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NewsGeorge Calombaris' Made Establishment Group Has Gone Into Voluntary Administration
Twelve of the group's restaurants — including the newly opened Crofter and Elektra — have immediately closed their doors.
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NewsGogyo Is Fitzroy's New Japanese Joint Serving Up Standout Bowls of Burnt Miso Ramen
The charred ramen is smoky, sweet and intense — and unlike any ramen we've had in Melbourne.
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NewsThis 'Friends'-Themed Brunch Will Be There for You with Bottomless Booze and a Big-Screen Viewing Party
It'll feature 'Friends' trivia, 'Friends'-themed charades and a 'Friends' costume competition, too.
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NewsUS Bakery Chain Cinnabon Is About to Open Its Second Aussie Store in Brisbane
Brisbane will soon be the home of two stick scroll outlets when a new one opens in Westfield Garden City.
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NewsBetty's Burgers Is Bringing Back Its Indulgent (But Affordable) Lobster Roll for a Limited Time
Last time the rolls sold out in under a week.
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FeatureHow to Eat and Drink Your Way Around California's Sonoma County
Centuries-old wineries, award-winning restaurants and a dedication to keeping things local and sustainable — Sonoma County is the very antithesis of pretentious and glittery wine country.
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GuideThe Best Mexican Restaurants in Melbourne
Head to these spots for seriously good tacos, rare mezcals and many, many margaritas.
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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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GuideAll the New Melbourne Restaurant and Bar Openings to Try This Summer 2026
Melbourne’s newest restaurants and bars are setting the tone for summer 2026 — from rooftop spritzes to laneway wine bars, here’s where to eat and drink next.
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NewsTen Road Trip-Worthy Restaurants You Should Visit in Victoria
Life is short, so it's imperative that once in a while you plan a road-trip to sample some of regional Victoria's exceptional food.
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GuideThe 25 Best Restaurants in Melbourne for 2025
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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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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NewsWhere to Find the Best Ice Cream and Gelato in Melbourne
Whether you like your scoops creamy, salty, vegan or sandwiched, you can find them in our guide.
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GuideThe Best Private Dining Rooms in Melbourne
These private dining rooms have you got you covered from private bartenders to suckling pigs, martini trolleys to luxurious sashimi platters.
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GuideThe 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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GuideThe Best Bakeries in Melbourne
Crusty sourdough loaves, flaky croissants, shiopans and shokupans, cookies and doughnuts, bagels and ficelles, pies and pasties, and everything in between.
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FeatureThe Localist: Western Suburbs
In recent years, few areas have had such an intense transformation as Melbourne’s western suburbs.
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NewsCafe Lafayette Is the CBD's New Neon-Lit Spot Serving OTT Japanese-Inspired Brunches
The new cafe from the team behind Prahran's Grand Lafayette is now serving up bolognese-topped panko-crumbed eggplant and eel hot dogs on Niagara Lane.
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NewsThe World's Best Female Chef Clare Smyth Is Opening a Restaurant in Sydney
Smyth runs a two Michelin star-restaurant in London and cooked at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding.
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GuideTen Stunning Restaurants and Bars That Are Located in Melbourne's Most Historic Buildings
You can have brunch in a 150-year-old heritage-listed mansion, drink gin in a former red light district cottage and eat pasta in what was one of Melbourne's first synagogues.
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NewsAn All-Pink Pretzel Shop Has Opened Its Colourful Doors in South Yarra
The soft and salty baked-to-order pretzels are on offer till 2.30am on weekends.
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NewsSingapore's Michelin-Starred Hawker Chan Will Open Two More Melbourne Outposts
The Box Hill restaurants will feature new menu items alongside the legendary soya chicken and char siu pork.
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RestaurantLune Croissanterie
Situated beneath the Ritz Carlton at 670 Lonsdale Street, the mega store marks Melbourne's second production site.
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RestaurantTres a Cinco
3-5 Hosier Lane, Melbourne
The vibrant menu showcases classic dishes cooked with love and care, and packed full of flavour.
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RestaurantMamasita
1/11 Collins Street, Melbourne
The always-evolving menu spans snack plates and taqueria plates, tacos to generous sharing mains, all anchored by an enviable selection of margaritas and cocktails.
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RestaurantCoupette
90 Queens Bridge Street, Southbank
As a hotel venue, it moves seamlessly from morning coffee to late-night cocktails, and is well-suited to everything from a quick snack to a celebratory meal.
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RestaurantPinto Tiramisu
106 Leicester Street, Fitzroy
While the classic tiramisu variety is a menu staple, other flavours that change with the seasons may include strawberry matcha, gingerbread, or chocolate hazelnut.
