Concrete Playground's Most-Read Food Stories in 2016
From Melbourne's own cheese toastie drive-through to a free dumpling festival and a 15-acre chocolate estate. Yes, estate.
Despite an already internationally-applauded foodie rep, Melbourne upped its culinary game this year. We saw new arrivals in the form of a four-storey pub, a cheese toastie drive-through, a 15-acre chocolate estate, a sea-salt soft-servery, and oh, a free dumpling festival. In case you missed any of the biggest food stories of the year, the ones folks couldn't stop clicking on, here's an easy peasy round-up to clue yourself in before midnight strikes on 2016.
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NewsTake a Look Inside Melbourne's New Four-Storey CBD Pub
Meet the Garden State Hotel, your new go-to CBD hangout.
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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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NewsAqua S Has Opened Its First Melbourne Ice Cream Parlour
An ice-creamery with its head in the clouds.
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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 New Club Untz Untz Rocks a Casual 24-Hour License
And a god damn light-up dancefloor. We're set.
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NewsCheese and Bread Is Preston's New Gourmet Toastie Drive-Through Cafe
A perfect pairing if there ever was one.
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NewsWestern Australia's Colonial Brewing Co. Opens Port Melbourne Brewery
They've officially launched on the east coast.
