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Remember when "What You Want!" was as polite as it got?

Growing up in 90s Sydney, the rudest aunties ran the best restaurants in town, and somehow their confidence tasted like the real thing.

By kimchi · 8/12/2026 · 💬 0

Macca's hash browns just aren't the best anymore

Turns out Macca's and Piccolo Me are cooking the exact same frozen hash brown. Only one of them can actually be bothered doing it properly.

By kimchi · 8/10/2026 · 💬 0

Four solid lunch specials in Surry Hills, from a $16 poke bowl to a $59 set lunch — what's actually worth ordering and where to find it.

By kimchi · 7/28/2026 · 💬 0

Sydney food Influencer that suck: Places in Sydney (Just... Places. In Sydney.)

We went looking for the first entry in a new Table Talk on Sydney influencers who've lost the plot. We found a guy with 198K followers on this account alone, a merch store, an Amazon storefront with roughly eighty product links, and one very small "[A D]" tucked under a suspiciously glowing review.

By kimchi · 7/25/2026 · 💬 0