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There’s no shortage of wraps in Sydney (even Woolies has a chicken caesar wrap), but no one is making one quite like Cross Section.

This hole-in-a-wall shop sells 200 mammoth chicken caesar wraps daily

The first wrap to be inducted into Sandwich Watch, this rock star of a sanger delivers a satisfying crunch, proving size does matter.

  • Howard Chen
Bun bo hue
14/20

Visit this shopping strip eatery for a soup Anthony Bourdain once called the ‘greatest in the world’

It’s worth trawling the menu at bustling Bankstown eatery VBites for Hue and Central Vietnamese dishes not often found in Sydney restaurants.

  • Helen Yee
Inside Maggio’s Pasticceria in North Ryde.

This family-run cafe and pasticceria is an old Italian soul worth visiting

In a quiet suburban shopping strip, Maggio’s offers a cornucopia of maritozzi, sfogliatelle and excellent chicken schnitzel sandwiches.

  • Lenny Ann Low
The Cricketers Arms Hotel former chef Martial (Max) Cosyn and current chef Wesley Cooper Jones, with fish and prawn terrine on gazpacho coulis and lemon tart, with double cream and almond.

Sydney pub turns back time, reviving its 1980s menu with prawn terrine and gazpacho

The Cricketers Arms’ former head chef has returned to his old French bistro kitchen for the first time in decades.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Sippenham.

Find French snacks, espresso martini slushies and BYO wine at Sydney’s new bars

Seven new and soon-to-open bars to put on your drinks list for April.

  • Bianca Hrovat
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Papi’s Birria
13/20

This petrol-station food truck on Parramatta Road is serving some of Sydney’s best tacos

The lines are long, but Papi’s slow-cooked, spice-throbbing beef folded into cheesy tacos are worth the wait and messy hands.

  • Callan Boys
Hollywood Quarter will be a hub of activity.

A ’50s diner pop-up (with a roller rink) and two street parties are coming to Sydney

Strap on skates for free-wheeling fun followed by burgers and shakes by a top Melbourne chef. Plus, Sydney restaurants provide the snacks and drinks for free street takeovers.

  • Erina Starkey
The Collective in The Rocks.

‘No one is opening 300-plus seat venues like this’: Rockpool team rebirths The Argyle

The Rocks’ heritage site is now known as The Collective, featuring a cocktail bar, breakfast courtyard and ambitious new dining room.

  • Scott Bolles
Shady Pines Saloon soon after opening in 2010.

Swillhouse’s bar Shady Pines Saloon to close after dispute resolved with landlord

The venue helped redefine the city’s bar culture, before allegations of sexual misconduct rocked its parent company. Now the site is being turned into a private members’ club.

  • Scott Bolles
The pistachio cream-filled hot cross bun at Pasticceria Papa in Five Dock.

‘It’s so good!’ Have we found Sydney’s best hot cross bun?

The unconventional Easter bun that wowed the Good Food office.

  • Bianca Hrovat

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