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NewsKrispy Kreme Has Started Serving 'Pokemon'-Themed Doughnuts and You'll Want to Eat 'Em All
A different Pokémon doughnut will drop every fortnight, including Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Poké Ball varieties.
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NewsSmith & Daughters Is Set to Be Reborn as a Huge Vegan Hub in Collingwood
The 500-square-metre site is set to open its doors in November and will boast a Euro-style deli, food store, cafeteria and restaurant.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Now Doing Home Delivery to Select Parts of Sydney and Melbourne
Don't live near one of the dessert chain's stores? It's bringing the sweet treats to you.
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NewsLindt Has Released a New Chocolate Koala to Help Raise Funds for the Australian Koala Foundation
The brand is donating $1 from each chocolate koala sold to the foundation's work to ensure the Aussie marsupial's survival.
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NewsAllen's Has Released a New Lolly-Filled Version of AWW's Beloved Birthday Cake Book
Indulge your sweet tooth and find inspiration for your next at-home baking project.
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NewsLockdown-Born Kravin Korean Is Melbourne's Newest At-Home Korean Barbecue Experience
Featuring ready-to-grill ingredients, homemade sauces, equipment and tunes to help you recreate the magic of KBBQ at home.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Pizza in Melbourne for 2025
From giant pepperoni-topped slices to vegan rounds, these Melbourne pizza joints have you covered.
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GuideThe 16 Best Seafood Restaurants in Melbourne
Here's where to find Melbourne's best seafood — across fine-diners, messy crab shacks, local neighbourhood eateries and lavish omakase haunts.
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NewsThe Best Things to Eat, See and Do to Celebrate Lunar New Year in Melbourne
Themed high teas, street parties, limited-edition cakes, karaoke, banquets and huge giveaways — now that's how you welcome in the Year of the Snake in Melbourne.
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GuideThe 25 Best Chinese Restaurants in Melbourne for 2025
From Chinatown institutions and neighbourhood haunts to CBD fine-diners and contemporary Asian-fusion eateries, here are our top picks for when you have a hankering for some top Chinese cuisine.
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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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GuideThe 50 Best Restaurants in the Melbourne CBD for 2025
Whether you're after fine-diners or cheap eats, you're truly spoilt for choice when looking for places to eat in Melbourne's CBD.
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NewsGame, Set, Feast: Here's Everything You'll Be Eating and Drinking at the 2025 Australian Open
Some of Melbourne's best chefs are serving up ace eats at the 2025 Australian Open, plus a couple big booze brands have set up huge pop-up bars.
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GuideThe 22 Best Italian Restaurants in Melbourne
Melbourne's greatest Italian restaurants don't simply stick to the pizza and pasta game. These spots serve up all kinds of regional dishes that'll blow your carb-loving mind.
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GuideThe 14 Best French Restaurants in Melbourne Right Now
Live out your Parisian dreams with escargot, caviar, steak frites and lobster thermidor at these exceptional French diners in Melbourne.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Cafes of 2024
Here's where you've been getting your breakfast, brunch, lunch and caffeine fixes during 2024.
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NewsLocal Burger Guru Goldieboy Is Slinging DIY Double Cheeseburger Kits to Make at Home
His signature creations feature Martin's potato rolls, brisket-chuck patties and a top-secret adobo kewpie sauce.
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NewsThe Latest Plan for Sorrento's Continental Hotel Includes a Sunset Roof and Dining Led by Scott Pickett
There'll be everything from casual pub fare to degustation dining served across its bars, restaurants and function spaces — and the first phase is set to open by February.
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News
Messina Is Turning Andy Bowdy's Peanut Butter Banana Split Into a Decadent Cookie Pie
The Sydney pastry chef's peanut butter and banana sundaes are the stuff of legend — and now they're being reinvented.
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NewsEvery Food and Drink Idea to Spoil the Dad in Your Life This Father's Day
You might need to get a little more creative than usual this year.
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NewsLocal Bakery Beurre Is Serving Up a New Line of Cheerful Post-Vax Celebration Cakes
Reward your mates for a 'jab' well done and order one of these colourful, smile-inducing sweet treats.
