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NewsLasagna Del Rey Is Melbourne's New Pasta Service Delivering Vegan and Organic Beef Slices
The teams behind The B.East and Ferdydurke are hiring out-of-work hospo and music staff to help make and deliver generous hunks of lasagne across Melbourne.
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NewsPiccolina Is Now Selling Nutella Ravioli, Cookie Dough and Puddings That You Can Bake at Home
And you can get them delivered to your door.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Releasing a New Bake-at-Home Fairy Bread Cookie Pie
It's topped with more 100s and 1000s than you've probably seen since your childhood birthday parties.
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NewsBritain's Iconic Penguin Chocolate Biscuit Has Landed in Australian Supermarkets
They've been called "the original Tim Tam" — and were invented three decades before the Aussie favourite.
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NewsThe Bagel Bosses at 5 & Dime Have Opened a Pop-Up Shop in Caulfield North
It's selling fan-favourite bagels and famed bacon maple cream cheese, alongside pastries, sourdough loaves and Rosso coffee.
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NewsChik Chak Is the New Vegan-Friendly Israeli Street Food Spot in Ripponlea
Roll in for pita pockets stuffed with spiced cauliflower shawarma and lush vegan shakes.
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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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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Restaurants of 2024
These are the spots you went looking for this year, from stunning beachside restaurants and CBD fine-diners to neighbourhood haunts and hidden Chinatown gems.
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NewsTen of the Best Grown-Up Christmas Treats to Try in Melbourne for 2024
This Christmas in Melbourne, you can take home gelato-filled cakes, eggnog cruffins and decadent trifles, or go out for festive high teas and gingerbread house workshops.
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GuideThe 14 Best Omakase in Melbourne
This multi-course Japanese dining experience has surged in popularity over the past few years — with sushi lovers fighting to get a reservation at the exclusive chef's tables.
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GuideThe 25 Best Japanese Restaurants in Melbourne
These Melbourne diners serve up some of the best sushi, ramen, gyoza, omakase and regional Japanese food in the city.
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GuideMelbourne's Best High Teas for When You Want to Feel a Little Bit Fancy
From art-inspired creations to ultra-decadent chocolate degustations with bottomless sparkling wine, Melbourne's high tea scene is full of contemporary twists.
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NewsThe 21 Best Bottomless Brunches in Melbourne
At Melbourne's top bottomless brunch spots, you can pair free-flowing margaritas, spritzes, natty wines and beers with breakfast buffets, multi-course set menus, pizzas, curries and drag bingo.
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Guide
The 27 Best Private Dining Rooms in Melbourne
These Melbourne private dining rooms can house your intimate birthday celebrations, luxe date nights and epic Christmas parties.
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NewsGelatissimo Is Scooping Up Bubble Tea Gelato Complete with Brown Sugar Tapioca Pearls
Fuel you boba obsession with tubs of this limited-edition gelato.
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NewsFifteen Percent of Melbourne's Hospitality Venues Are Unlikely to Reopen After Lockdown
A recent City of Melbourne survey revealed some concerning data about the hospitality industry.
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NewsFive Truffle Dishes You Can Order via Takeaway and Delivery in Melbourne This Winter
From truffle-topped toasties to truffle-filled pasta and even a truffle soup.
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NewsMerivale Is Bringing Its Ready-to-Eat Delivery Meal Service to Melbourne This Winter
Melburnians will be able to order meals from some of Sydney's best restaurants to their homes — for the very first time.
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NewsGomi Boys Is Melbourne's New Food Service Delivering Ready-to-Heat Ramen Kits
Get all the fixings for a bowl of quality miso tonkotsu or spicy cauliflower tantanmen dropped to your door.
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NewsKFC's New Recipe for Hot and Spicy Mac 'n' Cheese Is Here to Satisfy Your Comfort-Food Cravings
A riff on the carb-heavy classic, topped with hot and spicy chicken.
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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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BarFlour Child Richmond
432 Church Street, Richmond
You’ve had sourdough pizza, US-style slices and dirty Aussie pizzas, but have you tried pinsa romana?
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NewsDeliveroo Is Offering Melburnians 20 Percent Off Meals from Local Restaurants
It's available throughout metropolitan Melbourne from Monday to Thursday — on all orders over $30.
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NewsIced VoVo Gelato Is the Indulgent New Messina Flavour You Can Order by the Tub
It combines toasted coconut gelato with pieces of shortbread biscuit, then tops it with marshmallow, raspberry puree and desiccated coconut.
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NewsTubs of Rainbow Paddle Pop and Bubble O'Bill Ice Cream Have Just Landed in the Freezer Aisle
And Golden Gaytime, too.
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GuideNine 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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NewsProvidoor Is the New Food Service Bringing Some of Melbourne's Best Restaurants to Your Home
Lobster rolls from Supernormal, Tipo 00's famed duck pappardelle or even some beef bourguignon courtesy of Estelle are all at your fingertips.
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NewsKeki Milkbar Is Melbourne CBD's New Cafe Dedicated to Fluffy Soufflé Pancakes
You can get its gravity-defying pancakes and creative sodas delivered to your couch, too.
