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NewsGet God-Sent Mörk Hot Chocolate and Brownie Bundles Delivered to Your Desk
The best type of work deliveries are chocolate deliveries.
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NewsA New Two-Storey Gourmet Food Hall and Arts Space Is Coming to Preston Market
The Preston Fresh Hood Market will have street food, street art, a bar and a band room.
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GuideThe 40 Best Bars in Melbourne for 2025
Whether you're on the hunt for an extensive wine collection, a luxe date-night spot or a place to have a little boogie, these are our picks for the best bars in Melbourne.
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GuideWhere to Find the Best Coffee in Melbourne for 2025
Whether you're a coffee snob or an extra-weak latte lover, these top Melbourne coffee roasters and brewers will have what you need.
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GuideThe 21 Best Wine Bars in Melbourne for 2025
A guide for any wine lover in Melbourne, whether you want strictly organic, biodynamic and local drops or you don't really care — as long as they taste good and don't cost a fortune.
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GuideMelbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Undeniably, Unabashedly Romantic
Low lighting, jazz playlists, opulent cocktails — these top Melbourne date spots will help you to start planning the perfect Valentine's Day.
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GuideThe Best Bars in Melbourne with Beer Gardens and Boozy Courtyards for 2025
Save cosy pub corners for the depths of winter — it's time to drink a brew out in the open at these fab Melbourne beer gardens.
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GuideThe 15 Best Sports Bars and Pubs in Melbourne for 2025
These Melbourne bars and pubs play local and international sporting matches live and loud throughout the week — from AFL, NRL and cricket to soccer, tennis, boxing and basketball.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Bars of 2024
Sprawling breweries, neighbourhood pubs, CBD cocktail spots and cosy wine bars — they’ve all grabbed your attention so far this year.
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NewsEight Melbourne Parks Fit For a BYO Booze Picnic (and Where to Pick Up Snacks Beforehand)
Head to the park for a boozy picnic with the finest snacks you can find along the way.
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GuideThe Best Brewery Bars in Melbourne for 2024
Sip chilled pints just metres from away where the beer was was brewed at these much-loved taprooms.
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GuideThe 22 Best Pubs in Melbourne
Looking for a new local? This list of classic Melbourne boozers and more contemporary gastropubs will suit all beer and parma enthusiasts.
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NewsFind an Election Day Sausage Sizzle Near You with This Genius Online Map
What a time to be alive.
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NewsThe Crux & Co Is South Melbourne's New Home of Pretty Pastries and Clever Cafe Fare
Expect decadent cakes alongside squid ink garlic toast and killer coffee.
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GuideNine Melbourne High-Flyers to Splurge at Before the End of the Financial Year
Call a 'meeting' tonight.
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NewsAustralian Hospitality Empire Keystone Group Has Gone Into Receivership
The owners of Cargo Bar, Jamie's Italian, Manly Wine and more are selling the whole portfolio.
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BarHotel Mexico
238 Whitehall Street, Yarraville
Hotel Mexico is Yarraville's huge group hang spot that's made for margarita-fuelled sessions.
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BarBendigo Hotel Collingwood
125 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Collingwood's legendary live music pub The Bendigo Hotel is back in action thanks to The Mill Brewery Crew.
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BarPunters Club
376 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Millennials and Gen Zs might lament the loss of Kewpie, but Gen X music lovers will rejoice in seeing this old boozer return to Brunswick Street.
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CafeMork Chocolate Looking Glass
13 Centre Place, Melbourne
The site is showcasing the team's unconventional chocolate bars, elaborate drinking chocolates that never made it onto the menu, chocolate cocktail pairings and creative desserts.
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BarWindsor Wine Room
60 Chapel Street, Windsor
Keep it classic with a rosé matched with burrata and oysters, or get a bit more playful by pairing a natty number with jerusalem artichoke and hazelnut gnocchi.
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BarChampagne Problems
238 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
If you loved drinking and dancing at Evie’s Disco Diner but now feel a little too old for it, consider a trip to its older sibling in the CBD.
