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NewsHospitality Group Australian Venue Co Wants to Pay You to Eat and Drink at Its Bars and Pubs
The company is looking for 36 'secret sippers' to visit its venues, have a meal and provide monthly feedback.
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NewsPappa Rich Is Bringing Back Its Limited-Edition Nasi Lemak Burger This Autumn
And for three days, it's delivering 1000 of them through Doordash for $1 each.
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NewsEight Eateries to Seek Out When You're Road Tripping from Melbourne to Sydney
Swap servo stops for leisurely long lunches.
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NewsPoodle Upstairs Bar Is Now Open Two Nights a Week for Cocktail-Matched Snacking Sessions
Poodle Bar & Bistro has scored a new upstairs sibling, serving signature sips, gourmet charcuterie and caviar two nights a week.
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NewsNine Grown-Up Easter Treats To Hunt Down Around Melbourne
You're never too old for this Easter hunt.
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NewsGelatissimo Is Scooping Up Mint Chocolate Gelato Filled with Mini Easter Eggs for the Next Month
It's your new creative way to get your chocolate fix this Easter, and it also includes cookie crumbs.
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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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GuideSavour the Seasons: Where to Enjoy New Zealand's Most Exquisite Eats
No matter the time of year, there's something exciting to discover (and taste) year-round.
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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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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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GuideThe 22 Best Italian Restaurants in Melbourne
Melbourne's greatest Italian restaurants don't simply stick to the pizza and pasta game. These spots serve up all kinds of regional dishes that'll blow your carb-loving mind.
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GuideThe 14 Best French Restaurants in Melbourne Right Now
Live out your Parisian dreams with escargot, caviar, steak frites and lobster thermidor at these exceptional French diners in Melbourne.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Cafes of 2024
Here's where you've been getting your breakfast, brunch, lunch and caffeine fixes during 2024.
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NewsFive Regional Towns to Stop in When Road Tripping from Melbourne to Sydney
Expect baked goods galore — and spending the night in Australia's most haunted mansion (if you dare).
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NewsChris Lucas and Martin Benn Will Open Two-Storey Japanese Eatery Yakimono in the CBD This Year
It's set to open next door to sibling Society in the 80 Collins Street precinct by late 2021.
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NewsDin Tai Fung Is Now Serving Up Hot Cross Bao Filled with Molten Chocolate
You can enjoy them in-store, or get them delivered frozen to eat at home.
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NewsNine Signature Dishes to Try at Melbourne's New Shopping and Dining Precinct
Tuck into an international range of dishes that won't break the bank.
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NewsMr Black Is Doing Coffee Liqueur-Spiked Easter Eggs for Booze and Chocolate-Loving Grown Ups
A collaboration with chocolatier Meltdown Artisan, the dark chocolate eggs are filled with coffee liqueur caramel.
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NewsHandpicked Has Unveiled Its New Three-Level Cellar Door in the Packed 80 Collins Precinct
The luxe venue boasts a cheese, charcuterie and wine bar, plus a retail space complete with an 'experience room'.
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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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RestaurantReine & La Rue
380 Collins Street, Melbourne
The NOMAD team has taken French fine-dining to the next level in Melbourne.
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BarRuckers Hill
83 High Street, Northcote
This French-accented wine bar and bistro stands out among the crowd on Northcote's High Street.
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RestaurantChiki Chan & Hiki Bar
6 Centreway, Mordialloc
Chiki Chan is serving up playful Asian-fusion fare in Mordialloc — plus plenty of creative cocktails in its adjoining Hiki Bar.
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RestaurantIl Mercato Centrale Melbourne
546 Collins Street, Melbourne
Melbourne's Il Mercato Centrale is serving up pizza, pasta, calamari fritti, gelato, cannoli, cocktails, wine and so much more — to have in or take away.
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BarCircl Wine House
22 Punch Lane, Melbourne
Circl is making it so much easier to try rare wines with over 150 drops offered by the glass.
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RestaurantElio's Place
238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Elio's Place is serving up breakfast, lunch, aperitivo snacks and late-night dinners every day of the week in the CBD.
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NewsThe Victorian Government Has Announced an Extra $5 Million in Funding for Outdoor Dining
It has been allocated to 22 councils across the state, including 13 in metropolitan Melbourne.
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NewsYou Can Now Get DIY Gelato Messina Cocktails in Easter Eggs Delivered to Your Door
Cocktail Porter will deliver everything you need to make salted caramel cocktails inside Easter eggs — or espresso martinis inside Lindt bunnies.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Serving Up Super-Sticky Bake-at-Home Hot Cross Bun Scrolls for Easter
It comes filled with choc chips and vanilla custard, and topped with cinnamon malt caramel.
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NewsYou and Your Pooch Will Soon Be Able to Spend a Night at BrewDog's Australian Craft Beer Hotel
As part of its big Australian expansion plans, the beer brand is also setting up a second Brisbane bar, and launching its first sites in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
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NewsFive Food Stops to Make on a Road Trip from Canberra to the Coast This Autumn
Let your taste buds lead the way from jam-filled doughnuts to cheeseburger pies.
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NewsOne to Watch: A New Multipurpose Cocktail Lab Is Coming to Wollongong
A couple of bartenders are creating a collaborative and experimental space for the industry, plus a fun new place to drink in the Gong.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 31 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 32 films from 15 countries at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventIce Cream Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Various locations around Victoria, Melbourne
12 days. 144 flavours. Three venues. Many a brain freeze.
