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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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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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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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GuideWhere 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.
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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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NewsGontran Cherrier Has Expanded His Baked Goods Empire to Hawthorn
Serving up old favourites and three new savoury danishes.
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NewsWhite Mojo Are Bringing Their Signature Croissant Burgers and More to Melbourne's East
Featuring Wagyu beef sliders, a toast bar and those incredible croissant burger hybrids.
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NewsSeven Spots That Do Actually Good All-You-Can-Eat Food in Melbourne
From all the sushi you can handle and bottomless yum cha, right through to endless plates of vegetarian food for just $7.95.
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NewsA Guide to Wellington's Food and Drink Scene
Omnivores, look no further for your next holiday destination.
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NewsMeet OUT, Tokyo's Australian-Run Restaurant Showcasing One Dish, One Wine and One Artist
One of the city's most interesting dining experiences actually comes from Melbourne.
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NewsHomi Noodle Bar Is Melbourne's New Home of Hip Hop-Infused Vietnamese Fare
Real, honest Vietnamese cuisine mixed with a few modern, Melbourne influences.
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EventBaker's Dozen
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Federation Square, Melbourne
Melbourne's most-loved bakers and pastry icons are coming together for a huge pop-up bake shop at Fed Square.
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EventMoon Dog Bus and Beer Crawl
Sat, 22 Mar, 2025
Moon Dog World, Preston
Sample every brewery under the Moon Dog name on this intra-city adventure, which is travelling from Preston to Footscray for beers, bites and mechanical bull rides.
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EventMoomba Festival
Thu, 6 Mar - Mon, 10 Mar 2025
Yarra River, Melbourne
Viral stars are taking over Fed Square, human-powered gliders will defy physics and 1300 performers are set to enliven the streets across five days of fun.
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EventWindsor Wine Room x St Hugo
Mon, 10 Mar - Sun, 23 Mar 2025
Windsor Wine Room, Windsor
Fine, Barossa red wine and fresh pasta pairings, just in time for autumn.
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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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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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NewsTokosan Is Prahran's New Home of Late-Night Katsu, Cocktails and Karaoke
Greville Street's Toko has gone more casual in its new incarnation as a Japanese-inspired bar.
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NewsEdible Chocolate Maps Turn Your Favourite City Into Dessert
To ensure that each map accurately reflects each location's landscape, they're made by local artisans.
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NewsBiggie Smalls' Windsor Kebab Joint to Open This Month
Chapel Street's kebab stakes have officially been raised.
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NewsThe Moon Is Collingwood's Newest Wine Bar and Bottle Shop
It's the latest venue from the team behind Toorak Wine Cellars and Milton Wine Shop.
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NewsShortstop Are Celebrating Their Birthday By Giving Away Hundreds of Free Donuts
Best birthday ever.
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NewsBurnley Brewing Is Bridge Road's Soon-to-Open 150-Seat Brewpub
The just-brewed beer will be served alongside late-night pulled pork lasagne and gnocchi.
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NewsItaly's Huge Food Theme Park Will Open In November
Featuring more than 40 places to eat, over 100 stalls and shops, and a dedicated parmesan cheese bar.
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NewsThe Cheese Riot Is Australia's New Hard-to-Find Cheese Delivery Service
After travelling the country, cheese enthusiast Anna Perejma is sending her best finds to households all over Australia.
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NewsMr Burger Is Opening a New Concept Store in Melbourne's Southeast
They're got a new store, a new head chef, and some new menu offerings too.
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NewsTaste of Melbourne Unveils Program Highlights (and a New Venue) For 2017
The four-day festival will return with a marketplace, masterclasses, gin workshops and an after-dark party.
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NewsAustralia Is Getting a New Gluten Free Meal Delivery Service
Delivering coeliac-friendly food right to your doorstep.
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NewsMeet The Cliveden, East Melbourne's Huge New All-Day Eatery and Bar
Featuring five unique buffet menus and a 116-seat designer lounge area.
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NewsMelbourne Steak Sandwich Champions Empire Steak to Open Second Sanga Shop
They'll launch their South Yarra outpost in the best way — with free steak sangas.
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NewsDessert Queen Christy Tania Opens Glacé, Her First Permanent Store
The ex-Om Nom maestro opens her first permanent venue, serving up artisanal ice cream, ice cream push pops and ice cream macarons.
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NewsFive Foods to Pair with Beer as It Ages
It's a pretty decadent process — as flavours deepen and grow bolder, look to richer eats.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Making VHS Cakes for Father's Day
It's like a chocolate Negroni in gelato cake form.
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NewsMelbourne Is Now Home to Tel Aviv's Cult Pita Eatery Miznon
Famed Israeli street food chef Eyal Shani chats about the Melbourne launch.
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NewsNew App MealPal Gives You $8 Lunches from Melbourne Restaurants
A lunchtime project from the co-founder of ClassPass.
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NewsThis Food Film Series Reimagines Cooking Tutorials in the Style of Famous Directors
How would Quentin Tarantino make pasta, or Wes Anderson make s'mores?
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NewsBrooklyn Depot Has Given Their American-Themed Menu a Massive Makeover
Now serving lobster mac and cheese, cheeseburger empanadas, and chicken and waffles.
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GuideWhere to Eat American Barbecue in Melbourne
Where to get your fix of some down-home USA cookin'.
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NewsMr Miyagi Is Launching a New Takeaway Offshoot
The Karate Kid-inspired favourite expands its casual Japanese empire.
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NewsMeet Melbourne's New Artisan Sweet Spot, Atypic Chocolate
See chocolate bars and pastries made before your eyes, then eat them.
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NewsWindsor's Saigon Sally to Close and Reopen as Thai Restaurant BKK
It's the latest restaurant to flick the restaurant rebrand wrist.
