What’s on around town

Yabun Festival – the country’s largest celebration of First Nations culture – is enlivening Victoria Park with live music, corroboree, food stalls, panel discussions and more from 10am to 6pm on Friday January 26. Free entry.

• Go all-in this weekend with the Super Messina Sando, a fried cinnamon milk bun stuffed with caramel and white chocolate gelato and a Nashville-style whack of fried chicken. It’s a collaboration between the ice-cream house and chicken joint Super Nash Brothers, and it’s only available from January 26 to 28 at Super Nash Brothers.

• Four Sydney chefs are battling it out at The Cut, the cooking-competition-meets-dinner-event – in support of Two Good Co – taking over Mecca Coffee in Alexandria on Thursday February 1. Swillhouse editor Myffy Rigby is hosting the friendly and fun event, where kitchen talents from Kiln, Lola’s Italian, Two Good Co Cafe and The Wedge will compete.

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Fridays are for tacos at Wharf St Kitchen, with any three for $20. There’s adobo chicken, pulled pork and a life-changingly great corn fritter vegan option.

• The Ricos Tacos cart is rolling into the Lady Hampshire courtyard tonight at 5pm. The special offering merges the red-hot menus – think jerk chicken tacos with mango habanero salsa and those hashbrowns with curry sauce.

• There’s a half-kilo croissant – stuffed with lemon diplomat and topped with scorched meringue – taking over Tuga next week. The whopping viennoiserie is for four, and can be ordered online. Pick up between Tuesday January 30 and Sunday February 4.

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• Darlinghurst’s revamped Taphouse will have Triple J on and frozen cocktails churning (like Gin Coladas and Frosé) from midday – and the team will be donating $1 from every cocktail sold to Headspace.

The Great Club is bringing a handball comp, garden games and kiddie pool to the mix in Marrickville. The carpark countdown party will kick off at midday.

• Petersham’s Public House is an ace spot to park up on Saturday – great brews and excellent natty wines, plus pizzas. Bookings recommended.

• Head to Botany’s One Drop for house-brewed beers, more than one countdown – GABS Hottest 100 is running as well as Triple J’s – and a feed via Irie Carribbean Street Food.

What we covered this week

Emu Parade is the Sydney-based social enterprise fuelled by free coffees and Trish, an old mini fire truck at the heart of a clean-up initiative. You meet Roland Davies in the morning, pick up rubbish and he’ll make you a coffee. How much rubbish do you have to pick up? “Whatever you think is worth one coffee,” Roland Davies tells Broadsheet.

• Coming soon: Walk-up bakery window Snack Shoppe, from the Self Raised Bread Shoppe team, readies for opening in Bexley North. There’ll be Roman focaccias, pastrami-loaded brekkie muffins and iced Milo on tap – but will it beat the lines at Self Raised?

• First look: Tanuki, the shapeshifting Japanese joint from the Matteo team, is open in Double Bay. Will you perch at the raw bar for sake and flame-grill action? Or will you kick back in the courtyard, under a decades-old liquidambar, with a Saketini and a sando? Tough decisions lie ahead.

• Uber announces a $13 million partnership with Planet Ark, one of the country’s leading environmental organisations, to help hospo businesses move to sustainable packaging by 2030.

• Iced lattes are outselling flat whites in some cafes, but why are they more expensive than a hot one? Two industry leaders weigh in on the debate. Are we being ripped off?

Five elite bottomless menus to try in Sydney right now, from a meze spread with endless wines at Nomad to plates of silky eggplant wontons and DIY rice paper roll plates with fizzy fruity spritzes by the water.

• Revered Aussie cheesemaker Holy Goat announces shock closure. “You have to have courage to build it, and courage to let it go.”

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• First look: Climb a set of sweet pink steps on Crown Street to Cafe Ellu, the terrace-house cafe with crème brûlée French toast, $10 avo toast and a winning matcha.

• Now open: Yana heats up Coogee with two storeys of flame-powered dining – expect whole roasted barramundi and one-kilo steaks, and a dessert usually saved for camping. Try your luck for a seat on the tiny upstairs balcony, for a spritz overlooking the buzzy main drag.

• First look: Gaia Gelato is open in Randwick, and scooping standout pastel-hued flavours like peach and basil. It’s only been open a fortnight but it’s already a hit with locals.