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Koko Black Has Released Its First-Ever Beer — and It's Chocolate-Hazelnut Flavoured
The chocolatier has teamed up with brewer Modus Operandi on the limited-edition tipple, a Belgian stout made with couverture chocolate.
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Sydney-Based Hospitality Crew Merivale Is Set to Take Over the Lorne Hotel
It'll mark the group's second venture outside of New South Wales.
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News
Ben & Jerry's Has Released a Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Beer to Support Renewable Energy
The ice cream company has teamed up with 4 Pines on the limited-edition, nitro-infused, ice cream-inspired brew.
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This Year's Budget Will Dish Out Millions in Tax Relief For Local Breweries and Distilleries
Australia's small breweries have scored a much-needed helping hand, as part of the government's post-COVID recovery push.
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News
Four Pillars Is About to Release Its 2021 Batch of Bloody Good Bloody Shiraz Gin
This year, you can also order bloody shiraz grape and quince paste — and bloody shiraz gin caviar — to go with the cult-favourite drop.
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Guide
Five Good Beer Week Events You Can Still Grab Tickets To
10 days of beer-filled shenanigans — what'll earn a spot on your calendar?
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News
Melbourne's Best Underground Bars That Are Actually Underground
From Mexican-themed mezcal bars, to haunts with over 400 different spirits, these are the best bars under the city.
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Guide
The 20 Best Pubs in Melbourne
Looking for a new local? This selection of classic Melbourne boozers and more contemporary gastropubs will suit all beer and parma enthusiasts.
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Guide
The Nine Best Bubble Tea Shops in Melbourne
From mega chains and traditional Taiwanese operators to a very 'Melbourne' coffee version and all the cheese foam you could ask for.
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Guide
Seven Stylish Melbourne Bars That Are Perfect for After-Work Drinks with Your Mates
Hit these drinking establishments as the sun sets and solve the problems of the world with your most trusted mates.
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Guide
The 21 Best BYO Restaurants in Melbourne
Head to your local bottle shop or pilfer your own wine collection before hitting these Melbourne BYO restaurants.
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Guide
The 25 Best Bars in Melbourne
Whether you're on the hunt for an extensive wine collection, a luxe date-night spot or a place to have a little boogie, these are our picks for the best bars in Melbourne.
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Guide
The Best Rooftop Bars in Melbourne
Head to these sun-soaked Melbourne rooftop bars and pubs when you want to enjoy a cocktail and bite to eat skyward.
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Guide
The Best Melbourne Restaurants for an Excellent Lunar New Year Feast
These are the best restaurants in Melbourne celebrating the Year of the Dragon this Lunar New Year — or putting on fitting feasts all year round.
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Guide
The Best Wine Bars in Melbourne
A guide for any wine lover in Melbourne, whether you want strictly organic, biodynamic and local drops or you don't really care — as long as they taste good and don't cost a fortune.
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Guide
Melbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Undeniably, Unabashedly Romantic
Low lighting, jazz playlists, opulent cocktails — these Melbourne date spots will help you to start planning the perfect Valentine's Day.
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News
Ramblers Ale Works Is the New Hawthorn Craft Brewery Opening This Month
Housed in a former mechanics garage, it'll have 12 beer taps, an al fresco beer garden and a food menu infused with lots of beery elements.
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News
Four Pillars Has Teamed Up with Qantas On a New Aussie Gin That Celebrates the Airline's Centenary
The carrier is slinging new gin cocktails in its airport lounges, too.
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News
Starward Is Releasing Its Latest Super-Popular Ginger Beer Barrel Whisky to Warm Up Your Winter
The sixth annual release from the distillery's ginger-focused program will be available to buy next week — if you're quick.
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Six Ways to Indulge When the Cocktail and Comfort Food Cravings Kick In
Satisfy your hankerings by heading to a cocktail festival, tucking into a pub roast or hibernating in front of the big screen.
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News
Free Cocktails, Express Manicures and $10,000 Shopping Tabs on Offer Under New FOMO Friday Initiative
Across four huge Fridays, a stacked lineup of Melbourne bars, restaurants and retailers are offering discounts, freebies and giveaways.
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Australia's First Non-Alcoholic and Hangover-Free Bar Has Opened in Melbourne
The new project from booze-free gin producer Brunswick Aces also features the country's first physical non-alcoholic bottle shop.
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Bar
Champagne Problems
238 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
If you loved drinking and dancing at Evie’s Disco Diner but now feel a little too old for it, consider a trip to its older sibling in the CBD.
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Bar
Greenhart Camberwell
1226 Toorak Road, Camberwell
This Melbourne wine bar is straying away from the usual European influences, instead showing how contemporary Asian food and Australian wines can be a perfect pairing.
