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Australia has never been more epicurean. Between the explosion of new restaurants, the broad embrace of cultural cuisines and a sprawling community of home cooks, the country is a very good place to get your grub on. The best Australian food blogs have grown up alongside that shift, trading pure restaurant reviews for a mix of recipe development, cookbook careers, YouTube series and genuine food journalism. Whether you’re on the prowl for the best places to eat, or aiming to whip up something tasty at home, these are the blogs, creators and sites worth bookmarking.
A note on this list: Man of Many is a publisher too, and we’ve included ourselves at the bottom as a bonus rather than rank ourselves among the independent food blogs and creators who built this scene. The 12 publishers ranked below are the ones we genuinely recommend, in rough order of reach, authority and output.
1. RecipeTin Eats
RecipeTin Eats is the biggest food blog Australia has produced. Founder Nagi Maehashi walked away from a finance career to build the site in 2012 and it now reaches millions of cooks a week, anchored by a not-for-profit kitchen arm (RecipeTin Meals) and a bestselling debut cookbook. The recipes are the point: rigorously tested, clearly written, photographed properly, and aimed squarely at weeknight cooks who want classics done right. If you follow one Australian food blog, follow this one.
Founder: Nagi Maehashi
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2012
2. Not Quite Nigella
Sydney-born Lorraine Elliott has been blogging full time for nearly two decades, and Not Quite Nigella remains one of the longest-running and most-read independent food sites in the country. Elliott writes recipes, but the blog’s real strength is the weekly rotation of Sydney restaurant reviews, travel diaries and the occasional deep dive on a niche ingredient. Her Penguin-published memoir gave the site real editorial credibility, and new posts still land most days.
Founder: Lorraine Elliott
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2007
3. How to Cook That
Ann Reardon built How to Cook That into Australia’s biggest baking and dessert channel, with almost 5 million YouTube subscribers on top of a companion recipe site. She is a trained food scientist and dietitian, which is partly why the blog has evolved from elaborate sugar work into one of the most useful sources of viral food hack debunks online. If you want the recipe for a mirror glaze, this is the spot. If you want to know whether a TikTok hack is a scam, same answer.
Founder: Ann Reardon
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2011
4. Marion’s Kitchen
Marion Grasby spun a MasterChef Australia run into a full food business, and the blog side of Marion’s Kitchen is where the recipes live in their most complete form. Expect Asian-Australian cooking with genuine grounding: Thai staples from her mum’s kitchen, Chinese basics done cleanly, and the odd fusion piece that actually works. Grasby also runs a meal kit and sauce line, but the recipes are free and the writing is tight.
Founder: Marion Grasby
Based: Noosa, Queensland
Year Started: 2010
5. My Korean Kitchen
Sue Pressey was born in South Korea, moved to Brisbane, and has been publishing traditional and fusion Korean recipes since 2006. That makes My Korean Kitchen one of the oldest Australian food blogs on this list, and it reads like it: proper cultural context, a sprawling pantry and grocery store directory, and recipes that actually work the first time. Bibimbap, bulgogi, kimchi pancakes, the lot. Still updated and still the first stop for Korean home cooking in Australia.
Founder: Sue Pressey
Based: Brisbane
Year Started: 2006
6. Bake Play Smile
Former teacher Lucy Mathieson has spent a decade turning Bake Play Smile into one of Australia’s most-used family recipe sites. The blog leans Thermomix-friendly and is heavy on lunchbox bakes, slices and weeknight classics. Clean layout, honest photography, genuinely achievable sweet and savoury recipes. If you have kids, or a partner who works from home and needs afternoon snacks, this is the one to bookmark.
Founder: Lucy Mathieson
Based: Victoria
Year Started: 2013
7. Cafe Delites
Karina Carrel started Cafe Delites as an Instagram food diary in 2014 and has built it into one of the most visually compelling Australian recipe sites going. The style is comfort-led: one-pan chicken dinners, big bowls, family-friendly meals, and the occasional indulgent dessert. Carrel has spoken openly about her cancer recovery, which feeds a no-nonsense attitude that shows up in the recipes. Big community, big social following, still publishing.
