9 h. ago Katie McCormack Young Service Talent Award: Georgia Limacher

We are proud to announce the winner of The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Katie McCormack Young Service Talent Award is Georgia Limacher of Gimlet restaurant.

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10 h. ago Everything you need to know from The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Awards

Catch up on all the action, hats, finalists and winners from The Age Good Food Guide Awards, presented by T2 Tea and Oceania Cruises.

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40 h. ago The visionaries: Meet the people making Victoria such a vital place to eat and drink

These are the Good Food Guide’s trailblazers, changemakers and businesses charting a new course for hospitality, and driving it forward.

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40 h. ago Hats on, hats off: Which restaurants gained (and lost) hats in The Age Good Food Guide 2026?

Some Italian institutions raised the bar; others took a tumble. There are exciting new entrants to the one-hat club. And Chris Lucas’ restaurants saw some fluctuations.

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40 h. ago This year’s Good Food Guide meets you wherever you like to eat

With nearly 500 reviews, it spans Torquay, Bentleigh, Sunshine, Beechworth and more, with takeaway shawarma joints and dazzling degustations.

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51 h. ago New Restaurant of the Year, presented by Aurum Poultry Co: Zareh

We are proud to announce the winner of The Age Good Food Guide 2026 New Restaurant of the Year is Zareh.

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51 h. ago Katie McCormack Young Service Talent Award: Georgia Limacher, Gimlet

We are proud to announce the winner of The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Young Service Talent Award is Georgia Limacher of Gimlet Restaurant.

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54 h. ago The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2026 LIVE: All the winners and hats revealed

Live coverage of this afternoon’s The Age Good Food Guide Awards ceremony at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne.

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54 h. ago The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2026 as it happened: All the winners and hats revealed

Catch up on our live coverage of this afternoon’s The Age Good Food Guide Awards ceremony at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne.

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58 h. ago The finalists announced for Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year

Five finalists plus five more to try. There’s a stylish ode to regional Indian cooking and a hard-to-book bistro with fire-licked Armenian food and a soundtrack of South Caucasian funk to match.

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58 h. ago The 2026 Good Food Guide to be launched in October with exciting new features

The SMH and Age Guides will feature anonymously written reviews across various price points, cuisines and suburbs, available via the Good Food app and an 80-page liftout.

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58 h. ago Meet five of Victoria’s best young chefs you’ve never heard of – yet

The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Young Chef of the Year finalists will cook together at a special dinner next month celebrating their different styles.

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64 h. ago The 45th Age Good Food Guide launches today, with Victoria’s best new and classic restaurants

It has nearly 500 bar, pub, cafe and restaurant reviews, and a new list of the 123 essential spots that define dining in the state, right now.

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5 d. ago Catch up on all the finalists for The Age Good Food Guide Awards

From the best up-and-coming young talents to the finalists for the Restaurant of the Year, here’s everything you need to know about this year’s nominees.

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5 d. ago The finalists for the three biggest awards at The Age Good Food Guide Awards revealed

Covering Restaurant of the Year, Service Excellence and Chef of the Year, these 15 names are ones to put on your dining cheat sheet for the year ahead.

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8 d. ago Everything you need to know from the SMH Good Food Guide 2026 Awards

Catch up on all the action, hats, finalists and winners from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Awards.

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1 week ago No reservations and angry signs: Sydney’s worst restaurant habits

The annual Bad Food Guide is back to highlight Sydney dining’s dark side.

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1 week ago The 10 finalists announced for Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year

There’s a stylish ode to regional Indian cooking and a hard-to-book bistro with fire-licked Armenian food and a soundtrack of South Caucasian funk to match.

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2 w. ago The innovators: Meet the people making NSW such a vital place to eat and drink

These are the trailblazers, the changemakers and businesses charting a new course for hospitality, and driving it forward.

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2 w. ago The Good Food app is home of the Good Food Guide, and it’s like having a reviewer on speed dial

Search more than 1200 trusted, independent reviews of restaurants, cafes, bars and pubs, including one, two and three hatted venues.

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