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NewsCollingwood Brewery Molly Rose Is Expanding Next Door — and Adding a Stack of New Features
Opening in February, the supercharged site will boast a new bar, a huge beer garden, and a chef's table celebrating the art of food-and-beer pairing.
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NewsUberEats Is Sending a Bar in a Car Around Sydney and Melbourne to Pour Cocktails in Your Driveway
Get a travelling tavern brought to your door, complete with Maybe Sammy's Stefano Catino hosting cocktail masterclasses.
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NewsThe Mulberry Group Has Revived the Eatery at Heide — and Homegrown Produce Is the New Hero
The gallery's new daytime diner boasts lush surrounds, and a menu of ingredients plucked fresh from the onsite kitchen gardens.
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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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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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GuideThe 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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GuideThe Best Bakeries in Melbourne
Crusty sourdough loaves, flaky croissants, shiopans and shokupans, cookies and doughnuts, bagels and ficelles, pies and pasties, and everything in between.
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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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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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RestaurantLune Croissanterie
Situated beneath the Ritz Carlton at 670 Lonsdale Street, the mega store marks Melbourne's second production site.
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RestaurantTres a Cinco
3-5 Hosier Lane, Melbourne
The vibrant menu showcases classic dishes cooked with love and care, and packed full of flavour.
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RestaurantMamasita
1/11 Collins Street, Melbourne
The always-evolving menu spans snack plates and taqueria plates, tacos to generous sharing mains, all anchored by an enviable selection of margaritas and cocktails.
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RestaurantCoupette
90 Queens Bridge Street, Southbank
As a hotel venue, it moves seamlessly from morning coffee to late-night cocktails, and is well-suited to everything from a quick snack to a celebratory meal.
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RestaurantPinto Tiramisu
106 Leicester Street, Fitzroy
While the classic tiramisu variety is a menu staple, other flavours that change with the seasons may include strawberry matcha, gingerbread, or chocolate hazelnut.
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RestaurantFrankie's Tortas and Tacos
30 Johnston Street, Fitzroy
With some of the rarest and highest-quality tequilas and mezcals on offer, Frankie’s has even launched an agave club to help educate and showcase premium agave spirits.
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RestaurantBar Yarra
234 Toorak Road, South Yarra
Perfect for a post-work pop-in, Bar Yarra's boasts an impressive happy hour from 5 to 7pm, and even hosts DJs spinning nostalgic vinyls for Throwback Thursdays.
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RestaurantSantito
174 Smith Street, Collingwood
While the smell of fresh tortillas and spit-roasted meats may be familiar, Santito brings a refreshed energy and new direction to the Smith Street site.
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RestaurantGimlet at Cavendish House
33 Russell Street, Melbourne
Andrew McConnell's elegant cocktail bar and European bistro serves up caviar, champagne and truffles aplenty.
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RestaurantCleo, Hyde Melbourne Place
130 Russell Street, Melbourne
The rooftop drinking and dining destination welcomes Eastern Mediterranean flavours and old-world cooking techniques.
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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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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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EventFebruary at Peninsula Hot Springs
Tue, 27 Jan - Fri, 27 Feb 2026
Peninsula Hot Springs, Fingal
Soak up summer while it lasts with midweek two-for-one bathing, Lunar New Year festivities and romantic Valentine's escapes.
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EventSt Kilda Festival 2026
Sat, 14 Feb - Sun, 15 Feb 2026
St Kilda Foreshore, St Kilda
This beloved summer staple is back, serving up another edition loaded with exceptional local music talent and feel-good community vibes.
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EventDewberry Roller-Rama by The Body Shop at Queensbridge Square
Fri, 13 Feb - Sun, 15 Feb 2026
Queensbridge Square, Southbank
The fragrance of the 90s is officially back, so celebrate with a free, nostalgic roller rink experience happening over Valentine's Day weekend.
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EventRoyal Stacks 10th Birthday Celebration
Multiple single dates
Royal Stacks, Melbourne
Throwing it back to 2016, this Melbourne-born burger spot is celebrating a decade of mouthwatering takeaway with free burgers and OG prices.
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EventLaunch Weekend at Upstate Oakleigh
Sat, 28 Feb - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
Upstate Oakleigh, Oakleigh
Get in a high-energy workout in the southeast, as this rapidly growing brand of Pilates studios launches its latest wellness destination in Oakleigh.
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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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EventJackalope Cinema 2026
Sun, 1 Mar - Tue, 31 Mar 2026
Jackalope Hotel Mornington Peninsula, Merricks North
Make your Mornington Peninsula stay even more picture-perfect, with this month-long open-air cinema program.
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EventUNO Social Club at Hotel Esplanade
Mon, 2 Feb - Mon, 2 Mar 2026
Hotel Esplanade, Saint Kilda
Combine nostalgia and nightlife, as this card game experience transforms this much-loved Melbourne pub into an UNO-themed escape.
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Event15th Birthday BBQ Summer Series at Toorak Cellars
Sun, 1 Feb - Sun, 15 Mar 2026
Toorak Cellars, Armadale
No ordinary backyard barbecue, this seven-week birthday celebration sees top Melbourne chefs team up to showcase their masterful skills with the tongs.
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EventRooftop Pickleball at Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street
Wed, 21 Jan - Sat, 28 Feb 2026
Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street, Melbourne
Level up your pickleball skills in style, as this CBD hotel brings back its sunny rooftop court for the tennis season.
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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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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.
