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Cheeseburgers, butter chicken chip butty and seafood stew: The great plates that made the Good Food team sit up and pay attention this year.

Neil Perry’s Margaret is one of Australia’s great fish restaurants, and a family affair too.

Expect spanner crab omelette by day and pine mushroom orzotto by night at the redeveloped former Pentridge prison site.

Sydneys two and three-hatted restaurants today have less edible flowers and foams than five years ago, and far more coal-roasted simplicity.

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival has unveiled its annual list celebrating Victorian hospitality professionals.

Photo: Edwina Pickles From Victorian rock flathead to West Australian bar cod, theres a plethora of seafood available in Sydney for Christmas says chef Josh Niland. "Im a bit shocked by it actually," says the owner of Paddingtons Saint Peter restaurant and seafood shop Fish Butchery. "Traditionally, summer is a season where youre clutching at straws to find a plate-sized snapper. Its nice to see so much abundance." Josh Nilands Fish Butchery in Paddington, where King George whiting and rock...