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Restaurant
Hotel Lona
473 Nepean Highway, Frankston
A two-level venue with a restaurant, public bar and rooftop in one of Frankston’s oldest buildings.
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Bar
Moon Dog Wild West
54 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Make your way through the swinging saloon doors to find bucking bulls, arcade games, pool tables, a dog-friendly rooftop, and food and drinks aplenty.
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Bar
The Gertrude Hotel
148 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
The Fitzroy corner site has been reborn once again — this time as a Med-inspired bar and bistro.
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Restaurant
Skinny Dog Hotel
155 High Street, Kew
The new sun-soaked rooftop is home to a huge light-filled atrium, refined gastropub eats and weekly live music gigs.
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Bar
Enoteca Boccaccio
1046 Burke Road, Balwyn
Aussie and Italian produce are on full display here — be it in the glass-walled cheese room, wine fridges, or the European eats coming out of the open kitchen.
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Restaurant
Yugen Tea Bar
605 Chapel St, South Yarra
Home to an incredibly large range of teas, plus one of the best high teas in Melbourne.
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News
Four Pillars Has Released Its 2021 Barrel-Aged Gins So You Can Keep Adding to Your Gin Shrine
Its Sherry Cask Gin and Chardonnay Barrel Gin are back — and the distillery has added a new Single Barrel Gin, too.
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News
Archie Brothers Is Hosting Adults-Only Circus and Cocktail Pop-Ups in Its East Coast Arcade Bars
Once a month, you'll be able to head to Alexandria, Docklands or Toombul for stilt walkers, magicians, burlesque and beverages.
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Sixty Smith Is the New Collingwood Bar and Restaurant From the Fitzroy Beer Garden Crew
Head in for crafty cocktails, local art and a globe-trotting menu from an ex-MoVida chef.
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How to Say Thanks to Aussie Hospitality Legends If You're a Bit of a Bar Fly
Show your support by hitting up a cocktail festival, having a parma with your pint and wearing your heart on your sleeve with some fun merch.
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Valhalla Is Collins Street's New Nordic-Inspired Underground Cocktail Lounge
A moody after-work haunt with a drinks list that heroes Aussie spirits and locally foraged ingredients.
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Hope St Radio Is Opening a Wine Bar and Music Space at the Revamped Collingwood Yards
It'll be slinging natural wine, fresh pasta dishes and curated tunes from your favourite presenters.
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Event
BEAST Meat Masters
Monday, July 1 - Saturday, November 30, 2024
Beast City, Melbourne
Everything served at BEAST's Meat Masters takeover series is heavy, meaty and heartburn-inducing. Bring on the food coma.
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Event
A Quiet Place: Day One
Thursday, June 27 - Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Various cinemas in Melbourne
The always-excellent Lupita Nyong'o and 'Pig' writer/director Michael Sarnoski take this hit horror franchise back to the alien invasion's beginning in a thoughtful Big Apple-set spinoff.
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Event
Sweet Home Dog-abama Fourth of July Party at Moon Dog Wild West
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Moon Dog Wild West, Footscray
Moon Dog Wild West's first-ever Fourth of July party comes with live music, food and drink deals, and an all-American hot dog-eating competition.
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Event
The Finders Keepers Autumn/Winter Market
Friday, July 12 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton
Support the next wave of independent artisans at this three-day art and design market that features over 270 makers, foodies and designers.
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Event
Horizon — Bangarra Dance Theatre
Wednesday, August 28 - Saturday, September 7, 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
The iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander performing arts company's first mainstage cross-cultural collaboration tells tales from across Oceania.
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Scandinavian Film Festival
Friday, July 19 - Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Whether you're after the latest 'Department Q' mystery or a documentary about the Norwegian wilderness, this film festival has something for you.
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Disaronno at Palace Cinemas in Melbourne
Monday, May 27 - Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Various Melbourne venues, Melbourne
Where to taste an authentic amaretto sour across Melbourne.
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Bastille Day
Saturday, July 13 - Sunday, July 14, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Queen Victoria Market will be filled with buttery pastries, cooking masterclasses, live music and more to celebrate France's national day.
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Event
Queen Victoria Market's Australian Sake Festival
Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21, 2024
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Take your pick from more than 200 different sakes at the Australian Sake Festival, coming to Queen Vic Market this winter.
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The Promised Land
Thursday, June 20 - Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
More than a decade after 'A Royal Affair', Mads Mikkelsen and filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel have made another grand and gripping drama set in Denmark's past.
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Five Ways to Up Your Wine Knowledge If You Still Can't Tell Your Terroir from Your Tannins
Use these tips and tricks to learn — and sip — your way to wine success.
