What’s on around town:

• Take Mum to The Lucky Prawn on Sunday. The team’s hosting Mum Cha, with steamed scallops, prawn toast and that fried Viennetta. You can pre-order bubbles, flowers and Hawke’s Brewing merch to greet her on arrival, too.

• Surry Hills favourite Henrietta has flown west. The chook joint is firing up in Parramatta, with exclusive plates like a crispy pita with spiced sujuk sausage and sumac salmon.

• 20 Chapel chef Corey Costelloe brings his woodfired flair to Two Good’s Darlo cafe this month. He’s put on a chicken and gruyere toastie, a roast pumpkin salad and chocolatey Devil’s Food muffin. Every dish sold helps support at-risk women through Two Good’s employment pathways program.

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• Head to gluten free mecca Wholegreens Bakery – in Bondi, Alexandria or the CBD – from Tuesday May 13 for a chocolatey exclusive with Pana Organic. The choc-chip cookie delivers Pana’s Mylk and white chocolate, plus its standout hazelnut spread. On top? Plenty of chopped hazelnuts and some sea salt to balance out the sweet.

• Drink up: book your seat at the exclusive wine dinner at The Grill at The International. Hosted by Adelaide winery Henschke, the event on May 13 will include a four-course meal with matched wines, plus a talk by sixth-generation winemaker Andres Henschke. It’s $545 per person, bookings essential.

• Get in on the Fashion Week buzz with afternoon tea at Aperture, Capella Sydney’s ground-floor all-day dining spot. From May 12 to 16, find lobster rolls dressed up with yuzu, dainty sweets and more – with a glass of Dom Perignon, too – for $150 per person. Bookings encouraged.

• Late-night cheesecake? Find it till June 1 at Nakano Darling. The limited-edition apple chu-hi Basque cheesecake comes from 15 Cenchi nextdoor.

• Yum cha at Spice Temple means Andy Evans’ take: Moreton Bay bug shumai, spicy white pepper dumplings and house-made egg custard rolls. Available from midday on weekends from Saturday May 17.

• CBD Vietnamese-French restaurant Delta Rue is doing half-price noodles and rice on Mondays and Tuesdays from 5pm, starting from May 12. That means dishes like the spicy crab noodles with chilli sambal and morning glory – normally $49 – are now just $24.50.

• Deal alert: it’s two-for-one lunchtime dining at A’Mare. Head in on Friday, Saturday or Sunday between midday and 2.30pm to nab signature dishes – like lobster spaghetti, carpaccio and Moreton Bay bug – for half the price. The menu is $102.50 per person (instead of $205), bookings recommended.

• Baptist Street Rec Club’s just launched music trivia on Tuesday nights. There’ll be themed rounds, icy drinks and Thai snacks aplenty in the Trophy Room. Plus, $15 serves of pad thai. The first one’s on May 13.

• Spoil your ma – or mother figure – with a three-course menu at Bessie’s, featuring whipped cod roe, burrata with charred zucchini and a woodfired blueberry cheesecake. Plus, there’ll be a glass of Bollinger on the house.

• This May, slurp up Cho Cho San’s $25 yuzu shio ramen. Top the Tokyo-style broth with your choice of proteins, or level up to the $45 Cho Ramen Set to enjoy a pork katsu bun, tuna sashimi and a drink on arrival, too.

What we covered this week:

• A Vietnamese gelato shop opened in Cabramatta in December. It was so popular, a Marrickville outpost quickly followed. Head in for small-batch, coconut-milk scoops – like soursop and tamarind, and a “gelato-fied banana bread”.

• In a red-lit basement on Clarence Street, the slick Herbs Taverne bartenders are pouring a “traffic light” of Negronis – bringing Mucho’s signature dive-bar energy to Sydney’s small-bar heartland.

• The best bites in Merrylands, from knafeh and charcoal chicken to faluda and rosewater sweets.

• Where Chefs Eat: make a date with Peter Gilmore’s top picks in Crows Nest, Willoughby and more.

• Find Caness in an old grocer on Oxford Street. It’s all about tapas (with Middle Eastern flair). And don’t miss the seriously good bread.

• First look: a couple of ex-tradies from Puebla are grilling Mexican street snacks at El Taco. Expect volcanos, gringas and quesadillas – all with lacy cheese skirts and smoky charcoal flavours.

• First look: Berta’s Deli serves up sandwiches that go beyond the basics – with quality meats, inventive vegetarian options and house-made condiments, all on soft Turkish bread.

• Farewell, Bayswater Kitchenette. After six years of serving comforting Italian classics like mushroom polenta and banoffee pie, the beloved Italian diner in Potts Point is closing its doors – but there’s still time to dine there again.

• Where Chefs Eat: from a classic pie shop to a “naughty, naughty” dessert spot, Toby Wilson reveals the places that keep him coming back again and again.

You might’ve missed:

• April’s venue openings were goodies – and they delivered ice-cream for dinner, a “thousand-layer” Korean bread and a contender for Sydney’s best ramen.

• First look: the bread lords at AP continue their reign with a harbourside rotisserie joint. There’s a croissant “golden hour”, then Whole Beast porchetta and golden chook stuffed into crispy white rolls baked in-store.

• The ex-Long Chim space in the CBD is set to become the Pellegrino 2000 team’s largest venue yet: Cantonese dining room Grandfather’s. It’ll be dedicated to the “mother of all cuisines”.