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The Gourmet Traveller Team

Gourmet Traveller is Australia’s trusted authority on food, travel and luxury lifestyle, bringing the latest news and trends to life through quality journalism, enticing recipes and evocative photography. For more than 55 years, it has been inspiring and informing Australians with the best in cooking, dining, travelling and shopping. Our critics bring the expertise of years of critical eating, drinking and writing to the table. Plus, as the country’s leading title in the luxury sector, Gourmet Traveller works closely with Australia’s leaders in the travel and hospitality industries to give our readers exclusive access. The Gourmet Traveller legacy is one of trust, prestige and relevance.

Chocolate, almond and honey zuccotto (zuccotto di cioccolato, mandorle e miele)

Chocolate, almond and honey zuccotto (zuccotto di cioccolato, mandorle e miele)

Australian Gourmet Traveller Italian dessert recipe for chocolate, almond and honey zuccotto (zuccotto di cioccolato, mandorle e miele) by Lucio's restaurant in Sydney's Paddington neighborhood.

Italian breakfast recipes

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Italian breakfast recipes

The flavours of the old country meet Australian café panache in our take on classic Italian breakfast items.

Pizza verde Ladro

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Pizza recipes

Mmm, pizza… Check out some of our favourite pizza recipes, including caprese, mushroom and mascarpone and pumpkin, taleggio and wild rocket. Buon appetito!

Emma Knowles' Bolognese sauce

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Chef’s spaghetti Bolognese recipes: L to Z

We quizzed the best kitchen talents on their secrets to the perfect spaghetti Bolognese. The responses varied but were never ambivalent: this dish is unanimously loved, however it’s made.

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Emma Knowles' Bolognese sauce

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Chef’s spaghetti Bolognese recipes: B to K

We quizzed the best kitchen talents on their secrets to the perfect spaghetti Bolognese. The responses varied but were never ambivalent: this dish is unanimously loved, however it’s made.

Emma Knowles' Bolognese sauce

Battle of the Bol

We quizzed the best kitchen talents on their secrets to the perfect spaghetti Bolognese. The responses varied but were never ambivalent: this dish is unanimously loved, however it’s made.

Bounty Hunter

Bounty Hunter

Searching for Piedmont’s prized white truffles with a trifolau is secretive stuff, writes Kendall Hill.

A sense of place

A sense of place

Part whimsy, part glamour, loads of cool: innovative new hotel Leon’s Place is a unique accommodation option in Rome. Josephine McKenna checks in to the former palazzo.

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Classic Italian recipes

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Classic Italian recipes

From spaghetti Bolognese to lasagne and tiramisù to panna cotta, here are the classic Italian recipes we can't live without.

Best of Italy

Best of Italy

Rome, Florence, Naples, the Amalfi... the list of our favourite Italian destinations goes on and on and on.

Cupcake recipes

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Cupcake recipes

Scaled down to little more than a mouthful, tiny cakes take on an irresistible charm. Best of all, these diminutive treats offer every excuse to go back for seconds (or thirds).

Thomas Keller's sandwich recipes

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Thomas Keller’s sandwich recipes

America's most famous chef takes the smarts and good taste that have brought him acclaim at The French Laundry and Per Se and applies them to the humble sandwich. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Thomas Keller's lunchbox. Truly the greatest thing since sliced bread.

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Shallot tarte Tatin with marinated goat’s cheese

Shallot tarte Tatin with marinated goat’s cheese

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for shallot tarte Tatin with marinated goat’s cheese by Half Moon restaurant in Melbourne.

World’s best bars 2009

World’s best bars 2009

The world’s cities can be divided into two categories: the early-to-bed types and the party animals. You know the former – places that are steeped in history and tradition but are no fun at night. The party towns, however, brim with youth and creativity and come alive after dark. Here are our top five picks.

Best travel trends 2009

Best travel trends 2009

It seems every aspect of our lives is over-shadowed by economic gloom, and the travel industry is no exception. But it does have some clever ideas to beat – or at least ease – the so-called credit crunch.

Best affordable travel 2009

Best affordable travel 2009

New York, London and Paris might be off the itinerary this year, thanks to a world recession and the dire Aussie dollar, but don’t despair. There are still places where our currency can buy lasting memories on a budget.

