Take the hassle out of meal planning by saving recipes from Australia’s top chefs and cooks in one easy place, or create your own hit list of Good Food-approved restaurants and bars.
These days, most of us search for recipe inspiration online – but just because you stumbled across the perfect recipe for Mongolian beef noodles once doesn’t mean you’ll find it again easily.
That’s where the Good Food app steps in. Now you can save your favourite recipes in one convenient place, with more than 10,000 recipes available from Australia’s top cooks and chefs – including Nagi Maehashi, Adam Liaw, Helen Goh, Neil Perry, Karen Martini, Emelia Jackson and more – ready whenever you need them.
The latest update lets you create personalised lists, so you can organise your recipes under custom headings. That might include a list of “everything you want to cook for Mother’s Day” or a round-up of every course on your next “dinner party menu”.
You can also save restaurants into custom folders, including venues featured in the Good Food Guide. Maybe it’s a running list of “bars you want to visit”, or something more specific like “cafes serving crispy bacon” or “pubs with Guinness on tap”.
Ready to tidy up your bookmarks? Follow the steps below to start building your own custom saved lists.
How to save recipes on the Good Food app
- Open the Good Food app and navigate to the Eating in tab of the navigation toolbar.
- To explore recipes by chef, scroll down to see all of Good Food’s recipe writers. Tap on the writer’s photo to find their full recipe catalogue.
- Or, explore recipes by category – maybe that’s quick and easy for a midweek dinner in a pinch, vegetarian for plant-based dishes, or baking for hundreds of cakes, cookies, pies and more. You can also filter recipes within categories, for example gluten-free recipes in baking or one-pot dishes by Adam Liaw.
- Once you’ve found the recipe you want, save it for later by tapping the bookmark icon at the top right of the recipe. You’ll see an option to add the recipe to any previously created saved lists, or create a new list (i.e. kid-approved midweek dinners). If you don’t add to any list, the recipe will save in the “All saved” folder – see step five below on where to find this and all of your saved lists.
- When you’re ready to start cooking, navigate to the Saved tab on the bottom right of the app’s navigation toolbar and find all of your saved recipes in one easy place including any custom-created lists.
- Unsure where to start? See our latest collection of the best midweek-friendly recipes the Good Food team has on standby and start saving your favourites to the app.
How to find and save restaurants on the Good Food app
- Open the Good Food app and navigate to the Eating out tab of the navigation toolbar.
- Scroll down to find every venue in the Good Food Guide, or view by categories including hats, regions, critics’ picks, awards, best cafes and best bars.
- You can also find restaurants by cuisine type – under the Explore eating out section, tap on cuisines such as Japanese, Italian or French to see every venue across the state in that category. Filter these lists further to find hatted Japanese restaurants or vegetarian-friendly Italian, for example.
- The easiest way to discover new venues is on the interactive app map, located in the centre of the app’s navigation panel. Once the map is open, tap the edit button on the top right and type in your suburb or use your current location to see venues near you.
- The map will show every venue in your suburb reviewed by Good Food, plus hot new recommendations from the Good Food team. You can also filter by cuisine, hats and dietary needs, or tap the List view button on the bottom left to see a handy list of venues in the selected area.
- To save venues to your very own hit list on the app, simply open a restaurant review or recommendation and tap the bookmark icon on the top right. You’ll see an option to add the venue to an existing saved list, or create a new one (i.e. wine bars to try in the CBD).
- Every saved venue including your custom created lists will appear in the Saved tab on the bottom right of the app’s navigation toolbar.
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