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RestaurantFrankie's Tortas and Tacos
30 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
With some of the rarest and highest-quality tequilas and mezcals on offer, Frankie’s has even launched an agave club to help educate and showcase premium agave spirits.
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RestaurantBar Yarra
234 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Perfect for a post-work pop-in, Bar Yarra's boasts an impressive happy hour from 5 to 7pm, and even hosts DJs spinning nostalgic vinyls for Throwback Thursdays.
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RestaurantSantito
174 Smith Street, Collingwood
While the smell of fresh tortillas and spit-roasted meats may be familiar, Santito brings a refreshed energy and new direction to the Smith Street site.
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RestaurantGimlet at Cavendish House
33 Russell Street, Melbourne
Andrew McConnell's elegant cocktail bar and European bistro serves up caviar, champagne and truffles aplenty.
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RestaurantCleo, Hyde Melbourne Place
130 Russell Street, Melbourne
The rooftop drinking and dining destination welcomes Eastern Mediterranean flavours and old-world cooking techniques.
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NewsMary's Is Melbourne's Debaucherous New Burger Joint Hidden Down a CBD Laneway
Look for the red light and head inside for cracking burgers — for vegans and carnivores alike.
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NewsCrofter Dining Room & Bar Is Lygon Street's New Home of British-Style Meals and Bar Snacks
Pope Joan's Matt Wilkinson has taken over the old Hellenic Republic space with a menu featuring potato gems, salads and ham off the bone.
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NewsFrankie's Tortas & Tacos Is Collingwood's New Mexican Lunch Spot in a Tiny Car Park Kiosk
Complete with plastic chairs, paper plates and just six (very good) menu items.
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NewsSydney Burger Favourite Mary's Is Opening Its First Permanent Melbourne Venue Next Week
The 140-seat laneway restaurant will have a primo wine list and cracking burgers for vegans and carnivores alike.
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GuideEight Group Hangs to Plan with Your Mates This Summer That Aren't Just Going to Dinner
Round up your crew for bottomless barbecue, boozy brunches and beach parties.
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GuideMelbourne's Best New Restaurants of 2019
These are the places that you need to try — or revisit — as soon as you can.
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EventFebruary at Peninsula Hot Springs
Tue, 27 Jan - Fri, 27 Feb 2026
Peninsula Hot Springs, Fingal
Soak up summer while it lasts with midweek two-for-one bathing, Lunar New Year festivities and romantic Valentine's escapes.
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EventSt Kilda Festival 2026
Sat, 14 Feb - Sun, 15 Feb 2026
St Kilda Foreshore, St Kilda
This beloved summer staple is back, serving up another edition loaded with exceptional local music talent and feel-good community vibes.
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EventDewberry Roller-Rama by The Body Shop at Queensbridge Square
Fri, 13 Feb - Sun, 15 Feb 2026
Queensbridge Square, Southbank
The fragrance of the 90s is officially back, so celebrate with a free, nostalgic roller rink experience happening over Valentine's Day weekend.
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EventRoyal Stacks 10th Birthday Celebration
Multiple single dates
Royal Stacks, Melbourne
Throwing it back to 2016, this Melbourne-born burger spot is celebrating a decade of mouthwatering takeaway with free burgers and OG prices.
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EventLaunch Weekend at Upstate Oakleigh
Sat, 28 Feb - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
Upstate Oakleigh, Oakleigh
Get in a high-energy workout in the southeast, as this rapidly growing brand of Pilates studios launches its latest wellness destination in Oakleigh.
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EventAfrica Film Festival Australia
Fri, 27 Mar - Sun, 29 Mar 2026
Cinema Nova, Carlton
Carlton's Cinema Nova will host three days of award-winning African films.
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EventJackalope Cinema 2026
Sun, 1 Mar - Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Jackalope Hotel Mornington Peninsula, Merricks North
Make your Mornington Peninsula stay even more picture-perfect, with this month-long open-air cinema program.
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EventUNO Social Club at Hotel Esplanade
Mon, 2 Feb - Mon, 2 Mar 2026
Hotel Esplanade, Saint Kilda
Combine nostalgia and nightlife, as this card game experience transforms this much-loved Melbourne pub into an UNO-themed escape.
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Event15th Birthday BBQ Summer Series at Toorak Cellars
Sun, 1 Feb - Sun, 15 Mar 2026
Toorak Cellars, Armadale
No ordinary backyard barbecue, this seven-week birthday celebration sees top Melbourne chefs team up to showcase their masterful skills with the tongs.
