Fine dining
Bargain noodles, schnitzels and strudel: Six Melbourne restaurants doing hot things this winter
Cafes are branching out into dinner, neighbourhood wine bars are making mid-week great again, and restaurants are firing on all cylinders. Who said winter was boring?
- by Emma Breheny
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Pocket rockets: Melbourne’s smallest restaurants, from sushi bars to bush cabins
A Japanese restaurant in Footscray has set a new bar for hard-to-score seats with its four-person capacity. But there are plenty of others not far behind.
- by Emma Breheny
The lengths UK chef Simon Rogan went to bringing his Michelin-starred restaurant to Sydney
From custom-grown crops to hand-carved spoons, no detail was spared in the three-year effort to bring L’Enclume Down Under.
- by Bianca Hrovat
First look at L’Enclume’s $420 ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ three-Michelin-starred experience in Sydney
The eight-course menu gives the English restaurant’s signature dishes a distinct Australian flavour during its residency at Bathers’ Pavilion.
- by Bianca Hrovat
Fine-dining restaurant Lume closes with debts totalling $1m, much of them staff entitlements
A two-hatted South Melbourne restaurant has gone into liquidation with 10 staff walking out over unpaid entitlements.
- by Emma Breheny
Top chef Khanh Nguyen announces shock departure from hatted Melbourne restaurants Aru and Sunda
The creator of several must-try Melbourne dishes is leaving the current Restaurant of the Year without even a hint about what’s next.
- by Emma Breheny
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South Yarra
Yugen’s omakase is one of the most thrilling dining experiences in Melbourne right now (if you can manage to snag one of six seats)
Forget the gilded birdcage table, this sushi counter is the precious jewel in the maximalist crown that is Yugen Dining.
- by Besha Rodell
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Restaurant news
Hush hour: 30 of the best Sydney restaurants for quiet conversations (and great food)
Shhh ... we’re eating. Here’s where to enjoy a refined, relaxing meal without the clamour and commotion of the city’s busy party palaces.
One of Brisbane’s most celebrated restaurants is closing – temporarily
You have just a week to dine in its celebrated dining room before it receives a major facelift from a gun local designer.
- by Matt Shea