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BarGreenhart Camberwell
1226 Toorak Road, Camberwell
This Melbourne wine bar is straying away from the usual European influences, instead showing how contemporary Asian food and Australian wines can be a perfect pairing.
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RestaurantHotel Lona
473 Nepean Highway, Frankston
A two-level venue with a restaurant, public bar and rooftop in one of Frankston’s oldest buildings.
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BarMoon Dog Wild West
54 Hopkins Street, Footscray
Make your way through the swinging saloon doors to find bucking bulls, arcade games, pool tables, a dog-friendly rooftop, and food and drinks aplenty.
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NewsAqua S Has Opened Its First Melbourne Ice Cream Parlour
An ice-creamery with its head in the clouds.
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NewsThe Ten Best Hearty Roasts in Melbourne
There's nothing quite like a juicy, slow-cooked, gravy-drenched roast.
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NewsPhilippe Mouchel Is Bringing Fancy Rotisserie Chicken Back to Melbourne's CBD
The French chef has just opened his new venture, Philippe.
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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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EventAustralian International Documentary Conference
Sun, 2 Mar - Wed, 5 Mar 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
Must-see Oscar-nominees 'Black Box Diaries' and 'Sugarcane' lead the lineup at this celebration of factual filmmaking.
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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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NewsMPD Steak Kitchen Opens in Berwick
They've managed to coax an ex-Vue de Monde chef out to the suburbs.
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NewsFancy Hanks Is Opening a Two-Storey BBQ Emporium on Bourke Street
And it'll have a deli, a dessert cabinet and a sweet rooftop.
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NewsFive Classic Bourbon Cocktails (and Where to Get Them in Melbourne)
From Don Draper's favourite to a drink named after a 1920s Parisian magazine.
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NewsMassi Is Melbourne's Newest All-Day Italian Restaurant
Your new CBD pitstop for all things Sicilian — including Aperitivo Hour.
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NewsHappy Place Is South Melbourne Market's New Health Food Cafe
Lola Berry has teamed up with St Ali's Salvatore Malatesta to create a haven of all things healthy.
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NewsMelbourne's Landed a NY-Style 'Pizza by the Slice' Joint
And they're celebrating with 100 free slices of pizza.
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NewsPlug Nickel Is Collingwood's New Hole-in-the-Wall Cafe, Hairdresser and Bike Shop
The idea is to have you in and out within three minutes flat.
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NewsBelle's Hot Chicken Is Opening a Southside Restaurant
Windsor is getting some fucking hot chicken.
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NewsGontran Cherrier's Collingwood Boulangerie Is Finally Opening
And he's giving out free croissants to celebrate.
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NewsMelbourne's Attica Takes Out the No. 33 Posi on World's Best Restaurants List
Shewry, we're so proud.
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NewsMelbourne Will Host the World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards in 2017
It will be only the second time they've been held outside of London.
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NewsThis Personal Brewery Lets You Make Beer in Your Own Home
So goodbye to your mate's bathtub homebrew
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NewsYou Can Help Crowdfund Collingwood's New Social Enterprise Cafe
Home STREAT Home will provide employment and training to disadvantaged young people around Melbourne.
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NewsThree Steps for Creating Real Texas Barbecue from a Certified Barbecue Boss
Kevin Bludso is one of North America's best barbecuers. Here's how he does it.
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NewsGrub Food Van Is Running Cooking Classes Hosted by Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Produce Persian pickles like a pro.
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NewsChin Chin's Chris Lucas Is Opening a Three-Storey Japanese Restaurant on Flinders Lane
And it's set to have an intimate, eight-seat omakase-style bar.
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NewsBaron Samedi Is Hosting a Tonne of Winter Rum Pop-Ups
Rum will come together with live music at venues across Melbourne and Sydney.
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NewsThe Bitters Lab Is Fitzroy's New Dedicated One-Stop Bitters Shop
Take your drink-mixing skills to the next level.
