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Gordon’s the Cellar Door isn’t your everyday bottle shop. Here, you can purchase whichever drink you like and drink it in-house.
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Inspired by Kate Middleton, this is a cafe ready for the cameras.
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The Fitzroy cafe expands into Asia. Continue reading “Hammer & Tong Goes to Hong Kong”
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A pan-European restaurant and cafe by the bay. Continue reading “Beau Kitchen and Cellar, Beaumaris”
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The space serves as a restaurant, rooftop bar, food and wine store and gallery. Continue reading “Sagra, Malvern”
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Gordon’s the Cellar Door isn’t your everyday bottle shop. Here, you can purchase whichever drink you like and drink it in-house.
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If you didn’t know fried bocconcini or carbonara pizza existed, this new Italian eatery has much to teach you. Continue reading “Figo Brings Fried Italian Street Snacks to the South”
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Good coffee and design comes to a neighbourhood that was wanting.
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The family-run Middle-Eastern powerhouse has big plans. Continue reading “Oasis Bakery to Open Monster New Venue”
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The reincarnation of Fitzroy Street’s famous George Hotel is complete.
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A lush (and spiky) store overflows with greenery in Melbourne’s south-east.
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After three years of success in Sydney, the festival makes its Melbourne debut this weekend.
Continue reading “The First Italian Food and Wine Festival Comes to Melbourne”
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Quick and healthy is a tricky takeaway combination to achieve, but Foxes Den pulls it off. Owners Hayden Dyt and Tony Mims noticed a gap in the takeaway chicken market – it hadn’t progressed beyond greasy chicken and chips for decades. Continue reading “Foxes Den, various locations”
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Baba Sus is Midori Hori and Daniel Liao’s pan-Asian cafe. Hori hails from Japan; and Liao has a Taiwanese-Thai background. Continue reading “Baba Sus, Glen Iris”
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After Changz Hot Sauce found its way into burger venues around Australia, its founders figured it made sense to open a place of their own. Continue reading “Changz Canteen, Elsternwick”
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After six years in Little Bourke Street, the Italian favourite opens a second.
Unlike its petite sister restaurant in the city, +39 Pizzeria in Hawksburn Village has a little more breathing space, with room for 100 diners. But the philosophy behind the food is the same – honest, simple and strictly Italian.
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An arty new gelato bar by a couple from Piedmont, Italy.
It’s a leap of faith to choose gelato without seeing it first. This anxiety is settled once you know that Cristino Vedovato and Fabrizio Locatelli are behind Joylati, Chapel Street’s newest gelato shop. The couple ran a gelateria for 15 years in Piedmont, northern Italy, before moving to Melbourne last year. Continue reading “Joylati Opens on Chapel Street”
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Some bakers have no regard for tradition. Continue reading “When Hot Cross Buns Go Rogue”
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Remember when you were a child and a restaurant would hand you a bunch of crayons to draw on the waxed table sheet? Motorina doesn’t do that.
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Einstein’s 251 celebrates Albert Einstein and his Jewish heritage, in cafe form. Set in the heart of Caulfield North, the eatery honours the genius by serving clever food.
Continue reading “Profile: Einstein’s 251, Caulfield North”
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At LadyBoy, you’re greeted by a neon light reading “rock out with your wok out”. It’s immediately clear the place has a sense of humour. Continue reading “Profile: LadyBoy Dining & Bar, Richmond”
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This cafe and roaster’s name is based on a Yemeni legend: a sheik named Omar was bordering on starvation after being exiled. As he trailed through the desert, he noticed a bird chomping on coffee beans.
Continue reading “Profile: Omar & the Marvellous Coffee Bird, Gardenvale”
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There comes a time when one needs to stop relying on IKEA for Scandinavian-style furniture. That’s where Huset comes in. Huset means “house” in Danish. But in Melbourne’s southeast, it’s a warehouse specialising in European furniture. Continue reading “Huset Furniture, Cheltenham”
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Naming a business can be difficult. But for Daniel Dixon, choosing to call his business The Joinery was simple. This restaurant and bar joins Ormond and Glenhuntly Roads – you can enter from either end of the site.
Continue reading “Profile: The Joinery, Elwood”
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Although Loco changed management in 2015, the cafe hasn’t lost its charm. It’s now owned by The Coffee Culture Communication Group, the same company that brought Einstein’s 251, Sir Charles and Prospect Espresso from the original groups of founders.
Continue reading “Profile: Loco Coffee, Elsternwick”
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Every day, countless commuters experience the morning traffic on Brighton Road. Instead of sitting in your car infuriated, it may be the perfect time to step out and let the traffic subside while you wait at Miss Alex and Co.
Continue reading “Profile: Miss Alex and Co, Elwood”
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This new high-end bakeshop goes beyond the average steak-and-onion.
Continue reading “Elwood’s New Specialty Pie Shop”
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The 94-year-old Northcote cinema isn’t letting old age get the better of it.
Continue reading “The Palace Westgarth Expands, Adding New Cinemas and a Bar”
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Holiday trading hours for Melbourne’s cafes, bars and restaurants over the festive season. Continue reading “Who’s Open Over Summer?”
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So sweet, looking at it might give you cavities. Continue reading “Hotham Street Ladies Make a Christmas Feast Totally Out of Icing”
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Think of it like teppanyaki, but an ice-cream version. Continue reading “Thai-inspired Ice-Cream Pops Up in Windsor”