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Modern Australian cuisine, coffee culture, the country's wine regions and the classics worth trying, from meat pies to a backyard barbecue.

By the Updated 2026-07-08
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Modern Australian cuisine, coffee culture, the country's wine regions and the classics worth trying, from meat pies to a backyard barbecue. We're writing the full guide now — in the meantime, the related guides below cover the same trip from a nearby angle.

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Aussie BBQ & backyard culture
BBQ & backyard culture

Aussie BBQ & backyard culture

The 'barbie' as a genuine national institution — free public electric barbecues in parks and at beaches, snags, backyard cricket, and the Australia Day BBQ tradition.

Australia's wine regions, compared
Wine regions compared

Australia's wine regions, compared

Barossa, Margaret River, the Yarra Valley and the Hunter — how Australia's four best-known wine regions actually differ, how the country's Geographical Indication system works, and how to pick a region based on where else you're going.

Australian coffee culture
Coffee culture

Australian coffee culture

Why coffee in Australia is a genuine social institution rather than a grab-and-go habit — the flat white, the independent-roaster movement, and the café ritual that runs underneath both.

Barossa Valley wine, explained
Barossa Valley wine

Barossa Valley wine, explained

What's actually in the glass in the Barossa — Shiraz, Grenache and Mataro, a genuine cluster of vines older than Federation, and the German-Lutheran food culture that grew up alongside all of it.

Best restaurants in Australia
Best restaurants

Best restaurants in Australia

A regional tour of Australia's best-regarded dining — Sydney's harbourside fine dining, Melbourne's laneway and multicultural scene, wine-country paddock-to-plate dining, and reef-region seafood.

Hunter Valley wine, explained
Hunter Valley wine

Hunter Valley wine, explained

Why Semillon gets picked early, why the Hunter's climate shouldn't really work for quality wine at all, and how Australia's oldest wine region ended up with two of the country's most distinctive styles.

Margaret River wine, explained
Margaret River wine

Margaret River wine, explained

How a stretch of dairy country and surf beaches became Western Australia's premier wine region in barely six decades — the Bordeaux comparison, the Gingin Chardonnay clone, and what actually ended up in the glass.

Meat pies & other Aussie classic foods
Aussie classic foods

Meat pies & other Aussie classic foods

The meat pie at the footy, the sausage roll, Vegemite, the lamington, pavlova, Tim Tams, fairy bread and the wartime-commemorative Anzac biscuit — Australia's everyday food classics, properly explained.

Modern Australian cuisine & native ingredients
Modern Australian cuisine

Modern Australian cuisine & native ingredients

The 'Mod Oz' movement, the native ingredients finally getting their due after 60,000 years of being ignored by the mainstream, and how immigration quietly rewired what Australians actually eat.