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Cedar Take Away

A local secret for kebabs, salads and fluffy, herb-strewn falafel.

  • Erina Starkey

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Blueberry danishes at Hominy Bakery.

Hominy Bakery

A Katoomba bakery serving croissants, danishes and three kinds of pastry snails.

  • Erina Starkey
Black Cockatoo Bakery has a shop in Lawson and Katoomba.

Black Cockatoo Bakery

Make sure you come on the right day for the ham and gruyere bechamel croissants.

  • Erina Starkey
The Mountain Culture brewpub is set in the old printing press for the Blue Mountains Echo.

Mountain Culture

A Katoomba brewpub set in an old printing press.

  • Erina Starkey
The potato and leek soup at Megalong Restaurant.

The Good Food Guide to a road trip to the Blue Mountains

Ham and bechamel croissants from Black Cockatoo bakery, loaded Lebanese wraps from Cedar Kebab Cafe and dinner at Megalong Restaurant should be on every Blue Mountains food trail.

  • Erina Starkey and Good Food Guide reviewers
Katoomba bistro-style spot Tempus.
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Tempus Katoomba

Sustainability is at the heart of this bolthole.

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The magnificent Carrington Hotel.

Skip this ‘forlorn’ Blue Mountains town? You’ll be missing out

Poor old Katoomba has seen better days, but to suggest it be bypassed en route to other sights in the area does the town a major disservice.

  • Julie Miller
Welcome to Katoomba, the town that time forgot.

Millions of visitors drive through this town every year. Some tell them to skip it

The gateway to one of the state’s top tourist attractions has become a “blighted, deteriorating town”.

  • Julie Power
The Paragon in Katoomba.

The state of the iconic Paragon Cafe left everyone in shock. Now ‘enough is enough’

The NSW government is taking action against the owner of the heritage-listed art deco cafe in the Blue Mountains.

  • Julie Power
Paragon, Katoomba

Inside the once-charming Paragon, a heartbreaking discovery is made

It epitomised glamour and fine dining for 110 years. Now, as our photos show, vandals have trashed its interior.

  • Julie Power