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NewsAte One Ate Is Glenferrie Road's New 180-Seat All-Day Eatery
Serving everything from coffee and cake to carrot hot dogs and carbonara.
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NewsAustralia's CUB Boycott Has Ended, Brewery Employees to Return to Work
A well fought fight deserves a big cold beer, and the best cold beer is okay to drink again.
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FeatureBest of 2016 Melbourne
These 30 outstanding Melbourne ventures have been handpicked by Concrete Playground for their combination of originality, innovation, creativity, approachability and sustainability.
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NewsWestern Australia's Colonial Brewing Co. Opens Port Melbourne Brewery
They've officially launched on the east coast.
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NewsGilson Is the New All-Day European-Style Eatery from the Team Behind Mammoth
It overlooks the Royal Botanic Gardens.
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NewsWhat's the Deal With 'Wild Fermentation' Wine?
We look into what it is and why the world is suddenly obsessed with it.
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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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NewsBrunswick's The Snug Public House Has Launched An Irish Vegan Menu
Hearty staples with a vegetable-focused twist.
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NewsFancy Hanks' New CBD Rooftop Bar, Good Heavens, Is Now Open
Where bright '80s-themed cocktails and barbecue bar snacks combine.
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NewsVelodrome Is Melbourne's New Four-Day Arts and Food Truck Festival
Eat, drink — and watch outdoor cinema, aerial circus, medieval performance fighting and Mexican wrestling, too.
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NewsA Cheese Advent Calendar Is the Edible Delight Your Festive Season Needs
Putting the cheese into Christmas.
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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 World's Best Sommeliers are Coming to Australia in 2017
Melbourne will host the greatest food and wine minds in the world.
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NewsTen of the Best Kit Kats That Are Only Available in Japan
We tried them all — from strawberry cheesecake to sake.
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NewsBiggie Smalls to Open a Second Store in Windsor
Chapel Street's kebab stakes have officially been raised.
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NewsPatient Wolf Is Melbourne's New Small Batch Gin Made in Brunswick
They're doing just 220 bottles per run.
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NewsWhere to Find the Best Brews in Adelaide's Craft Beer Scene
Beetroot saisons, Negroni IPAs and bacon beer worth travelling interstate for.
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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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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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EventTesselaar KaBloom Festival of Flowers
Sat, 29 Mar - Sun, 27 Apr 2025
Tesselaar Tulip Farm, Silvan
Give your autumn a blooming boost with this floral event, featuring flower displays, acrobats, food trucks and, for the first time, a soaring ferris wheel.
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EventCorteo — Cirque du Soleil
Fri, 22 Aug - Sun, 24 Aug 2025
John Cain Arena, Melbourne
Focusing on a clown imagining his funeral procession, this dazzling hit filled with acrobatic wonders features the Montreal-based company's first-ever central stage setup.
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GALLERY: Our Barbecue Masterclass with Work-Shop and The Farmed Table
Beers and barbecue lessons on a sunny spring afternoon.
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NewsSix Australian-Driven Bars and Restaurants to Visit in Hong Kong
Who knew you'd find a Western Australian iron ore mine-themed cocktail bar in HK?
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NewsRoyal Stacks' New Game Lets You Earn Free Food
Combining fun with freebies, and virtual burgs with the real thing.
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NewsMelbourne Food and Wine Festival Announces Cracking Lineup for 2017
Cemetery feasts, burger parties and classes from some of the world's best chefs.
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NewsThe Royal Croquet Club Is Coming Back to Melbourne for 2016
The food, music and leisurely summer sport festival will return to Birrarung Marr.
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NewsMelbourne's Ten Most Luxurious Foodie Experiences
Not just for special occasions — book a table now.
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NewsHow to Make Beetroot-Cured Kingfish With a Former Tetsuya's Chef
A former Tetsuya's chef shows us what to do.
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NewsNoma's Next Pop-Up Is An Outdoor, Open-Air Restaurant in Mexico
Expect chilli, seafood and mole, all while nestled between the jungle and the Caribbean Sea.
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NewsThis Lucky Beachfront Bar Just Landed Australia's First Beach Dining License
Bringing together our nation's two strongest assets: a hot beach and cold beers.
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NewsInstagram Cake Queen Katherine Sabbath Is Crowdfunding a Pop-Up Cookbook
Featuring adorable pop-up sections by Sydney artist Benja Harney.
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NewsAustralia's Campos Coffee Is Opening Its Very First US Cafe
Attendees at the next Sundance Film Festival can stay warm with an Aussie flat white.
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NewsTen Luxurious Places to Drink a Martini in Melbourne
Treat yourself to some vodka and vermouth.
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NewsWhat Does An Eat Art Truck Chef Cook at Home?
Founding chef Brenton Balicki whipped us up a home-cooked, three-course dinner party.
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NewsNew App FoodByUs Lets You Order Home-Cooked Meals from Your Neighbours
Like UberEats at grassroots level.
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NewsWhat to Expect at Sugar Mountain's Next Immersive 'Sensory' Restaurant
Feast on Peter Gunn creations surrounded by the soundtrack to Stranger Things.
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NewsQueensland Favourite Betty's Burgers Is Expanding to Sydney and Melbourne
Expect five types of burgers and Shake Shack-style frozen custard desserts.
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NewsA Brisbane Bar Is Phasing Out Plastic Straws to Save the Environment
Also on the agenda: a donation-for-a-straw scheme.
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NewsYou Can Now Buy Vegan Cookbooks Inspired by Morrissey and Nick Cave
Peas, peas let me get what I want.
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NewsMcDonald's In Italy Is Now Selling Nutella Burgers
Because humanity's love for Nutella truly knows no bounds.
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NewsSt Kilda's New Beachside Bar Pontoon Opens Inside Revamped Stokehouse Precinct
The Stokehouse site is rising from the ashes with the opening of its new beachside bar.
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NewsChin Chin's Chris Lucas Is Opening Another Kong on Smith Street in Fitzroy
The acclaimed restaurateur is heading north.
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NewsHow to Make Big Poppa's Next-Level Pasta from Scratch
Try the steak tagliata and semifreddo dessert too.
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NewsFive Highly Delicious Things to Do at Taste 2016
Learn how to cook with Melbourne's best chefs — and eat their hatted food without breaking the bank.
