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    Meet the Cats of Sydney's New Spaced-Themed Cat Cafe

    We get to know the four-legged catstronauts of Catmosphere.

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    CafeSmart Lets You Donate $1 from Your Morning Coffee to Charity

    Down your third or fourth coffee for the day, guilt-free.

  • Guide

    Twelve Food Hotspots to Try in Melbourne Right Now

    Here's what's trending with Concrete Playground's hungriest, thirstiest readers.

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    Noma is Popping Up in Sydney Next Year

    Start saving your pennies now.

  • Guide

    The Ten Best Things Happening in Melbourne This Weekend

    We're talking stage, screen, music and a bit of tipsy mini golf thrown in.

Latest Guides
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    Agathe Patisserie To Open At South Melbourne Market

    Pastries and croissants to eat with your eyes as well as your mouth.

  • News

    How to Drink Dark Beer

    Don't go another day without chocolate beer in your life.

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    Lululemon Is Making Its Own Craft Beer

    Warning for yoga geeks: don't throw out your water bottles just yet.

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    Uber Is Delivering Gelato Messina to Your Office This Friday

    This might be even better than that time they were delivering kittens.

  • News

    Authentic Spanish Eatery and Bar Chato Opens in Thornbury

    A new Spanish restaurant for the inner north. Bueno.

Latest Places
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    Hotel 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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    Bendigo 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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    Punters 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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    Mork 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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    Windsor 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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    Asado

    6 Riverside Quay, Southbank

    The 250-seat Southbank venue is working magic with an open fire pit and three-metre-long parilla grill.

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    Champagne 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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    Greenhart 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.

  • Restaurant

    Hotel 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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    Moon 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.

  • News

    Three Melbourne Bars To Try On Hemingway's Birthday

    Nobody loved a daiquiri more than Ernest Hemingway.

  • News

    Five Places to Try on International Daiquiri Day in Melbourne

    Raise a toast to the party cocktail invented in a mining town.

  • News

    Australia's Largest Rum Bar Is Finally Making Its Own Rum

    It's about time these guys got on the craft rum bandwagon, they already serve over 400 varieties of the stuff.

  • News

    New Malaysian Hawker Eatery Sugar Prawn Opens in Collingwood

    Hawker-style street food and an in-house radio station. Sold.

  • News

    These Hard-Hitting Wine Labels Tell It Like It Is

    And you thought the hangover was brutal.

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    The Everleigh to Open Sexy, Seedy Sister Bar Heartbreaker

    The refined cocktail den's unruly, LA-inspired sister is comin' to Chinatown.

Latest Events
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    New York's Famed Secret Cocktail Bar PDT to Pop Up in Australia

    If you've heard of the little bar behind the phone booth wall inside the hot dog joint in NYC, this is it.

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    Newly Opened Waterslide Bar Has a Killer Drinks List, But No Waterslide

    The classy new cocktail bar with a slightly misleading name.

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    Get a Free Burger Delivered to Your Mouth by Drone

    Behold, Future Burger — a delicious new project by Mr Burger and Monash.

  • News

    Australia's Getting Into Healthy Vending Machines

    These wholesome Australian companies are shaking up the fast food game.

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    Juanita Peaches Brings Nighttime Dining to All Day Donuts

    Doughnut bar by day, fried chicken shop by night.

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    Half-Popped Corn Is the Newest American Snack Food Trend

    Bottom-of-the-popcorn-bag lovers, this one's for you.

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    You Can Design Your Own Bespoke Chocolate Bars with Chocolab

    And they'll deliver them right to your door.

  • Guide

    Celebrate the Fourth of July with Americana in Melbourne

    Spend July 4 surrounded by slow-cooked meats from the heart of Dixie, lobster rolls sent from New England, and bastardised tacos straight from SoCal.

  • News

    Trust the Chefs at South Melbourne's New Lume Restaurant

    Take a gamble on a colossal 18- to 20-course gastronomic degustation — with no physical menu in sight.

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    Could Juice Pairings Give You a Better Dining Experience Than Wine?

    Australia's top restaurants are experimenting with some special non-alcoholic concoctions.

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    Melbourne Is Getting Salad Vending Machines

    With all unsold salads going to feed Melbourne's homeless population.

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    This Sydney Craft Gin Distillery Crowdfunded $20,000 in One Day

    Demand is already through the roof for Marrickville newcomers Poor Toms Gin.

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    Melbourne's Got a Brand New Salumi Bar

    Italian-style home-cured meats have a new northern home in Saluministi.

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    Kombucha Beer Is on the Way

    This healthy bev just became roughly 1000 percent more appealing to most.

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    Allen's Lollies to "Delete" Spearmint Leaves and Green Frogs

    The confectionery giant's Party Mix is getting a little less green.

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    There's a Goon Bag Festival Coming to Sydney

    Pair your Fruity Lexia with cheese and cabanossi plates because you're a classy, classy human.

  • News

    Uber and OzHarvest Are Delivering Gourmet Lunches to Your Office Today

    Ditch that soggy sandwich, Neil Perry and George Calombaris made you lunch today.

  • News

    Grey Gardens Projects Exhibition Space to Open in Fitzroy

    With a gallery and performance space, coffee bar and a brand new permanent home for Speakeasy Cinema.

  • News

    There's Going to Be a Blobfish Cafe Now

    Bet you didn't see this one coming.

  • News

    N2 Extreme Gelato Is Handing Out Free Batman-Inspired Ice Cream

    There's no Mr Freeze, but there are syringes filled with citrus ‘fear toxin’ bitters.

  • News

    Draught Coffee on Tap Is an Actual Thing Now

    All you need are nitro kegs and a rum distillery engineer friend.

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