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NewsAward-Winning Roaster Campos Coffee Just Opened a New Victorian Flagship Cafe on Chapel Street
South Yarra is now home to an elegant two-storey espresso bar from the reigning Champion Australian Coffee Roaster.
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GuideWhere to Head for Eats and Drinks Before and After a Session at the Australian Open
From pre-match parmas to celebratory champagne after a long day courtside, these local spots have you sorted during this year's Grand Slam tournament.
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NewsUgly Vodka Is the Innovative New Booze Brand Turning Imperfect Apples Into a Sustainable Sip
This nifty new drink hails from the minds at 80proof Liquor and music festival crew Untitled Group.
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NewsDin Tai Fung Is Making Super-Cute Chocolate and Biscoff Rabbit Buns for Lunar New Year
They're stuffed with chocolate and Biscoff crumbs — and you can enjoy them in-store or get them delivered frozen to make at home.
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NewsLoved Up? You've Got the Chance to Score a Luxe $500 Date Every Day Until Valentine's Day
Looking to go big this February 14? Grinders Coffee Roasters is covering the bill with daily $500 giveaways.
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NewsRaise a Glass: Melbourne Was Just Named One of the Five Best Drinking Cities in the World
According to drinks publication 'Punch', the Victorian capital is among the world's most travel-worthy drinking destinations for 2023.
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GuideThe 40 Best Bars in Melbourne for 2025
Whether you're on the hunt for an extensive wine collection, a luxe date-night spot or a place to have a little boogie, these are our picks for the best bars in Melbourne.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Coffee in Melbourne for 2025
Whether you're a coffee snob or an extra-weak latte lover, these top Melbourne coffee roasters and brewers will have what you need.
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GuideThe 21 Best Wine Bars in Melbourne for 2025
A guide for any wine lover in Melbourne, whether you want strictly organic, biodynamic and local drops or you don't really care — as long as they taste good and don't cost a fortune.
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GuideMelbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Undeniably, Unabashedly Romantic
Low lighting, jazz playlists, opulent cocktails — these top Melbourne date spots will help you to start planning the perfect Valentine's Day.
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GuideThe Best Bars in Melbourne with Beer Gardens and Boozy Courtyards for 2025
Save cosy pub corners for the depths of winter — it's time to drink a brew out in the open at these fab Melbourne beer gardens.
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GuideThe 15 Best Sports Bars and Pubs in Melbourne for 2025
These Melbourne bars and pubs play local and international sporting matches live and loud throughout the week — from AFL, NRL and cricket to soccer, tennis, boxing and basketball.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Bars of 2024
Sprawling breweries, neighbourhood pubs, CBD cocktail spots and cosy wine bars — they’ve all grabbed your attention so far this year.
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NewsEight Melbourne Parks Fit For a BYO Booze Picnic (and Where to Pick Up Snacks Beforehand)
Head to the park for a boozy picnic with the finest snacks you can find along the way.
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GuideThe Best Brewery Bars in Melbourne for 2024
Sip chilled pints just metres from away where the beer was was brewed at these much-loved taprooms.
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GuideThe 22 Best Pubs in Melbourne
Looking for a new local? This list of classic Melbourne boozers and more contemporary gastropubs will suit all beer and parma enthusiasts.
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NewsBlack Star Is Spreading Good Fortune with Its Limited-Edition Lunar New Year Rabbit Cookies
The buttery shortbreads are topped with a layer of white chocolate then finished with a coconut crumb, mimicking a fluffy bunny facade.
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NewsMorris House Is the New Four-Storey Pub and Comedy Lounge Transforming a Historic CBD Site
The European Bier Cafe is getting a major refurbishment, reopening its doors this autumn.
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NewsRené Redzepi's Acclaimed Noma Is Closing in 2024 to Become a Food Laboratory From 2025
Goodbye Noma 2.0, hello Noma 3.0, with the globally renowned Copenhagen restaurant set to turn into a test kitchen in its latest reinvention.
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NewsLune's Iced Vovo Cruffins Are Back to Help Start 2023 with Supremely Tasty Pastries
Also available from the cult-favourite croissanterie in January: coconut rough pain au chocolat, plus twice-baked almond frangipane and vanilla crème croissants.
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NewsGame, Set, Feast: Here's Which Chefs and Restaurants Are Popping Up at the 2023 Australian Open
Come for the tennis, stay for top-notch eats by Supernormal, Stokehouse, Nomad and more.
