Gourmet Traveller

Each issue is packed with great dish ideas, hot restaurants and bars, entertaining tips, the best hotels and lavish spreads on some of the world’s most intoxicating travel destinations - everything you should expect from the Australia's premier food and travel magazine.

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Editor's Letter

Restaurant news • We check out the best openings in Australia, from Alessandro Pavoni’s hot new Italian spot in Sydney through to interstate imports in Brisbane and Canberra.

Renuka Fernando and Ben Stammer • Kylie Kwong celebrates the individuals helping to grow a stronger community. This month, we meet the co-founders of Australian charity, ReLove.

Mozzarella • This unaged soft-to-firm white cheese is an antipasto and pizza staple.

Good Luck Restaurant Lounge • It’s been a minute, but Merivale is back with a vengeance – and a concept that’s hard to pin down, writes MATTY HIRSCH.

Si Paradiso • Change might be afoot at this beloved Perth Italian hotspot, but the party remains as irresistible as ever, writes MAX VEENHUYZEN.

Temperance Restaurant • Three hours from Adelaide’s CBD awaits an exemplary showcase of the Riverland food bowl, writes KATIE SPAIN.

Bar Olo • The new wine bar from Italian veteran Scopri lands with style, charm and confidence writes, MICHAEL HARDEN.

Drinks news • TOP DROPS, NEW OPENINGS, AND INSIDE TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS

Marco Lubiana • Leaning on his family legacy, Derwent Valley winemaker Marco Lubiana launched his eponymous label in 2020.

Aperitivo hour • What to drink to open up the appetite as the sun goes down, according to SAMANTHA PAYNE.

Rocco’s Sbagliato • We explore the origins of some of Australia’s signature drinks and learn how to recreate them at home.

Tour de tiramisù • In Treviso, the probable birthplace of the famed Italian dessert, DIANNE BORTOLETTO discovers the origins of tiramisù are trifled.

Searching For Venice • The key to unlocking the essence of this most romantic of Italian cities is to get lost in it, writes LEE TULLOCH.

Italy by train • Station to station, town to town, ERICA FIRPO experiences poetry in motion on board vintage locomotive, the Treno Natura.

The golden rules of pasta • Melbourne’s modern-day pasta god ANDREAS PAPADAKIS, co-owner and executive chef at Tipo 00, shares his knead-to-know playbook.

Spaghetti all’assassina • DAN JOHNSTON of Sydney’s Fontana shares his take on this crisped-up spaghetti.

Everyday • JULIA BUSUTTIL NISHIMURA shares simple dinners, elegant tray bakes and easy entertaining dishes with an Italian lean.

Four ways with pesto • Whether stirred through pasta or spread on a panino, pesto is a miracle worker when it comes to dialling up flavour.

Tutti a tavola a mangiare! • The alimentari, or small Italian food store, is a treasure trove of continental delicacies to inspire and delight. We hit the shops, exploring row after row of specialty Italian goods, as the starting point for these delightful trattoria dishes.

Salute • Explore the warm Mediterranean waters and fresh flavours of Sardinia with these recipes from Brisbane’s Pilloni by chef PIETRO SEGALINI.

Coast with the most • Food writer AMBER GUINNESS transports us to the shores of Italy’s Tyrrhenian Sea by way of delicious helpings of pasta, fish and limoncello.

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Travel

The art of judgment • The problem about national stereotypes, says ANNA HART, is that they’re often true.

Bergamo Or Bust • Concealed between sophisticated Milan and glamorous Lake Como, beautiful Bergamo is Lombardy’s hidden gem, discovers ANNA HART.

Hotel Sorrento • We take the guesswork out of local travel with our tips on...