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NewsA Mulled Wine and Hot Cheese Festival Is Coming to Melbourne
A combination guaranteed to warm your cockles.
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NewsIf You Are the One Host Meng Fei Is Opening a Noodle Restaurant in Melbourne
We only hope his noodles are as spicy as his insults.
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NewsAndrew McConnell's Supernormal Canteen Will Rise Again in St Kilda
The reincarnation of the legendary test kitchen is coming back for good.
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NewsTerror Twilight Is Collingwood's New Health-Conscious Cafe
Bedford St's fried chicken has been replaced with nutritious bowls and 'upgraded' coffee from the Wide Open Road team.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Luxe Foodie Holidays in Melbourne, Hobart and the Barossa Valley
Two nights of luxury accommodation followed by all the delicious food, drink and scenery you can handle.
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NewsThe Queen Victoria Market's Winter Night Market Returns for 2017
It will bring back the cosy situation of fondue, hot cider and open fires.
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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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NewsMeet Heartbreaker's New Internal Pizza Joint, Connie's Pizza
The CBD cocktail bar is now serving late-night pizzas alongside your 1am Negroni.
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NewsA Guide to Eating and Drinking in New Zealand's Bay of Islands
From a farmers' markets to a boutique vineyard and the oldest licensed restaurant in the country, here's where to refuel on your Northland adventure.
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NewsA Dedicated Marshmallow Cafe Is Opening in Chicago
Serving up bourbon, Kahlua and champagne marshmallows, taco s'mores and toasted marshmallow lattes.
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NewsA Look Inside Chris Lucas' New Three-Storey Japanese Restaurant Kisume
There will be a restaurant, a sushi bar, a 12-seat omakase table and a wine wall across three floors.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Being Transformed Into Twin Peaks' Double R Diner
Sydney and Melbourne, get ready for cherry pie and free Twin Peaks-themed gelato.
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NewsNeptune Is Windsor's Ambitious New Two-Level Wine Bar
The folks behind Hanoi Hannah and Pastuso have teamed up for an all-encompassing venue.
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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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NewsHana Is Melbourne's New Raw Seafood and Cocktail Bar Inspired by the Roads of Hawaii
There will be piña coladas, lobster and (the now-requisite) poke bowls.
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NewsGelato Messina's Handmade Gelato Bon Bons Are Back for Mother's Day
Do NOT eat these handpainted gems before you give them to your Mum.
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NewsMelbourne Cronut Champions Rustica to Open Hawthorn Cafe
Serving up tried-and-true Rustica favourites alongside a handful of exclusive additions.
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NewsA Look Inside Messina's Gelato Appreciation Class
Try desserts that aren't on the menu, taste every gelato flavour in the case, and hear insider titbits.
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NewsDecadent Soft Serve Joint Milkcow Has Opened a Second Melbourne Store
Candy-topped soft serves and milkshakes have landed in St Collins Lane.
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NewsThe Everyday Coffee Team Has Launched a Northcote Bakery
Pick up a Czech honey cake or Spanish spiral pastry right across from Northcote Town Hall.
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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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NewsMeet Tacocat, Melbourne's New Oddball Fusion Taqueria
Not related to the Seattle grunge band, Tacocat is dishing up roasted grasshopper tacos and deep fried tequila shots.
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NewsOzHarvest Has Opened Australia's First Food Scrap Supermarket
All produce is rescued from restaurants and businesses, and shoppers can pay what they like.
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NewsHow Good Cooks Become Great Chefs with Papi Chulo's Catalina Fuentes
Want to run your own kitchen? You need more than a couple of cookbooks under your belt to break the big time.
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NewsFrankston Burger Joint Southside Social to Open Inner City Outpost
They're bringing their burgers and boozy shakes to Chapel Street.
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NewsBlues, Roots and Langos: A Journey Through Bluesfest's 2017 Food Lineup
From Yemeni bread to vegan pasta and those organic doughnuts — here's what we ate at Bluesfest this year.
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NewsWin the Chance to Eat and Judge 30 Courses of Barbecue at Melbourne's Meatstock Festival
Perhaps your only chance to eat this much barbecue meat for free.
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NewsJapan's New Immersive Art Dinner Animates Your Plate
Hosting just eight guests a night, this new dining concept will see birds land on your table and trees grow from your plate.
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NewsEight Grown-Up Easter Treats To Hunt Down Around Melbourne
You're never too old for this Easter hunt.
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NewsTips From Bang Street Food on Starting a Successful Restaurant
Thinking of opening your own place? We're asking the experts what it takes to succeed in Sydney's crazy-competitive food industry.
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NewsA Look at SBS' New Competitive Cooking Series, The Chef's Line
The TV show's unique format opens up how kitchens actually work.
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NewsSay Hello to Edible Chopsticks, the Eating Utensils of the Future
The sustainable utensils are made out of the same material as tatami floor mats, and taste like them too.
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NewsMelbourne Just Landed a Store Dedicated Entirely to Greek Doughnuts
Peel Street newcomer Lukumades is focusing all efforts on the dough.
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NewsBrae's Dan Hunter Is Embarking on a Delicious National Cookbook Tour
Can't make it to Birregurra? Here's your chance to get a taste of the world's number 44 restaurant.
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NewsVictoria's Brae and Attica Both Named in World's 50 Best Restaurants List
That's right — Australia has two restaurants in the top 50.
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NewsPiquancy Is the New All-Day Indian Restaurant from the Team Behind Babu Ji
The Hawthorn eatery will be open for brunch, lunch and dinner.
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NewsFreshara Is Australia's New All-Vegan Meal Delivery Service
A plant-based bounty delivered to your doorstep.
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NewsBreaking Bad's Los Pollos Hermanos Is Popping Up in Australia
Owner Gustavo Fring (actor Giancarlo Esposito) will be there. Is this to your satisfaction?
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NewsKarton Milk Bar Is Caulfield North's New Hangout From the Tuck Shop Take Away Crew
Grab a flavoured milk, frozen dessert and $1 lolly bag while playing NBA Jam.
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NewsFood Artists Bompas & Parr Are Hosting a Feast Where Diners Must Kill Their Meal
Their London-based Kill It, Eat It series will step through the process of putting meat on diners' plates.
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NewsThe Alley Is St Kilda's New Vegan Burger Cafe
With vegan wines and vegan maple bacon burgers on the menu.
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NewsSydney's Sepia Team to Open Melbourne Restaurant with Chin Chin's Chris Lucas
They'll closed their hatted Sussex Street restaurant at the end of the year.
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GuideEight Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2017 Events You Can Still Get Tickets To
Burger parties, pub food pop-ups and Italian discos.
