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NewsHere's Everything You'll Be Eating and Drinking at Melbourne CBD's New Il Mercato Centrale
Melbourne's Il Mercato Centrale is finally open, now serving up pizza, pasta, calamari fritti, gelato, cannoli, cocktails, wine and so much more.
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GuideMelbourne's Best Restaurants Where You Can Dine at the Bar
Take a seat up front, whether you're dining solo or finally having that long-delayed catch-up.
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NewsNow Open: Mukka's Third Restaurant Is Championing Traditional Multi-Regional Indian Eats in Carnegie
Good Old Mukka is serving up street food snacks, curries, dosas, biryani, thalis and Indian-inspired cocktails.
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NewsIt's Official: CBD Steakhouse The Gidley Is Serving Up Australia's Best Burger
Ranked ninth in the world, no other Australian burger made it onto the annual Best Burgers list compiled by the World’s 101 Best Steak Restaurants panel.
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GuideAll of the New Melbourne Restaurant and Bar Openings That You Need to Add to Your Must-Visit List in 2024
Discover your next favourite dish or drink at one of these fresh Melbourne haunts.
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NewsGoing Alternative in the Coffee Capital: Which Oat Dealers in Melbourne are Right For You, Based on Desired Vibes
Level up your daily caffeine consumption with a visit to these cracking venues across Melbourne.
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GuideThe 14 Best Omakase in Melbourne or 2025
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 18 Best Indian Restaurants in Melbourne for 2025
Explore these Indian restaurants' menus with countless regional dishes — or just order a butter chicken and be done with it.
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GuideThe 40 Best Restaurants for Group Bookings in Melbourne
These spots are large (and rowdy) enough to host all your mates for dinner.
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GuideThe 25 Best Cafes in Melbourne for 2025
How does your favourite Melbourne cafe stack up against these brunch-filled, coffee-slinging, bloody mary-pouring haunts?
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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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GuideThe 51 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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NewsWhere to Find the Upper Crust: The Nation's Best Pies Have Been Revealed
As well as declaring Australia's best meat pie for 2024, the annual awards also gave out gongs for best sausage roll, best apple pie and more.
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GuideThe Best Greek Restaurants in Melbourne
Down some Mythos beers, share a heap of mezes and maybe smash a few plates at these Greek restaurants in Melbourne.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Pasta in Melbourne
Undo the top button of your pants and tuck your napkin into your shirt — it's pasta time at these beloved Italian restaurants in Melbourne.
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NewsOwn the Grand Final Weekend with a Booking at These Venues Across Melbourne
From kickoff to the final siren, stretch out your AFL Grand Final weekend with some of these banger bookings.
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NewsNow Open: The Punters Club Promises to Keep the Party Going at Fitzroy's Legendary Kewpie Site
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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NewsFirst Look: Fill Your Nights with Karaoke, Sake Martinis and Street Food-Style Sushi at Tombo Den
Chapel Street snags itself yet another new restaurant and bar, this time from legendary restauranteur Chris Lucas.
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RestaurantSt David Dairy
16-18 Saint David Street, Fitzroy
This Fitzroy establishment scales dairy back to its roots.
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RestaurantIshizuka
139 Bourke Street, Melbourne
This hidden CBD restaurant specialises in kaiseki — effortlessly serving up decadent (but seemingly simple) 11-course feeds to those looking to truly treat themselves.
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BarKolkata Cricket Club
Crown Melbourne, Southbank
Mischa Tropp's sports bar and restaurant at Crown Melbourne takes punters back to a bygone-era in India.
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BarOmnia Bistro & Bar
625 Chapel Street, South Yarra
The menu is stacked with contemporary takes on European classics — but you could simply drop by for the dry-aged roasted duck and a bottle of wine and be very happy.
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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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NewsCannoleria and American Doughnut Kitchen Are Joining Forces to Make Hot Jam Doughnut-Inspired Cannoli
This hot jam doughnut and cannolo mash-up is only available for two weeks, including the AFL Grand Final weekend.
