanently

Gum Bistro was here for a (very) good time, not a long time.

  • Matt Shea
The corrugated iron-clad Zin House restaurant in Mudgee.

Mudgee’s hatted restaurant The Zin House to close – sort of

“It was never my intention to be a bucket-list restaurant,” says owner Kim Currie, whose new concept will be more inclusive and affordable.

  • Erina Starkey
Kevin Rudd having lunch with Laws in 2007. Laws scores him four out of 10 as a prime minister.

John Laws dined at one Sydney restaurant almost every day for 25 years

The late talkback radio veteran had a table permanently reserved just for him, number 53.

  • Erina Starkey
The Bear is “possessed by an unpayable traumatic debt”.

The problem isn’t penalty rates: How to actually fix the restaurant industry

According to Baba’s Place co-founder Alex Kelly, the hospitality industry’s focus on solutions like lower wages is doing more harm than good to both businesses and workers.

  • Alex Kelly
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Six Streets’ gai yang (roast chicken).

Winner winner, roast chicken dinners: the bachelor’s handbag gets a glow-up

Plus a Malay food feast comes to the northern corridor this weekend, knafeh and coffee, and meeting winemakers over dinner (or snacks).

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Chef Aurelien, head chef of Cedric Grolet Singapore.

The Weekly Special: Which Perth dining icon is celebrating its 10th birthday?

Plus Singaporean fried ice cream, a wagyu sando pop-up, and a terrific non-alcoholic beverage for Dry July (or any time, really).

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Truffle Brioche Burger by Eggspot - available at Fremantle Markets’ Truffle Extravaganza.

The Weekly Special: Truffles take over Freo, and have we found Perth’s cheapest jug of beer?

Plus the Never Ending Gnocchi, and an intimate sake dinner. Read on for the latest foodie news from across WA.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Nigella Lawson in the Muru Giligu Tunnel just before her Vivid Sydney dinners

We asked Nigella Lawson where she’d eat in Sydney if she had a day to roam

The British foodie on why she loves Sydney’s food scene, her fave restaurants for pasta and dessert, and the one spot she’s “desperate” to visit.

  • Sarah Norris
Lulu La Delizia’s brutalist 24-seat cantina is due to open next door to the mothership this winter.

First look: Lulu La Delizia team brings a cosy 24-seat cantina to Subiaco this winter

By day, this brutalist fantasy will serve lunchtime panini (including a Sopranos-inspired sandwich). After dark, expect aperitivo and pasta.

  • Max Veenhuyzen