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NewsMore Cocktails Please: Australia's Best 100 Bartenders for 2022 Have Been Revealed
Can't decide where to enjoy your next sip? Get one of these top-notch bartenders to mix you up a beverage.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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NewsA Fire Has Forced Pt Leo Estate to Close Its Doors Until Further Notice
The Mornington Peninsula winery has confirmed no-one was injured in the blaze, but that its restaurants, cellar door and sculpture park will remain shut until further notice.
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NewsStarward's Super-Popular Ginger Beer Barrel Whisky Is Back to Warm Up Your Winter
The seventh release from the Melbourne distillery's ginger-focused program is available to buy now — if you're quick.
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NewsFour Pillars' Bloody Great Bloody Shiraz Gin Is Here for 2022 — with Bloody Shiraz Gin Chocolate
Pair this year's version of the cult-favourite drop with a Bloody Shiraz Gin fruit and nut chocolate bar made from leftover grape skins.
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NewsWorld-Renowned Bar The Everleigh Is Celebrating Its Tenth Birthday with Two Months of Festivities
And the fun kicks off with a very big bang — a one-night bar takeover by famed NYC cocktail haunt Attaboy.
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NewsMelbourne'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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GuideThe 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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GuideThe 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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GuideSeven 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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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 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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GuideThe 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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GuideThe 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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GuideThe 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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GuideMelbourne 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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NewsAward-Winning Gin Distillery Naught Has Opened a Sultry New Cocktail Destination in Eltham
Next door to the distillery, this elegant drinking den is whipping up classic-leaning sips — and clever reworkings — using Naught's three acclaimed gins.
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GuideCP Picks: Here's How Our Editors Are Celebrating American Express delicious. Month Out in Melbourne
Follow us to these incredible food and drink events happening in Melbourne this May.
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NewsDocklands Brewery Urban Alley Is Opening a $5 Million Brewpub and Distillery in Melbourne's East
Launching this week, the 750-capacity venue will showcase signature brews alongside Dasher + Fisher gin, contemporary pub fare and a stacked entertainment program.
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NewsJetstar Is Celebrating Its 18th Birthday with a Range of Hard Seltzers Based on Popular Destinations
The Melbourne seltzer tastes like a "deconstructed cafe latte", the Gold Coast version features fairy floss and sea salt flavours, and the Queenstown tipple includes mulled wine and cloves.
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NewsThe Continental Sorrento and Its Many Venues Are Now Open for Seaside Good Times
The 150-year-old limestone beauty now features a slew of venues, including a public bar, beer garden, speakeasy and fine diner — all with eats by Scott Pickett.
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NewsGABS Is Touring Its 2022 Craft Beer, Cider and Food Festival Around the East Coast This May
This year's fest will serve up 120 brews — including beers inspired by breakfast foods, savoury snacks, desserts and cocktails.
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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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BarThe 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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RestaurantSkinny 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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BarEnoteca 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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RestaurantYugen 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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RestaurantHuTong Dumpling Bar
14-16 Market Lane, Melbourne
This long-running CBD spot dishes up fuss-free, Shanghainese food.
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NewsNow Open: Four Pillars Has Just Relaunched Its Healesville Distillery After a $7 Million Revamp
The beloved distillery's Healesville base is now home to 1000 square metres of new space, including an indoor/outdoor gin garden and a soon-to-open tuckshop.
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NewsAll the First-Rate Food and Drink Stops to Make When You're in Upstate New York
Let your tastebuds lead you outside the city limits to sample farm-to-table fine dining, fresh seasonal produce and boundary-pushing craft brews.
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NewsHubert Estate Is the Yarra Valley's Ambitious New Destination Winery
The former site of St Huberts has been transformed, and now boasts a modern Australian restaurant, new-look cellar door, art gallery, event space and boutique wine store.
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NewsVictoria's Bridge Road Brewers Is Opening a Pop-Up Bar Made Entirely Out of Cardboard
Everything inside the zero-impact venue has been constructed from materials that are either recycled or can be reused or composted.
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NewsIndie Spirits Tasting Is Bringing Its Boozy Sipping Parties Back to the East Coast
Spend an afternoon sampling more than 200 gins, whiskys, rums, vodkas and tequilas — and vermouths, mezcals and more — at this spirits fest dedicated to independent producers.
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NewsThe Little Beer Brand That Could: Young Henrys Celebrates Ten Years With (What Else) a Beer
No business plan? No problem. The craft beer innovators celebrate ten years of Newtowners, collaborations and local love.
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EventPalace Cinemas' $8 Movie Weekend
Saturday, June 29 - Sunday, June 30, 2024
Palace Cinemas Melbourne, Melbourne
This cinema chain is treating cinephiles to two days of super-cheap tickets, including sessions of 'Furiosa', 'A Quiet Place: Day One' and 'Inside Out 2'.
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EventThe 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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EventHorizon — 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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EventScandinavian 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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EventDisaronno 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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EventBastille 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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EventQueen 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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EventThe 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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EventBuilders Arms Hotel Sausage Festival
Friday, June 21 - Sunday, June 30, 2024
Builders Arms Hotel, Fitzroy
Snag some not-so-classic bangers at this week-long sausage fest.
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EventFamiglia Affairs Mid-Winter Festival
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Co-conspirators Brewpub, Brunswick
Taste limited-edition winter beers from nine Victorian breweries at this one-day event.