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NewsQVM Is Teaming Up with the Melbourne Fringe Festival for Its Five-Week Spring Night Market Series
This spring, you can pair your night market meals with outlandish Fringe performances.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Lunch in Melbourne's CBD
Melbourne CBD's top lunch spots include everything from sky-high fine diners and sleek wine bars to cheap eats haunts and takeaway joints.
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NewsNow Open: Flour Child Is Bringing Its Pinsa Romana and Over 10,000 Bottles of Booze to Richmond's Church Street
You’ve had sourdough pizza, US-style slices and dirty Aussie pizzas, but have you tried pinsa romana?
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GuideThe 23 Best Sunday Roasts in Melbourne
Warm up on a weekend with juicy roast meats and plenty of gravy at these old-school Melbourne pubs and neighbourhood restaurants.
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NewsFirst Look: Contemporary Latin Dining Is Getting a New Home in Morena Melbourne's Restaurant and Barra
Food at the Morena Melbourne venues is set to be more experimental than that found at their Sydney sibling.
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EventFesta Del Pomodoro at Mister Bianco
Tue, 18 Mar and Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Mister Bianco, Kew
Celebrate the art of sugo-making with a three-course meal and cooking demo at this Italian restaurant in Kew.
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EventLightscape Melbourne
Fri, 20 Jun - Sun, 10 Aug 2025
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - Melbourne Gardens, South Yarra
Another winter, another lit-up garden display, with this after-dark festival getting Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne a-glowing.
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EventAustralian International Documentary Conference
Sun, 2 Mar - Wed, 5 Mar 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
Must-see Oscar-nominees 'Black Box Diaries' and 'Sugarcane' lead the lineup at this celebration of factual filmmaking.
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EventNew Order: Australian Tour 2025
Sat, 8 Mar, 2025
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
After their 2020 tour was cut short due to the pandemic, these music icons are returning Down Under.
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EventGet Up and Glow
Sat, 8 Mar, 2025
Bossley Bar & Restaurant, Melbourne
Get your Saturday started in the best way with a yoga class, brekkie and beauty products — all for free.
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EventMelbourne International Flower and Garden Show
Wed, 26 Mar - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Carlton Gardens, Carlton
This five-day flower and garden fest features landscaping inspiration, workshops for plant lovers, art exhibitions and a special after-dark experience.
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EventBBQs of the World
Sun, 30 Mar, 2025
Dandenong Market, Dandenong
Discover what makes barbecue the oldest cuisine in the world, complete with sumptuous bites from West Africa to Brazil.
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EventThat's Amore Cheese Ricotta Festival
Sun, 30 Mar, 2025
That's Amore Cheese, Thomastown
For one day only, the Thomastown lot will be filled with food stalls, bars, and a stage hosting cooking masterclasses and live music performances.
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EventTesselaar KaBloom Festival of Flowers
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
Tesselaar Tulip Farm, Silvan
Give your autumn a blooming boost with this floral event, featuring flower displays, acrobats, food trucks and, for the first time, a soaring ferris wheel.
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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Fri, 22 Aug - Sun, 24 Aug 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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NewsThe Best Places to Take Your Dad This Father's Day in Melbourne
Here are the best spots to visit on Father's Day in Melbourne, from yum cha lunches and luxe dinners to whisky tastings and a huge barbecue and beer festival.
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GuideThe 21 Best Restaurants in Melbourne for 2024
From high-flying fine-diners in the CBD to tried-and-true neighbourhood haunts — these are the Melbourne restaurants we'd recommend to a friend (you, dear reader).
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NewsNow Open: Hawthorn's Joli Is Gunning to Make Coconut Jelly Desserts the New Sweet Trend in Melbourne
Will coconut jellies be the next hot thing in Melbourne's dessert scene?
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NewsThe Team Behind QVM's Hawker 88 Night Market Is Throwing a Two-Day Celebration of Southeast Asian Culture
This weekend-long food and culture festival will have hawker-style food from over ten different Southeast Asian countries.
