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Merrylands’ hot brunch spot serves a breakfast board loaded with the lot

For the past dozen or so years, the most popular restaurant I’ve regularly visited in Merrylands, near Parramatta, has been Kabul House – a place of barbecued meats and lamb stock-bolstered rice, qabili palaw. Kids play under tables. Old blokes share skewers next to a large-format photo of Mazar-i-Sharif’s Blue Mosq…

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It’s the long weekend for eating lamb, and this spot’s fork-tender chop will blow your mind

We’re in a Greek restaurant, so lamb is no surprise, but I’ve never had it quite like this. The menu says “chops”, so I wield a knife with intent, but a fork is sufficient to tear the meat apart. Every mouthful hits right: a sublime balance of char, salt, fat, lemon juice, a tickle of olive oil, a heady sprinkle of …

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How’s this for openers?

More wine woes (C8), this time with Mickey Pragnell of Kiama: “My wife’s work group asked at an outer Sydney bowlo for a bottle of bubbly for a celebration lunch. The waitress returned with something she called ‘curvy brute’ and proceeded to attack the cork with a corkscrew.”

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Man dies after stabbing in Sydney's west

A man has died after a stabbing in Sydney's west.Emergency services were called to Clouta Place, Emu Plains at 6.45pm today.Videos posted to social media showed more than a dozen police cars, ambulances and the police helicopter responding to the incident.NSW Police said officers found a man, believed to be in his…

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Albanese locks in plans to scrap investor tax breaks as way through housing crisis

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has marked out a contentious tax reform package to boost home ownership as a way to counter populism. He is also pledging to rebuild Australia’s fuel stocks and floating the prospect of caps on coal and gas prices if the war in Iran further spikes commodity prices.

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