Australian Traveller

SMALL TOWNS OFTEN get a bad rap from their big city cousins, who are prone to assuming that just because they are diminutive in stature, they must also be devoid of cultural diversions and a decent flat white. But what city folk are starting to cotto

CHUUKA, located on Sydney’s funky Jones Bay Wharf, is helmed by award-winning chefs Chase Kojima and Victor Liong (pictured above) who have created a menu blending Chinese flavours with Japanese attention to detail using the best Australian produce.

The chefs (and surfers, pictured) behind THREE BLUE DUCKS will open their fifth restaurant – and first in Melbourne – at URBNSURF Melbourne,Australia’s first surf park, and the first of its kind in the world, located minutes fromTullamarine Airport.T

YOU COULD BE FORGIVEN for suspecting that tipping Launceston as Australia’s top up-and-coming destination was a sure-fire sign that I was losing my edge. But with its stunning natural surrounds and growing culinary and nightlife scenes, the Tasmanian

“HAVE YOU STAYED HERE BEFORE?” The receptionist asks sweetly when my partner and I check in. We tell her no, and she tells us we’re in for a treat. The Provincial Hotel has only been open for three months or so when we rock up on an autumn evening, a

FACES CONTORT IN A KIND of horrified fascination as our waiter pours a ‘special’ mezcal at the close of our meal. Our expressions come courtesy of the explanation about this particular Oaxacan tipple’s making, whereby a raw chicken breast is suspende

IN DECADES PAST, Fyshwick had quite the reputation. You’d find adult stores, ladies of the night and firework sellers galore, but you’d be hard pressed to get a decent coffee. Now an urban reinvention is taking place and some of the city’s most energ

The EMPIRE HOTEL does hearty meals and favours Beechworth beers and wines. empirehotelbeechworth.com.au HARRIETVILLE BAKERY is where Australia Post meets Swiss pastry. 219 Great Alpine Road MOUNTAIN KITCHEN is a cosy Dinner Plain cafe. mountainkitche

Reborn in 2018,the MaryValley Rattler quite literally rattles up the arcadian valley from Gympie’s 1930 pagoda-style wooden station to Amamoor three times a week. The volunteer-run, not-for-profit historic rail service is a taste of ye olde worlde fo

Having originally been built in 1845 before being washed away by the flood waters of the Murrumbidgee River and then rebuilt in 1852,The Sir George in Jugiong knows a thing or two about reinvention. After two years’ worth of renovations, the pub reop

AS A CHILD, OUR FAMILY HOLIDAYS WERE ALWAYS TO… we sailed to Lizard Island (1) every year in October. Because we lived on the boat, getting out from each port and onto the islands was always an adventure; my life always seemed like a bit of a holiday

I’M NOT CLASSICALLY TRAINED; I KIND OF ›UST FELL INTO THE GALLERY WORLD. I’ve always loved art and did art at school but I wasn’t very good at it. I had plans of becoming a hotel general manager until, through blind luck, I ran into Helen McCarthy Ty