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NewsThe Ten Best Things to Do at Melbourne Good Food Month 2014
Good Food Month may seem overwhelming, but with this guide all you need to know is what you want to eat: everything.
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NewsFive Dining Trends That Are Big in Japan
Japan has 32 Michelin-starred restaurants. These aren't them.
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NewsSydney’s Pocket Bar Has Somehow Made Parking Tickets a Good Thing
Parking tickets = cheap food and drink. Genius.
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NewsWatch These Sassy Kids React to Food at One of New York’s Best Restaurants
"This looks like soap. It tastes like soap. Why am I eating soap right now?"
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NewsNew Impossible Foods Startup Makes Veggie Burgers That ‘Bleed’
Carnivores, leave your hatin' at the door.
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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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NewsRevamped St Hotel to Bring Legendary Thai Food to Fitzroy Street
The lines are too long at Chin Chin, it's time to head south.
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NewsThe Ten Best Outdoor Restaurants in Sydney
Combining two of our favourite things into one amazing adventure: the outdoors and delicious food.
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News‘Eat Like You Give a Fuck’ With the New Thug Kitchen Cookbook
All other cookbooks are now irrelevant.
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NewsIndustry Beans and Howler Take Out International Design Awards in London
It's official: Melbourne hospo snobbery is totally justified.
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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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NewsFive Spring Cocktails to Make from The Rum Diary
The guys at The Rum Diary know all about the good life. They show us five ways we can get to it.
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NewsYour Seat at Heston Blumenthal’s Fat Duck Will Be Decided By Ballot
The only lottery where the prize is a $525 dinner bill.
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NewsThe Ten Best First Date Spots in Melbourne
Because no one should have to suffer through a bad Tinder date.
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NewsHarris Farm Is Selling ‘Ugly’ Fruit and Veg at Half Price
Choose that two-headed potato or that wonky zucchini.
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NewsThe Munich Brauhaus Oktoberfest Planner
Gear up for pretzels, pork, steins of beer and a few games of hammerschlagen.
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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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NewsThe Long-Awaited Shortstop Coffee and Donuts Is Finally Open
They do donuts and they do coffee. And they promise to revolutionise our perceptions of both.
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NewsHuxtaburger Is Popping Up at the Curtin for the Next Six Months
These legendary burgers now come with a side of beers and bands.
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NewsWin Chef on DVD Plus a Kitchenful of Bodum Appliances
Jon Favreau makes a return to the personal and palatable in Chef. And now you can too.
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NewsMelbourne Could Soon Be Getting a Giant Statue of a Dim Sim
The Lord Mayor is countering with some suspiciously pro-meat pie sentiment.
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NewsA Whirlwind Guide to Eating in Vietnam
You don't need mountains of time to experience the diverse regions of Vietnam, just an open mind. And mouth.
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NewsBrooklyn is Getting an All-Nutella Restaurant Despite Hazelnut Shortage
If they're responsible for a worldwide Nutella shortage, we predict a riot.
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NewsThe Age Good Food Guide Winners Announced
Both bold newcomers and hospo veterans were winners at the 2015 Good Food Guide Awards.
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NewsThe Australian Names Their Hot 50 Restaurants of 2014
Who gets the top gong in the latest attempt at restaurant ranking?
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NewsEat King Louis XIV for Dessert with Connoisseur’s New History-Inspired Line
Meet the Connoisseur Empire Collection.
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NewsEveryone is Freaking Out Over This Australian-Designed Butter Knife
It's raised over $200,000 on Kickstarter, but is it worth it?
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NewsGet Ready for a Foodie Love-In With Ben Shewry and the Team From Attica
The owner of Australia's best restaurant has created a two-day "anti-festival".
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NewsMeatmother to Open Second Carnivorous Chapter, Meatmaiden
The carnivorous Meatfamily just expanded.
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NewsThis Cafe Delivers Burgers to Your Table at 100km/Hour
Christchurch's C1 Espresso has high-speed sliders, sustainable Samoan coffee and one hell of a cafe culture.
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NewsVictorians Nail It at the Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards
In a nutshell, this is the Australian Olympics of Gourmet Noms.
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NewsThe Ten Best Healthy Cafes in Melbourne
Raw Snickers bars, superfood salads and sugar-free pancakes. When did healthy food get so tasty?
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NewsCanada’s First Sign Language-Friendly Restaurant Opens in Toronto
Locals are brushing up on their sign language at this new eatery.
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NewsBompas and Parr Use Real Molten Lava for the Ultimate Barbecue
Enjoy lava-seared steak in your own backyard.
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NewsDeep Fried Alcohol is Now a Thing, Can Actually Get You Drunk
The world's booziest, most regret-filled bar snack?
