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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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NewsSake Is Opening a New CBD Restaurant (and a Takeaway Version Too)
Good news Melbourne: sashimi levels are about to increase two-fold.
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NewsNew York's Hidden Cocktail Bar Attaboy Is Popping Up in Sydney and Melbourne
The Lower East Side bar makes it Down Under for two nights only.
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NewsDessert Master Caroline Khoo Is Hosting a Pre-Valentine's Day Pop-Up
Because nothing says I love you like a chocolate pyramid stuffed with cookies.
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NewsNoma's Rene Redzepi Is Hosting His MAD Food Symposium at the Sydney Opera House
Spend a day with some of the biggest names in food at MAD SYD.
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NewsNorthern Light Is Closing with Chef Adam Liston Headed to the CBD
The chef's closing the doors to his Collingwood eatery to open much bigger ones in the city.
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NewsThis New Sydney Eatery Is Serving Fried Chicken in Sneaker Boxes
Complete with champagne pairings and butter. Lots of butter.
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NewsRockwell and Sons Open Bar Liberty
This new wine bar looks set to be your new fave Fitzroy spot.
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NewsGourmet Burger Joint Motorhome Majestic Is Coming to Ascot Vale
Another mouth-watering burger joint from the guy behind Grand Trailer Park and Truck Stop Deluxe.
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NewsWin a Trip to Sydney as a VIP Guest of Monkey Shoulder's Chinese New Year Whisky Pop-Up
The perfect whisky for the Year of the Monkey.
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NewsSeven Deep Fried Foods You Need to Try on Your Next Visit to Japan
Rice, Noodle, Fish author Matt Goulding gives us a guide to the deep fried.
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NewsHow to Barbecue Like a Kansas-Approved Barbecue Boss
It's time to go to the butcher and get serious.
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NewsUp in Smoke Is Footscray's Newest (and Only) Barbecue Joint
Expect slow-cooked meats, craft beer on tap and a grocery store selling all your barbecue needs.
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NewsNoma Australia Is Now Open and This is What the Food Looks Like
Abalone schnitzel, dried scallop pie and rum lamingtons with tamarind.
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NewsMelbourne's Getting a Twilight Cheese Festival
It's called Cheese Please because of course it is.
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NewsMelbourne's Newest Outdoor Cinema Combines Films with Gourmet Cuisine
The only outdoor cinema where the menu is matched to the movie.
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NewsFive Healthy Snacks for When You're Reaching for the Biscuit Tin
Afternoon slump at your desk? Avoid the Tim Tams.
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