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We enlist Momofuku chef David Chang, known noodle enthusiast, to give us his take on Sydney’s most pored-over bowls of ramen. Pat Nourse joins him, spoon in hand.

In a surprise move, Brent Savage and Nick Hildebrandt are pulling up the pegs on The Bentley...

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Nolans Road oil is acclaimed by top chefs and forms the lifeblood of entertaining at Dee Nolan's family farm...

The Côte d’Azur’s cuisine of the sun comes to Sydney thanks to the Fratelli Fresh team’s latest venture, new harbourside bistro Café Nice.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Stephanie Alexander’s garden has kept her busy this month – shelling almonds, picking climbing beans and competing with possums for her Jonathan apples.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Meet the new judge of The Great Australian Bake Off, Dan Lepard, an expat who traded his camera for an apron to become the UK’s most eminent baker.

Australian James Henry created a name for himself in Paris at modern bistro Au Passage and has recently opened his own venture, Bones. Here he talks us through the experience.

From French-door refrigerators to touch-screen ovens, the latest developments in major appliances are as exciting as they are practical, writes Patrick Avenell.

Having renovated, lived in and cooked in some of Australia’s most beautiful properties, Leo Schofield brings years of experience to the kitchen table.

Designing the most-used room in your home can be a delicate balance between aesthetics and practicality. If you don’t get it right, that schmick new kitchen could be a recipe for disaster, writes Chris Pearson. Here’s a baker’s dozen of mistakes you don’t want to make.

Renovating your kitchen doesn’t have to mean bringing in the wrecking ball, says design writer Cerentha Harris.

Out of space
Interior designer Jacinta Preston has tips on how to tackle a kitchen that’s small and not particularly perfectly formed.

A mammoth US player is set to shake up the Australian homewares market and bring fresh inspiration to our kitchens, writes Bianca Tzatzagos.

The pomegranate tree is in flower and the sweet peas have been sown, but while Stephanie Alexander enjoyed a pear crop, the parrots enjoyed the crabapples.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this Valentine's Day.

Whatever the region, Italy’s embarrassment of culinary riches is a joy, writes Fergus Henderson.

He knows his favourites wouldn’t pass muster in Italy, but Josh Thomas loves a trashy, pimped-out pizza.

A pesky possum has managed to outsmart Stephanie Alexander yet again, but thankfully the doughnut peaches and tomatoes have escaped damage.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

New-year resolutions falling by the wayside? Our resident astrologer, Madame Epicurus (aka Kerryn Burgess), provides gourmand guidance and sustenance for the soul.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Fergus Henderson eschews the detox-retox approach to indulgence and instead maintains a steady rhythm.

As Stephanie Alexander heads off on holiday with hungry kids in tow, she’s hoping her vegetable garden survives the heat and pests.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Whether you're heading home for Christmas, staying put or going somewhere new to flee the family, our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this Christmas have your festive eating and drinking sorted. Happy days.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

We’ve called in sausages from the nation’s top butchers, fired up the barbie and drawn together a team of intrepid tasters to get the grill-down on the 10 best snags this summer.

Stephanie Alexander takes the Kitchen Garden Foundation story to Turin, receives princely praise and juggles bountiful summer crops.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Frank Camorra brings the spirit of Spanish Christmas to the table with summery classics designed for sharing, served with a touch of MoVida magic.

He's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller South Australia editor David Sly's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

They've made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller Tasmania editors Sue Dyson & Roger McShane's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

He's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller Perth editor Max Veenhuyzen's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

He's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller Australian Capital Territory editor Gareth Meyer's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

She's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller Queensland editor Fiona Donnelly's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

He's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller Victoria editor Michael Harden's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

He's made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for Gourmet Traveller chief restaurant critic Pat Nourse's 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

We’ve made a list and checked it twice. Drum roll, please, for the 10 best dishes of the year (in no particular order).

We've scoured the shelves, dog-eared the pages – now here is the Gourmet Traveller editorial team’s favourite cookbooks for 2012. Santa, please note.

This lucky country already boasts an enviable food and drink scene, but GT’s well-fed restaurant critics see room for improvement. Here, they ask Santa for some more, please.

Need a final flourish for your Christmas menu? We’ve got you (and your ham) covered with our favourite condiments.

The nation’s top chefs, just like the rest of us, spend Boxing Day staring into the fridge, dreaming up ways to use the rest of the ham.

Chefs usually steal the limelight, but restaurateurs are key to successful diners, writes Nicholas Lander.

Desperate remedies to overindulgence should be readily at hand, writes Fergus Henderson.

Stephanie Alexander has hauled her Christmas tree in from the garden and is busy protecting her stone fruit from possums and birds.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

Left your Melbourne Cup plans to the very last minute? Can't be bothered chilling the Champagne and making those chicken sandwiches? Here's what some of Australia's top restaurants are doing for the day.

Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country, updated weekly.

The culinary traditions of tropical islands such as Vanuatu and the Philippines are celebrated in Peter Kuruvita’s new book.

If you’re looking for an Australian-made cured sausage with the taste sensation that only lactic fermentation can provide, you’re in luck, writes Richard Cornish.

Market share
Farmers’ markets are flourishing and ripe for the picking, writes the chair of the Australian Farmers’ Markets Association, Jane Adams.

Innards and extremities, says Fergus Henderson, even more than other ingredients, need love and care and understanding – and the same could be said of producing a cookbook.

As Stephanie Alexander travels around the country, she learns of new ways to cook with okra, citrus peel, broad bean tops and even monkfish.

New brews
Cold-drip, pour-over, single-estate: Maya Kerthyasa decodes coffee in Australia circa 2012.

The first book from Attica chef Ben Shewry is part memoir, part manual and part manifesto, writes Michael Harden.

Fergus Henderson’s kitchens have been a mixed bunch, from the mad and bad to the lovely and loved.

Design smarts
What’s cooking in kitchen design? Tanya Buchanan explores 10 trends shaping our kitchens today, from dark, dramatic features to breezy outdoor entertaining.

Spring clean
Cerentha Harris, author of The Penguin Book of Keeping House, offers sound advice on kitchen tidiness.

Killer apps
Tanya Buchanan reveals the latest in major appliances, from pot-detecting cooktops to denim-clad fridges.

Magnus Nilsson, chef at cult restaurant Fäviken, has written a big-hearted book about his tiny eatery in the Swedish wilderness. Pat Nourse takes a first look.

The kitchen benchmark
As Brigitte Hafner eagerly anticipates her own home kitchen renovation, she considers the key elements that make up a cook’s ultimate workspace – including the kitchen sink.

Every day brings changes in Stephanie Alexander’s springtime garden – peach and nectarine blossom, and roses the colour of raspberries.

We’ve made our decisions and folded our napkins. Please raise your glass to the winners of the 2013 Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards.

This list has been compiled using our star ratings, moderated by our state and national editors. Every restaurant listed in the guide should offer a winning dining experience; any that achieve a placement in the Top 100 represent another order of excellence again. [To check out all of our 2013 Restaurant Awards coverage, click here. […]

We award stars to restaurants which we have found to be genuinely and consistently exceptional in their food, wine and hospitality.

Kylie Kwong has become a champion of native foods, serving up dishes such as stir-fried yabbies with samphire at her Sydney diner Billy Kwong. It doesn’t get any more Australian-Chinese than this.

A restaurant’s choice in music sets a distinctive tone, and at Momofuku, the music is a particular feature. Chef and playlist-dictator David Chang explains why.

Peter Gilmore, Tetsuya Wakuda, Neil Perry and other top chefs discuss the challenges facing our restaurants today.

Taste makers
Neuromechanics aside, how do our five taste receptors transmit the phenomenal richness we experience as a meal? Neuroscientist and psychologist Jason Gallate explains.

Moveable feast
Foraged foods are enlivening plates at restaurants abroad and at home, but, as Richard Cornish writes, they’re a resource that must be handled with respect.

Your churn
Will Studd mourns the demise of cultured butter made from naturally soured cream and vows to gets churning.

Bold brassicas and bright rainbow silverbeet in generous amounts have been the stars of Stephanie Alexander’s winter garden.

No other meal is more important, so get up and at ’em: 26 of the most exciting breakfast experiences in the country, in no particular order. Candied bacon, anyone?

Stephanie Alexander anticipates a farewell to winter as the bulbs in her garden begin to flourish.

Oh, shucks
Oysterman Steve Feletti says France has much to teach us on the oyster front. Get slurping.

GT chats with the chef’s chef, Thomas Keller, on why France is and always will be a culinary touchstone for him – even when he roasts a chicken.

The onset of winter has slowed growth in Stephanie Alexander’s garden, but the lemon tree is laden, the garlic has started growing and the kale is plentiful.

He likes game shooting. He makes Scotch eggs. He is one of the most respected chefs in London, and the only Australian currently to hold three Michelin stars. He is Brett Graham, chef-patron of Notting Hill two-star The Ledbury and The Harwood Arms in Fulham. We drop by his pub for a pint.

They became known as the Brit-pack, a group of young, confident, classically trained British chefs who bought complex technique, fun and black pudding to Melbourne’s dining rooms in the ’90s. We reunite them.

Screen giant
Leo Schofield meets the bon viveur who brought the cravat into every lounge room in the country, MasterChef judge Matt Preston.

Sausage today can mean chorizo, sai grog, cevapcici or merguez, but not so long ago it meant only one thing: the British banger. Nichola Fletcher reports.