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Nutritionist and Good Food contributor Sarah Pound shares her supermarket must-buys.

Eight supermarket items nutritionist Sarah Pound always has in her shopping basket

The best-selling author and mum of three takes us on a spin around her favourite IGA and shares her favourite everyday ingredients (and how to use them) along the way.

  • Ardyn Bernoth

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Owners Dom Gattermayr and Rose Richards outside Florian To-Go.

Queue-magnet cafe Florian’s new spot gives you more of the food you love, and then some

The Carlton North favourite adds a takeaway outlet and providore that will act as a pressure valve, feeding people from breakfast through to dinner.

  • Claire Adey
Leo Donati and son Marcello of Donati’s butcher shop on Lygon Street, Carlton.

Lygon Street’s last butcher has a new owner with a familiar name

Customers of the legendary Donati’s butcher shop in Carlton feared the end was nigh when its founder announced retirement. But their prayers may have been answered by a buyer who wants business as usual.

  • Emma Breheny
Happy Apple Fruit Shop’s Graham Gee recommends placing your fruit and vegetable order early.

Sunny with a chance of mangoes: Here’s the fresh produce forecast for Christmas

Ordering early is the secret to a wilt-free festive feast. Beat the heat, and the last-minute panic, with these expert tips on securing the best produce.

  • Dani Valent
Portside prepares seafood as it would be before service at a restaurant, such as Hervey Bay scallops and half rock lobsters.

A fishmonger with a fine dining difference opens at Prahran Market

Portside, from the chefs behind hatted Omnia and Yugen, sells seafood prepared like a restaurant would: lobster stuffed with garlic miso, scallops topped with yuzu butter and more.

  • Emily Holgate
Donati’s is known for its collection of art themed around pigs, cows and butchery.

‘It’s not just a butcher’: Legendary Carlton shop Donati’s celebrated in its final weeks

A Lygon Street fixture since 1972, the singular butcher shop run by Leo Donati will close early next year, bringing to an end half a century of opera, debate and excellent Christmas hams.

  • Emma Breheny
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura takes us shopping at her go-to for Italian ingredients, Mediterranean Wholesalers.

From $2 espressos to tinned tomatoes: Julia Busuttil Nishimura takes us shopping for Italian ingredients

The cookbook author has a deep knowledge and passion for Italian products. She shows us around Mediterranean Wholesalers and shares some of her favourites.

  • Ardyn Bernoth
Breadcetera owners Anthony Silvestre (left) and Frank Ciorciari.

‘It’s the milk bar for 2025’: Breadcetera fills a loaf gap in Malvern East

The new takeaway shop and grocer is serving house-made sausage rolls, chocolate tarts and chicken salad sangers on high-top bread.

  • Dani Valent
Chadstone

Chadstone’s shiny new Market Pavilion is a spectacle, but does it deserve the hype?

Recipe bots, pre-packaged meals and sweet treats are all there. But where do you sit down and eat? Here’s Good Food’s guide to the enormous food precinct.

  • Emma Breheny
When it comes to after-dinner treats, two squares of dark chocolate per night will never be enough to cure our collective problems.

In the supermarket’s most tempting aisle, a familiar problem presents itself

When it comes to after-dinner treats, two squares of dark chocolate a night will never be enough to cure our collective problems.

  • Thomas Mitchell