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GuideThe Ten Best Events to Drink at During Good Beer Week 2016
Ten straight days of workshops, samplings and potential liver damage.
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NewsThe Ten Best BYO Restaurants in Melbourne
Offset the damage to your wallet on your next night out.
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NewsSMÄK Food House Is South Yarra's Newest Health-Focused Cafe
Brunch brunch brunch brunch brunch.
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NewsMelbourne's New Club Untz Untz Rocks a Casual 24-Hour License
And a god damn light-up dancefloor. We're set.
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NewsMr Ottorino Is Johnston Street's New Southern Italian Restaurant
Fitzroy just scored a new place for fresh fregola, cannoli and Sicilian beer.
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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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GuideSavour the Seasons: Where to Enjoy New Zealand's Most Exquisite Eats
No matter the time of year, there's something exciting to discover (and taste) year-round.
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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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GuideThe 21 Best BYO Restaurants in Melbourne
Head to your local bottle shop or pilfer your own wine collection before hitting these Melbourne BYO restaurants.
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NewsGelato Messina's Beautiful Handmade Chocolate Boxes Are Back for Mother's Day
Cream cheese gelato bon bon, Mum?
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NewsChef Adam Liston to Open New Yakitori and Seafood Restaurant Honcho in the CBD
The Northern Light chef's new venture will be built from the ground up.
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NewsGlen Huntly's Workshop Brothers Has Opened a Second Cafe in the CBD
These brewing brothers are bringing quality coffee to Queen Street.
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NewsThis New App Helps You Find the Cheapest Booze in Town
The result of a beer-goggled brain explosion, because of course it was.
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NewsThis Brooklyn Pizzeria Has Invented a Pizza Box Made Out of Pizza
Introducing your new pizza messiah.
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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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NewsMarket Lane Have Opened a Brand New CBD Coffee Shop on Collins Street
And, true to form, it's as aesthetically pleasing as ever.
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NewsSt Kilda's George Hotel to be Reborn as Freddie Wimpoles
Featuring New York deli-style food and a rotating lineup of craft beers.
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NewsWhite Mojo Is Melbourne's New Home of Croissant Burgers and Cauliflower Pannacotta
Melbourne, you've outdone yourself.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 31 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 32 films from 15 countries at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventIce Cream Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Sun, 23 Feb 2025
Various locations around Victoria, Melbourne
12 days. 144 flavours. Three venues. Many a brain freeze.
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EventThe Chinatown Precinct's Lunar New Year Block Party
Sun, 2 Feb, 2025
Chinatown Melbourne, Melbourne
Ring in the Year of the Snake with food stalls, local restaurant dining deals, cultural performances, a dragon parade, blessings, live music, a kids' area (with face-painting and craft classes) and a ...
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EventLe Bon Ton's Superbowl Party
Mon, 10 Feb, 2025
Le Bon Ton, Collingwood
Pair your Superbowl watching with hot wings, waffles and chicken, and Budweiser beers.
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EventGalentine's Day at Pincho Disco
Thu, 13 Feb, 2025
Pincho Disco, Collingwood
Gather your gals, gays and theys together for a big Latin American feast the day before Valentine's Day
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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NewsStomping Ground Brewing Co. Is Collingwood's New Craft Brewery
From the heroes behind The Local Taphouse and GABS Beer Festival.
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NewsHost Is Brunswick's New Nighttime-Focused Eatery
The couple that brought us Twenty & Six have opened a new venue with a focus on dinner.
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NewsWelcomeOver Is the New Australian Website for Crowdsourcing Dinner Parties
Like Airbnb, but pairing amateur chefs with your kitchen.
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NewsDZ Deathrays Have Released Their Own Beer
They've teamed up with Young Henrys to make 'Pils 'n' Thrills'.
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NewsThe Ten Best Markets in Melbourne
Spend your Saturday shopping for produce and your Sunday sifting for hidden treasure.
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NewsMeet Capital Brewing, Canberra's New Craft Brewery
Australia's capital is joining the craft party.
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NewsLet's Waffle N' Shake Is Melbourne's Latest Food Truck and It Is Truly Spectacular
Where the waffles are covered in whipped cream and oreos and the milkshakes are made with salted caramel and popcorn.
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NewsFlour Market Is Launching a Raw, Vegan, Gluten Free Spinoff
Raw cookies, vegan brownies and other sweet treats to make you swoon.
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NewsMelbourne Burger Maestro Jimmy Hurlston to Open Sydney Eatery, Guilty
The Easey's founder is taking his burgs north.
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NewsVegans Rejoice, Smith & Daughters Are Releasing a Cookbook
This might just be your key to unlocking the vegan kingdom.
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NewsGROW Assembly Is Melbourne's New Hospitality Symposium
Get a leg-up into the world of hospo with the help of Melbourne food royalty.
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NewsRoyal Stacks Has Opened a Second Burger Joint in Brunswick
The wildly popular burgers and frozen custard creations have come to Sydney Road.
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NewsA Milkcow Soft Serve Pop-Up Has Opened in Melbourne
Soft serve sundaes topped with everything from fairy floss clouds to a shot of espresso.
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NewsA Food Theme Park Is Opening in Italy Next Year
As if you needed another reason to visit Italy.
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NewsTen Awesome Cellar Doors Worth Visiting in NSW
Some you'll need to road trip to, others are walkable.
