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NewsGood Food Month Announces Jam-Packed 2016 Melbourne Program
Break out the stretchy pants and get ready for some all-out feasting.
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NewsFirst Table Is Bringing Half-Price Early Bird Dinners to Melbourne
Prepare to up your dining game to new and glorious heights.
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NewsLuxury French Macaron House Ladurée Is Finally Coming To Melbourne
More double-decker sweet treats coming at ya.
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NewsThe Mamasita Crew Have Opened a New Collingwood Taco Joint, Hotel Jesus
Tacos and tostadas, cocktails on tap and a Master Mezcalier.
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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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NewsPickett's Deli and Rotisserie Is Queen Victoria Market's New All-Day Eatery and Bar
Drop by for a hot chook, or hang around for cocktails, cheese and charcuterie.
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NewsA Mini Food Festival Will Descend on the MCG in the Lead-Up to Grand Final Day
Nosh from the likes of Estelle, Biggie Smalls and Tokyo Tina sure beat a soggy meat pie.
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NewsThis Sydney Social Enterprise Is Delivering Ottolenghi Salads While Helping Domestic Violence Victims
Get lunch delivered, and you'll also give lunch to someone who needs it.
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NewsSTREAT Has Opened a Permanent Social Enterprise Cafe in Collingwood
It's also a roastery, bakery and youth training academy.
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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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NewsBistro Morgan To Host First-Ever Doughnut Pop-Up in Windsor
Ferrero Rocher, Fairy Floss and Fruit Loops doughnuts, all whipped up by a 15-year-old chef.
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NewsThe Crux & Co. Patisserie Is Coming to Little Collins and Damn Does It Look Delicious
Might be time to preemptively punch another hole in your belt buckle, huh?
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NewsGiant Plate-Sized Xiao Long Bao Dumplings Are the Food Trend Australia Needs
Served with a god damn straw.
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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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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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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Fri, 22 Aug - Sun, 24 Aug 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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NewsSake Launches Miniature Spinoff Sake Jr in the Melbourne CBD
And they're giving away 700 free meals to mark the occasion.
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NewsMelbourne Cheap Eats for Every Night of the Week
Saving money is hard. But it doesn't have to be boring.
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NewsRicky & Pinky Is Builders Arms Hotel's New Chinese Restaurant
Eat drunken chicken before, after or while having a drink yourself.
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NewsEx-Kong BBQ Chef Opens Pan Asian Eatery Spring and Summer
Seasonal Asian cooking just in time for the warmer months.
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NewsA Guide to Melbourne's Colourful Non-Coffee Lattes
Because what even is a blue algae latte anyway?
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NewsSt Kilda's New Beachside Bar Pontoon to Open Inside Revamped Stokehouse Precinct
The Stokehouse site is rising from the ashes with beach views, grilled seafood and frosé on tap.
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NewsTaste of Melbourne Reveals Mouthwatering Early Highlights for 2016
Our stomach's rumbling just thinking about it.
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NewsThis Genius Australian Startup Grows Mushrooms from Discarded Coffee Grounds
And they're planning to open an urban mushroom farm in Melbourne.
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NewsWin Tickets to a Spring Banquet Presented by James Squire and Concrete Playground
Five course banquet and craft beer anyone?
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NewsDomino's Is Delivering Pizza by Drone in New Zealand Now
*Ride of the Valkyries plays in the background*
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NewsThis New Service Lets You Send Evil Fortune Cookies to Your Enemies
From the Cards Against Humanity crew — who else?
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NewsA Short History of a Pub Classic: The Ploughman's Lunch
Where did this meal of bread, cheese and pickle come from? Why has it stood the test of time?
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NewsFour Geelong Foodie Experiences Worth a Road Trip
Hit the road for brewery tastings, cake rooms and some of the best fried chicken you'll ever taste.
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NewsMelbourne's New Rotating Cuisine Restaurant is Run By A 22-Year-Old Chef
You’re about to feel very unaccomplished.
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NewsFive Places to Eat Dessert for Breakfast in the CBD
Smash through your morning with a little sugary indulgence.
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NewsEmpire Steak Is Melbourne's New Steak Sarnie-Dedicated Eatery
They're the most perfect steak sandwiches you've ever seen.
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GuideFive Foodie Events to Tuck Into This Week in Melbourne
Winter's almost done, but the comfort food's still cranking.
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NewsSydney Cult Fave Chur Burger Is Coming to Melbourne
Warren Turnbull's beloved pulled pork burgs and alcoholic milkshakes are moving down south.
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NewsA 15-Acre Chocolate Estate Has Opened on the Great Ocean Road
Complete with a lavender maze, ice cream factory and literally thousands of chocolates.
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NewsA Secret Six-Course Immersive Dining Experience Is Coming to Melbourne
From the Underground Cinema crew.