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This Indulgent New Booze Membership Includes an Entire Beer Vending Machine and a Year of Refills
It's one of the options under Craft Cartel Liquor's new subscriptions — but it'll cost you a tidy $10,000 per year.
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Sydney's Award-Winning Maybe Sammy Has Released a Trio of Bottled Cocktails to Sip at Home
The new premium batched creations come in both solo serves and share-friendly 500-millilitre bottles.
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Two Aussie-Brewed 'Game of Thrones' Beers Are Coming to Mark the HBO Show's Tenth Anniversary
Melbourne's Moon Dog Brewing is whipping up a Breaker of Chains chilli and vanilla stout and a Watchers on the Wall white chocolate ale.
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Good Beer Week Is Back for 2021 with a Stacked Tenth Anniversary Program
The annual beer-filled celebration returns, complete with a Daft Punk tribute party, a booze-free bash and lots of beery feasts.
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La Madonna Is the Luxe Hotel Bar and Restaurant Taking Over an Entire Floor Inside Next Melbourne
Roll in for clever snacks and a creative drinks list filled with barrel-aged concoctions.
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Kepler's Yard Is Northcote's New Astronomy-Inspired Cocktail Bar From the 24 Moons Crew
DJ nights, mismatched furniture and planet-themed cocktails, in a space that's named after a famous astronomer.
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Poodle Upstairs Bar Is Now Open Two Nights a Week for Cocktail-Matched Snacking Sessions
Poodle Bar & Bistro has scored a new upstairs sibling, serving signature sips, gourmet charcuterie and caviar two nights a week.
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Five Regional Towns to Stop in When Road Tripping from Melbourne to Sydney
Expect baked goods galore — and spending the night in Australia's most haunted mansion (if you dare).
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You Can Now Get DIY Gelato Messina Cocktails in Easter Eggs Delivered to Your Door
Cocktail Porter will deliver everything you need to make salted caramel cocktails inside Easter eggs — or espresso martinis inside Lindt bunnies.
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You and Your Pooch Will Soon Be Able to Spend a Night at BrewDog's Australian Craft Beer Hotel
As part of its big Australian expansion plans, the beer brand is also setting up a second Brisbane bar, and launching its first sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
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Five Food Stops to Make on a Road Trip from Canberra to the Coast This Autumn
Let your taste buds lead the way from jam-filled doughnuts to cheeseburger pies.
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One to Watch: A New Multipurpose Cocktail Lab Is Coming to Wollongong
A couple of bartenders are creating a collaborative and experimental space for the industry, plus a fun new place to drink in the Gong.
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These Australian Breweries and Beers Have Just Been Named the Best in the Country for 2021
They topped the competition at this year's Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show Beer Awards.
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Nice Guys Is Victoria Street's New 70s-Inspired Microbrewery and Taproom
It's pouring porters made using whole vanilla pods and mango-tinged NEIPAs in a retrofuturistic space on Victoria Street.
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Four Pillars Has Teamed Up with QT Hotels On a Limited-Edition Coconut, Bamboo and Almond Gin
You'll only be able to drink it at the hotel chain's bars — or you can order a bottle for your liquor cabinet.
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Brunswick Aces Is Set to Be Melbourne's First Non-Alcoholic and Hangover-Free Bar
The new project from booze-free gin producer Brunswick Aces will see teetotallers and the sober curious spoilt for choice.
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We're Giving Away Free Rounds of Espresso Martinis at Ten Much-Loved Melbourne Bars
You'll get $100 to spend at one of the many great bars around town.
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Three Twists on the Classic Margarita You Should Make This Month
Shake things up with these zesty tipples.
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Melbourne Has Scored a New Rooftop Bar and Outdoor Cinema From the Embla Crew
Serving Mediterranean snacks, a hefty wine list and a program of cinematic gems to see you through summer.
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Vegan Mylk, DIY Packs and Chanel-Inspired Glass Bottles: Melbourne's New Wave of Bubble Tea
These boba shops are swapping milk for mylk and single-use plastic for reusable, Instagram-friendly packaging.
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We're Giving Away a Tap Machine So You Can Elevate Your At-Home Bar
Take your house party up a notch with ice-cold shots — without using up precious freezer space.
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Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Announces Huge 2021 Program with Not One, But Three Festivals
Work up an appetite for this expanded program of events, including the inaugural World's Longest Brunch.
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Four Pillars Is Expanding Its Healesville Distillery Via a Huge $6 Million Redevelopment
Set to open in December 2021, the new addition to the company's Yarra Valley site will feature new hospitality, production and bottling facilities, and an events space.
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