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From everyday basics to party dresses, Quick Brown Fox Melbourne Central has you covered. With an eclectic mix of contemporary and vintage fashion, QBF can provide you with everything you need to look fabulous! You won't be walking out of here empty handed – there is sure to be something that grabs your attention.

Prints. Patterns. Bright Colours. Polka Dots. Floral. Expect this and so much more as you enter the Brunswick Street location of Quick Brown Fox. For lovers of all things quirky and unique, Quick Brown Fox is a must. With its endless variety of contemporary and vintage clothing, there's sure to be something you love, want and need.

Walking down the stairs to Basement Discs in Melbourne is like taking a step back in time - with vinyl records adorning the walls and classic tunes playing through the speakers, any music fan will feel at home. Known for stocking Melbourne's best and most interesting range of music, it is no wonder Basement Discs always has a story to tell. The best bit? Some lunchtimes they put on live performances in-store to give you a taste of what you're buying. Did I mention these are free? Best lunch break ever!

If there was an award for the best croissants in Melbourne, Kate Reid from Lune Croissanterie would win, hands down. Lune serves up deliciously flaky croissants, pastries, danishes and the standout…the cruffin. Wondering what a cruffin is? It's a genius combination of croissant and muffin, which Kate makes in different flavours each weekend - everything from lime splice, salted caramel, choc mousse and more! A word of warning though, Lune Croissanterie is only open on weekends from 8:00am until sold out, so join the queue, grab a coffee from the friendly staff while you wait and jump for joy when you finally get your hands on Lune's croissants and cruffins.

Flowermee florist in Brighton is the perfect mix of quirky charm and sophistication. Not your average florist, Kathryn Weichmann didn't want to follow the trend and decided to see the beauty in everything. Mixing vintage bits and bobs with beautiful flowers, Kathryn creates one-of-a-kind pieces for her customers that are filled with character and made with love and passion.

Considered a local retail icon, Flowers Vasette is one of Melbourne's best florists, and has all your floral needs covered. Offering both delivery within the Mebourne Metro area as well as consultations for events and functions, Flowers Vasette like to challenge traditional floristry to create something unique for each customer. Step inside the Brunswick Street store for an intoxicating mix of colours, scents, and flowers that will have your imagination running wild.

Kate Hill Flowers is more than one of Melbourne's best florists – they create works of fragrant floral art. At Kate Hill Flowers in Prahran, you can find a bouquet for any occasion at affordable prices. They deliver their beautiful creations to the Melbourne metro area, so whether it's for your wedding, a friend's birthday or even Valentine's Day, Kate Hill Flowers has you covered.

Located on Coventry Street in South Melbourne, Little Darcy is one of Melbourne's best kid's shops, catering to newborns through to eight-year-olds. Here you'll find everything from quality clothing and footwear, to furniture and classic toys. Drop by Little Darcy and pick up a little something for the little one in your life.

With 360 degree, floor to ceiling views of Melbourne and some seriously awesome design features, Eureka 89 is fast becoming one of Melbourne's best dining experiences. Offering 5 or 7 course degustation menus Tuesday through Saturday and Sunday lunch, Eureka 89 is perfect for any special occasions, group dinners, cocktail parties and many other functions. Luckily, Eureka 89 knows that vegetarians want to have fun too and have made sure to cater for their needs offering a vegetarian degustation menu - see it really is perfect for any occasion! Delicious and utterly memorable.

We love a hair salon that's open on Sundays and UNICO Hair on Brunswick Street is one of our favourites! UNICO Hair was established over 20 years ago by local hairdresser, Sofia Basile, and there are now three UNICO salons in Melbourne. As well as offering a premium hair service and excellent cuts and colour, there is also a beautiful range of UNICO Formulations hair products, made from pure plant ingredients!

UNICO Hair on Little Collins Street has helped keep Melbourne's CBD worker bees looking fresh since it opened its salon doors. Offering a range of services including colouring, cutting and styling, UNICO will pamper you and your hair. You can be assured the products they use are good for you and the environment, as they have formulated them themselves with pure plant ingredients!

