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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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NewsThis 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.
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GuideThe Best Bars in Melbourne with Beer Gardens and Boozy Courtyards for 2025
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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GuideThe 15 Best Sports Bars and Pubs in Melbourne for 2025
These Melbourne bars and pubs play local and international sporting matches live and loud throughout the week — from AFL, NRL and cricket to soccer, tennis, boxing and basketball.
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GuideSavour the Seasons: Where to Enjoy New Zealand's Most Exquisite Eats
No matter the time of year, there's something exciting to discover (and taste) year-round.
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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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NewsMick Fanning Is Opening His Own Australian Brewery
The surfing legend will apparently even be pulling beers at the bar.
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NewsThe Old Pentridge Prison Is Being Transformed Into a Microbrewery and Pub
Have a drink in the clink.
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NewsMeet Jerome Borazio's New Footscray Bar, Back Alley Sally's
The westside bar from the folks behind Sister Bella and St Jeromes - The Hotel.
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NewsNew York's Hidden Cocktail Bar Attaboy Is Popping Up in Sydney and Melbourne
The Lower East Side bar makes it Down Under for two nights only.
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NewsRockwell and Sons Open Bar Liberty
This new wine bar looks set to be your new fave Fitzroy spot.
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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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NewsWin a Trip to Sydney as a VIP Guest of Monkey Shoulder's Chinese New Year Whisky Pop-Up
The perfect whisky for the Year of the Monkey.
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NewsDistillery Botanica Is Australia's New 'Garden Grown' Gin
From the brains behind Mr Black cold drip coffee liqueur.
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GuideBest of Melbourne 2015: Our Favourite New Bars
Our bars conquered wine, whisky and everything in-between this year.
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EventLe Bon Ton's Superbowl Party
Mon, 10 Feb, 2025
Le Bon Ton, Collingwood
Pair your Superbowl watching with hot wings, waffles and chicken, and Budweiser beers.
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EventGalentine's Day at Pincho Disco
Thu, 13 Feb, 2025
Pincho Disco, Collingwood
Gather your gals, gays and theys together for a big Latin American feast the day before Valentine's Day
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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NewsThese Beer-Loving Broads Are Paving the Way for Australian Women in Brewing
Two Birds Brewing and Pink Boots Society. Learn the names.
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NewsThe Rose Hotel Is Getting a New Upstairs Wine Bar
They'll be temporarily shutting up shop for summer renovations.
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NewsPoor Toms Is Giving You the Chance to Turn Your Sins Into Gin
All you need to do is confess to the holy spirit.
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GuideThe Best Bars in the Melbourne CBD
Perfect for after work drinks or a Saturday night on the town.
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NewsMeet Australia's First Social Enterprise Beer Company, The Good Beer Co.
Half the profits from their maiden brew will be used to protect the Great Barrier Reef.
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NewsThese 26 Melbourne Bars Are Teaming Up To Help Young Migrants Find Work
The more you drink, the more people you help.
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NewsScore a Half Dozen Hand-Bottled Wines and an Invite to Noisy Ritual's Bottling Party
Win six bottles of the only vino that's made up the road in Brunswick.
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NewsDeep-Blue Ink Gin Might Be the Best Looking Spirit Yet
This Australian spirit changes colour as you mix it.
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NewsFour Pillars Gin Distillery Is Throwing a Huge, Gin-Soaked Opening Weekend
Gin lovers, head to Healesville for tastings, masterclasses, tours, food trucks and more.
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NewsMinor Figures Bring Their Award-Winning Cold Brew Coffee Poppers Back Home to Australia
Ethically sourced, ready-to-drink, long-life cold coffee. Brilliant.
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NewsExpert Suggests That Dogs Should Be Allowed at the Pub
Take your four-legged friend on a walk to your local.
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NewsTen Craft Beer Tinnies to Try at Your Spring Shindig
If it's the best tasting beers you're after, look to cans.
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NewsAndrew McConnell Is Opening a New Fitzroy Wine Bar
Meet Marion, Fitzroy's newest (but not the only) vino-loving resident.
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NewsThe Ten Best Craft Beers from Around the World
Meet the Danish genius who added French press coffee to oatmeal stout and started a phenomenon.
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NewsThe New App That Hooks You Up with Free Bottles of Wine
Dine out and claim your delicious reward.
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NewsMeet One of Australia's Oldest Wine-Growing Families
Hugh Hamilton Wines know how to get the most out of McLaren Vale's diverse soils.
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NewsThis Clever New Wine Service Delivers by the Glass
Taste weird, rare and expensive wines in actually affordable vials.
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NewsThis Melbourne Bar Is Serving Espresso Martinis on Tap
Swap your morning coffee for one of these.
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NewsBrisbane Festival's Breathable Gin and Tonic Room Isn't Everyone's Cup of Tea
Fear and Delight features alcohol you can literally inhale.