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EventThe Chinatown Precinct's Lunar New Year Block Party
Sun, 2 Feb, 2025
Chinatown Melbourne, Melbourne
Ring in the Year of the Snake with food stalls, local restaurant dining deals, cultural performances, a dragon parade, blessings, live music, a kids' area (with face-painting and craft classes) and a ...
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EventLe Bon Ton's Superbowl Party
Mon, 10 Feb, 2025
Le Bon Ton, Collingwood
Pair your Superbowl watching with hot wings, waffles and chicken, and Budweiser beers.
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EventGalentine's Day at Pincho Disco
Thu, 13 Feb, 2025
Pincho Disco, Collingwood
Gather your gals, gays and theys together for a big Latin American feast the day before Valentine's Day
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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NewsThese Six Big Ideas Have Been Voted Australia's Idea Lab Winners for 2021
From cocktail labs and mentorship programs to standardised sexual harassment policies.
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NewsLona Misa Is the Soon-to-Open Plant-Based Bar and Kitchen From Shannon Martinez and Ian Curley
Launching next month, the all-day venue will be serving up a fresh take on vegan and vegetarian eats.
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NewsDavid Jones Will Permanently Close Its Legendary Melbourne Bourke Street Mall Food Hall
The food store will close its doors next month.
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NewsKrispy Kreme Has Just Dropped a Limited-Edition Range of Biscoff Doughnuts
You can choose from two different doughnuts, each featuring Lotus Biscoff cookie butter spread — which is made from the crumbs of caramelised biscuits.
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NewsThese Australian Breweries and Beers Have Just Been Named the Best in the Country for 2021
They topped the competition at this year's Royal Queensland Food and Wine Show Beer Awards.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Releasing a Dulce de Leche Version of Its Indulgent Choc Chip Cookie Pie
The OTT dessert is back — this time, with swirls of dulce de leche.
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NewsWhat's Open in Melbourne This Labour Day Public Holiday
Your favourite spot may be closed this Monday, but these cafes, restaurants and bars will more than tide you over.
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NewsSt Kilda's Lau's Family Kitchen Is Closing Down After 15 Years of Service
The Acland Street mainstay will stop serving its signature Cantonese dishes at the end of March.
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NewsHotel Fitzroy Is Brunswick Street's New Multi-Level Pub with an Italian Diner and a Rooftop Bar
The 167-year-old Brunswick Street site has been reimagined, with renowned chef Maurizio Esposito heading up a brand-new kitchen offering.
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NewsNice Guys Is Victoria Street's New 70s-Inspired Microbrewery and Taproom
It's pouring porters made using whole vanilla pods and mango-tinged NEIPAs in a retrofuturistic space on Victoria Street.
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NewsFour Pillars Has Teamed Up with QT Hotels On a Limited-Edition Coconut, Bamboo and Almond Gin
You'll only be able to drink it at the hotel chain's bars — or you can order a bottle for your liquor cabinet.
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NewsUS Bakery Chain Cinnabon Is Finally Bringing Its Sticky Scrolls to Melbourne
Westfield Southland will soon be home to brand's first Melbourne store, which marks its first Australian location outside of Queensland.
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NewsMelbourne Electronic Music Hub XE54 Is Reopening In a Three-Storey Space with a 24-Hour Licence
The club night is returning with weekly parties in a new location.
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NewsBrunswick Aces Is Set to Be Melbourne's First Non-Alcoholic and Hangover-Free Bar
The new project from booze-free gin producer Brunswick Aces will see teetotallers and the sober curious spoilt for choice.
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NewsWe're Giving Away Free Rounds of Espresso Martinis at Ten Much-Loved Melbourne Bars
You'll get $100 to spend at one of the many great bars around town.
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NewsAttica Summer Camp Is Now Open for Rotisserie-Driven Picnic Feasts in the Yarra Valley
Complete with roo skewers, glasses of friesling and one heck of a dessert trolley.
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NewsGelato Messina Is Bringing Back Its Super-Fancy Version of Viennetta
It combines fior di latte gelato with choc chips and chocolate fudge, then covers it all with piped vanilla chantilly as well as a chocolate velvet spray.
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NewsThree Twists on the Classic Margarita You Should Make This Month
Shake things up with these zesty tipples.
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NewsMelbourne Has Scored a New Rooftop Bar and Outdoor Cinema From the Embla Crew
Serving Mediterranean snacks, a hefty wine list and a program of cinematic gems to see you through summer.
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NewsDom's Social Club Is the New Three-Level Pizzeria, Pool Room and Rooftop Bar in Melbourne's CBD
The former Peaches and Cheek space has been transformed into a laidback spot that feels distinctly like an Italian social club.
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NewsThe City of Melbourne's Outdoor Dining Program Has Been Extended Until the End of June
More than 200 outdoor dining parklets have popped up over the past few months.
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NewsCBD Cafe Hardware Societe Has Closed Indefinitely After More Than a Decade
A third lockdown has proved the final straw for the long-running laneway institution.
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NewsVegan Mylk, DIY Packs and Chanel-Inspired Glass Bottles: Melbourne's New Wave of Bubble Tea
These boba shops are swapping milk for mylk and single-use plastic for reusable, Instagram-friendly packaging.
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NewsThe Fork Festival Is Offering Half-Price Meals at Restaurants Across Australia for Six Weeks
Snag cheap eats at hundreds of restaurants across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane until the end of March.
