Lucy Bell Bird

The chef is back where he started 14 years ago, with a menu that tours around Italy with the likes of Calabrian peppers filled with tuna mousse and “ndujella”, tortelli Milanese with osso buco ragu, and a cheeky “nun’s boob” dessert from Puglia.

Cosy Italian joints where you can split a bottle of chianti, a French restaurant hidden behind a hot bar and a wildcard linedancing joint.

Plus, the banh mi he can’t get enough of, the bakery he calls Adelaide’s best, an Adelaide Hills gelateria he loves and more.

Head to the CBD, Potts Point and Enmore Road to score $12 Martinis, 50 per cent off Japanese whisky, complimentary snacks and much more.

Mark your calendars, we’re welcoming wine bars, cellar doors, fine diners and Italian grills.

With six Japanese wines and a menu of elevated Japanese snacks, Joy Liu’s new Oxford Street bar carves out its own niche between Sydney’s omakase counters and izakayas.

Huerta is one of Australia’s best Mexican chefs. At Barro, he’s serving a deeply personal menu with CDMX tacos, mole made with a family recipe and cocktails featuring lesser-known Mexican spirits.

The chef made the move from Melbourne to Brisbane three years ago. Since then, he’s scoped out an impressive list of local favourites including a “perfect” pizzeria, a romantic out-of-towner and a falafel joint that merits repeat visits.

The Tippling Club chef is returning to Australia to open an ambitious fine diner in the Clare Valley. And he has starry ambitions to make the degustation diner one of SA’s best regional restaurants.

The Surry Hills restaurant is back after a seven week renovation. And everything is new, from the furniture and joinery to the à la carte menu and a happy hour featuring $10 cocktails.

Monet’s Water Lilies hang alongside pieces by Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Cézanne, Degas and Van Gogh at this unprecedented collaborative exhibition between the Art Gallery of South Australia and the Toledo Museum of Art.

This month’s calendar is a feast for the eyes with masterful modernist paintings, a play which takes Chekhov to the Tiktok era, and the return of Illuminate.