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NewsThe Five Best Cheap Eats in Glen Waverley
Dirt cheap, delish Malaysian and Chinese food in Melbourne's east.
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NewsScientists Have Found the Moneymaking Secret to Plating Up
New research suggests you'd pay more for this plate because of its arrangement.
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NewsBrother Burger and the Marvellous Brew Opens New Store in South Yarra
Fitzroy's beloved burger bar has a second, bigger home.
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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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NewsGelato Messina Has Created Beautiful Handmade Chocolate Boxes for Mother's Day
Shiraz sorbet bon bon, Mum?
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NewsEasey’s Rooftop Burger Bar Is Doing Frosties-Coated Fried Chicken for Breakfast
The five-storey burger joint has opened — and they're not going quietly into breakfast.
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NewsBreaking Bad's Los Pollos Hermanos Could Become a Real Restaurant
Soft serve topped with blue pop rocks?
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GuideThe Five Best Places for Healthy Snacks On-the-Go in Melbourne's CBD
Even the time poor can eat raw.
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NewsMary's Burger Joint to Pop Up at Belle's Hot Chicken
Try the Sydneysiding burgs with a cult-like following for one day only.
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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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NewsThe Best Chefs in the World Will Swap Kitchens on the Same Day
Like Wife Swap, for the best chefs in the world.
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NewsMelbourne's First Ever Toast Cafe Is Now Open
Meet Crompton Coffee, the team putting a new spin on this worldwide food trend.
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NewsMissChu Is Wresting Her Business Back From Administrators
Looks like Chu's out of the water, with big, big plans.
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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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EventAustralian International Documentary Conference
Sun, 2 Mar - Wed, 5 Mar 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
Must-see Oscar-nominees 'Black Box Diaries' and 'Sugarcane' lead the lineup at this celebration of factual filmmaking.
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EventNew Order: Australian Tour 2025
Sat, 8 Mar, 2025
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
After their 2020 tour was cut short due to the pandemic, these music icons are returning Down Under.
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EventGet Up and Glow
Sat, 8 Mar, 2025
Bossley Bar & Restaurant, Melbourne
Get your Saturday started in the best way with a yoga class, brekkie and beauty products — all for free.
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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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NewsSmith & Daughters to Open Vegan Deli
Fitzroy's vegan rock and rollers have your weekday lunches covered.
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NewsSt. ALi to Open Victa and Hoist at Monash University
The team from St. ALi are fancying up breakfast and lunch on campus.
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NewsNew Gift Delivery Service LVLY Will Bring Doughnuts Right to Your Door
The new Melbourne start-up making Short Stop trips for you.
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NewsThe Archway Food Precinct Welcomes Two New Eateries
Fancy some Indian-style street food? Or perhaps something a little healthy and organic?
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NewsYoung Henrys Has Created ANZAC Biscuit Flavoured Beer
Named for Sydney's newly resurrected WWI memorial statue.
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NewsHammer and Tong Have Opened Their Own Brunswick Backyard
Leave your vowels at home and meet us in the BCKYRD.
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NewsCarlton's Astor Hotel to Reopen as Interactive Yum Cha-Style Eatery
The Roving Marrow is coming to Lygon Street.
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NewsWalk Don't Run to Armadale's New 'Mindful Gourmet' Cafe
Combining Japanese cuisine and superfoods.
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NewsMake Your Own Extravagant Peninsula Picnic Food at Home
We raided the recipe books of some of Mornington Peninsula's fanciest vineyard kitchens.
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NewsChin Chin's Chris Lucas to Open Hawker-Style Food and Craft Beer Hall
Chapel Street's own Singapore-inspired foodie market.
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NewsNoir Opens Dessert Bar in Richmond
The former Swan Street Social space is about to get sweet and freaky.
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NewsBluebonnet Barbecue Brings Brisket and Live Music to Geelong
Smoked Riverina Angus brisket, with a side of British India.
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NewsLittle and Olver to Open Their Kitchens with Free Weekly Feeds
That’s right. Free food. Every week.
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NewsThe Rise of Real Jerky
Salmon, pickleburger, Srirachuan. This isn't the jerky you know from the truck stop.
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NewsLe Bon Ton's 5 Points Deli and Longhorn Saloon Open in Carlton
Freshly shucked oysters, bagels with cream cheese and a 'world famous smoked pastrami sandwich'.
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NewsMörk Chocolate Brew House Opens in North Melbourne
This converted warehouse tasting bar is made for hot chocolate aficionados.
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GuideEight New Brunch Spots to Try in Melbourne
Brunch: that glimmering portal of a weekend moment when waiters don't bat an eyelid at your weird, weird mid-morning requests.
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NewsBrasserie Bread Appeals to Your Inner Food Snob with Single Origin Bread
Hardcore breadlovers can track the journey of their loaf from field to mill to sandwich.
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NewsBeach Burrito Fitzroy Will Have Its Own Indoor Skateboarding Pool
Go all Lords of Dogtown after your chimichangas.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to Eat, Drink and Do at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2015
This year it's all about parties, pastries and partaking in long, long lunches.
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NewsMelbourne's Longest Eatery The Arbory Is Now Open
Taking cues from New York’s Highline, Melbourne's newest spot runs 150m along the old Sandridge railway line.
