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NewsTake a Look Inside Melbourne's New Four-Storey CBD Pub
Meet the Garden State Hotel, your new go-to CBD hangout.
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NewsHop Nation Brewing to Open a Brand New Brewpub in Footscray
The local winemakers-turned-brewers have found a permanent home.
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NewsA New Two-Storey Gourmet Food Hall and Arts Space Is Coming to Preston Market
The Preston Fresh Hood Market will have street food, street art, a bar and a band room.
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NewsFive Classic Bourbon Cocktails (and Where to Get Them in Melbourne)
From Don Draper's favourite to a drink named after a 1920s Parisian magazine.
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GuideThe Best Bars in Melbourne with Beer Gardens and Boozy Courtyards
Save cosy pub corners for the depths of winter — it's time to drink a brew out in the open at these fab Melbourne beer gardens.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Bars of 2024
Sprawling breweries, neighbourhood pubs, CBD cocktail spots and cosy wine bars — they’ve all grabbed your attention so far this year.
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NewsEight Melbourne Parks Fit For a BYO Booze Picnic (and Where to Pick Up Snacks Beforehand)
Head to the park for a boozy picnic with the finest snacks you can find along the way.
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GuideThe Best Brewery Bars in Melbourne for 2024
Sip chilled pints just metres from away where the beer was was brewed at these much-loved taprooms.
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GuideMelbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Undeniably, Unabashedly Romantic
Low lighting, jazz playlists, opulent cocktails — these top Melbourne date spots will help you to start planning the perfect Valentine's Day.
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GuideThe 22 Best Pubs in Melbourne
Looking for a new local? This list of classic Melbourne boozers and more contemporary gastropubs will suit all beer and parma enthusiasts.
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GuideThe 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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GuideThe 20 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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GuideThe 35 Best Bars in Melbourne Right Now
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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GuideThe 60 Best Rooftop Bars in Melbourne Right Now
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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NewsThis Personal Brewery Lets You Make Beer in Your Own Home
So goodbye to your mate's bathtub homebrew
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NewsBaron Samedi Is Hosting a Tonne of Winter Rum Pop-Ups
Rum will come together with live music at venues across Melbourne and Sydney.
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BarHotel Mexico
238 Whitehall Street, Yarraville
Hotel Mexico is Yarraville's huge group hang spot that's made for margarita-fuelled sessions.
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BarBendigo Hotel Collingwood
125 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Collingwood's legendary live music pub The Bendigo Hotel is back in action thanks to The Mill Brewery Crew.
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BarPunters Club
376 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Millennials and Gen Zs might lament the loss of Kewpie, but Gen X music lovers will rejoice in seeing this old boozer return to Brunswick Street.
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CafeMork Chocolate Looking Glass
13 Centre Place, Melbourne
The site is showcasing the team's unconventional chocolate bars, elaborate drinking chocolates that never made it onto the menu, chocolate cocktail pairings and creative desserts.
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BarWindsor Wine Room
60 Chapel Street, Windsor
Keep it classic with a rosé matched with burrata and oysters, or get a bit more playful by pairing a natty number with jerusalem artichoke and hazelnut gnocchi.
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BarChampagne 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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BarGreenhart 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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RestaurantHotel 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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BarMoon 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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NewsThe Bitters Lab Is Fitzroy's New Dedicated One-Stop Bitters Shop
Take your drink-mixing skills to the next level.
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NewsThe Best, Weirdest and Most Controversial New Australian Craft Beers to Try in 2016
Beers made with peanut brittle, pork broth and belly button yeast.
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NewsA Brief History of the Negroni
Who invented the Negroni? And why is it so popular all of a sudden?
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NewsThe Ten Best Bars for a Negroni in Melbourne
Warm up with that perfect blend of gin, bitters and vermouth.
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NewsSeven Ridiculously Great Twists on a Negroni
Negroni marshmellows to Negroni ice cream sandwiches.
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EventThe Jungle Giants (DJ Set) at Canadian Club's Australian Open Party
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Canadian Club Racquet Club, Melbourne
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EventMelbourne Marriott Docklands Rooftop Infinity Pool Pass
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Melbourne Marriott Hotel Docklands, Docklands
Spend your summer days sipping spritzes and paddling around this rooftop infinity pool.
