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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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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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GuideThe Best Cheap Eats in Melbourne
You'll find big bowls of ramen, crispy borek, chicken parma deals and even steak and bottomless fries at Melbourne's best cheap-eat haunts.
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GuideThe Best Cafes for Working or Studying in Melbourne
Settle in for a productive work or study session with a strong coffee in hand at these laptop-friendly cafes around Melbourne.
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GuideThe 20 Best (and Cosiest) Bars and Pubs with Fireplaces in Melbourne
Melbourne's infamous chill has set in, so warm up over fireside beers and comforting pub classics.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Breakfast in Melbourne's CBD
Make time to visit these CBD cafes and never turn up to work hungry again.
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GuideAll the New Melbourne Restaurant and Bar Openings to Try This Autumn 2026
Melbourne’s newest restaurants and bars are setting the tone for Autumn 2026 — from cosy Italian spots to revamped pubs and whimsical bars, here’s where to eat and drink next.
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GuideThe 15 Best Gluten-Free Feeds in Melbourne, Including Six Coeliac Australia-Accredited Spots
If you're coeliac, you're probably used to missing out on late-night gyros and actually good bread — until now.
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NewsThe Best Bottomless Brunches in Melbourne
At Melbourne's top bottomless brunch spots, you can pair free-flowing margaritas, spritzes, natty wines and beers with breakfast buffets, multi-course set menus, pizzas, curries and drag bingo.
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NewsThe Best Things To Do in Melbourne This Mother's Day
Here are the best things to do on Mother's Day, from fancy high teas to bottomless feeds, flower workshops to stylish staycations,
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GuideThe Best Cafes in Melbourne in 2026
How does your favourite Melbourne cafe stack up against these brunch-filled, coffee-slinging, bloody mary-pouring haunts?
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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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RestaurantLuke's Bánh Mì Lonsdale Street
19-21 Lonsdale Street , CBD
To celebrate the launch of its sixth store, the Lonsdale Street location will be serving Australia's first coloured bánh mì baguettes
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RestaurantKIRISHIMA
622 Camberwell Road, Camberwell
The omakase menu evolves each day, based on sourcing the finest seasonal ingredients available each morning.
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RestaurantLittle House Wine Bar
98 Smith Street, Collingwood
The kitchen has a produce-first, minimal-waste, strongly-seasonal philosophy, all grounded in technique and restraint.
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RestaurantO'Connells Hotel
407 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Cosy up by the fireplace in winter, or hit the courtyard out back during summer.
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RestaurantMudo Dining & Bar
133 Commercial Road, South Yarra
Mudo may not be your typical late-night, loud Korean barbecue joint, but its aiming to fill a gap where diners can experience Korean ingredients and techniques in a more sophisticated setting.
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RestaurantSpaghetti Club
95 Swan St, Richmond
Menu highlights include a thick-cut pork chop cotoletta and Nonno's golden-baked lasagne.
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RestaurantLittle Rose
274 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
The French-Asian bistro is here for a good time, not a long time, with the residency sticking around for only a few short months.
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BarFlorentino
80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Littered with Italian murals and quintessentially traditional food, this Italian institution has been pumping since '28.
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RestaurantFico, Crowne Plaza Melbourne Carlton by IHG
701 Swanston Street, Carlton
Fico is grounded in Carlton’s historic heritage of Italian culture and generous shared dining.
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RestaurantJulietta
220 Toorak Road, South Yarra
With Italian-style wines, pasta at its core, and a focused selection of classic desserts, Julietta keeps things approachable, comfortable and familiar.
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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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EventHarry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in Concert with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Sat, 18 Sep 2027 and Sun, 19 Sep 2027
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Celebrating 25 years of this adored series, the MSO will perform John Williams' iconic score across three Melbourne nights.
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Event$16 Martini Mondays at Naked for Satan
Mon, 15 Jun, 2026
Naked For Satan, Fitzroy
This much-loved rooftop bar is turning Mondays into a guilty pleasure with $16 martinis inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins.
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EventDJ Heartstring at The Wool Store
Fri, 25 Sep, 2026
The Wool Store, West Footscray
One of electronic music's fastest-rising acts is heading back to Melbourne for a huge night of eurodance-fuelled energy.
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EventPeninsula Pass for World Bathing Day
Sun, 21 Jun - Mon, 22 Jun 2026
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
For one weekend only, wellness seekers can soak, steam and unwind across three iconic Peninsula bathing destinations.
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EventThe Social Studio Fundraiser: 'Flee' Film Screening
Sun, 14 Jun, 2026
Cinema Nova, Carlton
Support this fashion-focused social enterprise as they raise funds to offer free education and training programs to refugee communities.
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EventCharlie Brings the Fire to Mister Bianco
Tue, 23 Jun, 2026
Mister Bianco, Kew
See what magic happens when Charlie Carrington and Joe Vargetto join forces for a fire-driven feast in Kew.
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EventThe Shortest Lunch 2026
Sat, 20 Jun - Sun, 21 Jun 2026
Various Yarra Valley venues, Coldstream
13 Yarra Valley wineries will host this popular weekend of tastings and food, in celebration of the winter solstice.
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EventSt Kilda Film Festival
Thu, 4 Jun - Sun, 14 Jun 2026
Various locations in St Kilda, St Kilda
Great movies come in small packages at this standout short film festival, with 190-plus titles screening across 11 days in 2026.
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EventSorrento Solstice Festival
Sat, 20 Jun - Sun, 21 Jun 2026
Various locations in Sorrento, Sorrento
Celebrating, not hiding away from the year's shortest days, this emerging solstice festival offers firelight by the ocean.
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EventVera Blue x Melbourne Symphony Orchestra: Orchestral Veil
Sat, 11 Jul, 2026
Hamer Hall, Southbank
The groundbreaking Australian artist is once again reimagining her music with Victoria's top orchestra this July.
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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.
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NewsThis Sydney Pub Has Made the World's Most Expensive Meat Pie
Let's hope tomato sauce isn't extra.
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NewsAustralian Financial Review Announces Inaugural Top 100 Restaurants List
Once again it's Sydney's Sepia and Melbourne's Attica jostling for top spot.
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NewsBrisbane's Story Bridge to Be Transformed Into a Food Market
Closed to traffic, open to feasting.
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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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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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NewsThe Best Chefs in the World Will Swap Kitchens on the Same Day
Like Wife Swap, for the best chefs in the world.