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NewsThe Keys Is a New All-In-One Beer Garden, Arcade and Bowling Alley Opening This Summer
Get set for 12 maple timber bowling lanes, three bars and a beer garden with capacity for 450 punters.
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RestaurantAstoria Bar Kè Grill
302 Toorak Road, South Yarra
This Toorak Road terrace house is now home to a fab Greek restaurant.
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RestaurantAmatrice Rooftop Restaurant
16 Stephenson Street, Cremorne
Zip away to Italy in the back streets of Cremorne, with aperitivo sips and specialty pasta 10 stories above the ground.
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RestaurantD.O.C Osteria
326 Lygon Street, Carlton
20 years on, this Lygon Street stalwart is still one of the city's top Italian restaurants.
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RestaurantReine & La Rue
380 Collins Street, Melbourne
The NOMAD team has taken French fine-dining to the next level in Melbourne.
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BarRuckers Hill
83 High Street, Northcote
This French-accented wine bar and bistro stands out among the crowd on Northcote's High Street.
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RestaurantChiki Chan & Hiki Bar
6 Centreway, Mordialloc
Chiki Chan is serving up playful Asian-fusion fare in Mordialloc — plus plenty of creative cocktails in its adjoining Hiki Bar.
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RestaurantIl Mercato Centrale Melbourne
546 Collins Street, Melbourne
Melbourne's Il Mercato Centrale is serving up pizza, pasta, calamari fritti, gelato, cannoli, cocktails, wine and so much more — to have in or take away.
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BarCircl Wine House
22 Punch Lane, Melbourne
Circl is making it so much easier to try rare wines with over 150 drops offered by the glass.
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RestaurantElio's Place
238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Elio's Place is serving up breakfast, lunch, aperitivo snacks and late-night dinners every day of the week in the CBD.
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NewsThe Ten Local Cookbooks From Top Melbourne Chefs You Need to Level-Up Your Kitchen Game
Let Guy Grossi teach you the art of pasta-making, or learn the secrets to creating smash-hit vegan dishes from Shannon Martinez.
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NewsTop Local Chefs Ask Aussies to "Put a Jab on the Menu" in This New Hospitality Ad Campaign
Matt Moran, Neil Perry, Danielle Alvarez and Shannon Martinez all feature, stressing how tough the pandemic has been for the hospitality industry.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Turning Three of Its Favourite Desserts Into Chocolate Bars for Father's Day
Treat your dad to a three-pack of cone-ception, Messinatella hazelnut and neapolitan chocolate blocks and bars.
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GuideSeven 'Treat Yourself' Meals to Get Delivered If You're Celebrating a Special Occasion in Lockdown
Don't let lockdown stop you from marking another year of life or love.
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NewsAnchovy's Lockdown Pop-Up Banh Mi Window Is Getting a Permanent Space
The rotating menu of contemporary banh mi has proved such a hit, it'll be sticking around for good.
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NewsResidents of Last Year's Locked Down Public Housing Towers Have Created a Free Cookbook
'Cooking, Recovery and Connections' features 18 recipes from residents impacted by the lockdown of Victoria's nine public housing towers in 2020.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 31 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 32 films from 15 countries at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventIce Cream Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Various locations around Victoria, Melbourne
12 days. 144 flavours. Three venues. Many a brain freeze.
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EventThe Chinatown Precinct's Lunar New Year Block Party
Sun, 2 Feb, 2025
Chinatown Melbourne, Melbourne
Ring in the Year of the Snake with food stalls, local restaurant dining deals, cultural performances, a dragon parade, blessings, live music, a kids' area (with face-painting and craft classes) and a ...
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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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NewsThe Everleigh and Congress Wine Are Hosting a Fancy Sausage Sizzle This Weekend
Drop by for venison snags, negroni doughnuts and bottled cocktails to-go.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Pairing Super-Sticky Bake-at-Home Caramel Scrolls with Cheesecake Gelato Tubs
This time, the gelato chain is pairing two sweet treats into a lockdown snack pack.
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NewsThese Melbourne Eateries Are Offering Takeaway and Pick-Up Options to Help You Eat Well at Home
Restaurants are back to takeaway and delivery services only.
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NewsKrispy Kreme Has Just Released a Limited-Edition Range of Doughnut-Inspired Dog Biscuits
Dubbed 'doggie doughnuts' and available in the lead up to International Dog Day, they come in six flavours — including original glazed and choc sprinkles.
