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Alanya
This long-standing, award-winning Turkish restaurant has been feeding its fans authentic delights for over 20 years. There are plenty of banquet options (including vegetarian choices) and stand-alone mains like the excellent hünkar beğendi (diced lamb on a bed of eggplant).
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Asian Café
Chinese and Malaysian standards such as roast duck and laksa are professionally dished out in this busy and brightly coloured café. Takeaway is available if you just can't sit still.
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Âu Lac
This simple Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant employs soya bean as a culinary chameleon, making it pretend to be a beef curry, fried fish or honey-roast chicken. The meals are tasty and the service is quick, and there's a value lunch box special for A$7 .
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Caffe della Piazza
With plenty of outdoor seating, a heady and sizeable wine list, and generous serves of traditional pasta this Italian institution attracts an appreciative crowd. It's been dishing up the goods for many years and has the dining-out formula down pat.
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Cipriani
The casual elegance, attentive service, smooth lines and warm Tuscan tones only hint at the dining delight that is Cipriani. Specialities include homemade sausages, such as the delicious chicken, rocket and ricotta salsicce , and the traditional Italian pork sausage served with a roasted capsicum relish or creamy mashed potato. There's also a mouth-watering range of pizzas and an extensive wine list with quality wines available by the glass.
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Courgette
This fine-dining establishment may be named after a vegetable (the humble zucchini), but meat gets top billing here, from pan-seared calf liver to wonderful prawn ravioli. Frequented by an older clientele, this restaurant is earnest but low-key, and offers a splendid assortment of mature wines by the glass or bottle.
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Dickson Asian Noodle House
This perennially popular Laotian and Thai café is usually booked up towards the end of the week, though thankfully there's always takeaway. Within minutes of ordering, eat your fill of wok-fried, Hokkien -style or soup-laden noodles. Pick of the menu is the addictive combination laksa.
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Fekerte's Ethiopian Cuisine
This African gem weaves culinary magic with authentic Ethiopian cuisine along the lines of thick stews, spicy curries and moreish injera (Ethiopian flat bread). It's like comfort food, only far more interesting and from another continent.
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First Floor
Overlooking Green Sq is this fine-dining, minimalist décor establishment, where the seasonal Mod Oz menus run the gamut from fish and chips to stir-fries and pasta. The desserts are truly decadent and you can sip wines from around Australia.
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Green Herring Restaurant
This place offers rustic cosiness in a 120-yr old slab hut. Don't be put off by the name - it serves Mod Oz with creative flourishes, exceptional desserts, and has a separate vegetarian menu.
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La Pasa
Singaporean beauty woks up superb Malaysian meals including a variety of fiery laksas, chilli prawns, and beef rendang . There are several vegetarian options and good-value boxed lunches for $7.
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Legends
This lively Spanish restaurant is upstairs in the Capital Cinema Centre. House specialities include paella (a vegetarian version is available) and bacalao (dried salted cod), and there are lots of delicious tapas (from around A$9 ) to nibble. There's also the odd bit of live flamenco guitar most nights.
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Lemon Grass
Situated in the delightful Melbourne Building, this dependable Thai institution offers a long list of vegetarian, stir-fry, curry and seafood dishes. If you're a fan of king prawns order the goong gratiam with pepper and steamed vegetables.
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My Café
This small licensed café serving bruschetta, bagels and burgers attracts a breakfast crowd keen to bring their office wherever they go. With sunny sidewalk tables it is also popular for lingering lunches and espresso junkies throughout the day.
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Ruchi
Ruchi specialises in South Indian cuisine and has a comprehensive menu of veg and non-veg dishes from Goan vindaloo and Keralan fish curries to lamb Madras. Bring a group of friends and take an inexpensive epicurean excursion of the other Deep South. There's a popular lunch buffet on Sunday.
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Santa Lucia
Canberra's first Italian restaurant is three decades old and still going strong. Generous pasta dishes with rich sauces are delivered to the patent red-and-white-checked tablecloths, and there are kid's meals for $10 to $12.
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Sfoglia
A delightful patisserie and café where you'll find a hearty cooked breakfast and strong coffee to kickstart your day or a healthy focaccia to give you a lunchtime boost.
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Silo
This accomplished bakery-café can be standing room only during the breakfast and lunch rushes. Besides a fine range of breads and breakfast standards like eggs Florentine, it offers gourmet pizzas and exquisite flans and tarts.
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Tak Kee Roast Inn
This one-room traditional Chinese affair, locally lauded for its skill in cooking meats, is recognisable by the skewered flesh hanging in the front window. This has the same effect on committed vegetarians that garlic has on vampires. Their won tons are superb, as is their barbecued beef brisket.
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Tosolini's
Tosolini's has predominantly rich, meaty meals, such as the venison pie with winter vegetables, though the menu changes with the seasons and there are several salads and a few vegetarian options available.
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