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NewsMelbourne's Dog-Friendly Music Festival is Back
The music event of every pet-lover's dreams of is back.
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NewsDriverless Flying Taxis Could Soon Be A Reality
Where these cabs are going, they don't need roads.
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NewsMelbourne's New Rotating Cuisine Restaurant is Run By A 22-Year-Old Chef
You’re about to feel very unaccomplished.
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NewsAustralia is Getting a Mini-Golf Bar
Mini-golf, a cocktail bar and an all-round hangout hub rolled into one.
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NewsKanye to Open Last-Minute Pablo Pop-Ups in Sydney and Melbourne This Weekend
They'll be two of 21 temporary stores popping up around the world.
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NewsFairgrounds Festival Announce Stellar 2016 Lineup for Second Year
Rodriguez will headline country NSW's freshest festival.
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NewsTen Road Trip-Worthy Restaurants You Should Visit in Victoria
Life is short, so it's imperative that once in a while you plan a road-trip to sample some of regional Victoria's exceptional food.
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GuideThe 25 Best Restaurants in Melbourne for 2025
From high-flying fine-diners in the CBD to tried-and-true neighbourhood haunts — these are the Melbourne restaurants we'd recommend to a friend (you, dear reader).
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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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NewsWhere to Find the Best Ice Cream and Gelato in Melbourne
Whether you like your scoops creamy, salty, vegan or sandwiched, you can find them in our guide.
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GuideThe Best Private Dining Rooms in Melbourne
These private dining rooms have you got you covered from private bartenders to suckling pigs, martini trolleys to luxurious sashimi platters.
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GuideThe 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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GuideThe Best Bakeries in Melbourne
Crusty sourdough loaves, flaky croissants, shiopans and shokupans, cookies and doughnuts, bagels and ficelles, pies and pasties, and everything in between.
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GuideThe Best Greek Restaurants in Melbourne
You're in for good times, flowing drinks and belly-filling feeds at these Greek establishments.
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NewsThese Are the 15 Best Set Menus in Melbourne for Under $100
From set menus with a side of karaoke to omakase-style degustations, Greek feasts to vegan banquets, these are the best feed me menus around town.
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NewsThe Best Places to Take Your Dad This Father's Day in Melbourne
Here are the best ways to treat dad this Father's Day from yum cha feasts and luxe lunches, to free hair cuts, special Sunday Roasts and limited edition desserts.
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NewsFancy Hanks to Open New CBD Rooftop Bar Good Heavens
With barbecue and bright '80s-themed cocktails.
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NewsSydney's Been Ranked the Second Friendliest City in the World
And no, Melbourne didn't make the list.
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NewsEmpire Steak Is Melbourne's New Steak Sarnie-Dedicated Eatery
They're the most perfect steak sandwiches you've ever seen.
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NewsMelbourne Is Getting Another Gin Festival, and It's Called Junipalooza
Because two gin festivals are better than one.
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NewsA 15-Acre Chocolate Estate Has Opened on the Great Ocean Road
Complete with a lavender maze, ice cream factory and literally thousands of chocolates.
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RestaurantGimlet at Cavendish House
33 Russell Street, Melbourne
Andrew McConnell's elegant cocktail bar and European bistro serves up caviar, champagne and truffles aplenty.
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RestaurantCleo, Hyde Melbourne Place
130 Russell Street, Melbourne
The rooftop drinking and dining destination welcomes Eastern Mediterranean flavours and old-world cooking techniques.
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RestaurantLaura
Pt Leo Estate, 3649 Frankston-Flinders Road, Merricks
A faultless degustation-only restaurant in the middle of a 50-acre Mornington Peninsula winery and sculpture park.
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RestaurantBar Sophia
161 Burke Road, Glen Iris
Central Park village has been reinvigorated with a new Aegean offering on Burke Road, inspired by the new wave of Athenian wine bars.
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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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RestaurantTokyo Tina
66A Chapel Street, Windsor
Located on the vibrant Windsor end of Chapel Street, Tokyo Tina is an energetic and modern Japanese restaurant, serving consistently top-quality food from its kitchen.
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RestaurantTo Be Frank Bakery
3 Village Avenue, Brunswick East
Here, you can watch the bread and pastries take shape, with this much-loved bakery's new location inviting customers closer to the action.
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Restaurant98 Lygon Street Bar & Bistro
98 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
The menu blends classic bistro dishes and Mediterranean flavours, while also showcasing local produce.
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RestaurantTyga
91 Koornang Road, Carnegie
The neo-Southeast Asian restaurant channels the energy, rhythm and flavour of 1970s Bangkok with a nostalgic retro fit-out, non-stop spinning vinyls, and a bold and creative menu.
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RestaurantBar Bouni
153 Sturt Street, Southbank
Humble rotisserie dishes are elevated to the likes of juicy harissa chicken, crispy crackling pork belly, and tender, charry cauliflower.
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NewsThis Wireless Charger Will Magically Make Your Phone Levitate While It Charges It
Because basic charging is so boring.
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NewsMelbourne's New Luxury Wellness Centre Has a Yoga Studio, a Library and In-House Chef
r.a.w. studios is the CBD's new one-stop health and wellbeing shop.
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NewsJapan Is Getting an On-Demand Driverless Delivery Service
Just like Uber, but to deliver your stuff and without driver.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Kangaroo Valley
Not every valley boasts winery bookstores, cheeseburger pies and platypus-populated waterfall walks.
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EventRooftop Racquet Club at QT Melbourne
Thu, 8 Jan - Sun, 1 Mar 2026
QT Melbourne, Melbourne
Keep an ace up your sleeve this summer, as this glamorous hotel serves up a rooftop pickleball court, signature cocktails and late-night DJs.
