Spotlighting the current restaurant trend, Italian, Pilu at Freshwater is a new restaurant a half-hour ferry ride away from downtown on Sydney's north shore, featuring Sardinian cuisine and views onto Freshwater Beach.

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Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, Red Lobster and Longhorn Steakhouse, has responded to the trend with new restaurant franchises like Yard House, which prides itself on a large draft beer menu, American-fusion cuisine and a lively atmosphere punctuated with classic rock music and flat-screen TVs playing sporting events and news broadcasts.

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As result, its alums are at the forefront of the current healthier restaurant dining trend, and NGI just released a list of its Top 10 alumni restaurants for 2013.

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The restaurant is part of a growing trend of culinary hotspots with multiple personalities.

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At the celebrity hideout Chateau Marmont, the room service star is Carolynn Spence, who popularised the US gastropub trend at New York City's much-heralded Spotted Pig restaurant.

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Forget diets and detoxes, Londoners are cheerfully indulging in the latest culinary trend of gourmet fast food -- and Bubbledogs, a new restaurant serving hotdogs and Champagne, is the latest place to find it.

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Banca, an upmarket Italian restaurant in Mayfair, is one of the most recent places to join the trend.

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Roma, with its high population of hipsters and fashion-forward residents, is the place to go for eating on-trend food (Vietnamese and Japanese this year) in cafes such as Mog, a restaurant adorned with antique picture frames and wooden mannequin limbs.

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