Emma Breheny
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Victoria’s 10 best new restaurants this year, according to Good Food Guide critics (opens the original)
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Victoria’s restaurant fortunes waxed and waned in 2026, with every shiny new addition seemingly matched by another venue turning out the lights. Still, it was the strongest year of new openings this decade, from the joyous to the high-concept, the humble to the high-flying. It hasn’t just been a volume game, either. The quality among the new openings is remarkable. Compiling a list of just five finalists for The Age Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year, as is tradition, was too difficult
Review: This taco joint nails the one per centers, but you’ll have to wait your turn (opens the original)
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I’m perched on a stool, elbows resting on dusky-pink tiles, taking in one of Melbourne’s most beautiful restaurants. It’s not a flawless stunner; more like a model with a gap-toothed smile. Bare mortar crawls up the brick walls in a windowless room, the kitchen and potwash are in full view, and tables are constructed out of old Coca-Cola crates. Candles flicker (the main source of light) and at regular intervals sit clusters of flowers in reds, creams and more dusty pinks. It feels like being in
Review: These supersized pizzas (with a secret weapon) are perfect for our maxxed-out times (opens the original)
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Things that are bigger than a 15-inch pizza: the silver plate presented to the Wimbledon women’s champion (18.75 inches); the tunnels used by Viet Cong fighters during the Vietnam War (at least 23 inches); a Weber kettle barbecue (about 22 inches). Things that are not: an NBA basketball (9.5 inches); a vinyl record (12 inches); a dinner plate (10 to 11 inches). At Thornbury’s Pizza Elettrica, 15 inches (38 centimetres) of dough, sauce and toppings is the norm. There’s no large, no family-sized.
Review: Mary’s serves puff puff pancakes by day, alligator pepper stew by night (opens the original)
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Alligator pepper is a phrase to stop you in your tracks. Is it lethally hot? Spiky? Reading menus for a living, you see plenty of unfamiliar terms that lodge in your brain. (Sometimes they even help you win the Saturday morning quiz.) Carta de musica: crunchy Italian crackers. Grenobloise: buttery French sauce with capers and parsley. But alligator pepper? In Melbourne? That’s an itch your brain wants to scratch – and you can, at Mary’s in Collingwood, the Nigerian-ish venue of Mary Akindele. “N
Review: This banh mi shop transforms into an ‘insanely good value’ charcoal chicken joint (opens the original)
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Duck season? Rabbit season? It deviates from Looney Tunes lore but it looks like chicken season on Sydney Road. Brunswick chicken shop Season has quietly done its thing for two years but now it’s got company. Up in Coburg, Pecky’s food truck has earned devoted Nashville chicken fans over the past year. Then, in late June, NSW import El Jannah opened its 24th Victorian location, about 200 metres from Season in a big, shiny, corner building. Walk past during the day and you won’t spot Season. It’s
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