Congrats to Adelaide restaurant Botanic for winning Gourmet Traveller’s restaurant of the year. Led by chef Justin James and located in the city’s botanic gardens, its signature thing is not first-date appropriate… It’s a 20-something-course menu that takes at least 4 hours to chomp through.

And good on you, Sydney and Melbourne – each city has a bar that made the World’s 50 Best Bars List for 2022. Time to make some pour decisions…

A Tassie farmer has grown Australia’s first commercial crop of the highly prized (and expensive) European white asparagus, which is fast becoming a new gourmet trend. While we’re inclined to agree with this scathing review that they’re overrated, we’re still rooting for the farmer…