This Month
When business comes to dine: Fin Dining & Wine launches at Bennelong
The Financial Review’s first restaurant guide features 50 of the best business lunches across Australia, helmed by Jill Dupleix with wine tips from Max Allen.
- Matthew Drummond
How to host a business lunch
The lowdown on what to do – and what not to do – from three hosts who are legends in their own business lunch times.
- Jill Dupleix
CBA profit falls; Accenture’s $40m pay risk; Best private dining rooms
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
The 10 best private dining rooms in Australia
Whether it’s for a corporate event, a birthday, or just because, these venues take a lot of beating for excellent food, top wines and exclusive service.
- Jill Dupleix
Brisbane’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Jill Dupleix
Where to dine for business in Canberra, Darwin, Hobart and Launceston
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Jill Dupleix
Perth’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Max Veenhuyzen
Adelaide’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Nigel Hopkins
Melbourne’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Jill Dupleix
Sydney’s best restaurants for a business lunch
Where to go when you’ve got a deal to discuss, when you want to impress your top client or thank the team – as tested by our reviewers.
- Jill Dupleix
Introducing the Financial Review’s new restaurant guide, Fin Dining & Wine
Fifty Australian restaurants at the top of their food game that also understand the particular needs of those doing business over lunch.
- Jill Dupleix
First look inside the new home of cult restaurant Saint Peter
From sea charcuterie to fish-fat soap, acclaimed chef Josh Niland is about to open the doors on his new venture. “We’ve held out for this, and now we have it.”
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- Jill Dupleix
At this luxe Belmond hotel in Oxfordshire, food is the real star
Four decades on, Raymond Blanc has more planned for his exclusive Michelin-starred gourmet retreat, Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons.
- Ute Junker
April
‘It was sheer madness’: how Alla Wolf-Tasker created the Lake House
Forty years ago, ‘local produce amounted to someone leaving a sack of potatoes on the back porch’, says the destination restaurant’s co-founder.
- Susan Gough Henly
Private equity groups halt south-east Asia deals amid Gaza boycotts
Consumers in Muslim-majority Indonesia and Malaysia have shunned US brands since the start of Israel’s assault on Gaza in October.
- Mercedes Ruehl and A. Anantha Lakshmi
Tasting Australia’s $795 debut train trip an instant sell-out
“I’ve come up with a menu that will work in a galley,” chef Asma Khan says of the coming journey. Here’s a taste of this and other events at next month’s culinary extravaganza.
- Necia Wilden
Star chef Matt Moran reveals his dinner party secrets – and pet hates
At age 15, Matt Moran dropped out of school and learnt to cook. Along the way, he has learned how to run a business, manage people and stay sane.
- Ciara Seccombe and Lap Phan
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
There is something about GYG that makes it impossible to ignore
The Guzman y Gomez story is now spicier than one of its $13.70 chicken burritos. It is interesting to see who bought in, and why.
- Anthony Macdonald
McDonald’s buys hundreds of Israel franchise restaurants after boycott
The business became the subject of controversy when photos and videos on Instagram showed stores giving soldiers meals.
- Alisa Odenheimer
Going to France for the Games? Here’s your restaurant guide
Three of France’s top chefs are designing the menus for the Athletes Village at the Olympics. But spectators can also win by visiting their buzzy, innovative restaurants.
- Hans van Leeuwen