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Restaurant closed after fried rice find

A POPULAR Chinese restaurant in Brisbane was shut down after a woman ­suffered severe throat trauma when she swallowed part of a stainless steel pot...

Quest opens new apartment hotel in Kelvin Grove, Brisbane

Business travellers to Brisbane can now stay in newly-opened serviced apartments at Quest Kelvin Grove: just five minutes by car from the city’s CBD...

Award-winning Flynn’s Restaurant in Yungaburra bans children

A FAMILY with a screaming child was the final straw for an up-market Tablelands restaurant that has decided to ban children. The award-winning Flynn’s...

CSIRO developing wheat with cholesterol lowering qualities

Australian scientists are one step closer to developing a wheat variety that could be used to make cholesterol lowering bread. The CSIRO is hoping to...

Abbots & Kinney’s Jonny Pisanelli a master of patisserie

It all started with a croissant. An almond croissant, to be exact. We were in Adelaide, enduring obnoxious music at a favourite coffee haunt (because the...

Periwinkles tipped to be the next big thing in seafood

A new study suggests periwinkles may be the next big seafood and divers and diners are being encouraged to get onboard. The sea snails are found mostly...

Cutler & Co, Melbourne: restaurant review

The humble restaurant review. Don’t even touch the keyboard without first asking: what’s the takeaway for readers? Pedigree: Cutler & Co in Melbourne....

Victorian chef serves up possum in pies at Stawell restaurant

ONE of Australia’s most polarising protected species now comes served as a popular pie. A Victorian chef has put possum on the menu in a move that...

Hunt for suspect over throat-slashing death at Melbourne hotel

Police are confident of tracking down the person responsible for the death of a man found with his throat cut at a hotel in Melbourne's Southbank precinct...

Chatswood restaurant O Crab brings American-style crab shacks to Australia

When a restaurant offers bibs while taking orders, you know it’s going to get messy. O Crab opened in Chatswood in May and pays homage to American...