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NewsSeven Weekend Activities to Try If You Want to Shake Up Your Usual Routine
Stuck doing the same old? Add some flavour to your schedule with these fun activity swaps.
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NewsFour Pillars Has Just Added a Yuzu Gin to Its Range — So There's Another Bottle for Your Shrine
After dabbling with yuzu before, the Australian distillery has created a standalone new tipple — and it's made with yuzu grown up the road from its Healesville base.
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NewsFirst Look: Barlow Is the Luxe Speakeasy Tucked Within the New-Look Continental Sorrento
Sorrento's chic new resident is serving clever cocktails, late-night snacks by Scott Pickett, and a sumptuous live entertainment program that trips from comedy to jazz.
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NewsDan Murphy's Has Just Opened Its First Bar in Melbourne — and It Doesn't Serve Alcohol
Pouring booze-free beverages until the end of June, the Hampton spot boasts more than 30 drinks on its menu — and over 200 zero-alcohol options to take home.
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NewsTable Wines and Park Pét-Nats: Here's What Concrete Playground's Editors Are Drinking Right Now
Looking for the ideal sip? Here at CP, we drink a lot of grape juice — so whether you like your wine clean and crisp or fun and funky, this list is a good place to start.
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NewsMelbourne's New Greenery-Filled Floating Bar Yarra Botanica Is Launching This Week
The lush two-storey pontoon venue is officially docking March 16, championing local ingredients and an all-Victorian drinks offering.
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NewsFunghi e Tartufo Is Melbourne's New All-Vegan Italian Restaurant in Hardware Lane
This CBD newcomer is dishing up a top-notch, plant-based take on Italian fare, from bolognese arancini to creamy carbonara.
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NewsPinot Palooza Is Hitting Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane for a Huge Tenth Anniversary Comeback Tour This Year
Two-and-a-half years since the famed wine tasting festival's last edition, it's returning for a slew of pinot parties in Australia and New Zealand.
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NewsAll-Day Italian-Inspired Eatery Luci Has Opened in Melbourne's New Hilton Hotel
Serving breakfast crab benedict through to steak and duck at dinner, this dapper diner is aptly named after the Roman leader and famous gourmet Lucias Lucullus.
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NewsYou Can Now Get Another Round of DIY Gelato Messina Cocktails in Easter Eggs Delivered to Your Door
Cocktail Porter will deliver everything you need to whip up salted caramel cocktails inside Easter eggs — or espresso martinis inside Lindt bunnies.
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NewsChris Lucas' Highly-Anticipated Italian Restaurant Grill Americano Will Open This Month at 101 Collins Street
Launching March 21, the Lucas Group's new bar and grill will be serving flame-cooked Northern Italian flavours, enveloped with a sense of modern elegance.
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NewsThis Aussie Distillery's Hot Cross Bun-Inspired Rum Is Essential Easter Sipping
The Grove's new limited-edition release tastes like a hot cross bun in a glass — and it's available to preorder now in time for your Easter celebrations.
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NewsA Former St Kilda Church Hall Is Being Reborn as a Pub and Food Truck Park
The iconic corner site will soon be home to a 300-person bar and beer garden, complete with beautifully restored interiors and a slew of food vendors on rotation.
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NewsA Guide to St Kilda to Take You From Sunrise to Sunset
Unlock endless summer vibes with a day spent in one of Melbourne's most vibrant bayside suburbs.
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NewsFirst Look: Sorrento's Continental Hotel Will Unveil Part of Its Multimillion-Dollar Revamp This Month
The six-level makeover includes a swag of new hospitality spaces helmed by Scott Pickett and Craig Shearer — ranging from a casual coastal beer garden to a seafood-driven fine diner.
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NewsA Garden Party-Inspired Rooftop Bar Is the Crowning Glory of the Newly Launched HER Building
Venture up for punchy Thai snacks and summery cocktails, paired with sweeping city views.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Four $2000 Airbnb Vouchers for Your Next Epic Weekend Away
Wherever you choose to go, your next weekend away is on us.
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FeatureRaise the Bar: How to Enjoy Vodka At Home and Out and About Right Now
For a clear liquid, there's a lot more to vodka than meets the eye.
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NewsUntitled Is the New Modern Euro Bar and Restaurant From the Ugly Duckling Crew
Roll into Swan Street's new 100-seater for Euro-leaning wines and fare by a former Young Chef of the Year.
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NewsFour Foolproof Tropical Cocktails to Try at Your Next Summer Soiree
These delicious and fuss-free pours will quench your thirst all summer long.
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NewsPink Lemonade Is Richmond's Effervescent New Outdoor Bar and Food Truck Stop
This former Swan Street car park has swapped concrete for palm trees, vibrant wall art, boozy slushies and US smokehouse fare.
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NewsThe Arbory Crew's New Multi-Level HER Building Has Opened, Featuring Four Venues in One
The ambitious Lonsdale Street project boasts a 'listening bar', smoky Thai canteen, French-inspired all-day cocktail joint and a buzzy rooftop.
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NewsBKK Is the Smoky Thai Barbecue Canteen Headlining HER's Food Offering
The neon-doused third-floor eatery is dishing up flame-cooked skewers, punchy laab variations and curries aplenty, to enjoy alongside interesting wines and tropical cocktails.
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NewsAward-Winning Brewery Kaiju Is Opening Its First Brewpub in Huntingdale Next Week
Housed in a converted warehouse, the beer hall boasts 16 taps, hand-stretched pizzas and a stack of colourful wall art.
