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NewsDinner for Breakfast: Ten of Melbourne’s Best
Inverting the traditional, Australian morning menu, more and more cafes are serving up dinner for breakfast — with everything from hearty breakfast burgers and burritos to stews, salads and souvlaki.
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NewsThe Ten Best Events at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2014
Melbourne, it's time to make some dinner plans.
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NewsDetroit Chef Creates a Ten-Course Menu Based on Radiohead’s Kid A
Everything on its right plate.
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NewsEight Exciting Food and Drink Trends Brewing in 2014
Hybrid snacks, whole pigs, one-food wonders and an abundance of green.
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GuideThe 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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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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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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NewsIn Dramatic Role Reversal, Melbourne-Inspired Eatery Opens in New York
Start spreading the news, New York has got a taste of Down Under.
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NewsWorld’s First Kitchen-Ready 3D Food Printer Is Coming
Become a pastry chef at the push of a button.
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NewsLondon to See World’s First Edible Firework Display This NYE
Could this inspire Australia's first ever case of firework envy?
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RestaurantYakimono
80 Collins Street, Melbourne
This colourful Chris Lucas venture features a futuristic aesthetic and a menu filled with Japanese street food that's cooked over flames.
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BarHotel Nacional
23-25 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
Hotel Nacional is Hardware Lane's five-storey, totally gluten-free Mexican restaurant and bar.
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RestaurantGood Times
214 Saint Georges Road, Fitzroy North
A charmingly low-key joint with drawing paper on the tables and wallet-friendly negronis, wine carafes and pasta dishes for just $9 a pop.
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RestaurantRuzia's Wine
215 Balaclava Road, Caulfield North
When a venue is named after someone's grandmother, it's a telltale sign that the space is likely to be imbued with a lot of heart and soul.
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RestaurantToken
151 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Get around great sashimi and temaki from the raw bar and flame-kissed Japanese eats from the yakitori grill.
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RestaurantGarfield Pizzeria
297 Lygon Street, Carlton
The counter-service pizzeria, named for an orange cat who visited the building site, reimagines the traditional Italian restaurant experience.
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RestaurantKoi Toy
T16, Pentridge Shopping Centre, 1 Champ Street, Coburg
Menu highlights include angel hair tempura King Prawns, sake-cured Ocean Trout, and crunchy fried whitebait with yuzu tartare sauce.
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RestaurantFrenchie
15 Collins Street, Melbourne
Frenchie's big drawcard is that everything on the menu is priced at $14. Yes, you read that correctly.
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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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NewsUbiquitous Sriracha Sauce Now Has Its Own Documentary Film
Your favourite condiment is now a movie star.
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NewsYourfork Wants to Let You Order Home-Cooked Food from Your Neighbours
Hooking up the home cooks and the take-out fiends.
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NewsStock Up on Sriracha Sauce as Factory Goes Into Shutdown
Fans of the spicy sauce might want to stalk up, or risk battling it out in the aisles.
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NewsThe Hunger Games Luxury Chocolates Are the Most Delicious Movie Tie-In
Because you certainly want to know what District 12 tastes like.
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NewsThe Art of Artisan Gelato with Messina
The Sydney cult has made it to Melbourne. Gelato Messina talk us through the art of artisan gelato.
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EventNational Spanish Paella Day at Anada
Sat, 28 Mar - Sun, 29 Mar 2026
Añada Bar & Restaurant, Fitzroy
Expect generous pans, complimentary wine and a lively vibe that evokes the best of sun-soaked Spanish lunches.
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EventSea of Light at Abbotsford Convent
Thu, 9 Apr - Sun, 12 Apr 2026
Abbotsford Convent, Abbotsford
This April, swap screen time for something brighter as kids step into a glowing world of creativity and discovery.
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EventMFWF: Feast for Freedom — A Longer Table
Wed, 25 Mar, 2026
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Footscray
This one-night dining experience blends flavour and storytelling, bringing people together through refugee-led dishes that celebrate cultural richness.
