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NewsTen Melbourne CBD Lunches Under $10 to Get You Through Until Payday
Even if you're on your last ten bucks, you can still feast on ramen, curry and Michelin-starred meals.
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NewsYou Can Support Drought-Affected Farmers By Eating a Parma at These Pubs
Pubs across Australia are donating money from each parma sold to helping drought-affected communities.
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NewsSocial Enterprise Cafe Kinfolk Is Crowdfunding a New Volunteer-Run Eatery
Donate and you can score tickets to masterclasses, dinners, hampers and three months of bottomless coffee.
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NewsThis Hosier Lane Tapas Bar Has Launched a New On-Site Spanish Food and Wine Store
You'll find it inside Bar Tini, stocked with Frank Camorra's favourite Spanish wines and artisanal products.
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NewsJapan's Much-Loved MOS Burger Is Set to Open More Stores Across Australia
After testing the waters with six stores in Queensland, the Japanese chain will open 100 eateries in the next five years.
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NewsFood Artists Bompas & Parr Have Invented Non-Melting Icy Poles
They "last immeasurably longer than conventional ice lollies", and if they prove a hit, the London-based outfit will look at rolling out the desserts in supermarkets.
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GuideThe 14 Best Omakase in Melbourne or 2025
This multi-course Japanese dining experience has surged in popularity over the past few years — with sushi lovers fighting to get a reservation at the exclusive chef's tables.
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GuideThe 18 Best Indian Restaurants in Melbourne for 2025
Explore these Indian restaurants' menus with countless regional dishes — or just order a butter chicken and be done with it.
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GuideThe 40 Best Restaurants for Group Bookings in Melbourne
These spots are large (and rowdy) enough to host all your mates for dinner.
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GuideThe 25 Best Cafes in Melbourne for 2025
How does your favourite Melbourne cafe stack up against these brunch-filled, coffee-slinging, bloody mary-pouring haunts?
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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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GuideThe 51 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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NewsFour Spiced Rum Cocktail Recipes to Get You Through Winter
It's cold, it's wintry — so when you're not filling your tum with soup, warm it with rum.
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NewsAndrew McConnell's Supernormal Canteen Is Up For Sale
The acclaimed chef will focus on his other Melbourne restaurants, including the CBD's Supernormal.
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NewsFoodora Will Stop Delivery Across Australia Later This Month
It will withdraw from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on August 20.
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NewsBekka Is the Inner Northwest's New Modern Lebanese Destination
And it's claiming to have the city's best falafel.
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NewsClooney Kitchen & Bar Brings Jazz And Old-World Glamour to Port Melbourne
Named after Rosie Clooney, George's famous jazz musician aunt, it's serving up craft cocktails in a luxe art deco setting.
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RestaurantSt David Dairy
16-18 Saint David Street, Fitzroy
This Fitzroy establishment scales dairy back to its roots.
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RestaurantIshizuka
139 Bourke Street, Melbourne
This hidden CBD restaurant specialises in kaiseki — effortlessly serving up decadent (but seemingly simple) 11-course feeds to those looking to truly treat themselves.
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BarKolkata Cricket Club
Crown Melbourne, Southbank
Mischa Tropp's sports bar and restaurant at Crown Melbourne takes punters back to a bygone-era in India.
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BarOmnia Bistro & Bar
625 Chapel Street, South Yarra
The menu is stacked with contemporary takes on European classics — but you could simply drop by for the dry-aged roasted duck and a bottle of wine and be very happy.
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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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NewsWindsor's Alter Dining Has Closed Its Doors After Just Three Months
The original home of Saigon Sally will be used as a functions and events space.
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NewsTon & Co is Windsor's New Dedicated Tonkatsu Restaurant
It's taking Japan's traditional fried pork dish to new heights, using top Aussie meat cuts.
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NewsHow Cocktail Bitters Has Made Its Way onto Your Dinner Plate
And three recipes to try for yourself with a few drops of Angostura bitters.
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NewsCost Price Cafe Is Brisbane's Zero-Profit Coffee Truck
If it makes any profits, the prices of its food and drinks drop.
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NewsVeneziano Is Opening a Cafe Within Its Richmond Coffee Roastery Next Week
You'll be able to enjoy your cuppa in full view of the roasting operations
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NewsPreston's Much-Loved Food Truck Park Is Closing Next Weekend
But it has plans to reopen — bigger and better — in a new site soon.
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EventBaker's Dozen
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 30 Mar 2025
Federation Square, Melbourne
Melbourne's most-loved bakers and pastry icons are coming together for a huge pop-up bake shop at Fed Square.
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EventMoon Dog Bus and Beer Crawl
Sat, 22 Mar, 2025
Moon Dog World, Preston
Sample every brewery under the Moon Dog name on this intra-city adventure, which is travelling from Preston to Footscray for beers, bites and mechanical bull rides.
