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Xiao long bao are made in-store.

It’s a shop, it’s a restaurant, it’s a phenomenon: You could easily spend half a day at Asian megastore Foodle

Highpoint’s new supermarket-sized Asian grocer includes live seafood tanks, a premium butcher, sushi counter and oyster bar, Chinese barbecue restaurant, bakery, dumpling factory and canteen-style dining hall.

  • Dani Valent
Joy Korean Fried Chicken.

Each piece of Joy’s Korean triple-fried chicken is ‘a golden meteorite of crunch’

Loyal fans visit Joy Korean Fried Chicken’s cheap and cheerful shopfront for its tongue-tingling flavours and tender plump meat.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Dark walls and light fixtures made from fencing wire create a masculine aesthetic at La Luna.
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Icon review: Melburnians are obsessed with new restaurants, but 25-year-old La Luna shows we should value consistency, too

In a city enamoured with newness, this Carlton North stayer has a timeless quality that commands respect.

  • Besha Rodell
Poetica is set to open in North Sydney on September 1. 

North Sydney dining scene set for reboot with arrival of 120-seater from the team behind Loulou Bistro and Charles Grand Brasserie

Will the incoming metro line liven up after-work dinner and drinks?

  • Bianca Hrovat
The Rockley Pub.
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Big city chef, old village pub: Why Matt Moran’s bustling country charmer is worth a stop on your next road trip

Classics such as beer-battered fish and chips, chicken parmigiana and burgers share billing with a Chef’s Menu that takes things up a notch, including lamb shanks, grilled pork chop and a terrific take on deep-fried prawn toast.

  • Terry Durack
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Kingsfood owner Robin Yu.

Kingsfood, an iconic Chinese restaurant in Brisbane’s south

It burns through three woks a week – but such is life when you serve 600 diners a day. Here’s what keeps dedicated locals coming back again and again… and again.

  • Matt Shea
Duck egg char kwai teow at Lulu’s Express.

Melbourne hit list August 2023: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out, right now

Hawker stalls and Mexican street food spin-offs, top-quality lunchtime sushi bowls and more.

Karen Martini at her all-day eatery Hero at ACMI.

Good Food reader lunch with Karen Martini at Hero

Enjoy a Sunday feast and a Q&A with the celebrated chef at her hatted Melbourne restaurant.

  • Good Food
Margherita pizza.

Sydney hit list August 2023: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out, right now

Beautifully chewy sourdough pizza slices, Taiwanese rice bowls, Mexican street food and butter-fuelled crab ... here’s what we’ve been eating and recommending lately.

Paradise Valley Hotel, Clematis.

Paradise Valley Hotel shuttered after suspected arson attack

A picturesque Clematis pub, close to Puffing Billy, has been forced shut after it was razed in a suspected arson attack early Sunday morning.

  • Emma Breheny

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