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Highs, lows and a perfect rogan josh at Canberra's new Indian arrival (opens the original)
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Ganesha, the widely revered elephant-headed Hindu god of wisdom and new beginnings, sits on the counter at The Lotus Indian. He is black and gold, with four arms, ears fanned wide, and is flanked by a pair of raised hennaed hands like a two-man honour guard. He is the god of beginnings and the remover of obstacles. A reasonable strategy for a restaurant at the Griffith Shops, because this room was Aubergine for years, and a dining room like that arrives with a lot already expected of it. The bon
Leave the door open. The rest of Canberra needs to smell what's happening in its boldest new kitchen (opens the original)
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We are the first table through the door, a little after 6pm on a late-winter Wednesday. It is still properly cold outside, but chef-owner Para asks us to leave the front door open. He has just toasted fenugreek, and the room is thick with it, earthy and nutty, with a deep caramel edge that has apparently defeated the ventilation. Para welcomes us warmly, beanie still planted firmly on his head. The toasted fenugreek is just one of 180 spices, filed neatly in the kitchen at Tusa, which occupies t
Before foodies: How Canberra became the town that liked to go out (opens the original)
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For most of the 1940s, the best table in Canberra was a boarding house dining room in Barton, and the man at it was the prime minister. Ben Chifley lived at the Hotel Kurrajong, which had opened in 1926 as Hostel No. 2, a place to park politicians who had nowhere else to sleep in a capital still drawing its own street plan. Chifley never left. He ate there, took his caucus over breakfast there, and in June 1951 died in room 205 while a Commonwealth Jubilee ball carried on up the hill at Parliame
The survivors: Canberra's restaurant rebels who are still standing (opens the original)
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In April 2013, a narrow Braddon room broke the rules. The city's kitchens have been setting their own terms ever since. It happened when a room opened on Lonsdale Street with a blackboard for a menu, hip-hop where the hush used to be, and an $86 all-you-can-eat option for the brave. The dishes ran out as the night wore on, and a hand crossed them off the board one by one. The floor used some colourful language at the time, and you came back for more. There was a name for it inside the kitchen. W
The room's genuinely impressive, but this restaurant is curiously anonymous (opens the original)
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The wallpaper is the first thing that tells you where you are. It is also the first thing that tells you you could be almost anywhere. Kangaroos, wombats, dingoes and rosellas wander across the walls and spill onto the ceiling in an Australian tableau executed with genuine skill. It is handsome work. It is also the work of COOOP, the design studio behind Hunter & Barrel restaurants in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide. Canberra gets the rosellas. Every city gets the room and that, in many wa
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