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NewsGelato Messina's Eight-Seat Degustation Bar Is Coming Back to Melbourne
This time, Messina's Creative Department will be in town for a two-week truffle pop-up.
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NewsHector's Deli Is Richmond's New (Secretly Gourmet) Sandwich Shop
It has six sandwich offerings on the menu: five savoury and one sweet.
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NewsSouth Yarra's New Burger Bar Bosozoku Is a Tokyo-Themed Dream
Bosozoku is an outlaw biker gang themed joint with Mario Kart battles, karaoke rooms and a dry ice spa.
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NewsA Dedicated Cream Cheese Cafe Is Opening in New York
Serving bagels, cream cheese cookie sandwiches and even cream cheese-filled chocolates.
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NewsHouse of Lulu White Is South Yarra's New Home of Boozy Porridge and Breakfast Ramen
They're also serving up weekend bottomless brunch — and a bit of Melbourne's storied history.
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GuideMelbourne's Best New Cafes of 2017
The city's very best caffeine-fuelled additions of the year so far.
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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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NewsThis New App From Noma's René Redzepi Helps You Forage for Wild Food
The renowned chef wants you to pick foods from nature like you do from the supermarket shelf.
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NewsEasey's Has Opened a New Burger Pop-Up in Melbourne's CBD
Serving up mi goreng fried chicken burgers on your city lunch break.
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NewsResto BoBo Is Windsor's New Simple (and Unpretentious) French Restaurant
It specialises in tarte flambée — that is, French pizza.
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NewsBrunswick's The Penny Black Is Launching a New Burger-Slinging Kitchen
And they're serving up $6 burgers to celebrate.
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NewsThe George on Collins Is Melbourne's $4 Million New All-Day Eatery and Bar
What was once The Long Room has undergone a complete transformation.
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GuideMelbourne's Ten Best New Bars of 2017
The city's very best boozy additions of the year so far.
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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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NewsMelbourne's CBD Is Getting a New Food Precinct
Expect seven dining destinations all up — including 8bit's first fully licensed burger joint.
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NewsSingapore's Fried Chicken Favourite 4Fingers Has Landed in Australia
Now slinging their pieces, burgers and wings in Melbourne, with two stores to follow in Brisbane.
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NewsThe Fancy Hanks Team Is Opening a Singaporean Pop-Up in Abbotsford
Taking over an Abbotsford warehouse for two nights in July.
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GuideMelbourne's Ten Best New Restaurants of 2017
The city's very best newcomers, opened over summer and autumn this year.
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NewsVue de Monde Chef Shannon Bennett to Open His First Melbourne Burger Bar
Benny Burger will launch with free burgers to the first 100 customers.
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NewsAustralia's Longrain Unveils Plans to Open in Tokyo
A 160-seat restaurant in the Yebisu Garden Place Tower is being imagined by Sydney-based designers Luchetti-Krelle.
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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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NewsMelbourne's Getting a New Festival Dedicated to Australian Cheese
More than 80 varieties of dairy goodness from 20 local producers.
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NewsBen & Jerry's Bans Same-Flavoured Scoops in Support of Marriage Equality
The ice cream giant is upping the pressure on the Australian government to hold a parliamentary vote on same-sex marriage.
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NewsMeet Australia's New Not-For-Profit Supporting Women in Hospitality
Only 15.4 percent of CEOs in the Australian hospo industry are women. Some of the industry's best chefs, restaurateurs and figureheads intend to change that.
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NewsDexter Team to Open Two New Ambitious Melbourne Venues
A Preston cocktail bar doing pizza by the slice, and an epic three-storey CBD venue. We broke it down.
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NewsThe Pie Shop Is Brunswick East's New Pastry Haven
Stick this new venture from Pope Joan's Matt Wilkinson and Movida's Steve Rogers in your piehole.
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NewsDessert Queen Christy Tania to Open Pop-Ups in Sydney and Melbourne
Sample the 'Floating Ice Cream' dessert made by the ex-Om Nom maestro, before she opens her first permanent venue.
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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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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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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.
