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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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GuideThe Ten Best Waterside Bars in Melbourne
Summer calls for spritzes by St Kilda Beach and a few cold ones on the banks of the Yarra.
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GuideHonda ZR-V-Approved: The Honda Team's Favourite Spots
The Honda team's own picks across Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne: the spots they keep going back to and would probably take you to themselves.
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GuideX-Factor Venues Made to Impress Even the Most Jaded Out-of-Towners
Restaurants and bars across Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide worth showing off to the friend you've been trying to talk into moving closer.
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GuideWine Bars with Excellent By-the-Glass Lists to Slowly Work Through
Wine bars across Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide where the by-the-glass list gets treated just as seriously as the bottles on the back shelf.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Coffee in Melbourne for 2026
Whether you're a coffee snob searching for the perfect pour, an over-worked employee needing a quick caffeine hit, or just love to explore Melbourne's cafe scene, these top coffee roasters and brewers ...
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GuideUnconventional Outings to Round Up the Crew for Something Different
Hands-on outings across Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne for the group chat that's already bored of brunch, bar-hopping and the same old dinner booking.
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GuidePubs to Settle Into and See Out a Long and Lazy Sunday Session
Twelve pubs made for a lazy weekend sesh with mates — a beer garden to claim, a few pints to work through, and nowhere else you need to be.
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GuideLate-Night Cocktail Bars Made for Just One More Round Before Ubers
Twelve bars built for the hour when "one more round" turns into three, spanning a Godfather-themed basement, a moon-lit Shanghai den and a bar that distills its own fernet.
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GuideHotel Bars That Even the Locals Should Know About and Frequent
The hotel bars across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane worth seeking out for the drinks alone — no room key or out-of-town postcode required.
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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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BarStokehouse
30 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda
St Kilda's iconic Stokehouse has passed to the golden hands of Andrew McConnell, and big things are coming.
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BarImperial Hotel
2-8 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Soak up the 360-degree views on the new refurbished rooftop of this CBD pub.
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BarFlorentino
80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Littered with Italian murals and quintessentially traditional food, this Italian institution has been pumping since '28.
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BarThe Rochester Hotel
202 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
The Rochey boasts a famous happy hour, specials almost every night of the week, and now a comedy and curry evening.
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BarBar Lourinha
37 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Always bustling and packed to the brim, this little gem offers a trip to Spain sans the passport.
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BarHotel Nacional
23-25 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Hotel Nacional is Hardware Lane's five-storey, totally gluten-free Mexican restaurant and bar.
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BarLe Bar Supper Club
12 North Concourse, Beaumaris
Raise a crystal glass to French food, fancy drinks and burlesque shows in this Beaumaris bar.
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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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Event'Passage: The Art of Atong Atem' at NGV Australia
Fri, 30 Oct 2026 - Mon, 14 Jun 2027
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
From striking self-portraits to celestial stories, the South Sudanese-Australian artist is showcasing her most comprehensive exhibition yet.
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EventDiscoteca Italiana Arrivederci Roma at Melbourne Museum
Fri, 16 Oct, 2026
Melbourne Museum, Carlton
Before this Roman blockbuster closes, it’s getting one final send-off with disco, cocktails, cannoli and after-dark exhibition access.
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EventThe Sunday Reset
Multiple single dates
Hyde Melbourne Place, Melbourne
The Melbourne Apothecary is jazzing up the day of rest with a 12-week wellness series.
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EventCharlotte de Witte at The Wool Store
Fri, 11 Dec, 2026
The Wool Store, West Footscray
The global techno powerhouse is taking over a sprawling industrial Melbourne venue with her trademark high-intensity sound.
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EventThe Teskey Brothers at Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Sat, 17 Oct, 2026
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
The city's annual jazz celebration is hitting all the right notes, beginning with a blockbuster hometown performance from The Teskey Brothers.
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EventHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sat, 18 Sep 2027 and Sun, 19 Sep 2027
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Celebrating 25 years of this adored series, the MSO will perform John Williams' iconic score across three Melbourne nights.
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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.
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NewsAuckland's Booze-Free Bar Went Bust After Five Weeks Because Of Course It Did
"No one showed up."
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NewsThree Easy Ways to Make Warm Mulled Cider
The perfect home-brew recipes for keeping warm this winter.
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NewsThe Everleigh Opens Sexy, Seedy Sister Bar Heartbreaker
The refined cocktail den's unruly, LA-inspired sister has arrived in Chinatown.
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NewsFive Places to Celebrate International Rum Day in Melbourne
From rum-spiked banana milkshakes to cold rum flips, these Melbourne bartenders salute the piratey spirit.
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NewsThis Pop-Up Bar of Dreams Specialises in Breathable Booze
This could only be the work of food artists Bompas and Parr.
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NewsInside PDT's Black Pearl Pop-Up Bar
New York's worst kept secret has opened its Melbourne pop-up, and we drank our way through it.
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GuideTwelve New Bars in Melbourne You Need To Try Right Now
When it comes to buzzworthy new bars, Melbourne's cup runeth over.
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NewsLululemon Is Making Its Own Craft Beer
Warning for yoga geeks: don't throw out your water bottles just yet.
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NewsThree Melbourne Bars To Try On Hemingway's Birthday
Nobody loved a daiquiri more than Ernest Hemingway.
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NewsFive Places to Try on International Daiquiri Day in Melbourne
Raise a toast to the party cocktail invented in a mining town.
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NewsAustralia's Largest Rum Bar Is Finally Making Its Own Rum
It's about time these guys got on the craft rum bandwagon, they already serve over 400 varieties of the stuff.
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NewsThe Everleigh to Open Sexy, Seedy Sister Bar Heartbreaker
The refined cocktail den's unruly, LA-inspired sister is comin' to Chinatown.
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NewsNew York's Famed Secret Cocktail Bar PDT to Pop Up in Australia
If you've heard of the little bar behind the phone booth wall inside the hot dog joint in NYC, this is it.
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NewsThe Simpsons' Official Duff Beer Is Brewing, Brings Up Memories for Australians
Never forget our glorious bootleg version.
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NewsNewly Opened Waterslide Bar Has a Killer Drinks List, But No Waterslide
The classy new cocktail bar with a slightly misleading name.
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NewsCould Juice Pairings Give You a Better Dining Experience Than Wine?
Australia's top restaurants are experimenting with some special non-alcoholic concoctions.
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NewsThis Sydney Craft Gin Distillery Crowdfunded $20,000 in One Day
Demand is already through the roof for Marrickville newcomers Poor Toms Gin.
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NewsKombucha Beer Is on the Way
This healthy bev just became roughly 1000 percent more appealing to most.