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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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Event'Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness'
Sat, 28 Mar - Sun, 26 Jul 2026
The District Docklands, Docklands
If you’ve ever wondered what’s really going on beneath the surface, this confronting exhibition uses real preserved human bodies to explore anatomy and emotion.
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EventMFWF: Grana After Dark
Thu, 26 Mar - Sat, 28 Mar 2026
Grana, Brunswick East
Bringing a late-night edge to this neighbourhood deli and wine bar, this three-night affair features dimmed lights, cranked volume and a bespoke menu.
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EventMelbourne Design Week 2026
Thu, 14 May - Sun, 24 May 2026
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
With over 400 events to explore, the latest instalment of this design-lovers dream spans big ideas and hands-on experiences across architecture, food, fitness, tech and more.
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EventMFWF: Pizza Pronto — James Lowe at Figlia
Thu, 26 Mar, 2026
Figlia, Brunswick East
Bringing London-born pizza innovations to Lygon Street, this one-night takeover combines Michelin-led cred with crowd-pleasing slices.
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Event'The Vinyl Factory: Reverb' at Rising 2026
Fri, 22 May - Mon, 31 Aug 2026
ACMI, Melbourne
Indulge your wax obsession with this immersive vinyl-led exhibition, spanning multiple genres, continents and musical energies.
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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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NewsJellyfish Protein Gives Us Creepy, Glowing Ice-Cream
Calcium-activated luminescent protein takes dessert to a whole new level.
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NewsFive Tips for the Best Taste of Melbourne Experience in 2013
Melbourne's foodie Mecca is back as the city's best restaurants converge on Albert Park.
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NewsThe Ten Best Things to Do at Melbourne Good Food Month 2013
We've taken some of the stress out of choosing what to do this Good Food Month.
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NewsEat Streets: Meyers Place
Take a closer look at Meyers Place: that tiny laneway capillary between Bourke and Little Collins streets.
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NewsDine In or Dine Out, as Long as You Give a Fork!
Get in the practice of eating sustainably, before the world gets too forked up.
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NewsTry Banana Bread and Espresso Butter Beer from 4 Pines and Single Origin
It's Up & Go for beer enthusiasts.
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NewsEat Streets: The Best of Collingwood’s Smith Street
From fried chicken to fine dining, Smith Street has it all.
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NewsDevastating and Beautiful Animated Ad Will Turn You Off Factory Farming
An ad for a popular fast food chain that might just make you cry.
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NewsBoozing Now Acceptable at Breakfast Thanks to Spreadable Beer
An Italian duo have done their bit to make the world a better place, engineering a chocolate-flavoured beer spread.
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NewsThe Ten Best Cafe Courtyards in Melbourne
Because coffee tastes better with the sun on your back.
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NewsThe Bluffer’s Guide to Oysters
Everything oyster is illuminated in conversation with chef Sean Connolly.
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NewsThe Secrets of the Abbotsford Quadfecta
The the Abbotsford Convent's food precinct is about as far away as you can get from bain-maries and plastic cutlery.
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NewsCharitable Melbourne: Nine Ways to Give Back, One Bite at a Time
Melbourne hospitality is doing its part for charity. One bite at a time.
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NewsCan Andrew McConnell Strike Restaurant Gold Again?
One of Melbourne's best restauranteurs and chefs is planning to do it all again.
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NewsPlating Up: The Bespoke Tableware Inspired by Chefs
Chefs lend a hand in creating unique tablewares, fit for their food.
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NewsGet Helados Jauja Delivered to Your Door For One Day Only
The ice cream gods have answered our delicious and lazy prayers all at once.
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NewsEating Your Way Through Bastille Day in Melbourne
Champagne and macarons for breakfast? Only on Bastille Day. Here are the best spreads around town.
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NewsConcrete Playground Talks Meat with Gavin Baker from Little Hunter
We learn about smoking and curing meats from a chef who earned his chops at the Fat Duck and with Justin Timberlake.
