There may be some cracking recent additions to Newtown but Oscillate Wildly remains the suburb’s finest culinary achievement.

Chef and owner Karl Firla’s creations have many of his contemporaries gasping, but the stunning technique sticks to some rules — no more than three ingredients help complete each dish.

The tiny two-storey terrace dishes up arguably the city’s best degustation, and the eclectic wine list isn’t far off best either.

A gin and tonic starter arrives with a gin-soaked sugarcane tab poking out of ice. Then stunning mackerel plumbs the depths of a big dashi broth. Cauliflower arrives in foie gras snowflakes, while sweet slow-cooked pork cheek gets a kiss from smoky eggplant.

Must eat: Whiting, Radish, Ink