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Date night

Acciughe e macadamia pizza.
Good Food hat15/20

Forget pineapple: a’Mare’s new pizzeria is pushing delicious into unorthodox territory

Renowned Italian chef-restaurateur Alessandro Pavoni’s new venture offers a few divisive manoeuvres for adventurous diners. 

  • Myffy Rigby
The warehouse space on Flinders Lane trades from noon until late.
Good Food hat15.5/20

Andrew McConnell’s genre-defining dining room comes of age, and is as buzzy as ever

Cumulus Inc. invented the Melbourne wine-bar-slash-restaurant game, and remains a standard-bearer of great service, fantastic wine and exciting share plates.

  • Besha Rodell
The soup's base is a reduce beef stock of depth and distinction; its cheesy topping grilled to melty magnificence.
14/20

Find perfect French onion soup at a local favourite flying under the restaurant radar

The cheese is grilled to melty magnificence, atop a pearlescent broth that gleams like a sword tip.

  • Dani Valent
Tintino is a specialty wine shop and kitchen in Kingston.

Tintino

A wine bar-bottle shop where you can drink in or take away.

  • David Matthews
Inside Frenchie, where the room feels blingy.
13.5/20

So Frenchy, so cheap: Good Food’s verdict on Frenchie, where almost everything is $14

There’s a giddiness to eating here, but is the food any good? Besha Rodell visits the vibey French restaurant.

  • Besha Rodell
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Night market crispy chicken  (with Sichuan seasoning).
14/20

Bubble tea in cocktail form? It’s the drink on everyone’s lips at this fun Surry Hills bar

Taiwan’s most famous export is given the grown-up treatment at Linla. Serve with crispy chicken, and you’re set.

  • Kevin Cheng
Bar Ampere's concrete tunnel swept with bohemian artworks.

It’s not hot or new, but this classic laneway bar has still got it, especially after midnight

Under this archway, in this quintessentially Melbourne laneway, absinthe still makes the heart grow fonder.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Garlic-butter and white-wine prawns over wilted spinach.
EASY

Garlic-butter and white-wine prawns over wilted spinach

One pan, 10 minutes and a delicious dinner that everyone will love is on the table.

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Chicken salt and thyme doughnut.

Chicken salt doughnuts? These plush, herby snacks are so much better than they sound

Find hand-rolled rings fried to order and bulging jam-and-cream-filled doughnuts at this new hot spot in Potts Point.

  • Erina Starkey

If you’re looking for new, fun and exciting date night options, this bar nails the brief

Live jazz, a friendly crowd and a crisp, briny and savoury spin on the daiquiri are the order of the day at Odd Culture’s brand new York Street bar.

  • Myffy Rigby