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EventSummer Under The Roof: Quealy Winemakers and D.O.C Gastronomia Mornington
Sat, 27 Dec 2025 - Sun, 25 Jan 2026
Quealy Winemakers, Balnarring
Fill your weekends with award-winning wine and top-quality pizza, as this vine-side collaboration takes over summer with culinary goodness.
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EventDome Under Fulldome Festival
Fri, 30 Jan - Sun, 1 Feb 2026
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Head to Melbourne Planetarium to see 39 films from around the world at Australia's only fulldome film festival.
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EventLibrary on the Lawn: Kids Festival at State Library Victoria
Multiple single dates
State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Add more reading time and kid-friendly entertainment to your summer holidays schedule, from storytime sessions to scavenger hunts.
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EventChristmas Sculpture and Qris Qringle at QV Melbourne
Wed, 26 Nov 2025 - Tue, 6 Jan 2026
QV Melbourne, Melbourne
Christmas has arrived at QV Melbourne, featuring a towering festive sculpture and mystery Qris Qringle giveaway loaded with daily prizes.
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EventThe Royal Family Dance Crew Presents 'Defend the Throne'
Wed, 27 May - Sun, 7 Jun 2026
Hamer Hall, Southbank
Global street-dance icons The Royal Family Dance Crew will headline RISING 2026 with 'Defend the Throne,' a high-energy showcase blending 14 years of their most iconic choreography with brand-new work ...
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EventSummer Music Series at Mr Mills
Multiple single dates
Mr Mills, Melbourne
Step into this chic late-night basement bar, where high-energy DJs will groove through the early hours all summer long.
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EventMidsumma Festival 2026
Sun, 18 Jan 2026 - Tue, 30 Dec 2025
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
Victoria's major LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural celebration is back, delivering over 250 events that champion queer creativity and community.
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EventLu-Niverse: Countess Luann at Melbourne Recital Centre
Mon, 23 Feb, 2026
Melbourne Recital Centre, Southbank
Be cool, as this reality TV star brings her infectious energy to Melbourne for a tea-spilling deep dive into a slew of wild moments.
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EventCarlsberg Beach Club
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 - Thu, 29 Jan 2026
Frankston Waterfront, Frankston
Get ready for European holiday vibes, sunset sessions, and free live music just 45 minutes from Melbourne.
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NewsCollingwood Technical School to Be Turned into a Huge Creative Arts Precinct
They've received the final bit of funding to ensure the project goes ahead.
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NewsA Weekender's Guide to Broken Hill
An outback town where legal two-up and turmeric lattes exist in harmony.
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NewsAustralia's Largest Bamboo Structure Is Being Constructed for MPavilion 2016
And with it will come a four-month program of cultural activities.
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NewsMoleskine Has Opened Its Own Minimalist Cafe in Milan
Part café, part gallery, part library and part store.
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NewsA Man from NSW Has Scored His Own Tropical Island Resort for Just $65
Best. Raffle prize. Ever.
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News7-Eleven Just Delivered Their First Slurpee by Drone
It's the first drone delivery to a customer in the US.
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NewsGhostbusters Legend Ray Parker Jr. Is DJing at MIFF's Festival Bar
Ghosts or no, the Forum's called in the big guns for this one.
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NewsThis New Sustainable Melbourne Suburb Could be the World's First 'Tesla Town'
Each home will have Tesla Powerwalls, solar panels and electric car recharging points.
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NewsMona's Dark Mofo Just Got $10.5 Million in Funding from the Tasmanian Government
There's many more dark wintry art times in Hobart ahead.
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NewsThis New Melbourne Apartment Building Changes Colour with the Weather
Each night the Docklands high-rise will perform a light show depicting "how the weather feels".
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NewsNew York Is Getting a Museum of Ice Cream Complete with a Life-Sized Pool of Sprinkles
And yes, you can swim in it.
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NewsSydney's Fratelli Fresh to Open Their First Melbourne Restaurant
With a bonus steak restaurant upstairs.
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NewsHop Nation Brewing to Open a Brand New Brewpub in Footscray
The local winemakers-turned-brewers have found a permanent home.
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NewsUber Is Delivering Ice Cream Again, but This Time It's for Charity
George Calombaris, Matt Moran and Neil Perry have created custom ice cream flavs to raise money for OzHarvest.
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NewsBruges Is Installing a Three-Kilometre-Long Underground Beer Pipeline
This is the stuff beer dreams are made of.
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NewsThousands of Nude People Paint Themselves Blue for Spencer Tunick's Latest Installation
Over 3000 punters "blue" themselves in the name of art.
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NewsThe Heartattack and Vine Team Open New All-Day Eatery, Bedford St
Collingwood just scored another sweet all-occasions venue.
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NewsThe Finalists for the 2016 Archibald Prize Have Been Announced
Time for your yearly dose of prestigious portraits of prominent Aussies.
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NewsSydney Launches the World's Biggest Network of Street Signs for the Vision Impaired
Nice one, City of Sydney.
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NewsMelbourne International Film Festival Reveals Their Complete 2016 Program
The list just keeps on getting bigger.
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NewsA New Two-Storey Gourmet Food Hall and Arts Space Is Coming to Preston Market
The Preston Fresh Hood Market will have street food, street art, a bar and a band room.
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NewsThe Crux & Co Is South Melbourne's New Home of Pretty Pastries and Clever Cafe Fare
Expect decadent cakes alongside squid ink garlic toast and killer coffee.