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Best food 2009

Best food 2009

From the tastiest new cut of steak to the most anticipated “debut”, here’s what’s exciting us about the Australian food scene in 2009.

Cheap cut recipes

Cheap cut recipes

Quick recipes to make the most of your secondary cut.

Best New Hotels 2009 slideshow

Best New Hotels 2009 slideshow

We’ve got the keys to the most fabulous new hotels in the world. From an elegant palazzo in Florence to a handsome lodge in Tasmania, it’s about unique experiences. The best news? They don’t all cost a bomb. Check in. WORDS KENDALL HILL

Grilling recipes

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Grilling recipes

Dust off the tongs, fire up the barbecue, and get grilling with these sure-fire winners, from spiced chicken to a fresh eggplant and haloumi salad.

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Neil Perry recipes

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Neil Perry’s Spice Temple recipes

At his new Spice Temple, Neil Perry calls on the more exotic flavours of China (and plenty of spices) to turn up the heat. Break out the chillies, spark up the wok and start a fire of your own with these hot, hot, hot dishes.

Pickle and preserve recipes

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Pickle and preserve recipes

When it comes to last-minute entertaining, a lovingly made preserve, served as an antipasto, condiment or sauce, will get you out of a jam. Capture sunshine in a bottle with these preserves of the season's best produce.

15 shameless chocolate recipes

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15 (shameless) chocolate recipes

Mousse, soufflé, mud cake and more... welcome to the dark side.

Bushfire relief: Australia’s restaurants pitch in

Bushfire relief: Australia’s restaurants pitch in

Gourmet Traveller salutes Australia’s chefs and restaurants who are showing their support of the Victorian bushfire victims by hosting fundraising events.

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Open Eyre

Open Eyre

Follow in the footsteps of a great explorer and lose yourself in the lunar landscape and teeming waters of South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula.

Are you a food tragic?

Are you a food tragic?

You don’t have to pretend any more. If you’re obsessed with food, here’s your chance to declare it.

Waiter troubles

I have just opened a restaurant. The food is under control, but we are having a hard time with waiters. How can I find a good batch of waiters? By nabila viriot – owner new resto Madeline Nieuwenhuizen, a manager at Sydney restaurant Aria, writes: The unfortunate reality is that there are just not enough good, […]

Coeur à la crème

Valentine’s treats

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, and whether you're looking for a bottle of bubbly that won't break the bank, a last minute trip idea, luxe brekkie-in-bed, small bites, meals to share, or sexy desserts, you'll find it here.

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On Mexican time

On Mexican time

Mangroves and exotic islands. Dolphins, whales, turtles and sea lions. Fine cuisine and luxury digs. It’s all part of the feast of experiences that is cruising along the Mexican coast on the Prince Albert II. All aboard.

Tour de taste

Tour de taste

If you fancy a Parisian ‘petite initiation gastronomique’, let the Victoria Palace Hotel guide you through the neighbourhood’s very best food and wine.

The Sheikh’s Dream

The Sheikh’s Dream

This former royal residence, off the coast of Abu Dhabi, has been transformed into a luxury island resort – complete with its own wildlife sanctuary and ‘green mountain’.

40 top travel tips

40 top travel tips

Ever wish you had a hotline to top hoteliers, airline reps and frequent flyers to receive that elusive upgrade or get a table in the best restaurant in town at short notice? Michelle Rowe canvassed frequent flyers for their best-ever travel tips. We guarantee they’ll make you a better traveller. Bon voyage.

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Octopus salad with chorizo and kipfler potatoes

Octopus salad with chorizo and kipfler potatoes

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for octopus salad with chorizo and kipfler potatoes by Paul Wilson from Half Moon.

White Peach Bellini (left)

White Peach Bellini

Cocktail Class with Alexx Swainston

Earl’s Punch

Earl’s Punch

Australian Gourmet Traveller cocktail recipe for Earl’s Punch by Sebastian Reaburn from 1806.

Scorpion Bowl

Scorpion Bowl

Australian Gourmet Traveller cocktail recipe for Scorpion Bowl by Barry Galloway from Zuri Lounge.

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Treasure Islands

Treasure Islands

For the real romance of the high seas, step aboard a working cargo-passenger ship for a journey through the far-removed and fabled Marquesas Islands.