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NewsThe Best Advice Ever: Alejandro Saravia on Redefining Australian Cuisine, Opening Morena Melbourne and Always Having a Plan
Ahead of opening Morena Melbourne in September, we sat down with Saravia to talk about his growing restaurant empire and how the hospo industry needs to become more professional.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Fried Chicken in Melbourne
Fried chicken is basically a food group in itself — and at these ten top chook spots in Melbourne, you can have it with waffles for breakfast, in a burger for lunch, or sticky and sweet for dinner.
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NewsGet Your Pasta Fix, Stat: D.O.C's Flagship Lygon Street Restaurant Is Closing for Renovations
The team is overhauling the indoor and outdoor dining spaces, and hopes to reopen D.O.C Espresso at the end of October 2024.
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NewsNow Open: Elio's Place Is Serving Up Breakfast, Lunch, Aperitivo Snacks and Late-Night Dinners Every Day of the Week
The new CBD venue seamlessly transitions from day to night — serving up scrambled pancakes for breakfast, steak for lunch and all kinds of Euro-inspired bites for dinner.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Ramen in Melbourne
From tsukemen to black tonkotsu, these are ten of our favourite porky (and vegan) bowls of ramen noodles around the city.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Bagels in Melbourne
Find your favourite doughy ring of goodness at these top bagelries.
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NewsWhere to Find Melbourne's Best Curry Laksa
Send laksa love to our favourite Malaysian restaurants serving up the finest curry laksa across Melbourne.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Breakfast in Melbourne
These 24 Melbourne cafes, delis and bakeries serve up decadent brunch fare, greasy egg and bacon buns, sweet and savoury pastries and just about anything you can add a poached egg to.
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NewsComing Soon: Korean Dessert Shop Bingsoo Is Bringing Its Famed Shaved Ice Treats to Melbourne's CBD
The team is giving away free Korean corn dogs and gilgeori thick toast sandwiches on its opening day.
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NewsGelato Giant Piccolina and Yarraville Stalwart Rocco's Deli Have Teamed Up to Create a Decadent Gelato Sandwich for Father's Day
Either pick up these gelato sandwiches from Piccolina stores, or head over to Rocco's Deli to pair your dessert with meatball subs and antipasto platters.
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NewsComing Soon: Andrew McConnell Is Opening a New Restaurant in Melbourne's CBD in Late 2025
Andrew McConnell is setting up shop in the former Becco site on Crossley Street.
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NewsLune Is Serving Up Lolly Bag-Inspired Cruffins in August — and Bringing Back Its Bechamel-Filled Lasagne Pastries
The world-famous bakery's latest specials also include coconut pandan croissants and hazelnut puddings — only for a month.
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GuideThe 11 Best Cafes for Working or Studying in Melbourne
Pull up a stool and get working (with a coffee in hand) at these laptop-friendly cafes around Melbourne.
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NewsComing Soon: Melbourne CBD's Three-Storey Italian Market and Food Hall Il Mercato Centrale Is Finally Opening This September
After years of waiting for its arrival, the highly ambitious Il Mercato Centrale is finally opening on the west end of Melbourne's CBD in September 2024.
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NewsComing Soon: Tombo Den Is Chris Lucas' New Home for Sake-Fuelled Karaoke Parties and Japanese Street Food Feasts
This new two-storey Japanese restaurant and sake bar is inspired by Lucas' time living and working in Tokyo in the 90s.
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NewsComing Soon: The Team Behind Terror Twilight, Convoy and Tinker Is Opening a New Cafe and Wine Bar in Westgarth
While Yolk's other venues focus on eggy brunch bites, Ophelia is leaning more into Euro-inspired lunchtime dishes that you can pair with a cheeky vino.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Steak in Melbourne
You don't win friends with salad. But you will fall in love with the steaks at these Melbourne restaurants.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Hot Pot in Melbourne
Counter the city's chill with these piping hot hot pot spots in Melbourne.
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NewsNow Open: Hawthorn's Historic 300-Seat Pub The Beehive Is Back After Undergoing a Massive Revamp
We're buzzed to see this big old pub get the love it deserves.
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NewsNow Open: Chapel Street's Suzie Q Is Pairing Underground 80s Disco Energy with Contemporary Chinese Eats and Karaoke
This new Chapel Street restaurant is inspired by Chinese diners of the 1980s, but is firmly rooted in the present.
