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NewsWe're Giving Away Passes to Goose Island's Chicago Street Fest
Join the flock for Migration Week, featuring American snacks and plenty of Chicagoan beer to go around.
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NewsFour Pillars' All-Australian Christmas Gin Returns for 2017
The Victorian distillery has created a gin that's basically Christmas in a bottle.
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NewsFood critic Max Brearley's Top Ten Spots for Gastronomes in Margaret River
Eat your way across one of Australia's premier food and wine regions.
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Gallery: Our 'Four Elements'-Themed Dinner at The Stoneleigh Project
Earth, water, fire and air all combined to create a decadent meal paired with wild fermented wines.
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NewsWine Entrepreneur Glen Cassidy's Top Ten Foodie Hot Spots in Sydney
Experience one of the finest dining and drinking scenes on the planet, on the advice of a host with the most.
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NewsThe Easiest and Hardest Bars to 'Ghost' From in Melbourne
If you feel like you might need to make a sneaky exit, plan your night accordingly.
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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 New Tasmanian Distillery Is Making the Equivalent of Ten-Year-Old 'Whisky' in Just Ten Weeks
Deviant Distillery is creating a spirit that apparently tastes like whisky, but takes much less time — and water — to produce.
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NewsThis Tokyo Eatery Just Launched a Ramen Subscription Service
Tokyo residents can now get a bowl of ramen a day for a flat monthly rate.
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NewsEurope Is Getting Its First Underwater Restaurant
Eat seafood under the sea at Norway's marine-set and -themed eatery, Under.
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NewsWickens at Royal Mail Hotel Is Dunkeld's New Fine Dining Restaurant Surrounded by Bush
The menu is centred around produce grown on-site and the floor-to-ceiling windows capture striking views of The Grampians.
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NewsBehind the Cooking of Our 'Four Elements'-Themed Dinner
We asked Project Forty Nine head chef Tim Newitt how he harnessed the elements to create a sensory wine-matched dinner.
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NewsWe're Giving Away a Swish Trip to Melbourne Cup Emirates Stakes Day for You and Your Luckiest Friend
Featuring a five-star hotel, a private car with chauffeur and plenty of Mumm Champagne to go around.
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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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NewsTokyo's Adorable Watermelon Ice Cream Sandwich Has Arrived in Melbourne
Originally created by Dominique Ansel, the dessert is now being served up by Milkcow.
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NewsMelbourne's Got a New Vegan Pub — and There's Not a Parma in Sight
Featuring house-made falafel, halva ice cream and sparkling kombucha on tap.
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NewsMelbourne's Waterside Hotel Has Relaunched as a Three-Storey Multi-Space Pub and Rooftop Bar
The historic building now features five separate hospitality spaces, including a Champagne lounge and a craft beer bar.
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NewsAustralia's First Ever Avocado Cafe Is Popping Up in Sydney
The month-long pop-up will have over 20 avocado items on the menu.
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NewsThe Ascot Lot Is Melbourne's Newest Pop-Up Food Truck Park
As well as food trucks on weekends, the Ascot Vale park will have a jaffle stand open seven days a week.
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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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NewsAll New Gourmet Adventures to Head the Line-Up at Taste of Melbourne 2017
Start planning your way through the four-day extravaganza of food, art and entertainment.
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NewsNew App EatClub Offers Last-Minute Discounts at Some of Melbourne's Best Restaurants
It allows restaurants to offer real-time discounts at specifically slow or off-peak periods.
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NewsLook Inside a Huge, CBD Pop-Up Installation Exploring Art and Wine
Wander into The Stoneleigh Project to discover the world of wild fermentation.
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NewsYou Can Own a Piece of Noma's Luxe Scandinavian Decor
As the top restaurant prepares to move to a new Copenhagen site, it's selling off its existing furniture and tableware.
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NewsRyne Is the New Fitzroy North Fine Diner from Acclaimed Chef Donovan Cooke
The acclaimed chef is offering up a modern riff on classic French flavours.
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NewsWe're Hosting A 'Four Elements'-Themed Wine Tasting and Dinner and You're Invited
Explore the four elements through food, wine and an immersive installation.
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NewsMerah Is Northcote's New Home of Malaysian Street Food
Serving up fresh and spicy Malaysian flavours with a few Melbourne twists.
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NewsHawthorn's Piccolina Gelateria Is Opening a New Ice Cream Shop in Collingwood
It will be the gelateria's flagship store with a tiled pozetti bench, an open kitchen and a bar for lingering over ice cream.
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NewsMelbourne's Huge Outdoor Night Noodle Markets Are Back for Another Year
One of Melbourne's biggest Asian food events returns for 18 nights of noodles, dumplings and other delights.
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NewsAmsterdam's Dedicated Avocado Eatery Might Be Expanding to Australia
Featuring avo roses on toast, avo poke bowls, avo ice cream and avo daiquiris.
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NewsLello Pasta Bar Is Melbourne's New All-Day Mediterranean Eatery
Now serving up Italian breakfasts, early morning cocktails and eight types of regional-influenced pastas.
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NewsFour Pillars' First-Ever Bottled Cocktail Is Your Zesty New Spring Drink
The amber concoction is aged in both Maidenii vermouth and chardonnay barrels.
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GuideMelbourne's Least Awkward Spots for a First Date
Because first dates are nail-biting enough without the added challenge of picking a good place.
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GuideWhere to Become Human Again in Melbourne After a Big Night Out
Some of Melbourne's best places to turn your hangover around.
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NewsFive Deliciously Perfect Wines for Springtime Drinking
Dust off the credit card, it’s time to spring clean your cellar.
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NewsThis Melbourne Bar Has Been Named as One of the World's 50 Best Bars for 2017
Black Pearl and Sydney's Baxter Inn both took out awards at the awards in London last night.
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NewsWe're Giving You the Chance to Win a $150 Voucher to Spend at The Recreation
Just nine little questions stand between you and Fitzroy North's latest wine bar, bottle shop and bistro comfort food.
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GuideWhere to Eat Burgers in Melbourne when Mondayitis Hits Hard
Melbourne’s best and most cheerful restaurants for a burg and a brew when you need it most.
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GuideWhere to Eat Solo When You Just Need Some You Time
Just because you're hermitting that doesn't mean you have to eat every meal at home.
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GuideWhere to Drink Good Wine in Melbourne After a Tough Day at Work
Establishments to cater to any post-work need (or crisis).
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GuideWhere to Eat in the City When You Want to Feel Like the Boss
Places that are ideal for smart lunches with big groups of friends or colleagues.
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NewsSaigon Sally's Thai Successor BKK Is Set to Open in Windsor This Week
The Vietnamese venue has been reimagined as a serious Thai restaurant.