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GuideTen Next-Level Takeaway Desserts to Try When You Need Something to Perk You Up
When it hasn't been your day, your week, your month or even your year, these sugary treats will be there for you.
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NewsThis Mr Yum Directory Lists All the Takeaway Options Within a Five-Kilometre Radius of You
Taking the hassle out of your pre-dinner menu surfing.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Filling Its Next Indulgent Choc Chip Cookie Pie with Waffle Cone Spread
For its next OTT dessert, the gelato chain is combining milk and dark choc chips, caramel custard and waffle cone spread in one cookie pie.
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FeatureGuinness Winter Guide: Melbourne
Heat things up this winter with visits to these great Melbourne pubs, or try your hand at a warming winter recipe.
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NewsRobata Is the Fiery New Japanese Grill Restaurant From the San Telmo Crew
Expect charcoal-grilled yakitori skewers and reworked classic cocktails in a neon-dressed space, plucked from the streetscapes of Tokyo.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal Has Teamed Up with Grill'd to Create Two New Vegetarian Burgers
They're made using mushroom-based meat Fable — and only 4000 of the limited-edition Heston Fable Burgers are available across Australia.
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NewsThe Queen Victoria Winter Night Market Has Been Cancelled for the Second Year in a Row
The popular event has again been canned due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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NewsOriental Teahouse Has Just Revealed Its Spicy New Dumpling and Dating Game
Bond over dumplings, drinks and dating questions.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Releasing a Golden Gaytime-Inspired Version of Its Super-Fancy Viennetta
Two beloved desserts combine in Messina's latest limited-edition special.
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NewsThe Newest 400 Gradi Has Rolled Into Mornington With a Restaurant, Bar, Gelateria and Delicatessen
Head coastward for award-winning pizzas, seafood specials and some very snazzy cocktails.
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NewsWe're Giving Away an Overnight Stay for You and a Mate (or Date) in South Melbourne
Want to win a staycation complete with dinner, drinks and a cocktail masterclass?
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NewsCadbury's New Caramilk Ice Creams Have Just Landed in the Freezer Aisle
You can now tuck into the cult-favourite caramelised white chocolate thanks to Cadbury and Peters' new ice creams on sticks.
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News1800 Lasagne Is Offering Limited-Edition Lube and Lasagne Lockdown Packs This Weekend
1800 Lasagne and local brand Figr have teamed up to create the ultimate stay-at-home care package with love, lasagne and lube.
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NewsSeven Highly Entertaining Stories Behind Some of Australia's Most Loved Dishes and Drinks
Explore the history of everything from the much-loved Four'n Twenty pie to the dark colonialist past of bahn mi.
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NewsPizza Hut Is Giving Away Up to 285,000 Free Pizzas During This Year's Olympics
The fast food chain is handing out 5000 pizzas for the opening and closing ceremonies, another 1000 daily during the games, and between 200–1000 more each time an Australian wins a medal.
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NewsMessina Is Bringing Back 40 of Its Greatest Gelato Hits in Take-Home Tubs
Fingers crossed that Jon Snow, Robert Brownie Jnr and Fairy Bread all make a comeback.
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NewsYou Can Now Turn Any Piece of Bread Into Dessert Thanks to This Vegan Cinnamon Donut Spread
Made from cashews, peanuts, cinnamon and coconut, it's dairy free and gluten free, too.
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NewsPasta Poetry is Fairfield's New One-Stop Pasta Shop with Hand-Rolled Ox Cheek Cappelletti
Slinging a range of expertly crafted pasta varieties, sauces and extras to help you reach new pasta night heights.
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NewsWhisky-Infused Cobbler Is the Next OTT Dessert You Can Treat Your Tastebuds to During Lockdown
Fireball Whisky has teamed up with Sunday in Potts Point on the limited-edition rhubarb, pear and blood orange cobbler, which will only be available for two weeks — or you can make it at home.
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NewsSan Churro's Indulgent New Dessert Snack Packs Pair Churros with Apple Pies and S'mores
It has also launched a new range of hot chocolate bombs that come filled with marshmallows, mini Oreos and Milo.