UVA Salon on Greville Street is one of Melbourne's best hairdressing salons, co-owned by award-winning hairstylists, Marie Uva and Joey Scandizzo. THE place in Prahran for cuts, colours and blow-dries, book your appointment in the chic, sleek salon today. We'd say your new do will stop traffic, but that would be highly irresponsible.

Never mind the current trends, the Holy Grail of hair has always remained the same: 'make me beautiful'. It's this one wish that drives much awarded South Yarra hair salon, Conrad, to pay particular attention to every client they work with. From the moment you enter the glamorous Como Centre salon, you will feel completely pampered. You'll also leave with the best looking do on Toorak Road. They also offer a full menu of beauty treatments.

Brow Theory Brow Bar in Hawthorn is home to some of the best eyebrow threaders in Melbourne. Using this ancient Indian technique, the threaders are able to attain a brilliant, precise brow shape and definition that will have you wondering why you ever waxed. With their devotion to brow beauty, you can be assured you're in safe hands. Make sure you book in on the weekends, as there's sure to be a crowd!

Brow Theory Brow Bar in High Street Armadale specialises in the art of eyebrow threading. With the traditional Indian method of threading growing in popularity, Brow Theory has extended to three salons to cater to a growing roster of clients. With some of the best brow pros and threaders in Melbourne ready to tend to all your eyebrow needs, you can be assured precision each and every time. You haven't experienced brow devotion until you visit Brow Theory!

The Poodle Blow Dry Bar in South Yarra proves that a great blow dry makes for a great day. With blow dry bars the latest craze to hit Melbourne, The Poodle Blow Dry Bar offers quick, professional styling to women who are short on time, but want to look stylish. Want a blow dry with bounce? Try the 'High Society'. After something a little more relaxed? Then the 'Beachy' blow dry is for you!

With so many accolades under their belt, including Salon of the Year 13 years running, Rokk Ebony is leading the pack in hair cutting and styling. With its convenient location right in the heart of Melbourne's CBD, Rokk Ebony's Collins Place salon can't be beat. City workers, this is the salon to visit if you're short on time and need a perfect blow dry during your lunch break, or even a celeb-worthy up-do before a night out with the girls. Expert team, expert results!

Looking for Melbourne's best hair salon? Look no further than Rokk Ebony. The gorgeous salons have multiple Salon of the Year awards under their belt, so you know the team at Rokk Ebony South Melbourne can be trusted to transform your limp locks into luscious, glossy strands. The team at Rokk Ebony South Melbourne are well known for their expert event hairdos and styling, so next time you're after a brilliant blow dry or formal up-do, make sure you book in to see any one of the Rokk Ebony crew.

It's no wonder Rokk Ebony is considered one of Melbourne's best hairdressers – after all, they've won 13 Salon of The Year awards! The Rokk Ebony Toorak salon, located on bustling Toorak Road, is the type of place where you can put all your trust in the hands of your hairdresser and be amazed every time! Servicing both men and women, and with expert hairdressers delivering standout cutting, colouring, event hairdos and more, a visit to Rokk Ebony in Toorak is well worth it.

Who knew getting healthy could be so delicious! Offering up flavour-packed fresh juices with the greatest nutritional punch around, you can't pass up a trip to the Collin's Street Pressed Juices store on your way to work or in your lunch break. You'll be feeling healthier with each and every sip of your cold-pressed juice! Ask instore about the cleanse programs, too.

Head to Howey Place and you'll find Pressed Juices – a one-stop-shop for all of your nourishment needs. Harnessing the power of cold pressed juices, with Pressed you'll always have proper nutrients in the palm of your hands. Grab a Pressed Juice today and you'll be feeling great in no time at all.

We're big fans of lots of yummy nibbly bits at The Urban List, and Bar Nacional has the Spanish flare for pinxtos and bigger raciones down pat. Inspired by the flavours of San Sebastian, Bar Nacional is an earthen-coloured hideaway in an otherwise sparse part of Docklands that wears its Ibérian colours with pride, with cured meats hanging from the ceiling. Head Chef Scott Spence has curated a menu of incredible Spanish-style food (think braised beef shin empanadas, pigs head croquettes, chicken liver parfait with quince and brioche) that will have you drooling for days. Book in now, Listers!