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EventFree to Feed's Summer Feasts
Mon, 6 Jan - Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Free to Feed Fitzroy North, Fitzroy North
Some of the social enterprise's culinarily-gifted participants are sharing the flavours and stories of their cultures via a pop-up dinner series.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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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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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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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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EventCats & Dogs
Fri, 1 Nov 2024 - Sun, 20 Jul 2025
The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
Featuring 250-plus works, NGV Australia's adorable exhibition agrees that there's no such thing as too many pet pictures.
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NewsGelato Messina Has Released a New Bake-at-Home Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookie Pie
It's peanut butter jelly time.
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NewsKrispy Kreme Is Giving Away an Excessive 350,000 Free Doughnuts
Sweet glazed doughnuts are even better when you don't have to pay for them.
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NewsHeinz Has Released a Recipe for Mayonnaise Ice Cream That Absolutely Nobody Asked For
The condiment company also has recipes for ketchup and barbecue sauce ice cream, if that's more your speed.
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NewsMelbourne Favourite Longrain Is Being Revived by Chef-Restaurateur Scott Pickett
The van Haandel's long-running restaurant will reopen under new ownership later this year.
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NewsThat's Amore Has Opened a Huge Factory Dedicated to Cannoli in Melbourne's North
And it's delivering to most of metropolitan Melbourne.
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NewsPoodle Is Fitzroy's New Two-Storey Bistro and Art Deco Bar Headed Up by a Former Marion Chef
Serving up spanner crab vol-au-vents, prawn cocktails and truffle-loaded spatchcock in a moody space on Gertrude Street.
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NewsNeil Perry Has Retired from the Rockpool Dining Group After 40 Years in the Restaurant Industry
The famed chef and restaurateur is stepping down from his role as culinary director and, instead, focusing on his charity.
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NewsWhy This Lesser-Known Victorian Wine Region Should Be Your Next Weekend Getaway
Sip the nectar of the gods, dine in an old farmhouse and sleep in a castle.
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NewsVictorian Supermarkets Have Reimplemented Limits on a Broader Range of Everyday Items
It's the second set of caps put back in place since the state's COVID-19 cases started increasing.
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NewsTokyo Lamington Is Popping Up at Koko Black Stores Across Sydney and Melbourne for One Day Only
These untraditional lamingtons are usually only found in Singapore and Tokyo, but they're making a brief appearance Down Under this winter.
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NewsSt Kilda's Black Star Pastry Pop-Up Is Reopening — and It's Sticking Around Permanently
The famed patisserie is home to the "world's most Instagrammed cake".
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NewsMaverick Is the CBD's New Cafe with Cocktails and Waffles Inside the 80 Collins Food Precinct
It's the first of many eateries to open in the ritzy CBD development.
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Woolworths Has Reintroduced Limits on Everyday Items Across Its Victorian Stores
The move comes after an increase in COVID-19 cases in six Victorian local government areas, including a spike in community transmission.
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NewsMr Brownie Is Jessi Singh's New Multi-Level Pub, Punjabi-Style Deli and Rooftop Bar in Melbourne
Set to open in early July, the ambitious Indian-British pub is a labyrinth of hidden bars.
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NewsNestle Has Announced It Will Rename Two Classic Lollies in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Both controversial Allen's lollies have names with racist overtones.
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NewsGimlet at Cavendish House Is Andrew McConnell's Elegant New Cocktail Bar and Bistro
Caviar, champagne and truffles aplenty are on the menu at this European bistro inside a 1920s CBD building.
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NewsMenulog Is Now Delivering Dishes from Snoop Dogg's 'From Crook to Cook' Cookbook
Including 'DOGGs in a blanket', 'Bow Wow brownies and ice cream' and, of course, gin and juice.
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NewsYou Can Score $10 Off Your Next Deliveroo Order When You Buy These Booze Brands
Treat yourself to a well-stocked liquor cabinet and you’ll get $10 to spend on your next feed.
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NewsNick & Nora's Is the CBD's Opulent New 30s-Style Cocktail and Champagne Bar from the Eau de Vie Team
After months of delays due to COVID-19, it's finally opening next month with over 400 bottles of champagne and three balconies
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NewsGreen Acre Is Brunswick's New Vegan-Friendly Pizzeria with a Fairy Light-Lit Courtyard
The sourdough slices come topped with the likes of vegan salami, chilli chicken and Nutella.
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NewsNine Melbourne Bars and Restaurants You Can Hire Out for a Private Party with 19 Mates
Celebrate that big occasion with a yum cha feast, a pasta party or tacos and mezcal aplenty.
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NewsFlinders Lane Institution Ezard Has Permanently Closed Its Doors After 20 Years
It's not all bad news, though — acclaimed chef Teage Ezard has new restaurants (yes, plural) in the works.
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NewsGelatissimo Is Now Serving Up Frosted Cinnamon Scroll and Chocolate Fudge Gelato
One comes filled with soft cinnamon scroll pieces, the other is packed with whole chocolate fudge chunks.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Releasing a New Bake-At-Home Cookie Pie with a Gooey Chocolate Centre
It'll feed two-to-six people — or just you.