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NewsA List of 35 Melbourne New Year's Eve Happenings in Case You Haven't Made Plans Yet
Whether you're after a cruisy rooftop party, fancy dinner or lavish cocktail soiree, Melbourne's got your last-minute New Year's Eve plans sorted.
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BarHotel Mexico
238 Whitehall Street, Yarraville
Hotel Mexico is Yarraville's huge group hang spot that's made for margarita-fuelled sessions.
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BarBendigo Hotel Collingwood
125 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Collingwood's legendary live music pub The Bendigo Hotel is back in action thanks to The Mill Brewery Crew.
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BarPunters Club
376 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Millennials and Gen Zs might lament the loss of Kewpie, but Gen X music lovers will rejoice in seeing this old boozer return to Brunswick Street.
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CafeMork Chocolate Looking Glass
13 Centre Place, Melbourne
The site is showcasing the team's unconventional chocolate bars, elaborate drinking chocolates that never made it onto the menu, chocolate cocktail pairings and creative desserts.
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BarWindsor Wine Room
60 Chapel Street, Windsor
Keep it classic with a rosé matched with burrata and oysters, or get a bit more playful by pairing a natty number with jerusalem artichoke and hazelnut gnocchi.
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BarChampagne Problems
238 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
If you loved drinking and dancing at Evie’s Disco Diner but now feel a little too old for it, consider a trip to its older sibling in the CBD.
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BarGreenhart Camberwell
1226 Toorak Road, Camberwell
This Melbourne wine bar is straying away from the usual European influences, instead showing how contemporary Asian food and Australian wines can be a perfect pairing.
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RestaurantHotel Lona
473 Nepean Highway, Frankston
A two-level venue with a restaurant, public bar and rooftop in one of Frankston’s oldest buildings.
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BarMoon Dog Wild West
54 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Make your way through the swinging saloon doors to find bucking bulls, arcade games, pool tables, a dog-friendly rooftop, and food and drinks aplenty.
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NewsHere's What's Open in Melbourne for Christmas Day Eats and Drinks in 2022
Forget cooking — spend Christmas eating and drinking with friends and family at Melbourne's top cafes, bars and restaurants.
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GuideThe Best New Year's Events Happening Around Melbourne to Help You Ring in 2023
Ring in the new year with disco tunes, a glitzy rooftop soiree or a boogie beneath the sea.
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GuideThe Most Popular Bars in Melbourne for 2022
These are the breweries, rooftop bars and cocktail haunts you flocked to last year.
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GuideThe Most Popular Cafes in Melbourne for 2022
From lauded coffee pit-stops to world-famous pastry spots, these are the Melbourne cafes that had you clicking this year.
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GuideThe Most Popular Restaurants in Melbourne for 2022
From modern Scandinavian diners to dapper new steakhouses — these are the spots you’ve been busy scouting out this year.
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NewsThe Royal Botanic Gardens' Newly Transformed Cafe and Events Space Opens This Weekend
Launching December 17, Darling Group's latest hospitality project is a leafy wonder, serving elevated brunch classics and a swag of picnic-friendly takeaway fare.
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EventWindsor Wine Room x St Hugo
Mon, 10 Mar - Sun, 23 Mar 2025
Windsor Wine Room, Windsor
Fine, Barossa red wine and fresh pasta pairings, just in time for autumn.
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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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NewsThe Best Advice Ever: How Lune's Kate Reid Became Australia's Croissant Queen by Chasing the Perfect Pastry
We chatted with Lune founder Kate Reid about swapping one dream for another, launching a cookbook after ten years of making baked goods and learning not to be a control freak.
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NewsBinge Has Teamed Up with Hop Nation on a Beer for Dogs — and They're Giving Away Free Tinnies
Inspired by comedy 'Colin From Accounts', and only available while free stocks last, Colin’s Pale Ale is a bone broth drop that's 100-percent for canines.
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NewsBennett St Dairy Is Doing Supremely Festive Red Velvet and White Chocolate Cookie Dough
Helping you up your Christmas baking game, the limited-edition flavour is on sale at 900-plus Woolworths stores Australia-wide.
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NewsPidapipo Just Opened a Shiny New Flagship Gelateria and Experimentation Lab in Fitzroy
The Brunswick Street space is serving up exclusive flavours, alongside pasticceria treats, gelato cakes and chocolate sauces on tap.