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EventBaby's Summer of Spritz
Thu, 28 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
Baby Pizza, Richmond
Baby's summertime happy hour deal includes a bunch of $9.50 spritzes, $6.5 Peroni Rossas and a $7.50 house wine.
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EventUnderground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto
Sun, 17 Nov 2024 - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick
This is the first time the archive has been exhibited outside of Europe.
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EventChristmas Eve Community Day at Studley Park Boathouse
Tue, 24 Dec, 2024
Studley Park Boathouse, Kew
Bring the family to the river for a day of music, crafting and Christmas fun.
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EventNGV Friday Nights: Yayoi Kusama
Fri, 20 Dec 2024 - Fri, 18 Apr 2025
NGV International, Melbourne
The NGV's big Yayoi Kusama exhibition is hosting after-hours parties so you can spend Friday evenings surrounded by dots and pumpkins.
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EventRenegades Cricket Derby
Sun, 12 Jan, 2025
Marvel Stadium, Docklands
Let the sparks fly as the Renegades Derby sees the Big Bash League reach fever pitch.
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EventDouble Shot Maggie: Irish Live Music
Sat, 7 Dec 2024 - Sat, 4 Jan 2025
The Quiet Man Irish Pub, Kensington
A night full of singing, dancing, and laughing is in store at The Quiet Man Irish Pub
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EventStars Melbourne Derby
Sat, 4 Jan, 2025
Melbourne Cricket Ground, Richmond
Experience the Stars Derby as the city’s most zealous cricket fans cheer their team to victory.
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EventThe Other Art Fair
Thu, 30 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
The Timber Yard, Port Melbourne
Showcasing works from emerging contemporary artists, alongside live tattooing, immersive installations and cocktails, this art fair does things a little differently.
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NewsThe Old Little Creatures Dining Hall Space Will Be Reborn as Fitzroy Social
You can't keep a good craft beer bar down.
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NewsNoisy Ritual Is Opening Melbourne's First Ever Urban Winery
The people-powered winery has a permanent home in Brunswick East.
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GuideThe Ten Best Events to Drink at During Good Beer Week 2016
Ten straight days of workshops, samplings and potential liver damage.
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NewsThe Ten Best BYO Restaurants in Melbourne
Offset the damage to your wallet on your next night out.
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NewsThis New App Helps You Find the Cheapest Booze in Town
The result of a beer-goggled brain explosion, because of course it was.
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NewsMarket Lane Have Opened a Brand New CBD Coffee Shop on Collins Street
And, true to form, it's as aesthetically pleasing as ever.
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NewsSt Kilda's George Hotel to be Reborn as Freddie Wimpoles
Featuring New York deli-style food and a rotating lineup of craft beers.
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NewsStomping Ground Brewing Co. Is Collingwood's New Craft Brewery
From the heroes behind The Local Taphouse and GABS Beer Festival.
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NewsDZ Deathrays Have Released Their Own Beer
They've teamed up with Young Henrys to make 'Pils 'n' Thrills'.
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NewsMeet Capital Brewing, Canberra's New Craft Brewery
Australia's capital is joining the craft party.
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NewsTen Awesome Cellar Doors Worth Visiting in NSW
Some you'll need to road trip to, others are walkable.
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NewsMeet Tripod Coffee, Australia's New Sustainable Pod Startup Taking on Nespresso
Run by two former Aussie cricketers. Really.
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This Australian Spirit Has Been Named the World's Best Rum
You might be surprised to find out who the distiller is.
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NewsThe 2016 Good Beer Week Program Has Been Revealed
Ten straight days of workshops, samplings and liver damage.
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NewsThe Rewriters: How Ramblin' Rascal Tavern's Charlie Lehmann Chose Bar Life Over Politics
Meet the bartender who threw in the corporate towel to open one of Sydney’s most beloved watering holes.
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NewsToorak Has a Brand New Wine Bar
505 Wine Bar has all the essentials: wine, wine-matched snacks and a solid happy hour.
