• Find generous focaccias and a local hospitality hero at Gladesville’s new Cetto Delicatessen.

• First look: the Caravin team’s just opened a moody little wine bar just 180 metres away from the OG. It’s now pouring on one of Sydney’s best laneways.

• First look: A top Korean chain debuts in Sydney with the “king of porridges”.

• A Potts Point laneway scores sourdough doughnuts and coffee till late. The golden fluffy rounds are fried till golden then dusted in cinnamon sugar (or chicken salt), or arrive stuffed with house-made ice-cream.

• First look: Martinis reign at Bar Planet’s slick new CBD bar in the old Double Deuce den. Expect a trio of house Martinis, a daily happy hour and a flash new popcorn flavour.

• Heaps Normal Health Club switches from events-only, meaning it’s ready to be part of your weekly routine (with live music, dance floors and booze, if you want it).

• A Newtown favourite returns with a new name and a pastrami sandwich that sells out every day.

• First look: Sugo Pasta Bar adds more of the My Mother’s Cousin special sauce to Bexley North.

• First look: September Studio opens a neighbourhood “stock-up shop” in Darlinghurst. Seven days a week, you’ll find florals, Primary coffee and some of Sydney’s best croissants.

• First look: a one-man kitchen in Glebe is pumping out homestyle Korean dishes, like bouncy perilla seed noodles and bibimbap powered by Korean miso. Plus, $3 BYO.

• A Leichhardt pasta icon just opened a 300-seat outpost in the old Rockpool space. Expect the same Italian classics, served in an 1860s sandstone building by the harbour.

• First look: Razz Room dazzles with daiquiris and disco in a basement CBD space.

• French tacos? A new food truck passes out the jumbo cheesy, chip-filled wraps, which are a fast-food phenomenon across France. Can they take Sydney?

• First look: the Ormeggio team pulls off the restaurant-within-restaurant move with a harbourside pizzeria – where the rounds span classic and creative, with a riff on tiramisu to finish.

• First look: the smash burgers parked up by a Rozelle servo are so flavour-packed they don’t need sauce.

• First look: Tokyo Lamington adds a cheffy sandwich shop to Australia Street. Drop by for an outstanding egg sando or a four-cheese toastie with Sichuan-spiced hot honey.

• First look: at Jinius, a tenacious pastry talent serves croissants and brunch in the shade of the Harbour Bridge.

• First look: hit Doom Juice Cellar Door for natural wine aplenty, a sweet collab with Ester Spirits and … a dazzling replica of the skull-shaped disco ball in the live-action Scooby-Doo film?

• First look: at Glebe’s newest bakery, a favourite market croissant finds a permanent home.

• The famed buttery bowl of Spaghetti Machiavelli returns to a new, more casual Potts Point dining room.

• First look: find “no-flop” New York slices by a Bourke Street Bakery boss on Oxford Street. Plus, Sicilian grandma pies big enough to stop a door.

Additional reporting by Lucy Bell Bird, Howard Chen, Dan Cunningham, Alice Jeffery, Lee Tran Lam and Callum McDermott.