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NewsSouth Australian Brewing Legends Pirate Life Are Opening a South Melbourne Venue in 2023
Slated to open in the middle of next year, it'll make its home in a former mechanics garage with a fitout by Studio Gram.
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NewsHuge New Pizza and Party Destination NONO Has Landed on Sydney Road
A DJ-fuelled bar with space for 950, from the legends that gave us Welcome to Thornbury.
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NewsThese Four Wine Venues Have Been Dubbed Australia's Best by the 2022 Wineslinger Awards
Sydney's Dear Sainte Éloise is the country's best wine-sipping spot for 2022, while Victoria's Bar Merenda is the best new vino haunt.
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NewsCocktail Porter's DIY Gelato Messina Dulce de Leche Espresso Martini Kits Are Back for Summer
Level up your at-home drinks selection with Messina espresso martinis — and get everything you need to make them delivered to your door.
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NewsPt Leo Estate's Restaurant and Fine Diner Are Both Reopening This Month Following That May Fire
Laura and Pt Leo Restaurant are making a comeback sixth months on from the incident — and they're showing off a couple of new menus, too.
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NewsMegalo, Megalo, Megalo! Moon Dog Is Planning a Grand Beer Bar for the Famed Franco Cozzo Building
The brewery has submitted a planning application to build a 900-person venue at the iconic Footscray address — but the mural will be sticking around.
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NewsEight Ultimate Gifts for the Wine Lover in Your Life
Gifting a wine lover this holiday season? Let's think outside the bottle.
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NewsSydney's Josh and Julie Niland Just Scored the Game Changer Award From France's Prestigious La Liste
The French-based guide recognised the duo for changing "the way chefs use fish all over the world with [their] zero-waste 'fish butchery' approach".
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NewsMelbourne Food & Wine Festival Just Announced the Lineup for Its 2023 Headline Feasts
Alla Wolf-Tasker will be plating up the next edition of the World's Longest Lunch, while the World's Longest Brunch showcases treats by Beatrix's Nat Paull.
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NewsThe Rustica Crew Has Relaunched The Flying Duck Hotel with a Fresh Look and New Gastropub Menu
With more than 150 years under its belt, Prahran's famed backstreet pub has entered a new phase of existence.
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NewsAutomated Brewers, Parilla Grills and Charcoal Smokers: the Go-To Gift Guide for Your Favourite Hands-On Foodie
If you know the next master brewer, a die-hard foodie or a passionate at-home entertainer, we've done the legwork this gifting season.
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NewsAunty Donna Are Legit Dropping a $30 Bottle of Wine That's Literally Called '$30 Bottle of Wine'
Everyone will know how much you spent on vino thanks to Aunty Donna's new plonk — and yes, you should chug-a-lug it with a little bit of pud.
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NewsGimlet Is Getting a Sibling — a New Laneway Cocktail Bar by Andrew McConnell
The yet-to-be-named bar is coming our way sometime next winter.
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News'New Nordic' Diner Freyja Just Kicked Off a New Lunch Service
Lunch is finally on the menu at this modern Scandinavian diner — and yes, there's smørrebrød.
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NewsMerivale's Italian Diner Totti's Will Open Its First Victorian Outpost in the Lorne Hotel This Summer
Come February, the long-standing Great Ocean Road pub will play host to Australia's fifth Totti's venue — and the first-ever outside of New South Wales.
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NewsStokehouse Pasta & Bar Is the New Euro-Accented All-Day Eatery in the Former Pontoon Digs
Seaside snacks, crab spaghetti and $79 bottles of vino — meet the latest incarnation of this sun-drenched St Kilda spot.
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NewsBlack Star Has Created a Limited-Edition Festive Cake If You Fancy a Sweet White Christmas
Impress your Christmas crew with this snow-dusted vision of cherries, elderflower and white chocolate.
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NewsDeliveroo Has Shut Up Shop in Australia — Effective Immediately
The delivery company has announced that it's wrapping up its Australian operations, entering administration.
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NewsPicolo Is Australia's First Major Low- and No-Booze Drinks Festival Hitting Melbourne in February
A hangover-free tasting fest, complete with the latest Aussie drops, a roller rink and a live cocktail competition.
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NewsEight Laidback Melbourne Bars for Your Next Group Catch-Up (Where You Can Actually Hear Your Mates Talk)
Nab yourself a couch or booth at one of these cosy spots and settle in for some quality time with your crew.
