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NewsFlour Market Is Launching a Raw, Vegan, Gluten Free Spinoff
Raw cookies, vegan brownies and other sweet treats to make you swoon.
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NewsMelbourne Burger Maestro Jimmy Hurlston to Open Sydney Eatery, Guilty
The Easey's founder is taking his burgs north.
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NewsVegans Rejoice, Smith & Daughters Are Releasing a Cookbook
This might just be your key to unlocking the vegan kingdom.
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NewsGROW Assembly Is Melbourne's New Hospitality Symposium
Get a leg-up into the world of hospo with the help of Melbourne food royalty.
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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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NewsRoyal Stacks Has Opened a Second Burger Joint in Brunswick
The wildly popular burgers and frozen custard creations have come to Sydney Road.
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NewsA Milkcow Soft Serve Pop-Up Has Opened in Melbourne
Soft serve sundaes topped with everything from fairy floss clouds to a shot of espresso.
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NewsA Food Theme Park Is Opening in Italy Next Year
As if you needed another reason to visit Italy.
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NewsMatcha Mylkbar Is Now Open in St Kilda
With beetroot lattes, coconut bacon, vegan 'eggs' and lots of matcha.
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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 Has a New Pizza Joint Dedicated to Beer, Wine and Calzone
The city's own low-cal calzone zone.
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NewsPierre Roelofs' Dessert Evenings Return to the Inner North
Definitely this week's most exciting resurrection.
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NewsA Chocolate Eating Competition Is Coming to Melbourne
Prahran Market's new chocolate festival looks set to ensure multiple chocolate comas.
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NewsThis Michelin-Starred Restaurant in Hong Kong Is Serving Art You Can Eat
Paint your plate with black garlic, brown truffles and sweet potato puree.
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NewsLVLY Is Delivering Shortstop Hot Cross Doughnuts to Your Door for Easter
Easter Bunny, take note.
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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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NewsHow to Make Kitchen By Mike's Cucumber, Mirin and Sesame Salad at Home
Eat it at Taste of Sydney, then make it yourself.
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NewsWin a Cocktail Masterclass with Ramblin' Rascal Tavern
Grab three mates and learn how to make signature cocktails — while eating All The Mary's Burgers.
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NewsThe Ten Best Breakfast Bowls in Melbourne
Bowls filled with everything from passionfruit to pudding and cacao to co-yo.
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NewsAustralia Is Getting a Death Star Canteen
You cannot kill catering with a thought at this new Eddie Izzard-inspired eatery.
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NewsThese Melbourne Restaurants are Doing $1 Meals to Help Fight Food Wastage
Eat cheap at Saint Crispin, Bomba and All Day Donuts and save perfectly good grub from becoming garbage.
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NewsUber Is Launching Its Food Delivery Service UberEATS in Melbourne
The only app you'll ever need.
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NewsThis Danish Supermarket Is Fighting Food Waste By Selling Only Expired Food
They're helping cut down the 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted globally each year.
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NewsSeven Days of Budget-Friendly Pub Eats in Melbourne
Where to get a pub meal and have enough change left over for a beer or two.
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NewsThree Beer Marinades to Make Your Summer Barbecue Infinitely More Beery
Your summer barbecue needs these.
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NewsMile End Brings Montreal-Style Bagels to Fitzroy
The team behind Carte Crepes are moving up in the world.
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NewsMerrick Watts Thinks He Can Be Rude to Baristas Because They're "Not Doing Real Work"
Good luck getting a latte in Melbourne now, mate.
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GuideThe Best Things to Eat, See and Do at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2016
Celebrate the city's culinary culture with laneway parties, bacon tributes and lots and lots of dairy.
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NewsNora Is Becoming a Small Dinner Club That's Set to Reinvent the Degustation
The experimental Carlton cafe is switching to nighttime service.
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NewsAttica's Peter Gunn to Open Permanent IDES Restaurant
Get in quick before it books out until the year 3000.
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NewsPretty Mama Is Bringing Caribbean Cocktails and Grill to the Spencer Street End of the CBD
Expect jerk chicken and piña coladas from a team with Gumbo Kitchen, Der Raum and Rockpool on their CV.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal Is Opening Four Totally Free One-Night-Only Pop-Ups In Melbourne
It's 100 percent free — if you can find it.
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GuideMelbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Perfect Date Material
Must have: a solid drinks list, good buzz and low, senshoowal lighting.
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NewsFamed French Baker Gontran Cherrier Is Opening a Bakery Cafe in Collingwood
Lemon tarts, almond chocolate croissants and squid ink rolls.
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NewsA M*A*S*H Inspired Diner Has Just Opened in Brisbane
Get treated to kimchi pancakes and Klinger's Closet cocktails at Ginger's Diner.
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NewsSake Is Opening a New CBD Restaurant (and a Takeaway Version Too)
Good news Melbourne: sashimi levels are about to increase two-fold.
