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The Sydney basement bar with its own fortune teller

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'Red' pizza fritta at Bonnie's.

Punk rock dining with a side of pizza fritta

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Eggplant gyro with skordalia, purple cabbage and carrot sauerkraut.

Yulli's Brews: The craft brewery that's more pub than most hotels

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Bar Topa: "There's much in the way of dark timber, hanging jamon and paintings of Spanish men with beautiful moustaches."

Bar Topa review

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The old grogram cocktail, featuring stout and house-made spiced rum.

Take a rum-fuelled Caribbean flight at The Lobo Plantation

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Toothfish sandwich with padron peppers and watercress.

Bentley's bar menu has been cranked up a gear

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Coconut ceviche with blue corn chips features on Priscillas' veg-focused menu.

Erskineville's Imperial Hotel spit-polished back to life

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The reopened Terminus hotel in Pyrmont, Sydney.

A Pyrmont classic reopens after three decades in pub purgatory

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Sardines on toast at The Duke of Clarence, Sydney.

London calling: The Duke of Clarence is a taste of Old Blighty

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The crispy fish sandwich.

Maurice Terzini's pub for the people

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Love, Tilly Devine in Darlinghurst.

Love, Tilly Devine still on song

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Hot and numbing chicken wings from the Queen Chow kitchen.

Queens Hotel reigns in Enmore's midnight snack Hunger Games

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Scotch egg with a sausage mince of pork neck, bacon, sage and white pepper.
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Uplifting pub favourites at The Old Fitzroy Hotel, Woolloomooloo

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A single-serve puck of ricotta and pear cheesecake from Pari Pasticceria.

Cheesecake and cocktail pillows at Maybe Sammy

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The Jorge Perez rattlesnake mezcal.

Mezcal makes everything OK at Cantina OK!

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Go-to drink: Haymarket cocktail served with a sherbet-coated kaffir lime leaf.

Scout bar settles in at the Dolphin

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River mint freshens a gin, vermouth and citrus spritz.

New Bondi bar a pearler for sustainability

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Good Food. Bar Clementine, in Pyrmont. Steak frites 30th May 2019. Photo: Edwina Pickles.

Step right up for a two-punch lunch at Bar Clementine

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There's more to the Waterloo watering hole than post-Souths' game schooners

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Go-to dish: Catalan coca, featuring tomatoes on a springy sourdough base.

One more for the beach bums at Una Mas

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