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Good Food Guide 2025

Old meets new at the Builders Arms Hotel on Gertrude Street.

Builders Arms Hotel

This corner pub opened in 1853 and has spun through a dizzying variety of incarnations.

Linguini with prawns and pistachios.

Amiconi

Chef and co-owner Joe Musso has been in the kitchen more than 30 years and his gnocchi is worth a visit in itself.

A rich lamb stew from The Abyssinian.

The Abyssinian

The Abyssinian celebrates the joy of East African spicing, with a focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes.

Mixed dips, chicken and rice, silverbeet rolls, baklava and fattoush.

Abla’s

Abla Amad is one of Australia’s greatest culinary treasures and a pioneer of Melbourne’s Lebanese dining scene.

The original jam doughnuts of American Doughnut Kitchen are hard to beat.

From $2.20 doughnuts to cult chicken nuggets: Where to find Melbourne’s top 20 snacks

Whether you like your snacks palm-sized and less than $2 or built for sharing, this list from The Age Good Food Guide 2025 covers plenty of ground.

  • Claire Adey and Emma Breheny
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Katie McCormack Young Service Talent winner Nicole Sharrad (left) and Young Chef of the Year winner Saavni Krishnan.

‘Really beneficial’: Next-gen talent given boost towards restaurant dreams

Two Good Food Guide awards handed out this week – Young Chef of the Year and Young Service Talent – have the potential to reshape the careers of two women in Melbourne.

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

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

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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

Sweet touches such as chocolate with the bill were a delight. But disintegrating sandwiches, edible flowers and mangled cutlery stood out for all the wrong reasons.

  • Emma Breheny and Ellen Fraser
The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2025, held in the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne.

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.