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NewsMelbourne's Home of Fairy Floss Hot Chocolate Has Opened a Camberwell Cafe
Hash Specialty Coffee has launched a second location for its decadent breakfast treats.
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NewsLaneway Greens Has Opened a New Licensed Late-Night Wholefoods Canteen
Unlike its 12-seat Flinders Lane venue, the Richmond restaurant has room for 60 diners and serves up coffee and booze.
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NewsThornbury's Moor's Head Has Opened a Second Middle Eastern Pizza Joint
As well as its much-loved pizzas, the Carlton eatery has added haloumi fries and a Middle Eastern tiramisu to its menu.
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FeatureNew in Town: Mount Erica Hotel
This Prahran pub's dormancy is over — and, thanks to the team behind the Marquis of Lorne, has many more glory years ahead of her.
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NewsFood critic Max Brearley's Top Ten Spots for Gastronomes in Margaret River
Eat your way across one of Australia's premier food and wine regions.
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Gallery: Our 'Four Elements'-Themed Dinner at The Stoneleigh Project
Earth, water, fire and air all combined to create a decadent meal paired with wild fermented wines.
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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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NewsWine Entrepreneur Glen Cassidy's Top Ten Foodie Hot Spots in Sydney
Experience one of the finest dining and drinking scenes on the planet, on the advice of a host with the most.
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NewsThis Tokyo Eatery Just Launched a Ramen Subscription Service
Tokyo residents can now get a bowl of ramen a day for a flat monthly rate.
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NewsEurope Is Getting Its First Underwater Restaurant
Eat seafood under the sea at Norway's marine-set and -themed eatery, Under.
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NewsWickens at Royal Mail Hotel Is Dunkeld's New Fine Dining Restaurant Surrounded by Bush
The menu is centred around produce grown on-site and the floor-to-ceiling windows capture striking views of The Grampians.
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NewsBehind the Cooking of Our 'Four Elements'-Themed Dinner
We asked Project Forty Nine head chef Tim Newitt how he harnessed the elements to create a sensory wine-matched dinner.
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NewsTokyo's Adorable Watermelon Ice Cream Sandwich Has Arrived in Melbourne
Originally created by Dominique Ansel, the dessert is now being served up by Milkcow.
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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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NewsMelbourne's Got a New Vegan Pub — and There's Not a Parma in Sight
Featuring house-made falafel, halva ice cream and sparkling kombucha on tap.
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NewsMelbourne's Waterside Hotel Has Relaunched as a Three-Storey Multi-Space Pub and Rooftop Bar
The historic building now features five separate hospitality spaces, including a Champagne lounge and a craft beer bar.
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NewsAustralia's First Ever Avocado Cafe Is Popping Up in Sydney
The month-long pop-up will have over 20 avocado items on the menu.
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NewsThe Ascot Lot Is Melbourne's Newest Pop-Up Food Truck Park
As well as food trucks on weekends, the Ascot Vale park will have a jaffle stand open seven days a week.
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NewsAll New Gourmet Adventures to Head the Line-Up at Taste of Melbourne 2017
Start planning your way through the four-day extravaganza of food, art and entertainment.
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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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NewsNew App EatClub Offers Last-Minute Discounts at Some of Melbourne's Best Restaurants
It allows restaurants to offer real-time discounts at specifically slow or off-peak periods.
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NewsYou Can Own a Piece of Noma's Luxe Scandinavian Decor
As the top restaurant prepares to move to a new Copenhagen site, it's selling off its existing furniture and tableware.
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NewsRyne Is the New Fitzroy North Fine Diner from Acclaimed Chef Donovan Cooke
The acclaimed chef is offering up a modern riff on classic French flavours.
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NewsMerah Is Northcote's New Home of Malaysian Street Food
Serving up fresh and spicy Malaysian flavours with a few Melbourne twists.
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NewsHawthorn's Piccolina Gelateria Is Opening a New Ice Cream Shop in Collingwood
It will be the gelateria's flagship store with a tiled pozetti bench, an open kitchen and a bar for lingering over ice cream.
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NewsMelbourne's Huge Outdoor Night Noodle Markets Are Back for Another Year
One of Melbourne's biggest Asian food events returns for 18 nights of noodles, dumplings and other delights.
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NewsAmsterdam's Dedicated Avocado Eatery Might Be Expanding to Australia
Featuring avo roses on toast, avo poke bowls, avo ice cream and avo daiquiris.
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NewsLello Pasta Bar Is Melbourne's New All-Day Mediterranean Eatery
Now serving up Italian breakfasts, early morning cocktails and eight types of regional-influenced pastas.
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GuideMelbourne's Least Awkward Spots for a First Date
Because first dates are nail-biting enough without the added challenge of picking a good place.
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GuideWhere to Become Human Again in Melbourne After a Big Night Out
Some of Melbourne's best places to turn your hangover around.
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NewsWe're Giving You the Chance to Win a $150 Voucher to Spend at The Recreation
Just nine little questions stand between you and Fitzroy North's latest wine bar, bottle shop and bistro comfort food.
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GuideWhere to Eat Burgers in Melbourne when Mondayitis Hits Hard
Melbourne’s best and most cheerful restaurants for a burg and a brew when you need it most.
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GuideWhere to Eat Solo When You Just Need Some You Time
Just because you're hermitting that doesn't mean you have to eat every meal at home.
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GuideWhere to Eat in the City When You Want to Feel Like the Boss
Places that are ideal for smart lunches with big groups of friends or colleagues.
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NewsSaigon Sally's Thai Successor BKK Is Set to Open in Windsor This Week
The Vietnamese venue has been reimagined as a serious Thai restaurant.
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GuideMelbourne's Best Retro Spots for When You're Feeling Nostalgic
The question isn't just where to go, it's which era to spend time in.
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NewsJerry Mai's High-End Traditional Vietnamese Restaurant Is Finally Opening
Forget cheap banh mi — think tuna tataki with cumquat, salted caramel fried ice cream and gin cocktails.
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Guide
Where to Go When a Big Bowl of Pasta Is the Only Thing That Will Make You Feel Better
For when only carbs can make things right.
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GuideMelbourne's Most Impressive Spots for When You Finally Meet the Parents
Respectable restaurants that'll set the tone and put you in their good books.
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NewsMork Is Hosting a Series of Four-Course Chocolate Dessert Degustations
The experimental feasts will take place each Friday in October.
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NewsCarlton North Favourite Green Park Reopens as Italian-Focused Eatery Park Street
The Nicholson Street favourite has undergone a refresh, gaining a new open kitchen, and serving up a range of a cicchetti and handmade pastas.