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EventRooftop Pickleball at Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street
Wed, 21 Jan - Sat, 28 Feb 2026
Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street, Melbourne
Level up your pickleball skills in style, as this CBD hotel brings back its sunny rooftop court for the tennis season.
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FeatureThe Localist: Bayside
Bayside residents may enjoy the vast blue waters of Port Phillip Bay — but there are a lot of gems on land, too.
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NewsThese 300 Australian Restaurants Are Offering Half-Price Meals for Five Weeks
The Fork Festival wants to lure you out of the house for a cheap meal this summer.
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NewsThis Melbourne Building Has Been Turned Into an OTT Two-Storey Panda Hot Pot Restaurant
The former Dracula's site is now home to an international sichuan hot pot chain.
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News
US Bakery Chain Cinnabon Has Opened Its First Aussie Store in Brisbane
And a second sticky scroll outpost is due to launch early next year.
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NewsTaco Bell Is Opening Its Second Victorian Store in Hawthorn
It's the Tex-Mex giant's second Melbourne opening in the space of a week.
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NewsAcre Eatery and Its 2000-Square-Metre Urban Farm Are Now Open on a Shopping Centre Rooftop
It's growing over 70 different plant varieties, many of which you'll see on the menu at the adjoining restaurant.
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NewsFrom the Collective Is Melbourne's New Beer Garden and Bottle Shop Celebrating Regional Victoria
Here, you can pair Texan barbecue-flavoured ales with some of the state's best cheese in a former scrapyard warehouse
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NewsWelcome to Brunswick Is the Inner North's New Fairy Light-Lit Food Truck Park and Beer Garden
Come 2020, the new venture from the Welcome to Thornbury team will also have its own on-site brewery.
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NewsPiccolina Has Released a New Nutella Gelato-Stuffed Panettone Just in Time for Christmas
Or you can order the vanilla version, which comes slathered in white chocolate.
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NewsMuch-Loved Sydney Restaurant Nomad Is Set to Open Its First Melbourne Outpost Next Year
The Sydney favourite is joining the restaurant ranks in Flinders Lane.
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NewsGami Is Giving Away Its New Extra-Spicy Fried Chicken at All Its Aussie Stores Today
The limited-edition fried chicken comes doused in mala — a hot and numbing chilli sauce.
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NewsGelatissimo Has Released a Trio of Nostalgic Aussie Flavours for Summer
Kick it old-school with flavours like Weet-Bix, chocolate crackle and fairy bread
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NewsElevate Your Sunday Brunch Party With These Five Quick Fixes
Win at hosting your own brunch at home, without ever having to let go of your cocktail.
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NewsTaco Bell Is Opening Its First Victorian Store in South Yarra This December
After seven Queensland openings, the Tex-Mex giant is finally bringing its tacos and frozen margaritas south.
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GuideMelbourne's Best New Cafes of 2019
Start your day at one of our favourite newcomers — there are spots dedicated to crumpets, traditional Japanese breakfasts and famous Korean sandwiches.
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NewsLygon Street's Hellenic Republic Will Become Crofter Dining Room & Bar in the New Year
Pope Joan chef Matt Wilkinson will be taking over the venue, giving it a new name and British-Australian menu.
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NewsMelbourne Food & Wine Festival Has Just Dropped Its Jam-Packed Ten-Day 2020 Program
Hot chip parties, lunch with Alison Roman and a nostalgic exhibition dedicated to 'The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book' are all on the menu.
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NewsFive Dinner Party Hacks For The Next Time You're Playing Host
From sparkling welcome drinks to tactile table cloths, here are five ways to elevate your hosting game.
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NewsSydney's Black Star Pastry Has Brought the "World's Most Instagrammed Cake" to Melbourne
The patisserie is serving up its famed Strawberry Watermelon Cake at a new pop-up shop in St Kilda.
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GuideHealthy(ish) Brunch Dishes to Make You Feel Human Again After a Night Out
From Middle Eastern and Sri Lankan-inspired breakfasts to the classic eggs benny, here’s how to kick the hangover with a filling and relatively healthy feed.
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NewsKrispy Kreme Is Giving Away 4000 Free Doughnuts
Get festive with sweet — and free — glazed doughnuts.
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NewsPinchy's Now Has a Permanent Home for Its Lobster Rolls and Champagne in Melbourne's CBD
The popular pop-up now has a permanent bright pink space with a sunny terrace overlooking Bourke Street.
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News
US Bakery Chain Cinnabon Is Opening Its First Aussie Store in Brisbane Next Month
The first sticky scroll outpost will open before the year is out.