At the Abbotsford Convent end of Collingwood, Anthony Brem's Bluebird Espresso is a cute little cafe serving up espresso syndicate coffee that pairs perfectly with a hearty breakfast of dukkah-sprinkled poached eggs with spinach and feta on multigrain. If you like your brekkie more on the wicked side, the brioche French toast with salted caramel, banana, mascarpone, ginger crunch and maple syrup is divine.

We can’t get enough of dumplings, and thankfully Charlie Dumpling brings our favourite silky bags of tasty goodness to Prahran’s High Street. Banquette seating runs along a wall of kooky coloured doors opposite a bar perfect for perching at. Ex-Claremont Tonic and Cutler & Co chef, Dylan Roberts, is on hand making the perfect little morsels, with the snapper, chilli, lime and black bean and the Peking duck and spiced plum sauce kings of the savoury selection, but if the waist band is of no consequence, why stop there? Sweet dumplings include a milk chocolate, chilli sugar and raspberry sorbet offering that will blow your mind and your diet. There's also a great private dining space upstairs, which is perfect for hosting your next function (or as we like to call it, your next dumpling feast!). Regardless of whether you're visiting for a quick dinner for two, or a larger sesh with friends, if it's Melbourne's best dumplings you're looking for then look no further than Charlie Dumpling!

Lovers of Brunswick's gorgeous Greek tavern who happen to find themselves based out east will rejoice at this second outpost in Kew. Lauded chefs George Calombaris and Travis McAuley keep the focus on heartily traditional food with a unique contemporary twist, and banqueting is king.

The gods of chocolate heaven came down to earth and gave us their messenger, East Brunswick's place of all things wickedly delicious, Monsieur Truffe. Sharing the warehouse spot with East Elevation cafe, Truffe's chocolate factory and store is a thing of beauty indeed, with chocolatier Thibault Fregoni a much nicer chap than the prickly Mr Wonka. You can plump for single origin dark chocolate bars of varying strength, to hazelnuts encased in melty milk chocolate, or pretend you're being healthy with Goji beans shrouded with the white stuff. 

One of Victoria's best craft breweries is situated within the shadow of the bright city lights in Richmond's Mountain Goat Beer. What started out as a backyard outfit in the early '90s with duo Cam Hines and Dave Bonighton, is now a pretty swish affair, where you can enjoy a few beers and pizzas on Wednesday and Friday nights while watching the guys and their crew at work. Call us sentimental, but we still love their very first brew the best – the malty and hoppy Hightail Ale, but it's subsequently been joined by a host of other tipples, from the crisp Organic Steam Ale to the chocolatey Surefoot Stout. Brewery tours are also available on Wednesdays. 

A beacon of budget awesomeness on the Windsor end of Chapel, the brick and dark red paint daubed façade of Lucky Coq contains a pub/bar/club famous for super cheap pizzas and good times. For a measly $4 every evening, you can grab a disc of Italy's best fast food offering, with options that include the El Greco – haloumi cheese, green olives and lemon, or the Mexicoq – chicken mince marinated in taco spices with lettuce, salsa and mozzarella. The beer's pretty cheap too, including Mountain Goats' finest, so you can scoop yourself dinner for a tenner and wander home happy. There's a great courtyard upstairs, too, with cute lanterns overhead. It's not fancy, but that's half the charm.

The Corner Hotel, a short stagger from Richmond Station, is one of Melbourne's most popular live music haunts. The Corner has been serving up some of the city's coolest gigs for 15 years now, with the sticky-floored gig venue downstairs and a great big roof terrace up top. Whether it's Scotland's Chvrches, hometown boy Dan Sultan or the US' Public Enemy, The Corner keeps things on the edgier side and draws in a young crowd of cool hipsters. There's something cool about the rumbling of the trains trundling by too, and the pub grub's pretty ace as well, whether it's a classic parma or a fat steak sanga. 

