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Melbourne family can’t get refund for Surfers Paradise hotel with poo-stained quilt, fire-damaged kitchen

Broken appliances, a missing door, filthy bathroom, pigeon-poo-stained bedding and a kitchen that appeared to have been on fire before they arrived. It...

SMH Good Food Guide 2016: The award winners

Vittoria Coffee Restaurant of the Year   Ticks every box. The winning restaurant does not need to receive three hats, but must capture the mood of the...

Canberra restaurants with chefs hats

There's been a monster win for Canberra at the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2016 awards. Monster, the much-lauded restaurant and bar at the...

Sydney Opera House restaurant on notice over staff underpayments

The Sydney Opera House’s iconic Opera Kitchen is being monitored over what is said to be a “pattern of behaviour” after the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO)...

Aussie pub culture more about eating than drinking

If you thought the main purpose of pubs was to quench their patrons’ hard-earned thirst, think again. In an average three months, the number of Australians...

Rosewood's historic 'Ghost Pub' is dying

COUNTRY pubs appear to be facing the same battle to stay open as the city's central pubs. The 100 year old Rosewood Hotel, also known as the Middle Pub,...

Western Australian sheep farmer puts mutton on the menu at top Perth restaurants

Mutton is often thought of as tough and gamey, but a sheep farmer from Katanning, in Western Australia's Great Southern region, is getting top-dollar for...

Recipes from The Blue Ducks' Real Food, by Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy

For chefs, foragers and surfers Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy (of Three Blue Ducks), eating real food is a way of life. It's about slowing down and...

The Block’s new Hotel of Horrors was once the scene of an attack by a ‘vampire gigolo’

THE Melbourne hotel that is the focus of the 11th series of Channel 9’s reality TV series The Block has been dubbed the Blocktagon. But this rundown...

Singaporean snaps up home of George Calombaris' Gazi and Press Club restaurants

A building that houses MasterChef star George Calombaris' upmarket Gazi and The Press Club restaurants has been sold to a Singaporean investor. Property...