Aloha spirit

Aloha spirit

Richard Cooke searches for the road less travelled in Hawaii, island-hopping from Oahu to the Big Island, Lana’i and Maui, and finds there’s more to this Pacific oasis than grass-skirt clichés and Barack Obama. Just don’t take the rocks.

Grand plan

Grand plan

The $45-million renovation of the Grand Hyatt Melbourne has transformed the landmark property into a sleek space with a strong focus on food.

Kitchen resolutions (part 2)

Kitchen resolutions (part 2)

Australia’s top chefs dish the dirt on what they’re resolving to do better in 2009.

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Kitchen resolutions

Kitchen resolutions

Australia’s top chefs dish the dirt on what they’re resolving to do better in 2009.

2008: A Retrospective in 10 Courses

2008: A Retrospective in 10 Courses

Restaurant critic Pat Nourse delves deep into his duck fat-stained personal files to bring you the best of 2008’s eating in 10 easy dishes.

Classic boiled Christmas pudding

Favourite Christmas recipes

It's that time of year again when we turn to our tried and true Christmas favourites. From roast turkey and glazed ham to rum-soaked pud, we have the standards covered (and variations to boot). There's a reason why these dishes have endured the test of time.

Joyeux Noël

Joyeux Noël

For French-born Brisbane chef Bruno Loubet, Christmas is about tradition – pulling out all stops for the ultimate in grandeur and elegance.

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Spirited away

Spirited away

Each year, thousands of pilgrims make the long trek to Santiago de Compostela in Spain’s north-west to celebrate their faith. Leo Schofield discovers the riches, secular and otherwise, of this holy city.

The party planner

The party planner

Melbourne’s caterer to the stars, The Big Group, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. We asked CEO Bruce Keebaugh for his top 10 (or 13) tips on hosting a great bash.

Opposites attract

Opposites attract

Pat Nourse has seen the future of luxury hotels, and it’s in Beijing. Opposite by name, contrary by nature, The Opposite House swims against the stream to deliver a fresh take on upmarket lodgings.

Chargrilled prawns with salmorejo and pancetta

Chargrilled prawns with salmorejo and pancetta

Australian Gourmet Traveller Spanish recipe for chargrilled prawns with salmorejo and pancetta by Jesse Gerner from Melbourne restaurant Anada.

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The Catalan cook

The Catalan cook

Who better to extol the virtues of this rich Spanish cuisine than Barcelona-born chef Javier Codina. He lets trad dishes such as fisherman’s rice do the talking.

Viva Valencia

Viva Valencia

No longer the poor Spanish cousin, innovative new landmarks and international sporting events are transforming this once-sleepy seaside city into a veritable tourist destination.

Bite into Madrid

Bite into Madrid

The culinary scene in Madrid has never been better, writes Lisa Abend. From modern tapas bars to the best fine diners, here are 10 great eating experiences.

Spain’s Emerald Coast

Spain’s Emerald Coast

Green Spain, the remote span of sparkling coastline encompassing Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque country, is as lush and beautiful as it is fiercely independent.

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El Bulli: a primer

El Bulli: a primer

Pat Nourse answers all your questions about El Bulli, the world's most famous restaurant.

Red Cabbage

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Red Cabbage

REVIEW No, Google Maps is right: this venue really does share an address with an office/apartment block near the picturesque Kwinana Freeway. While the location (and irksome traffic noise) isn’t ideal, team Red Cabbage work hard to put guests at ease. The hushed, low-lit room chimes with the restaurant’s fine-dining aspirations, but swatches of Fornasetti […]

Pendolino

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Pendolino

REVIEW On the top floor of the historic Strand Arcade, this upmarket Italian eatery reads like a glossy boardroom: long tables, suits, ties and handshakes. The food offering is serious business, too. Parmesan is grated at the table by waiters wearing ties, and if you order more than one, ahem, $42 plates of pasta, they’ll […]

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A Tavola, Darlinghurst

REVIEW A Tavola, “to the table”, is the call to eat in Italian homes, and the table in this instance is the marble communal number that dominates the front dining room at this local favourite, basking in the glow of copper lights and the simpatico welcome of the Italian staff. Home-style cooking is the touchstone, […]

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Smolt

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Smolt

REVIEW Calling Smolt a safe pair of hands is underplaying it. Sure, it has savvy staff, a good-looking room and a kitchen that loves a Mediterranean bistro classic, but this all-day diner is more than just a safe bet. Chef Joseph Koops starts with top-notch local produce, on show in an excellent saffron lumache pasta […]

BYO one day but not the next?

