Ripponlea
- Special series
- The restaurant tycoons
Food journalists and critics swooned over Attica. Then their golden boy turned on them
The chef and the critic share a tighter bond than either would like to admit. When Ben Shewry took a kitchen knife to the food media industry, it landed like a nuclear bomb.
- Liam Mannix
Latest
13-year-old girl charged with nearly running over Jewish families in antisemitic attack
The teenager was arrested and charged with 52 offences relating to an alleged crime spree over the past week.
- Angus Delaney and Isabel McMillan
Almost a year after synagogue firebombing, Jews gather in sorrow – and fear
International Jewish leaders have been told Australia has suffered the world’s most dramatic rise in the percentage of hate incidents against Jews during the past two years.
- Tony Wright
- Recommended
- Zelda Bakery
Zelda Bakery
This bakery is a finalist for best bread and pastries in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.
Suburban sandwiches: Three spots upping their area’s sanger game (and the must order)
Including a railway station gathering spot, a community cafe in lush surrounds and a deli giving spanakopita the toastie treatment.
- Tomas Telegramma and Dani Valent
Hooded figures, an underworld getaway car: Police allege link between synagogue, nightclub fires
Detectives have released never-before-seen footage and reveal they believe the same getaway car used in a Melbourne nightclub firebombing was used in the attack on a Ripponlea synagogue.
- Sherryn Groch, Cassandra Morgan and Alexander Darling
- Review
- Attica
Ben Shewry no longer consents to Attica being reviewed. Here’s why we did it anyway
Trailblazing Attica is still a world-class restaurant, and too important for us to ignore. But critic Besha Rodell finds the whole experience a little odd.
- Besha Rodell
- Opinion
- Life in the ’burbs
My suburb is one of Melbourne’s tiniest. I want to make it bigger
The heart of my suburb was ailing when we moved here – until something changed. Now my neighbours want to gatekeep it from new residents.
- Tom Hird