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NewsMeet the Cats of Sydney's New Spaced-Themed Cat Cafe
We get to know the four-legged catstronauts of Catmosphere.
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NewsCafeSmart Lets You Donate $1 from Your Morning Coffee to Charity
Down your third or fourth coffee for the day, guilt-free.
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GuideTwelve Food Hotspots to Try in Melbourne Right Now
Here's what's trending with Concrete Playground's hungriest, thirstiest readers.
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NewsAgathe Patisserie To Open At South Melbourne Market
Pastries and croissants to eat with your eyes as well as your mouth.
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GuideThe 27 Best Private Dining Rooms in Melbourne
These Melbourne private dining rooms can house your intimate birthday celebrations, luxe date nights and epic Christmas parties.
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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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GuideWhere to Find the Best Burgers in Melbourne
Classic cheeseburgers, spicy fried chicken buns, and everything in between.
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GuideThe 50 Best Restaurants in the Melbourne CBD
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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GuideThe 14 Best French Restaurants in Melbourne
Live out your Parisian dreams with escargot, caviar, steak frites and lobster thermidor at these exceptional French diners in Melbourne.
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GuideThe Best Beachside Bars and Restaurants in and Around Melbourne
We may not have the abundance of beaches some other cities do, but we do have this nice little crop of seaside venues with options from St Kilda to Portsea and from Williamstown to Lorne.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Pizza in Melbourne
From giant pepperoni-topped slices to vegan rounds, these Melbourne pizza joints have you covered.
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GuideThe 15 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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GuideWhere to Find the Best Sushi in Melbourne
These Japanese restaurants and grocers serve up the finest maki rolls, nigiri, sashimi and hosomaki — all stuffed with some of Melbourne's best seafood.
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GuideThe Ten Best Thai Restaurants in Melbourne
Discover fine-diners and neighbourhood haunts, or head down to a hidden CBD basement where robots deliver all your fave Thai dishes to the table.
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NewsUber Is Delivering Gelato Messina to Your Office This Friday
This might be even better than that time they were delivering kittens.
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NewsWerribee's Truck Stop Deluxe Will Make You Rethink Truck Stop Dining
That's a big 10-4, kemosabe.
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NewsAuthentic Spanish Eatery and Bar Chato Opens in Thornbury
A new Spanish restaurant for the inner north. Bueno.
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NewsNew Malaysian Hawker Eatery Sugar Prawn Opens in Collingwood
Hawker-style street food and an in-house radio station. Sold.
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NewsGet a Free Burger Delivered to Your Mouth by Drone
Behold, Future Burger — a delicious new project by Mr Burger and Monash.
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BarAmatrice Rooftop Restaurant
16 Stephenson Street, Cremorne
They had us at mini lasagne snacks, and then took it to the next level with uninterrupted views across the city.
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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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BarFlour Child Richmond
432 Church Street, Richmond
You’ve had sourdough pizza, US-style slices and dirty Aussie pizzas, but have you tried pinsa romana?
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NewsAustralia's Getting Into Healthy Vending Machines
These wholesome Australian companies are shaking up the fast food game.
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NewsJuanita Peaches Brings Nighttime Dining to All Day Donuts
Doughnut bar by day, fried chicken shop by night.
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NewsHalf-Popped Corn Is the Newest American Snack Food Trend
Bottom-of-the-popcorn-bag lovers, this one's for you.
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NewsYou Can Design Your Own Bespoke Chocolate Bars with Chocolab
And they'll deliver them right to your door.
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NewsTrust the Chefs at South Melbourne's New Lume Restaurant
Take a gamble on a colossal 18- to 20-course gastronomic degustation — with no physical menu in sight.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting Salad Vending Machines
With all unsold salads going to feed Melbourne's homeless population.
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EventTogether for Lebanon Fundraiser
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
Abla's, Carlton
Abla’s, A1 Bakery, Alimentari, Larderfresh and Linden Cook are joining forces to raise money for people in Lebanon.
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EventRhys Darby: The Legend Returns
Tue, 8 Apr - Sun, 13 Apr 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
The New Zealand comedian is bringing his first stand-up show in almost a decade to Melbourne.
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EventThe Lord of the Rings — A Musical Tale
Sat, 26 Apr - Fri, 30 May 2025
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
The musical version of JRR Tolkien's classic is taking the hobbits to Melbourne's Comedy Theatre.
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EventLego 'Star Wars': The Exhibition
Sun, 4 May 2025 - Mon, 26 Jan 2026
Melbourne Museum, Carlton
Australia's world-first Lego 'Star Wars' exhibition is soaring into Melbourne in 2025 — from May the fourth, of course.
