Gourmet Traveller

A sharp new-wave Italian restaurant is coming to Redfern in early August with a gun hospitality team on deck. Attenzione Food & Wine unites former colleagues and childhood friends Felix Colman (part owner of Ragazzi and Fabbrica), Toby Davis (ex-Yell

Secluded yet bursting with life, Lizard Island quietly continues as a top Australian destination for naturalists and hedonists alike. Private suites and villas are neatly set back from calm, sparkling cyan ocean with unparalleled proximity to the Gre

Kevin La’s food content creation behind his @sydneyfoodboy Instagram has garnered a cult following. This is owed to his delicious, colourful, energetic, culturally diverse, detailed and captivating posts, and even more so to his pure intention to cel

This decadent spread’s velvety texture is contrasted with bites of crushed pistachio speckled throughout. Its whipped frosting-like texture and biscuity aroma make it an ideal dessert topper, be it spread across crêpes or melted and drizzled over ice

LEAVE ANY ASSUMPTIONS you might have about a $6 million pub renovation at the button-activated front door. Chances are they won’t apply at White Horse, which emerged from a full facelift in April. Wander inside, and you’ll find the public bar has bee

“GO BIG OR GO HOME.” PRIOR to the May opening of Gibney – a grand waterside brasserie in Perth’s affluent Cottesloe – I imagine George Kailis and the Kailis Hospitality Group team steeling themselves with this chest-thumping mantra. After all, if the

THERE’S A DELICIOUS AGONY when it dawns that you want to eat everything on the menu. Obviously, there are no bad decisions in the scenario, but with a menu like the one at Bistra, the perfectly formed, casually chic new Australian bistro in Carlton,

How did you come to love wine? A lot goes into wine from the vineyard into the bottle. That’s where the passion stems from. I am originally from the western district of Victoria, close to Coonawarra, so it started with an interest in agriculture and

AN L-SHAPED, THREE-STOREY red-brick motor inn that seems forever stuck in the 1980s probably isn’t where you’d think to find what has, in only a matter of years, become one of Tasmania’s most talked-about regional restaurants. Settle into one of the

Female-led distillery Birds of Isle is giving rum the artisan treatment. Its signature bunya nut drop picks up on the trend for Australian botanicals with notes of roasted bunya nut shell paired with smoky chestnut and a hint of pinewood. $130, birds

PETER GILMORE, EXECUTIVE CHEF AT QUAY and Bennelong, is off-duty at home; no chef’s whites, no kitchen brigade. His two sons Isaac, 24, and Joe, 21, have joined him around the island bench to prep for a long afternoon of feasting. “It’s lovely hangin

FOR DECADES, RAICILLA LIVED IN THE SHADOW of mezcal and tequila, an agave distillate dismissed as a moonshine of sorts and little known outside its home in the western Mexican state of Jalisco. Nowadays, by virtue of ancestral production methods and

IN MY ROLE AS WINE SCRIBE AND SOMMELIER, THE MOST COMMON question asked after, “How can I have your job?” is “What’s the next big grape in wine?”, often from curious drinkers who want to try something beyond their usual safe bets. And Australia’s dyn

I LOVE DINING OUT SOLO. DON’T GET ME WRONG; eating in a restaurant in the company of others is one of life’s great pleasures, but this is not an either/or situation. Solo dining is its own genre, a choice as valid as dining with company and a rare ex

I CAN’T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHEN I FIRST SAW a restaurant snack perched on top of a square of geometrically branded grease paper, but I do remember thinking it looked cool. The dish was almost certainly something dusted with a cricket pitch of fine brun

The quest to discover delicious things is a pleasurable path. But it’s not always the detailed dégustations or rare ingredients that live on in our minds, but instead joyful, delicious bites that have us dreaming of return visits. While our Annual Re

PHOTOGRAPHY GUTTER CREDIT BRETT STEVENS. STYLING MAXWELL ADEY./WORDS ELLIOT BAKER, ALIX DAVIS, MICHAEL HARDEN, MATTY HIRSCH, KATIE SPAIN & MAX VEENHUYZEN■

It’s a measure of Kafeneion’s success that fried sweetbreads are suddenly up there as Melbourne’s go-to dish. But Con Christopoulos and Stavros Konis’ chic Greek diner is a pitch-perfect lesson in defying expectations and overturning taverna stereoty