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EventPoodle Bar & Bistro's Fifth Birthday
Sun, 9 Mar, 2025
Poodle Bar & Bistro, Fitzroy
This birthday bash features hot Italian sandos, cocktails and other sips, and late-night DJs whipping up a ruckus.
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EventMoomba Festival
Thu, 6 Mar - Mon, 10 Mar 2025
Yarra River, Melbourne
Viral stars are taking over Fed Square, human-powered gliders will defy physics and 1300 performers are set to enliven the streets across five days of fun.
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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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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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NewsMelbourne's 400 Gradi Has Claimed the Title of Best Pizza In Oceania
Johnny Di Francesco's acclaimed pizzeria was crowned this week at the 50 Top Pizza awards in Naples.
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NewsElichi Is Black Rock's New Modern Indian Eatery From the Babu Ji Team
Opening mid-August, it'll serve a contemporary take on Indian dining, blending traditional flavours with local ingredients.
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NewsBomba's Spanish-Inspired Rooftop Bar Has Reopened After an Impressive Makeover
The Lonsdale Street space now has increased capacity, a fresh fitout and a renewed focus on gin.
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NewsThe Bar Liberty Team Is Opening a Modern Italian Bar in Carlton Next Month
Capitano will offer pizza and pasta alongside a long list of amari, cocktails and wine — and new wave Italo-disco tunes.
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NewsMelbourne's Inner West Has Scored A Tiny New Cafe and Wine Bar
Willow Wine Cafe rolls from breakfast through to wine o'clock with ease.
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NewsThe Leonard's House of Love Team Is Opening a Pizza Joint in Carlton
It'll serve up classic Italian-American-style pizza and is slated to open this summer.
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NewsLittle Lon Distilling Co Is Melbourne's New Inner City Gin Distillery
Head to this boutique distillery for tasty botanical gins served with a side of history.
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NewsWhere to Get Fries That Are More Than Just Fries in Your City
From haloumi chips and tater tots to fries loaded with slow-cooked brisket, feta and chilli, these dishes have taken the humble fry up a level.
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NewsBetty's Burgers Is Opening Its Second Melbourne Outpost in Windsor
The Queensland burger bar will soon be slinging its much-loved buns on Chapel Street.
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NewsFitzroy Favourite Moroccan Soup Bar Has Opened a Second Takeaway-Focused Outlet
Pick up a famed chickpea bake or Moroccan pizza to-go for lunch or dinner, seven days a week.
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NewsMelbourne's Beloved All-Vegan Pizza Joint Red Sparrow Just Doubled in Size
Which means more delicious dairy-free pizza and less lines.
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NewsAn Ill-Conceived Range of 'Handmaid's Tale' Wines Was Announced and Then Immediately Scrapped
Not every pop culture hit needs merchandise — particularly a show delving into dark dystopian terrain.
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NewsPidapipo Has Released a Stunning New Range Of Gelato Cakes
Including a Lamington Cake and a Peanut Butter Layer Cake — and they can be ordered via UberEats.
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GuideThe Best Cocktail Bars in Melbourne
Whether you want to drink a martini with spaghetti at 2am or pair a whisky concoction with a piece of peach pie, you can have your cocktail any which way in this city.
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NewsHawthorn's New Chinese Eatery Naxi Folk Brings a Taste of Yunnan To Melbourne
Just-opened on Glenferrie Road, the bamboo-filled eatery dishes up authentic Yunnan fare all day.
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NewsSt Kilda Institution The Espy Is Set to Undergo a Huge Revamp and Reopen This Year
It'll reopen in November with two restaurants, a cocktail bar and three stages for live music.
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NewsTaco Bell Has Announced Plans to Open More Stores Across Australia
With new stores expected to open before the end of the year.
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NewsAn Ambitious Multi-Million Dollar Dining and Retail Centre Is Opening in Chadstone This December
Featuring two restaurants helmed by Michelin-starred chefs and a shop stocking luxe local and international delicacies.
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NewsNavi Is Yarraville's New 25-Seat Restaurant From Acclaimed Chef Julian Hills
It'll dish up a five- or eight-course tasting menu brimming with creative touches and innovative technique
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NewsBass and Flinders' Truffle-Infused Gin Is Here to Fulfil Your Decadent Drinking Dreams
This winter, get your truffles in gin form.
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NewsYou Can Now Snack on Vegemite-Flavoured Popcorn for Some Reason
Pair your next cinema trip with this certain-to-be-polarising snack.
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NewsWe're Giving Away $200's Worth of Haigh's Chocolates
And we've got an indulgent recipe for you to try with your winning haul.
