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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

For Jamie Bucirde, what started out as an Instagram account has grown into a bone fide nationwide movement.

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The Age Good Food Guide 2025.

Meet the people behind the Good Food Guide

Ahead of this year’s Good Food Guide Awards on Monday night, we asked the people behind the chef’s hats to tell us how it all comes together.

  • Sarah Norris, Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
WAR presdient Bridget Raffal accepts the award for Cultural Change Champion.

‘Raise the bar’: First Cultural Change Champion calls for action at Good Food Guide awards

More must be done to make hospitality a safe industry for women, heard the crowd at the 40th annual awards ceremony.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Bill Grainger Trailblazer Award, Baba’s Place, Marrickville.
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Good Food Guide Awards 2024

Good Food Guide Awards 2024 at the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House

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The ultimate guide to the Good Food Guide

Here’s everything you need to know about the annual dining bible, from if restaurants can pay to be included (no), to how the hat scoring works.

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Apply now for the Good Food Guides’ Cultural Change Champion award

The new award shines a light on initiatives and programs that foster positive, safe and empowering work environments and culture.

Shirley Yeung from women’s hospitality platform, Mix Haus.

‘We need to be part of the tide that lifts’: How hospitality is tackling its dark side

A new Good Food Guide award will shine a light on positive initiatives. And after explosive coverage of toxic behaviour, many are hopeful that change is afoot.

  • Dani Valent
Le Foote in The Rocks.

The Good Food Guide drops Swillhouse venues, introduces workplace culture award

It’s the biggest evolution to the Guide’s approach to reviews in its four-decade history.

  • Sarah Norris
Katie McCormack, who the award aims to honour in both name and spirit.

New $10,000 prize to open doors for rising stars of restaurant service

A brand-new Good Food Guide award will turn the spotlight onto the next generation of front-of-house professionals. Here’s how to apply.

  • Emma Breheny
Cornersmith owners Alex Elliott-Howery and James Grant have called time on their Annandale cafe.

‘Groundbreakers can’t survive any more’: Is Australia’s restaurant industry on the brink?

For many restaurants today, just breaking even is cause for celebration. Will 2024 be remembered as a year of closures? And what can cash-strapped diners do to help?

  • Dani Valent