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Who’s up and who’s down?

What’s up, what’s down: Which restaurants gained (and lost) hats in the new SMH Good Food Guide?

They win some, they lose some. Chefs’ hats, that is, at the launch of the Good Food Guide 2024.

  • Scott Bolles
Rump cap with bagna cauda sauce (below) and Asian chimichurri (right).

Adam Liaw shares the secret to cooking one of the restaurant dishes of the year at home

There’s no hotter cut of beef in Australia right now than the rump cap, and Adam shares how to cook it like a pro (with added bagna cauda and Asian chimichurri sauce).

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Josh Niland, big fish on the global food scene, has been named Oceania Cruises Chef of the Year.

NSW’s top restaurants and culinary talent celebrated at Good Food awards (and a big fish hooks the top gong)

The 39th edition of the annual guide brings a shuffling of hats, a new award and the overdue recognition of a pioneering Sydney chef.

  • Bianca Hrovat
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Cafe of the Year winner Happyfirled in Haberfield.

The complete list of winners at the SMH Good Food Guide 2024 Awards

From the coveted major prize categories to our new awards, meet the best the hospitality industry has to offer right now.

  • Callan Boys
All of the hats from the SMH Good Food Guide Awards

The SMH Good Food Guide Awards 2024: Full list of hats

From one hat to three, the essential list of every hat-winning restaurant from the SMH Good Food Guide 2024.

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Eating out

Chicken Kyiv.
14/20

Ukrainian comfort foods get the star treatment at this feel-good Chippendale restaurant

Chicken Kyiv, borscht, dumplings and cabbage rolls all get an update at social enterprise Kyiv Social.

  • Terry Durack
Alfie’s steakhouse has opened in Sydney, specialising in sirloin steaks.

Team behind Bistecca open casual and affordable steakhouse in Sydney’s ‘steakville’ district

  • Scott Bolles
Funda ramyun with crumbled beef bulgogi and a fried egg.
14.5/20

Loud, ambitious, high-energy: Funda puts the fun into funky Korean food

  • Terry Durack
Hey Rosey is a cosy wine bar in Orange.

The Regional Restaurant of the Year finalists are...

  • Bianca Hrovat

Lists & guides

Blueberry tart, with baked cheesecake, blueberry jam, vanilla cream and blueberries.

Seven exciting new bakeries to spend your dough on (plus, an inner west favourite returns)

Chef Omar Hsu at his counter.

These under-the-radar restaurants might not score a hat, but the critics can’t get enough of them

Clockwise from top left: Clams casino, crumpets and Ora King salmon gravalax at Bistro George in Sydney.

And the finalists for the SMH Good Food Guide New Restaurant of the Year are...

Tiramisu croissant at Layers Bakery in St Leonards, Sydney.

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

Sweets such as fennel, yoghurt, mandarin cake prove the adage “you eat with your eyes first”.

Eat cake and carry on at 20 of Sydney’s best cafes for 2023

Har mee noodle soup with pork, whole prawns, water spinach and hard-boiled egg.

This $16 soup is one of NSW’s best value dishes right now (and here’s 11 more to seek out)

Lobster kottu is the signature dish at Kurumba, Surry Hills.

The SMH Good Food Guide Young Chef of the Year finalists share their favourite dining secrets

***EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, FEBRUARY 11/23 ISSUE*** Good Food  / Good Weekend review by Callan Boys : Diner bacon burger at The Surf Deck in Collaroy Photograph by Jennifer Soo (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

20 of Sydney’s best places to eat and drink on the waterfront

Cavatelli with goat ragu at Hey Rosey, Orange.

The dishes the Good Food team would drive hours for (and where to find them)

Me-Gal in the Wildlife Retreat at Taronga Zoo, Sydney.

50 of Sydney’s best long lazy lunch spots that go beyond the sandwich

Veal and mortadella tortellini in brodo at Grossi Florentino.

