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FeatureBest of 2017 Melbourne
These 36 outstanding Melbourne ventures have been handpicked by Concrete Playground for their combination of originality, innovation, creativity, approachability and sustainability.
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NewsGelato Messina Has Taken on the Humble Trifle for This Year's Christmas Lunch
Tell your nan she doesn't need to make a trifle this year.
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NewsThis Pun-Filled Pop Culture Cookbook is Kickstarter's Latest Gem
Featuring 'Chicken Kebob Dylan', 'Fleetwood Mac & Cheese', 'Gin Diesel' cocktails and and 'Wu-Tang Clam Chowder'.
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NewsOne of Melbourne's Best Whisky Bars Is Opening Its Epic Whisky Cellar to the Public
Whisky & Alement is letting you shop its famed collection of rare, discontinued and hard-to-find bottles — for the first time in eight years.
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NewsThe Melbourne Food And Wine Festival Has Unveiled Its Jam-Packed 2018 Program
Featuring speed wine tasting, a barbecue block party, and much, much more.
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NewsSingapore's Michelin-Starred Eatery Hawker Chan Is Opening in Melbourne
Chef Chan Hon Meng's acclaimed soy sauce chicken will soon be sold on Lonsdale Street.
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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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NewsThis Futuristic Floating Fish Will Serve Cocktails and Mexican Food on the Yarra This Summer
The Supafish be will be located on the Yarra until the end of February.
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FeatureNew in Town: Takeaway Pizza
Across the road from its OG venue, the Dexter team has opened a takeaway pizza joint that doubles as a by-the-slice wine bar.
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NewsPizza Hut Has Opened a Sydney 'Concept' Store in an Attempt to Win Back Millennials
Pizza Hut brings its age-old all-you-can-eat model to modern space (with neon!) that looks absolutely nothing like a Pizza Hut.
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NewsThis Singapore Bar Has Created a Cocktail Menu You Can Eat
The edible list uses different flavoured gummy bears to help you choose your perfect cocktail.
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NewsMelbourne's Brunetti Enters a Fresh Era with New Contemporary 300-Seat CBD Cafe
It looks quite different to the legendary pasticceria's previous digs.
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NewsMeet Hungry Bear, Melbourne's New Great Outdoors-Inspired Pizza Bar
Serving 15 varieties of pizza and an all-Aussie drinks list.
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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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NewsThe Best Japanese Restaurants in Melbourne
From sashimi to sake and korokke to katsu, here are ten of the best places to fill up on Japanese nosh.
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NewsA Japanese Company Has Invented Non-Melting Ice Cream
An extract from strawberries helps these popsicles keep their shape, even in the heat.
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NewsFive Varieties of Loaded Fries to Discover at the Night Noodle Markets
There's not much that's better than fries — except when they're loaded up with even more tasty treats.
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GuideWhere to Eat When You Want to Be Healthy but a Cleanse Sounds Like Hell
Healthy doesn't have to mean boring.
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NewsThe Best Rooftop Bars in Melbourne
Rise above the burning concrete and escape to the echelons of summer delight.
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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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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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NewsItaly's Huge Food Theme Park Has Finally Opened
Featuring more than 40 places to eat, over 100 stalls and shops, and a dedicated parmesan cheese bar.
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NewsUncle Tetsu's Cult Favourite Japanese Cheesecakes Are Coming to Melbourne
The world's most coveted Japanese cheesecakes are coming to Melbourne.
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NewsFive Ways to Finally Start Drinking Sake This Summer
Drinking sake shouldn't just happen at sushi restaurants — pop it in a spritz or take a pull-tab can to a picnic.
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NewsA New Food And Entertainment Precinct Is Coming to Melbourne's Northern Suburbs
Westfield Plenty Valley's revamp will feature a diverse lineup of food vendors and a brand new cinema.
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NewsTen Things to Try at Melbourne's Night Noodle Markets This Year
Melbourne's Asian food scene will descend upon Birrarung Marr for 18 days. Are you prepared?
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NewsFashion and Booze Collide In Maurice Terzini and Justin O'Shea's New Goldy Gin
The two fashion heavyweights are launching their own no-fuss tipple.
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NewsThis New Initiative Wants to Turn Sydney Into the World's Biggest Urban Vineyard
The Urban Vineyard Project is giving away free grapevines, and asking Sydneysiders to grow them on their porches, windowsills and in their backyards.
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NewsA Look Inside Longsong, Longrain's New Upstairs Bar and Eatery
Eat skewers and sip bespoke spirits in a former second-storey horse stable.
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NewsGrapest Is Bringing Its Wine-Tasting Fun Runs Back for 2018
Exercise and drinking combine across the nation's vineyards.
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NewsTwo Melbourne Cafes Are Giving Free Coffee to Anyone with a Reusable Cup
Save some money and help save the environment at the same time.
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NewsVirtual Cocktails Could Soon Make Water Taste Like Your Favourite Tipple
The futuristic glass stimulates your senses to alter your perception of what you're drinking.
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NewsGood Measure Co Is Australia's New Personalised Artisan Chocolate Delivery Service
Send sweets with your own heartfelt message, with same-day arrival in Sydney and free delivery across the country.
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NewsGoogle's New Feature Will Help You Skip the Line at Your Favourite Restaurants
Find out just what kind of delay you're in for, and work out if that decadent dessert is really worth the wait.
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NewsThe Best Boozy Advent Calendars for Christmas-Loving Grown Ups
From beers and wine, through to top Aussie gins and the best drams from around the world.
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NewsSydney's Viking-Themed Carvery and Bar Mjolner Is Set to Open in Melbourne
The "contemporary Viking luxe" bar will take over the Hardware Lane space once home to Nieuw Amsterdam.
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NewsRené Redzepi's Noma 2.0 Will Take Bookings From Next Week
The two-Michelin star restaurant will open its next iteration in February 2018.
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NewsMelbourne's Inner North Has a New Weekly Food and Wellness Market
The new Rose Street market will showcase a top selection of local food producers each Saturday.
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NewsMelbourne's Home of Fairy Floss Hot Chocolate Has Opened a Camberwell Cafe
Hash Specialty Coffee has launched a second location for its decadent breakfast treats.
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NewsLaneway Greens Has Opened a New Licensed Late-Night Wholefoods Canteen
Unlike its 12-seat Flinders Lane venue, the Richmond restaurant has room for 60 diners and serves up coffee and booze.
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NewsThornbury's Moor's Head Has Opened a Second Middle Eastern Pizza Joint
As well as its much-loved pizzas, the Carlton eatery has added haloumi fries and a Middle Eastern tiramisu to its menu.
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NewsArbory's Floating Bar Returns to the Yarra for Another Season
The 50-metre-long pontoon bar and restaurant will take up residence on the Yarra for summer.
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FeatureNew in Town: Mount Erica Hotel
This Prahran pub's dormancy is over — and, thanks to the team behind the Marquis of Lorne, has many more glory years ahead of her.
