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How To Make the Perfect Aussie Burger, According to Five Experts

1 day ago | broadsheet.com.au | Doug Wallen

Burgers have become big business in Australia. The American-style craze, which saw boutique burger joints like Melbourne’s legendary Rockwell and Sons, and Neil Perry’s Burger Project pop up around the country, peaked somewhere in the mid-2010s. But it left behind a culture of creativity and respect for the form, where even top restaurants like Gimlet and The Gidley, as well as cool newcomers like Bistra and Clam Bar, have their takes.
Two-Ingredient Beurre Monte Sauce Elevates Any Dish

2 days ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

You know Curtis Stone’s easy smile after 15 years watching him spruik the goods for Coles. But before the chef ever stepped into a TV studio, he trained under the revered Marco Pierre White, going on to run the show at White’s Soho restaurant Quo Vadis. And for the last decade, Stone’s operated Maude and Gwen, his one-Michelin-star restaurants in Beverly Hills and Hollywood respectively.
Comfort Food, Locally Sourced Truffles and Seasonal Produce: What’s Landing on Ballarat Menus This Season

2 days ago | broadsheet.com.au | Doug Wallen

A bustling historical city surrounded by farms and gardens: that’s Ballarat. And the regional centre’s prized location means that locals and visitors can enjoy the best of both worlds – the dining culture of a city, with a hands-on focus that makes the most of the produce right on their doorstep. With autumn well and truly upon us, a new season’s worth of flavours awaits.
Lee Mathews Is Celebrating 26 Years of Her Eponymous Label

2 days ago | broadsheet.com.au | Maggie Zhou

In 1999, Lee Mathews launched her ready-to-wear label. Spanning four decades, the quietly confident womenswear designer has stayed true to what she does best: functional, considered, livable garments. It’s not that her label has changed much, she tells Broadsheet, but that the world around her has. To mark the 25th anniversary of her eponymous label, the art director-and-illustrator-turned-fashion-designer has reneged on her previous claim that she’d never return to Australian Fashion Week.
A Tomato, Harissa and Jatz Cracker Pie With Cheese Recipe

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Che-Marie Trigg |Hardie Grant Books

Over the past decade or so, Jatz crackers have had their remit expanded. No longer confined to a vehicle for cabanossi and cubes of rubbery cheese, the malted biscuits – and their counterparts Ritz, which are more common in Melbourne and Adelaide – have found their way onto restaurant menus, with toppings like anchovies and butter, and whiting and cod roe.
How DJ Adriana Brings Culture and Community Into the Music She Creates

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Doug Wallen

How DJ Adriana Brings Culture and Community Into the Music She CreatesThe Melbourne DJ is a cheerful staple of festivals and community radio, plus her triannual dance party Spasta – and a lot of work goes into crafting those seamless, joyous sets. In partnership with Suntory BOSS Coffee, she shares her work routine and wider journey as a jobbing DJ. Adriana Lazaridis grew up immersed in Melbourne’s Greek community.
Mexican Breakfast Is Finally a Thing in Melbourne – for Real This Time

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Callum McDermott

The Hot List is the definitive guide to Melbourne’s most essential food and drink experiences, updated weekly. Learn more. Two weeks ago, Ricardo Garcia Flores started advertising El Columpio’s new, earlier, opening hours. Since opening just over a year ago, the Hot-Listed Mexican restaurant’s faithful renditions of tacos, tamales and its signature soup, pozole, have won it a feverish fandom.
Snack Bar: Mexican Breakfast, The Tan’s New 350-Seat Cafe and More Local Food News This Week

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Audrey Payne

• Dingo Ate My Taco and American-style pizza joint Deep End have brought back their birria pizza for the month of May at Deep End Fitzroy. The Detroit-style pizza is topped with birria-soaked brisket and Oaxaca cheese and comes with a side of birria. • Madeleine de Proust is teaming up with Godiva on three madeleines for Mother’s Day, available for scheduled collection or delivery between Thursday May 8 and Sunday May 11.
Where Chefs Eat: Fhred Batalona of Palay Thinks This Is Melbourne’s Best Butter Chicken

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Audrey Payne

Fhred Batalona has been busy with the opening of his first restaurant, Palay, in Fitzroy. “For me, this isn’t a job, it’s my dream and has been in the making for the last 10 years,” he told Broadsheet when we reported on the opening. But when he’s not making silog and banana ketchup, he can be found eating his way around town. We caught up with Batalona to find out where (and what) he’s eating in Melbourne these daysWhat’s your favourite bakery? To Be Frank.
What to Eat and Drink at Bar Freda's in Chippendale

1 week ago | broadsheet.com.au | Callum McDermott

The Hot List is the definitive guide to Sydney’s most essential food and drink experiences, updated weekly. Learn more. First, Freda’s was a hard-partying bar in an old Chippendale warehouse. Then it moved, and the new Freda’s – Cafe Freda’s – was a restaurant. But that restaurant was really more of a bar, too. (Or, as founder David Abram calls it, “a bar trying to break out of a restaurant”.) Two weeks ago, Freda’s returned to Chippendale. And this Freda’s – Bar Freda’s – is a bar again.