Soft-spoken kitchen talent Sofika Boulton carries a big gift: her ability to absorb information and influences and transform them into polished, faff-free dishes. At free-spirited wine bar Sonny’s, she oversees a tight menu that’s by turns resourcefu

There’s something almost radical about Bar Olo. At a time when the wine bars currently proliferating across Melbourne are mostly emphasising minimal intervention wines and food cooked over coals, this bar, from the owners of longstanding Scopri a few

SARAH BALDWIN, JOY If you manage to secure a booking at Joy, the intimate 10-seat dégustation-only restaurant, or snag a last-minute cancellation, expect a text confirmation from chef-owner Sarah Baldwin herself. This personal touch extends to the d

Sommelier Tess Murray and her husband, chef Louis Naepels, once ran a bistro in the French Basque region. Now their finely tuned French bistro in Heathcote emphatically proves the value of experience. From the elegantly fresh, light-filled room to Na

Attica is benchmark cooking. It’s the place to book to show off Australian cuisine to overseas guests, while expanding your own knowledge and understanding of native ingredients and the landscape from whence they come. World-renowned for his inventiv

THE TINY ISLAND NATION OF MALTA, smaller even than Launceston, has seen its popularity soar, as tourists come for its pristine coastline, rich history and diverse cultural influences. Yet its cuisine remains largely unknown to those outside of the ar

GF SERVES 4-6 // PREP 15 MINS // COOK 25 MINS (PLUS RESTING) 1 small side ocean trout (about 1 kg), skin removed, pin-boned 2 tsp sweet paprika 1 tsp crushed caraway seeds 1 garlic clove, crushed Finely grated zest of 1 lemon 2 tbsp extra-virgin

Combine 4 finely shredded makrut lime leaves, 2 finely grated garlic cloves, 1 finely chopped birdseye chilli, finely grated zest of 1 lime, 60ml (¼ cup) lime juice, 2 tbsp neutral-flavoured oil, 2 tbsp fish sauce and 2 tbsp finely grated palm sugar

FOR TOM SARAFIAN HUMMUS HAS BECOME A PART OF HIS PERSONAL brand. It’s a dish that offers connection and convenience in Middle Eastern cuisine, but it was Sarafian’s experiences of eating it throughout the Levant region that inspired his own evolved t

MAKES 30 // PREP 25 MINS // COOK 30 MINS (PLUS CHILLLING) We’ve added an Irish spin to the classic French croquette. Serve with its perfect pairing – aïoli – for a delicious appetiser. 500 gm sebago potatoes, peeled, coarsely chopped 2 garlic clove

SIMPLE INGREDIENTS SHOWN a little bit of love and attention come together to make more than the sum of their parts,” says award-winning cook Anna Jones. “This to me is an easy win. A little moment of kitchen alchemy that reassures me.” In her aptly t

ON THE SUBJECT OF TRAVEL, WE TALK ABOUT the thrill of discovering new things. We refuse to admit that this means discovering new things that bother us, that we do not enjoy, things we don’t like about ourselves and companions. But life is indeed a vo

Patagonia looms large in the imagination of intrepid travellers, so evocative of outdoorsy adventures that its name was appropriated by an outdoorsy adventure clothing brand. This windswept region at the farthest southern tip of South America is part

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Recent addition to Pokolbin’s accommodation offering, The Lane Retreat, is a series of 60 freestanding studios on Bimbadgen’s 15-hectare estate of vineyards and bushland. For those vexed by the Hunter Valley’s eternal weak spot – the combination of e

Oh. Mexico’s Byron Bay,” said a friend doubtfully when I revealed my plans to visit the increasingly fashionable – and pricey – seaside town of Tulum on Mexico’s Caribbean Coast. No shade on Byron Bay, of course, but I paled slightly. Crochet bikinis

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IN HINDSIGHT, IT WOULDN’T REALLY HAVE mattered if InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort wasn’t on an immaculate private bay shrouded by an ancient rainforest. Or if this enchanting escape wasn’t so easily accessed from Danang International Air

Layering bold forms with textural furnishings brings warmth and eccentricity to the home. 1 Shogun table lamp $1860, Stylecraft. 2 Filigree of Foliage (2023) by Luke Sciberras, $22,000, King Street Gallery. 3 Vitra Akari floor lamp, $5905, Living Ed

The moment an elegant decanter comes out at a dinner party usually sparks two reactions. The first is pure gratitude as it signals to the table the wine and indeed the imbibers are worth the extra effort. The next is the inevitable debate when a fell