Good Food Guide 2025
- Review
- Fitzroy
Builders Arms Hotel
This corner pub opened in 1853 and has spun through a dizzying variety of incarnations.
- Review
- West Melbourne
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.
- Review
- Kensington
The Abyssinian
The Abyssinian celebrates the joy of East African spicing, with a focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes.
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
We know Ben Shewry doesn’t like the Good Food Guide. And we don’t care
Ben Shewry wants his restaurant Attica dropped from the Guide. This is why it won’t be.
- Besha Rodell
‘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
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.
- Tomas Telegramma
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
- Collection
- Restaurant news
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.