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Frank Sweet

Frank Sweet

Good Food Guide editor

Frank Sweet is editor of The Age Good Food Guide 2026 and a former food and drink editor at Time Out Beijing.

The 21 fishy contenders.

We taste-tested 21 cans of supermarket tuna in oil and Sirena didn’t win

Good Food tin-fluencer Frank Sweet scours the Seven Seas for Australia’s tastiest canned tuna. More than 20 cans, pouches and one stinky office later, here’s how they ranked.

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 Frank Sweet is feeling the squeeze.

Aussies are suckers for yoghurt pouches. We put them to the taste test – with mixed results

Frank Sweet dons the blindfold in a puckering test of lactic endurance to find out which vanilla yoghurt pouches truly suck the most.

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The class of 2026: Aussie supermarkets' Anzac biscuits edition.

Which are the best and worst supermarket Anzac biscuits? We taste-tested them all

We blind taste-tested eight Anzac biscuits and found more flunks than slam dunks. From the crunchy and dry to the gooey and chewy, here’s the way the cookies crumbled.

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Cafe Effe makes cakes and tarts, its own, gelato, and coffee using Proud Mary beans.

Cafe Effe

Where gelato and coffee collide.

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Frank Sweet with the perfect chip.

From the bleachy to the bubbly: The ultimate plain-salted crisp taste test

In a quest to find the best, Frank Sweet blind taste-tested 17 plain-salted crisps. Which home-brand supermarket crisps knocked the posh ones off the podium?

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A latte at Cafe Effe made with Proud Mary coffee beans.

A ‘futuristic pitstop’, gelato in the hills: Three new Melbourne cafes to try

Cafes are evolving faster than a tiramisu latte. From butter doughnuts to 15-second flat whites, discover the latest in cafe culture at three city newcomers.

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Frank Sweet puts chocolate hot cross buns to the taste test.

‘Slimy undercarriage’: Supermarket choc hot cross buns ranked from worst to best

Not a fan of fruit and spice? Increasingly popular chocolate-filled HXB (plus one cheesy wildcard) bravely hop up to Good Food’s taste test plate.

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Inside Bar Merenda’s intimate second-storey dining room, Bistro Merenda.

The Good Food Guide to a road trip through Daylesford

From two-hatted fine diners to classic pubs, cafes and a bustling (dog-friendly) Sunday market, there’s no shortage of things to do or places to dine in Daylesford.

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Bistra’s vintage chrome-and-tile facade.

20 banging BYO restaurants from the Good Food Guide

From a forever-busy corner wine bar with great snacks to a raucous spot for grilled meat on sticks, these Victorian restaurants are the ones to know when you want BYO (plus, updated corkage info).

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Moonhouse’s weekly oyster and fizz initiative runs each Thursday from 5.30pm.

From bargain breakfast to classy date night: 10 deals for a skint January in Melbourne

Broke again? How about that! Console your wallet after an exxy festive season with $2 oysters, $20 pasta, and all-you-can-eat Malaysian.

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