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Canberra restaurants reviewed by Wendy Johnson. What and where to eat in Canberra.

Good words for library cafe

IT’S a wonderful play on words for a café inside a library, but then Bookplate is playful in many ways beyond its “perfect-fit” name. It’s lovely to eat at our esteemed National Library, surrounded by famous Leonard French stained-glass windows. If the weather suits, you can move outside to Ex Libras on the veranda and [...]

It’s something special Onred

WHEN eight people head out for dinner and there’s not one complaint about the food you know you’re on to a great thing. That’s the experience our party had at Onred at Red Hill Lookout, a classy restaurant with an ever-so-pretty view of the Canberra landscape, which includes many national icons and, at night, twinkling [...]

Ona mission for fine coffee

I LOVE coffee houses – the aroma, the buzz, how owners, staff and patrons worship all things coffee. Such is the case with Ona Coffee House. I was rushing about by myself in Fyshwick doing chores recently and popped in for a caffeine hit and a quick bite for lunch. I walked out very satisfied [...]

Lunch with a taste of chaos

THE Griffith shops is a haven for food lovers, with well-established, classy Aubergine and Rubicon at one end of the spectrum and the long-standing, cheap and cheerful Griffith Vietnamese Restaurant at the other. In the middle sits We Graze at Griffith (formerly E.U. Café). It looks small, but there is a large area out back, [...]

Mellow passion of truffles

THE annual Capital Country Truffle Festival kicked off with a bang at Diece e Mezzo at the end of last month. It was a degustation dinner designed by three well-known chefs – Ben Willis (Aubergine), Thomas Moore (Grazing at Gundaroo) and James Kidman (Diece e Mezzo). In an industry where competition can rule over co-operation, [...]