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Fine-dining restaurant Underbar is about to make its second move in 12 months after a business partnership dissolved.

Underbar moves back to original Ballarat location after brief stay at Hotel Vera

A plush partnership between two luxury destinations in Ballarat has dissolved, leaving a hotel without a restaurant and a restaurant without a home.

  • Emma Breheny
Enoteca Ponti.

High-profile Potts Point wine bar closes only three weeks after opening

EP Wine, a reboot of Enoteca Ponti on Macleay Street from the experienced team at the successful Bistro Rex, has lasted less than a month.

  • Scott Bolles
Ester Spirits.

Gin of choice for hatted Sydney restaurants opens ‘Willy Wonka’ bar to public in Marrickville

Try every one of Ester’s gins (including a new release) at their first Sydney venue.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Soon, Abacus Food and Wine in South Yarra will be rewarding diners for booking their first evening table.

Pensioner-hour is now happy hour thanks to savvy discount dining app

Victorians who are happy to dine early will soon be rewarded with 50 per cent off when a new reservations platform launches this month.

  • Emma Breheny
Creamy tonkotsu ramen at Hakata Gensuke in Melbourne.

Cult Melbourne ramen brand opens first Sydney outlet at this bustling Japanese hot spot

Cult tonkotsu ramen chain deliberately lands in a pocket of the CBD starting to gain traction as the most Japanese corner of Sydney.

  • Scott Bolles
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There are at least half a dozen choices of pasta at Mortadeli Pasta Bar.

All roads lead to Torquay’s Mortadeli Pasta Bar for Rome-inspired classics

Walk through the doors of a deli and discover a full-blown restaurant inside, with laminex, timber and a full line-up of antipasti and Roman pasta classics.

  • Emma Breheny
Xiao long bao are made in-store.

It’s a shop, a restaurant, a phenomenon: You could easily spend half a day at Asian megastore Foodle

Highpoint’s new supermarket-sized Asian grocer includes live seafood tanks, a premium butcher, sushi counter and oyster bar, Chinese barbecue restaurant, bakery, dumpling factory and canteen-style dining hall.

  • Dani Valent
Joy Korean Fried Chicken.

Each piece of Joy’s Korean triple-fried chicken is ‘a golden meteorite of crunch’

Loyal fans visit Joy Korean Fried Chicken’s cheap and cheerful shopfront for its tongue-tingling flavours and tender plump meat.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Dark walls and light fixtures made from fencing wire create a masculine aesthetic at La Luna.
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Icon review: Melburnians are obsessed with new restaurants, but 25-year-old La Luna shows we should value consistency, too

In a city enamoured with newness, this Carlton North stayer has a timeless quality that commands respect.

  • Besha Rodell
Poetica is set to open in North Sydney on September 1. 

North Sydney dining scene set for reboot with arrival of 120-seater from the team behind Loulou Bistro and Charles Grand Brasserie

Will the incoming metro line liven up after-work dinner and drinks?

  • Bianca Hrovat

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