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The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2025, held in the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne.

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From the hats to what’s hot: Everything you need to know about The Age Good Food Guide 2025

Catch up on all the action, hats, finalists and winners from The Age Good Food Guide, presented by Vittoria Coffee and Oceania Cruises, at Melbourne’s Plaza Ballroom on Monday, November 18.

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Who’s up and who’s down in 2025?

‘Back with a bang’: The restaurants with new hats (and lost hats) in The Age Good Food Guide 2025

  • Tomas Telegramma
Chef of the Year Jung Eun Chae.

The complete list of winners at The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

Chef of the Year Jung Eun Chae with husband Yoora Yoon.

Chef of the Year works two days a week, serves only six people at a time

  • Dani Valent
Hospitality worker Jamie Bucirde was honoured with Victoria’s first Cultural Change Champion award.

Good Food Guide’s first Cultural Change Champion in Victoria is crusading against sexual assault

  • Tomas Telegramma
Charlie Chen has trimmed prices at WeLive2.0 but is reluctant to use cheaper ingredients.

The rise of solo dining spaces and other dining trends we loved (and hated) in 2024

  • Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
Greg Malouf at MoMo’s, the Melbourne basement restaurant where he was awarded two chefs’ hats.

Patient, kind and generous: Chef Greg Malouf’s enduring kitchen legacy

  • Besha Rodell
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Guests at The Age Good Food Guide Awards.

Red carpet, cocktails and colour from The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Awards

Assorted finalists for The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2025.

The Age Good Food Guide Awards as it happened: Full list of winners, hats revealed

  • Annabel Smith
Stefano de Pieri is the don of Mildura hospitality.

Legendary Mildura chef Stefano de Pieri planned to quit – instead, he’s teaching locals to cook

  • Dani Valent
Grilled king prawns with side of piaya (flatbread with miso onions) at Askal.

The finalists for the three biggest awards at The Age Good Food Guide Awards, revealed

  • Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
The brand new Good Food app is like having a reviewer in your pocket.

The Good Food app is live, with new Guide reviews, maps, recipes and more

The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Critics’ Picks.

Tacos to char kwai teow: 20 restaurants you’ll find Good Food Guide critics dining in their downtime

  • Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
The Albion Hotel pours mostly Bodriggy beers.

Hold our beer, the pub is back. Here are Melbourne’s 20 best right now

  • Daniela Frangos and Jay Clough
Emils’ Turkish eggs with sujuk sausage and simit bread.

The brunch bunch: Melbourne’s top 30 cafes right now

  • Dani Valent
One or Two’s “Anchovy Toast”.

The Good Food guide to the best 20 bars in Melbourne, right now

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Lake House has set the standard for destination dining over the last 40 years.

Five regional restaurants worth a road trip – and the best spots to stop on the way

  • Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
Finalists for The Age Good Food Guide 2025 Young Chef of the Year, presented by Smeg, from left: Henry Salt, Saavni Krishnan, Kimberly Tang, Emie Vitteaut and Viveik Vinoharan.

Young gun chefs reveal 21 restaurant gems you should totally know about (but probably don’t)

  • Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser