Flora’s friendliness is so outsized,it ends up embracing everyone.
Good Food hat15/20

A second hat in a month for the Continental Deli crew in Newtown – and this time it’s vego

Sure,Flora’s menu is designed for vegetarians but the venue’s friendliness is so outsized,it ends up embracing everyone.

  • Lee Tran Lam
From left:Black sesame and Vietnamese yoghurt and sugarcane and calamansi sorbet.

‘The most refreshing scoop’:Visiting this dessert parlour is like taking a tropical holiday

Cabramatta dessert parlour Kreamu is a trove of flavours such as pink dragonfruit and longan,purple soursop and jackfruit.

  • Lee Tran Lam
Lunetta,Canberra.
Good Food hat15/20

Canberra’s newest hatted restaurant is a beacon of big-night energy

“Whatever the pasta is,order it,” says our critic of Lunetta,where a young chef is charcoal-grilling high on the hill.

  • David Matthews
Age.3 sandwiches.

Are these viral Japanese sandwiches worth a 40-minute wait?

Our verdict –and how to avoid the queues – at Sydney’s hottest new takeaway spot,where the sandwiches start at $3.

  • Lenny Ann Low
14.5/20

Itching to get out of town? This cosy waterside restaurant is your new weekend destination

Chillis Cottage in Davistown is an excellent spot to enjoy oysters,cinnamon scrolls,breakfast omelettes and gelato sundaes.

  • Callan Boys
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14/20

Visit this shopping strip eatery for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

It’s worth trawling the menu at bustling Bankstown eatery VBites for Hue and Central Vietnamese dishes not often found in Sydney restaurants.

  • Helen Yee
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

This family-run cafe and pasticceria is an old Italian soul worth visiting

In a quiet suburban shopping strip,Maggio’s offers a cornucopia of maritozzi,sfogliatelle and excellent chicken schnitzel sandwiches.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Papi’s Birria
13/20

This petrol-station food truck on Parramatta Road is serving some of Sydney’s best tacos

The lines are long,but Papi’s slow-cooked,spice-throbbing beef folded into cheesy tacos are worth the wait and messy hands.

  • Callan Boys
Tomato,strawberry,oyster,prawns,lemon aspen and green ants.
Good Food hat15.5/20

New chef,new tricks for ultra-hip rooftop restaurant Kiln

One of Australia’s most internationally lauded chefs never to have run a restaurant in his home country writes a delicious new chapter for Sydney’s Ace Hotel.

  • David Matthews
Fish of the day and chips.

This seaside fish shop may sell the best fish 𝄒n𝄒 chips in the state

Portions are generous but it’s good to get in early before fish sell out at this small,smart and no-fuss old-school British-style chippy.

  • Lenny Ann Low