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NewsMatcha Mylkbar Is Now Open in St Kilda
With beetroot lattes, coconut bacon, vegan 'eggs' and lots of matcha.
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NewsMelbourne Has a New Pizza Joint Dedicated to Beer, Wine and Calzone
The city's own low-cal calzone zone.
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NewsPierre Roelofs' Dessert Evenings Return to the Inner North
Definitely this week's most exciting resurrection.
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NewsMeet Tripod Coffee, Australia's New Sustainable Pod Startup Taking on Nespresso
Run by two former Aussie cricketers. Really.
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NewsThis Australian Spirit Has Been Named the World's Best Rum
You might be surprised to find out who the distiller is.
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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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NewsA Chocolate Eating Competition Is Coming to Melbourne
Prahran Market's new chocolate festival looks set to ensure multiple chocolate comas.
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NewsThe 2016 Good Beer Week Program Has Been Revealed
Ten straight days of workshops, samplings and liver damage.
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NewsThis Michelin-Starred Restaurant in Hong Kong Is Serving Art You Can Eat
Paint your plate with black garlic, brown truffles and sweet potato puree.
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NewsLVLY Is Delivering Shortstop Hot Cross Doughnuts to Your Door for Easter
Easter Bunny, take note.
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NewsHow to Make Kitchen By Mike's Cucumber, Mirin and Sesame Salad at Home
Eat it at Taste of Sydney, then make it yourself.
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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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NewsThe Rewriters: How Ramblin' Rascal Tavern's Charlie Lehmann Chose Bar Life Over Politics
Meet the bartender who threw in the corporate towel to open one of Sydney’s most beloved watering holes.
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NewsWin a Cocktail Masterclass with Ramblin' Rascal Tavern
Grab three mates and learn how to make signature cocktails — while eating All The Mary's Burgers.
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NewsToorak Has a Brand New Wine Bar
505 Wine Bar has all the essentials: wine, wine-matched snacks and a solid happy hour.
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NewsThe Ten Best Breakfast Bowls in Melbourne
Bowls filled with everything from passionfruit to pudding and cacao to co-yo.
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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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NewsYou Can Now Drink on the Streets of Manhattan Without Fearing Arrest
The New York City island has decriminalised drinking alcohol in public.
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NewsAustralia Is Getting a Death Star Canteen
You cannot kill catering with a thought at this new Eddie Izzard-inspired eatery.
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NewsMick Fanning Is Opening His Own Australian Brewery
The surfing legend will apparently even be pulling beers at the bar.
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NewsThese Melbourne Restaurants are Doing $1 Meals to Help Fight Food Wastage
Eat cheap at Saint Crispin, Bomba and All Day Donuts and save perfectly good grub from becoming garbage.
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NewsUber Is Launching Its Food Delivery Service UberEATS in Melbourne
The only app you'll ever need.
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NewsThis Danish Supermarket Is Fighting Food Waste By Selling Only Expired Food
They're helping cut down the 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted globally each year.
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NewsSeven Days of Budget-Friendly Pub Eats in Melbourne
Where to get a pub meal and have enough change left over for a beer or two.
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NewsThree Beer Marinades to Make Your Summer Barbecue Infinitely More Beery
Your summer barbecue needs these.
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NewsMile End Brings Montreal-Style Bagels to Fitzroy
The team behind Carte Crepes are moving up in the world.
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NewsMerrick Watts Thinks He Can Be Rude to Baristas Because They're "Not Doing Real Work"
Good luck getting a latte in Melbourne now, mate.
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NewsQueensland's New Lockout Laws Have Officially Passed
Bottle shops closed by 10pm, lockouts at 1am. Get ready, Brisbane.
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GuideThe Best Things to Eat, See and Do at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2016
Celebrate the city's culinary culture with laneway parties, bacon tributes and lots and lots of dairy.
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NewsNora Is Becoming a Small Dinner Club That's Set to Reinvent the Degustation
The experimental Carlton cafe is switching to nighttime service.
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NewsAttica's Peter Gunn to Open Permanent IDES Restaurant
Get in quick before it books out until the year 3000.
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NewsPretty Mama Is Bringing Caribbean Cocktails and Grill to the Spencer Street End of the CBD
Expect jerk chicken and piña coladas from a team with Gumbo Kitchen, Der Raum and Rockpool on their CV.
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NewsHeston Blumenthal Is Opening Four Totally Free One-Night-Only Pop-Ups In Melbourne
It's 100 percent free — if you can find it.
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GuideMelbourne Bars and Restaurants That Are Perfect Date Material
Must have: a solid drinks list, good buzz and low, senshoowal lighting.
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NewsFamed French Baker Gontran Cherrier Is Opening a Bakery Cafe in Collingwood
Lemon tarts, almond chocolate croissants and squid ink rolls.
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NewsThe Old Pentridge Prison Is Being Transformed Into a Microbrewery and Pub
Have a drink in the clink.
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NewsA M*A*S*H Inspired Diner Has Just Opened in Brisbane
Get treated to kimchi pancakes and Klinger's Closet cocktails at Ginger's Diner.
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NewsMeet Jerome Borazio's New Footscray Bar, Back Alley Sally's
The westside bar from the folks behind Sister Bella and St Jeromes - The Hotel.
