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NewsCarlton's Astor Hotel to Reopen as Interactive Yum Cha-Style Eatery
The Roving Marrow is coming to Lygon Street.
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NewsWalk Don't Run to Armadale's New 'Mindful Gourmet' Cafe
Combining Japanese cuisine and superfoods.
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NewsMake Your Own Extravagant Peninsula Picnic Food at Home
We raided the recipe books of some of Mornington Peninsula's fanciest vineyard kitchens.
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NewsChin Chin's Chris Lucas to Open Hawker-Style Food and Craft Beer Hall
Chapel Street's own Singapore-inspired foodie market.
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NewsYou'll Soon Be Able to Drink Beer Brewed with Space Yeast
You might not be able to afford to go to space, but you can afford a beer that did.
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NewsNoir Opens Dessert Bar in Richmond
The former Swan Street Social space is about to get sweet and freaky.
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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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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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GuideThe 50 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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GuideThe 22 Best Italian Restaurants in Melbourne
Melbourne's greatest Italian restaurants don't simply stick to the pizza and pasta game. These spots serve up all kinds of regional dishes that'll blow your carb-loving mind.
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GuideThe 14 Best French Restaurants in Melbourne Right Now
Live out your Parisian dreams with escargot, caviar, steak frites and lobster thermidor at these exceptional French diners in Melbourne.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Cafes of 2024
Here's where you've been getting your breakfast, brunch, lunch and caffeine fixes during 2024.
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GuideMelbourne's 20 Most Popular Restaurants of 2024
These are the spots you went looking for this year, from stunning beachside restaurants and CBD fine-diners to neighbourhood haunts and hidden Chinatown gems.
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NewsBacardi Has Created What Could Be the World's First Tea Spirit
Breakfast drinking just got legit.
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NewsHop Thief: The Beer That’s New Every Year
James Squire's beloved American Pale Ale has a brand new recipe.
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NewsBluebonnet Barbecue Brings Brisket and Live Music to Geelong
Smoked Riverina Angus brisket, with a side of British India.
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NewsLittle and Olver to Open Their Kitchens with Free Weekly Feeds
That’s right. Free food. Every week.
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NewsThe Rise of Real Jerky
Salmon, pickleburger, Srirachuan. This isn't the jerky you know from the truck stop.
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NewsLe Bon Ton's 5 Points Deli and Longhorn Saloon Open in Carlton
Freshly shucked oysters, bagels with cream cheese and a 'world famous smoked pastrami sandwich'.
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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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RestaurantReine & La Rue
380 Collins Street, Melbourne
The NOMAD team has taken French fine-dining to the next level in Melbourne.
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BarRuckers Hill
83 High Street, Northcote
This French-accented wine bar and bistro stands out among the crowd on Northcote's High Street.
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RestaurantChiki Chan & Hiki Bar
6 Centreway, Mordialloc
Chiki Chan is serving up playful Asian-fusion fare in Mordialloc — plus plenty of creative cocktails in its adjoining Hiki Bar.
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RestaurantIl Mercato Centrale Melbourne
546 Collins Street, Melbourne
Melbourne's Il Mercato Centrale is serving up pizza, pasta, calamari fritti, gelato, cannoli, cocktails, wine and so much more — to have in or take away.
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BarCircl Wine House
22 Punch Lane, Melbourne
Circl is making it so much easier to try rare wines with over 150 drops offered by the glass.
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RestaurantElio's Place
238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Elio's Place is serving up breakfast, lunch, aperitivo snacks and late-night dinners every day of the week in the CBD.
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NewsMörk Chocolate Brew House Opens in North Melbourne
This converted warehouse tasting bar is made for hot chocolate aficionados.
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NewsThe Nine Best Rum Bars in Melbourne
Where you'll find this city's best Zombies, Dark 'n' Stormys, Mai Tais, house infused apricot rum and more.
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NewsBelle's Hot Chicken to Open Natural Wine Joint, Bar Clarine
Cool wine and hot chicken: unlikely, delicious friends.
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GuideEight New Brunch Spots to Try in Melbourne
Brunch: that glimmering portal of a weekend moment when waiters don't bat an eyelid at your weird, weird mid-morning requests.
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NewsBrasserie Bread Appeals to Your Inner Food Snob with Single Origin Bread
Hardcore breadlovers can track the journey of their loaf from field to mill to sandwich.
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NewsBeach Burrito Fitzroy Will Have Its Own Indoor Skateboarding Pool
Go all Lords of Dogtown after your chimichangas.
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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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GuideThe Ten Best Things to Eat, Drink and Do at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2015
This year it's all about parties, pastries and partaking in long, long lunches.
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NewsMelbourne's Longest Eatery The Arbory Is Now Open
Taking cues from New York’s Highline, Melbourne's newest spot runs 150m along the old Sandridge railway line.
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NewsEverything You Need to Know About Western Australian Wine
Discover why WA hogs Australia's ultra-premium wine market.
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NewsNew Food Precinct The Archway Opens in Flinders Lane
Homemade smores, chilli salt slices, maple bacon chipotle bagels. Lunch just got interesting in the CBD.
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NewsHow to Make, Eat and Love the Xiao Long Bao
How to create and — more importantly — devour the perfect xiao long bao according to a real-life dumpling master.
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NewsTwelve International Restaurant Dishes to Travel for in 2015
Turn your holiday into a pilgrimage by making one of these dishes your holy grail.
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NewsThe Ten Best Bottle Shops for Craft Beer in Melbourne
Tracking down that top notch craft beer you had at the pub? Don't even try the major bottle shops, try one of these gems.
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GuideEight Classic Melbourne Dining Institutions That Never Get Old
Hype is one thing, but tried and true resilience? That's a whole other ball game.
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NewsThe Best Annual Beer Events in Australia
From urban quaff-fests to setting sail on a vessel made of tinnies.
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NewsBar Exuberante is Melbourne's Newest Secret Rum Bar
Find a little piece of Old Havana in the back of Bar Economico.
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NewsThe Iconic Founder Launches Online Boutique Wine Store Spokewine
A user-reviewed online cellar. Like IMDb, but for your liver.
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NewsThe Original Iron Chefs are Ready to Do Battle in Australia
Kitchen Stadium has come to Melbourne.
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NewsMeet Tokyo Tina: Saigon Sally and Hanoi Hannah's New Chapel Street Sister
The family is growing.
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NewsGet Ready For Australia's First Ever Cereal Cafe
The nostalgia-fuelled global food trend is hitting Melbourne.
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NewsWhen Do the World's Best Cities Go to Sleep?
24-hour transport, late shopping and bars without lockouts are key to a global city. But some of the best don't have their nightlife sorted the way you'd expect.
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NewsAustralians Drink 25 Percent Less Than We Did in the '70s
Plus, alcohol related violence has decreased by 30 percent in New South Wales over the last six years. Wait, what?
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NewsA Short History of Giant Food Chains Trying Desperately to Be Cool
McDonald's isn't the first chain to try and capture a trendier market share, and it certainly won't be the last.
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