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EventThis Never Happened Presents
Fri, 17 Jan, 2025
170 Russell, Melbourne
Dance Music record label This Never Happened is back for another Melbourne party that won't allow phones.
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EventThe Rose Street Market
Sat, 23 Nov - Sun, 24 Nov 2024
Rose Street Artist's Market, Fitzroy
Fitzroy's weekly artisan design and art market is a must-hit if you're up for some weekend shopping and wandering.
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EventThe Fitzroy Mills Market
Mon, 25 Nov, 2024
The Fitzroy Mills, Fitzroy
This much-loved Fitzroy market showcases a top selection of local food producers an makers each Saturday.
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EventEtta's Summer Seafood Towers
Fri, 22 Nov - Sat, 21 Dec 2024
Etta, Brunswick East
This incredible wine bar and restaurant is serving decadent seafood towers for just $75 per person every Friday and Saturday afternoon.
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EventPortsea Hotel's Summer Music Series
Multiple single dates
Portsea Hotel, Portsea
The Presets, Jake Webb, Darley and DJ Levi will be playing waterfront gigs this summer at Portsea Hotel.
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EventLong Live Longnecks at BANG
Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025
BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy
You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter Longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.
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NewsMelbourne's Got a Brand New Salumi Bar
Italian-style home-cured meats have a new northern home in Saluministi.
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NewsAllen's Lollies to "Delete" Spearmint Leaves and Green Frogs
The confectionery giant's Party Mix is getting a little less green.
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NewsUber and OzHarvest Are Delivering Gourmet Lunches to Your Office Today
Ditch that soggy sandwich, Neil Perry and George Calombaris made you lunch today.
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NewsGrey Gardens Projects Exhibition Space to Open in Fitzroy
With a gallery and performance space, coffee bar and a brand new permanent home for Speakeasy Cinema.
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NewsN2 Extreme Gelato Is Handing Out Free Batman-Inspired Ice Cream
There's no Mr Freeze, but there are syringes filled with citrus ‘fear toxin’ bitters.
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NewsRichmond's Long Street Coffee Gives Refugees a Fair Go
Their aim? To pump out fresh, tasty coffee and bring jobs to refugees.
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Which Australian Venues Made the 2015 Restaurant and Bar Design Awards Shortlist?
Our best gin distilleries, beachfront pavilions and velvety hotel bars are all up for the top spots.
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NewsDenis the Menace Cafe Brings Cheek and Eco-Cred to Cremorne
Socially responsible, culinarily mischievous. Denis, you grew up all right.
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NewsGeelong's New Eatery The Hot Chicken Project Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
With a heat gauge that starts at 'Southern' and peaks at 'Evil Chicken'.
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NewsDin Tai Fung Opens First Melbourne Dumpling House
Sydney's been hogging these dumplings for too long.
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NewsTalking Food Culture with Jellymongers Bompas & Parr
Sam Bompas on animal instincts, Australian food trends and whether you should eat the Vegemite chocolate.
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NewsThe Hunter's Kitchen Is Bringing Scandinavian Dinners to South Yarra
Snuggle up to treacle mulled wine, meaty stews and elderflower crumble.
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NewsTokyo Is Opening a Super Mario Bros Cafe
Level up with a Peach Panna Cotta or Bowser Taco Rice.
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NewsFive Roast Dinners to Fill Your Belly With This Month in Melbourne
The best roasty events of MFWF's Roast Collection.
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NewsAdriano Zumbo's High Tea Salon Opens In South Yarra
Melbourne’s most sadistic dentists cackle maniacally.
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NewsFive Gin-Paired Dishes to Try at the Returned Project Botanicals Pop-up
Experience Gary Mehigan's food matched to the ten carefully selected botanicals of Bombay Sapphire.
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NewsThe Sold-Out Project Botanicals Pop-Up Is Returning for a Second Run
Bombay Sapphire's wildly successful pop-up bar is back, taking you beyond the classic G&T.
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NewsMelbourne's Attica Officially Ranked In World's 50 Best Restaurants
Joining the mighty ranks of Spain's El Celler de Can Roca, Italy's Osteria Francescana and Denmark's Noma.
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NewsWhich Australian Restaurants Made the World's 100 Best List?
The first half of the prestigious list has been announced, and we're in there.
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NewsMr Wow's Crew to Open Retro Arcade Bar in Fitzroy
Donkey Kong-themed cocktails, American tinnies and all the Street Fighter II you can play.
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NewsSydney's Getting an Official Hello Kitty Diner
Sydney's Instagram output is about to skyrocket.