20 classic hatted restaurants to add to your bucket list

Food at Poetica

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

Recent reviews

Funda ramyun with crumbled beef bulgogi and a fried egg.
14.5/20

Loud, ambitious, high-energy: Funda puts the fun into funky Korean food

  • Terry Durack
Ravioles du dauphine.

This ‘relaxed gem of a place’ wears its heart on its Barbra Streisand record sleeve

  • Lenny Ann Low
Go-to dish: Open lasagne with yellowfin tuna, king prawns and radicchio.
14.5/20

‘This lasagne is one of the most compelling dishes I’ve eaten this year’

  • Callan Boys
Sob cup noodle.

Michelin-trained chef serves $3.30 onigiri and $13 soba noodles in Zen-like surrounds

  • Lenny Ann Low
The dining room is decked out in soft oak and steel-blue hues.
Good Food hat15/20

Is swanky Sydney steakhouse Poetica the Rockpool Bar & Grill of the north?

  • Callan Boys

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Ricotta-stuffed mushrooms.
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Make RecipeTin Eats’ ‘meaty’, cheesy stuffed mushrooms for meat-free Monday

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi

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Karen Martini’s pollo agrodolce.

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RecipeTin Eats’ 20-minute Thai chicken satay curry.

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Adam Liaw's canned tuna spaghetti.

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Spring greens and cheese pie.

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Karen Martini’s ricotta cannelloni with primavera sauce.

14 midweek marvels from Karen Martini to cook this week

Kettle chips with champagne creme fraiche and caviar. Christmas canape recipes for Good Food online feature December 2018. Please credit Katrina Meynink.

Crunch time: Five easy ways to make crisps even better

Scone slab with lots of strawberries recipe. Katrina Meynink's slab bakes for Good Food August 2020. Please credit Katrina Meynink. Good Food use only.

20 ways to make the most of berry cheap berries

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14 no-fuss throw-together dinners to cook this week

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Five fabulous fritter recipes for a relaxed brunch this weekend

Honey lemon Sichuan chicken recipe

Light, bright and great when money is tight: 40 of the best spring chicken recipes

***EMBARGOED FOR SUNDAY LIFE, APRIL 3/22 ISSUE*** Adam Liaw recipe : Spring onion omelette Photograph by William Meppem (photographer on contract, no restrictions)

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Illustration: Simon Letch

The foods you should always store in the fridge – and the ones you shouldn’t

  • Jill Dupleix

How to up your slicing game and sharpen your knife skills (without cutting yourself)

  • Jill Dupleix

Fast or fiction? A dietitian unpacks the pros and cons of intermittent fasting

  • Susie Burrell
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Finger clickers to bill splitters: These are the five worst types of restaurant diners

  • Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack
Danielle Alvarez's homemade fries (chips) recipe.

Trying to eat healthier? Eat your veg first (and save the chips and bread until last)

  • Anahad O'Connor

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Drinks

RecipeTin Eats’ grapefruit and rosemary spritzer.

Putting on the spritz: 10 refreshing drinks to add fizz to your Friday

Sommelier Angelica Nohra in her Surry Hills restaurant The Blue Door. Nohra has an exclusively NSW wine list.

Sydney restaurants fail to pour NSW wine as Australia drowns in oversupply

  • Katie Spain

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The foods you should always store in the fridge – and the ones you shouldn’t

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Who’s up and who’s down?

What’s up, what’s down: Which restaurants gained (and lost) hats in the new SMH Good Food Guide?

  • Scott Bolles
All of the hats from the SMH Good Food Guide Awards

The SMH Good Food Guide Awards 2024: Full list of hats

Air fryer? Ask me again in 20, maybe 30, years.

From cakes to falafels: How to cook just about anything in the air fryer

  • Becky Krystal
Rump cap with bagna cauda sauce (below) and Asian chimichurri (right).

Adam Liaw shares the secret to cooking one of the restaurant dishes of the year at home

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw

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