Our group attended a popular Errol St eatery last Saturday night only to be refused our BYO wine. What was puzzling about this was that their status as a ‘BYO wine’ restaurant is well publicised even to the point where they confirmed the corkage cost ($6.50pb) to us in advance. Is this the emerging trend […]

Sweet valley high

Sweet valley high

Get the five-star treatment at Emerald Valley Villa, an Ubud-style eco-retreat in the Byron Bay hinterland, replete with waterfall and concierge.

Higher ground

Higher ground

Hiking the 500-year-old Inca Trail is, quite literally, breathtaking, says Sarah Wilson, who takes up the challenge with an eco-friendly tour operator treading lightly through this magnificent part of the world.

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The Grand

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The Grand

REVIEW In an age where line-ups and street cred can too often rule Melbourne’s food scene, The Grand can seem almost retro. All the nostalgic hallmarks of proper dining are there: comfortable chairs, linen-clad tables, carpeted floors and the rare treat of floor staff who really know how to treat a guest. Though the cosy, […]

Wine List of the Year 2009: Balthazar, Perth

Wine List of the Year 2009: Balthazar, Perth

The atmospheric and permanently bustling Perth restaurant, Balthazar, is one of the best places in Australia to drink wine. The walls are lined with the great and the good bottles; regular diners lap up the constantly changing and extensive by-the-glass selection; serious wine tragics spend hours perusing the extensive, rich and deep list. But there’s […]

Regional Restaurant of the Year 2009: Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria

Regional Restaurant of the Year 2009: Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld, Victoria

Great restaurants are an amalgam of many physical and human elements; bringing them together can be hard, even when the location is central. For it to happen in rural Victoria, as has happened at Dunkeld’s Royal Mail Hotel, is the kind of serendipitous outcome nobody could seriously have planned. Sometimes, the stars just line up. […]

Maitres d’ of the Year 2009: Liz Carey & Paul Guiney, Universal, Sydney

Maitres d’ of the Year 2009: Liz Carey & Paul Guiney, Universal, Sydney

Christine Manfield has something of a fondness for the road less travelled. Whether it’s the flavours in her food, the way it looks on the plate or, indeed, the way it’s structured on the menu, she’s willing – driven, almost – to step away from the familiar in search of new ways to do things. […]

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Bar of the Year 2009: The Bowery, Brisbane

Bar of the Year 2009: The Bowery, Brisbane

All Cam Birt and Stephanie Canfell wanted was somewhere to drink. But from such small beginnings, great things can grow. “We wanted a cocktail bar that we wanted to go to. That’s all,” says Birt. The year was 2003. Birt had been working in bars in Japan and Canfell had just moved back to Brisbane […]

Sommelier of the Year 2009: James Erskine, Auge, Adelaide

Sommelier of the Year 2009: James Erskine, Auge, Adelaide

In a wine-savvy town, Adelaide sommelier James Erskine stands tall for his dedicated yet humble approach to guiding restaurant diners’ wine choices. The 29-year-old sommelier at Auge restaurant has combined a winning mix of easy charm with infectious enthusiasm to recommend superb wines that suit Auge’s modern take on Italian food, based on knowledge gleaned […]

Outstanding Contribution to the Industry 2009: Donlevy Fitzpatrick

Outstanding Contribution to the Industry 2009: Donlevy Fitzpatrick

You don’t need to be old to appreciate so many things we take for granted were simply not possible 25 years ago. Take Victoria’s liberal – and enlightened – licensing laws, in relation to consuming beverages with or without food, for example. It wasn’t that long ago that pubs provided the only glimmer of opportunity […]

Best New Restaurant 2009: Bistro Guillaume, Melbourne

Best New Restaurant 2009: Bistro Guillaume, Melbourne

A team of champions, they say, doesn’t always make for a champion team. Even so, when Sydney’s Guillaume Brahimi accepted the offer to set up on the banks of the Yarra at Crown, he knew it was going to take a special brigade to have the kind of impact Bistro Guillaume has made on Melbourne. […]