Founder: Karina Carrel
Based: Australia
Year Started: 2014
8. Sugar Et Al
Sonali Ghosh runs Sugar Et Al out of Sydney and publishes what is, without exaggeration, some of the best food photography you’ll find on an Australian blog. The recipes sit at the intersection of European technique and Indian flavour: saffron, cardamom, rose and pistachio turn up often. Ghosh writes a published cookbook, shoots for magazines, and posts less frequently than the big recipe sites, but each post is a proper piece of work.
Founder: Sonali Ghosh
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2013
9. Wandercooks
Sarah and Laura launched Wandercooks in 2015 after 12 months of couch-surfing through more than 30 countries, cooking with locals along the way. The Adelaide-based duo has since gone full-time on the blog, with a heavy focus on Japanese, broader Asian and Australian recipes. Sarah shoots and styles the food, Laura writes and edits the videos, and the pair pull in more than 5 million visits a year. Good for fast weeknight Asian cooking without dumbing anything down.
Founders: Sarah and Laura
Based: Adelaide
Year Started: 2015
10. He Needs Food
John Bek trained as a chef before moving into food writing in 2009, which makes him one of the original Sydney food bloggers. He Needs Food has always done two things well: honest restaurant reviews that cover everything from Cabramatta street food to Sydney CBD fine dining, and photography that holds up alongside professional food mags. Recipes appear often enough, drawing on his Croatian heritage and whatever he’s dragged home from the market.
Founder: John Bek
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2009
11. The World Loves Melbourne
If it is happening in Melbourne and worth eating, David Hagger has probably been there and reviewed it. He launched The World Loves Melbourne in 2011 and has since racked up more than 600 restaurant reviews, plus regular coverage of hotels, bars and premier foodie events around the city. Still publishing weekly, with a format that leans long, SLR-photographed and opinionated rather than bite-sized.
Founder: David Hagger
Based: Melbourne
Year Started: 2011
12. 2 Hungry Guys
Joe Tavella and Luke Calopedos run 2 Hungry Guys as a Sydney-first eating operation, with occasional side trips through Asia. The blog has quietened over the years while the Instagram channel (more than 200,000 followers) has picked up the restaurant review load, so think of this as a hybrid: long-form posts on the site, near-daily plate shots and cheap eats on socials. Solid taste, zero pretension, good for finding the next unfussy spot to book.
Founders: Joe Tavella, Luke Calopedos
Based: Sydney
13. Bonus: Man of Many
Full disclosure: this is us. Man of Many has been covering Australian food, drinks and restaurant culture since 2012 alongside style, tech and culture. On the food side we run regular city restaurant guides, booze explainers, interviews with chefs and sommeliers, and product reviews for the home kitchen. Read us for the wider lifestyle take on food, and the blogs above for single-category depth.
Founders: Scott Purcell, Frank Arthur
Based: Sydney
Year Started: 2012
Other Worthy Mentions
- Adam Liaw – MasterChef winner turned Good Food columnist. Recipe archive is strong on Japanese classics, family dinners and dumpling-school tutorials. Updates slower than the full-time blogs but every post is worth reading.
- It’s Not Complicated Recipes – Alexandra Cook’s Adelaide-based recipe blog does exactly what the name promises: short ingredient lists, simple methods, reliable results. Good for anyone who finds most food blogs overwritten.
Closed or Dormant
- What Katie Ate – Katie Quinn Davies’ James Beard-winning Sydney food blog is on hiatus. The site is currently flagged as being redesigned, with the author noting the blog is “simmering on the back burner”. Her two cookbooks remain in print.
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RecipeTin Eats by Sydney-based Nagi Maehashi is the biggest and most-read Australian food blog, with tested recipes aimed at weeknight cooks. Not Quite Nigella, How to Cook That and My Korean Kitchen are also among the most established.
Nagi Maehashi of RecipeTin Eats is arguably the most famous, with a bestselling cookbook and a site reaching millions of cooks a week. Ann Reardon of How to Cook That has the largest audience on YouTube, with close to 5 million subscribers.
Yes. The format has evolved from pure restaurant reviews towards recipe development, video content and cookbook careers, but the top Australian food blogs like RecipeTin Eats and Marion's Kitchen now reach more people than ever through a mix of blog, YouTube, Instagram and published books.
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