The fine folk of Ascot Vale are lucky to have a gem in the form of Mister Nice Guy's Bakeshop – a bakery specialising in kosher, vegan and largely organic baked goodness. Thank the heavens that husband and wife team, Lucas Cook and Deb Kantor, really love to bake, otherwise the world would be deprived of their crazy clever concoctions – think donuts, cupcakes, truffles and the like! We love the fact you can feel semi-righteous while stuffing their delicious cakes in your mouth. Cupcake varieties include the likes of the Rocket Shot, with espresso frosting on chocolate and coffee cake, and the Neopolitan with strawberry frosting on vanilla layered cake. If a cupcake isn't gonna cut it, you can get proper big boy cakes too, and there are savoury options like jalapeno cornbread muffins and pretzel dogs. 

The latest addition to former paratrooper and yoga devotee Duncan Peak's Power Living Yoga empire sits just north of Carlton Gardens above the FILA store on Nicholson Street in Fitzroy. Power Living Yoga Fitzroy boasts two yoga and meditation rooms plus a large community room, community being a linchpin of the P.L.A.Y. approach to yoga teaching. P.L.A.Y. offers a range of classes to suit all experience levels, starting with Power Basic, and focuses on the spiritual as well as physical and mental benefits of yoga. Awash with natural light, the Fitzroy studio is the perfect place to find balance. 

Former paratrooper and Modern Yoga author, Duncan Peak, discovered yoga as a teenager and has subsequently transformed this early passion into a successful business in Power Living Yoga, with studios in Melbourne and Sydney. The South Melbourne outpost of Power Living Yoga is a great spot to get your zen on, with a range of classes including Power Vinyasa and Power Revive/Yin suited to all experience levels. There are also a range of retreats on offer that promise to give you a whole new outlook on tackling life head on. The 40-day challenge promises to deliver subtle but sustained shifts in your life and increase self-confidence, acceptance and love. What's not to love?

Le Bon Ton is a late-night speakeasy style bar and restaurant, bringing the best of New Orleans to Collingwood. With the brothers behind Chingón at the helm, you know you're in for good ol' southern hospitality with a smile. Dine on oysters, sip on some of Melbourne's best cocktails and get a little absinthe-minded into the wee hours at this cosy drinking den cum southern smokehouse.

Take Off Skin & Body is one of North Melbourne's best skin and beauty clinics, located a stone's throw from the Queen Vic Market. Enjoy warm and welcoming customer service, and a wide variety of professional services, from cosmeceutical facials and medical grade peels, to IPL hair reduction, microdermabrasion, waxing and spray tanning.

Melbourne's cycling community has spoken – Reid Cycles is one of Melbourne's best bike shops! Located in North Melbourne, Reid Cycles is a one-stop-shop for anything to do with bikes – from road bikes to beach cruisers, vintage wheels to the fixie (a northside staple!), they have it all. Reid Cycles also stocks a huge range of top quality cycling gear, spare parts and accessories, so whatever your bicycle needs are, make sure you pay a visit to the Reid Cycles store.

Formerly known as La Chinesca, Harley House is a Peruvian-inspired bar, eatery and art space. Head underground on Collins Street and you'll find a sexy space, perfect for canoodling in the corner on a first date (floozy!), or grazing on the inspired share-friendly menu with a bunch of mates. Don't miss the deep fried chicken wings in aji panca masterstock! Open 'til late Tuesday to Saturday, this favourite Melbourne CBD bar is perfect for the late-night indecisive diner. 

Nestled behind a graffiti tagged garage door in Fitzroy, Third Drawer Down is an art studio, museum and souvenir shop all in one. This flagship store boasts the title of Australia's only trading museum, housing a curated array of art and designer products, either made in the studio or sourced from artists around the world. What's more, this eccentric emporium hosts an impressive range of weird and wonderful knickknacks, with everything from brass form tea sets to hamburger stools making for the perfect gift. 

The colourful shopfront, hand painted by French artist Camille Walala, certainly makes Third Drawer Down's new Prahran store hard to miss. Inside you'll find the same eccentric and witty taste as the Fitzroy flagship, with a curated selection of art and designer products housed alongside wonderfully wacky gifts. As if it could get any better, this Southside store is also home to bi-weekly workshops, where you can flex your artistic muscle under the guidance of the artists and designers featured in store.