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Best New Talent 2009: Elvis Abrahanowicz and Ben Milgate, Bodega, Sydney

Best New Talent 2009: Elvis Abrahanowicz and Ben Milgate, Bodega, Sydney

“This is nothing like we expected,” says Elvis Abrahanowicz. “We just wanted a nice place that everyone liked, which is, I guess, what we’ve got, but it’s all out of proportion to what we thought would happen.” He’s talking about the rampant success of Bodega, the mostly Spanish tapas restaurant he and co-head chef Ben […]

Restaurant of the Year 2009: Quay, Sydney

Restaurant of the Year 2009: Quay, Sydney

Chinese artichokes, tiny purple onions, native violets. White carrots, white borage and the rare and elusive white broad bean. Blossoms of carrot, rosemary and pea. Celtuce. The tuber known only as sweet root. Peter Gilmore’s shopping list sounds, at times, like a cross between a naturopath’s mini-bar and Act 4, Scene 1 from Macbeth. At […]

Bad waiter, good food. Should I tip?

Do I leave a tip if the food’s good, but the waiter’s lousy? “Tricky. Short of slipping a note over the pass into the kitchen on your way out or hiding it under a mound of uneaten cavolo nero, or having a face-off with your waiter, asking them to take the tip directly to the […]

Wise guy

Wise guy

He’s taken Manhattan by storm, and now Alistair Wise, Gordon Ramsay’s pastry chef prodigy, returns home to tempt us with an armoury of irresistibly decadent desserts.

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Australian Gourmet Traveller 2009 Restaurant Guide Awards

Australian Gourmet Traveller 2009 Restaurant Guide Awards

Meet the winners of the Australian Gourmet Traveller 2009 Restaurant Guide awards.

On the Marque

On the Marque

Mark Best, chef-patron of Sydney three-star Marque, talks to Gourmet Traveller features editor Pat Nourse about carrot juice, sleeping with Rodin and needle-nose pliers.

Truly, madly, Marco Pierre White

Truly, madly, Marco Pierre White

Game hunter. Shark fisherman. Bad boy. Chef. Marco Pierre White is an enigma wrapped in a grimace smoking a Marlboro. On the one hand, he’s the boy from the council estate in Leeds deemed frightening by some members of the press, the loose cannon who was turfing people out of restaurants and reducing his chefs […]

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide Award Nominees

Gourmet Traveller 2009 Australian Restaurant Guide Award Nominees

Drumroll, please …

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Slow-cooked duck, braised red cabbage and hazelnuts

Slow-cooked duck, braised red cabbage and hazelnuts

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for slow-cooked duck, braised red cabbage and hazelnuts by Launceston's Mud Bar and Restaurant.

Baked beans

Baked beans

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for baked beans by Bradley Main from Riverstone Cafe in Bellingen.

Raging success

Raging success

Hollywood heavyweight Robert De Niro enters the hotel game. George Epaminondas investigates.

Shanghai surprise

Shanghai surprise

Matthews Evans goes in search of the city’s famed dumplings – with their fragant sticky pork, sweet fatty juices and silken skin – and discovers a whole new world in the flavours of Shanghai.

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Alpine escape

Alpine escape

It may be the powder capital of Australia but there’s more to Mt Hotham than snow. With a boutique resort, first-class restaurants and glam spa experiences, you needn’t even hit the slopes.

Retreat & surrender

Retreat & surrender

Surrounded by national parkland, vineyards and unspoilt beaches, the new Injidup Spa Retreat offers a chic pampering experience in tranquil surrounds.

Sublime seclusion

Sublime seclusion

On the northern-most tip of the Maldives, The Beach House offers modern luxury in impossibly beautiful – and remote – surrounds.

Why can’t I make a reservation?

What’s the deal with restaurants that don’t take reservations? Are they trying to make life hard for us? By Matt Pat Nourse, Gourmet Traveller restaurant critic and features editor writes: It seems like a fiendish invention, this no-bookings business, but there’s method in the badness. For one thing, it means that you can rock up at […]

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Three-Star Chefs 2008

Three-Star Chefs 2008

Australia’s Three-Star Chefs: In Their Own Words

Bistro Moderne

Bistro Moderne

“Get in there, have a go and enjoy it,” says Warren Turnbull, chef/owner of Sydney’s Restaurant Assiette, of the modern French dishes he’s created for us. They’re bistro classics with his unique stamp – a raw take on steak frites, a poached egg made crisp and spiced financières. Ah, oui, c’est trés bon.

Magic Mountain

Magic Mountain

From boom town to ghost town and back again, Telluride is riding high as one of Colorado’s most exciting ski resorts. Pat Nourse discovers this steep and deep alternative Aspen.

Kangaroo Island: Into the wild

Kangaroo Island: Into the wild

Introducing Australia’s first ‘super-lodge’, a luxury eco-retreat on Kangaroo Island where utter isolation is its biggest drawcard. Step into another world at the exquisite Southern Ocean Lodge.

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Gordon Ramsay, man of the moment

Gordon Ramsay, man of the moment

Foul-mouthed, aggressive, authoritarian? John Lethlean comes face to face with the real Gordon Ramsay; British chef, TV personality and (possibly) Australian restaurateur.

Are restaurants doing the healthy food thing right?

How are restaurants addressing our desire to eat more healthy foods and are there any restaurants doing this well? By meagan Pat Nourse, Gourmet Traveller features editor and restaurant critic, answers: Broadly speaking, I’d say that healthy eating and restaurant food don’t have an enormous amount to do with one another. Sydney chef Janni Kyritsis, […]

A Bite with The Man Who Ate the World

A Bite with The Man Who Ate the World

Gourmet Traveller features editor Pat Nourse ran into Jay Rayner in London and thought he’d ask the piratical-locked Observer restaurant critic a few questions about his new book, The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner, and the business of being a restaurant critic.

Maltagliati di pane con calamari

Maltagliati di pane con calamari

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for maltagliati di pane con calamari by Ronnie di Stasio from Cafe di Stasio

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The Love Boat

The Love Boat

Author Di Morrissey channels her inner Italian and falls head over heels for the Amalfi coast. Join her for the cruise of a lifetime (and a spot of shopping).

Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

Giglio may not have the glamour of neighbouring Elba and Montecristo, but this secluded island off the coast of Tuscany has its own charms, namely a disarming innocence. Oh, and great wine.

Rome: Bar Italia

Rome: Bar Italia

Rome’s once-sleepy bar scene is enjoying a renaissance and breathing new life into the Italian capital. Our favourite cocktail king, Marco Faraone, uncorks his top picks.

Ah, Abruzzo

Ah, Abruzzo

Land of vineyards and olives, shepherds’ huts and monasteries, Abruzzo is a region of rustic charms and age-old traditions – not to mention the best lasagne Kendall Hill has ever tasted. Is this Italy’s best-kept secret?

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Tandoori fish fillets with capsicum

Tandoori fish fillets with capsicum

Australian Gourmet Traveller chefs' recipe for tandoori fish fillets with capsicum by Anil Ashokan

The dishes we keep coming back for

The dishes we keep coming back for

**Steak frites, Montrachet, Brisbane **Montrachet’s steak, frites and salad has achieved legendary status with Francophile Brisbanites, and the appeal of this simple dish – the chips hand-cut and bronzed, the beef tender and pan-fried exactly to your personal taste – shows no sign of abating. About 150 orders are dispatched from Thierry Galichet’s Paddington kitchen […]

The most expensive dishes in Australia

The most expensive dishes in Australia

****Silks’ braised abalone with webbing from duck’s feet: $1380 per kilogram ****To spend as much money on food as fast as you can, head to Crown’s high-end Cantonese restaurant Silks and order a portion of the braised abalone with webbing from duck’s feet. At $138 per 100 grams (or $1380 per kilogram), this is a […]

Watch this face

Watch this face

****Alistair Wise, Hobart **“You’re an idiot,” was Gordon Ramsay’s typically subtle response when word got out that Alistair Wise, the founding pastry chef at Ramsay’s eponymous New York restaurant, was returning to Tasmania to start his own venture. The first year of Ramsay’s foray into Manhattan was something of a rollercoaster, with a less-than-glowing review […]