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Northcote just gained another killer brunch venue in Bicycle Thieves, and it’s got everyone excited with its creative menu and film-inspired name.

Currently the largest cafe in the area, newly opened The Coventry is located directly across the road from the historic South Melbourne Market and offers local specialty coffee, multi-cuisine Mediterranean influenced dishes and high-quality farm-to-table food.

Longsong is the brainchild of David Moyle former owner and head chef of renowned Hobart restaurant Franklin.

If you're at a point where you can’t quite afford to trek around Sicily to taste their traditional dishes, then you should introduce yourself to Montmorency’s newest pizza and pasta bar, Montibello.

From the owner of Melbourne’s first tree-top yoga centre—Fauna Yoga—comes a South African dessert cafe whose main delicacy is an artisan doughnut like no other.

It’s how Torres Strait islanders welcome people to a feast or banquet, and how they like to enjoy food: surrounded by the people they love.

Our streetwear prayers have been answered—Australia’s first Champion store now resides at Chadstone.

Ever wanted to eat pizza at a tequila bar? Chacho’s got you covered.  

At first glance, Ends & Means might look like your average Fitzroy cocktail bar. But after some deep investigation (aka cocktail sampling), we learned it’s much more interesting than that.

Richmond has just acquired one of Melbourne’s most in-demand hair salons, and we’re not mad about it.

Olivia Sutton opened her highly acclaimed specialty cheese shop, Harper & Blohm, in 2014 to share her love of cheese with Melbournians. Named after the maiden names of her grandparents, Merle Harper and Mona Blohm, the shop was originally located in Essendon, but as of November 2018 has found a new home on Sydney Road in Brunswick.

Everyone knows High Street is blue-chip restaurant real estate, but this must be right on the edge of Windsor. Tora isn’t scrapping for business with all the other eateries down near Chapel St. Nope. Owner Daniel Liao is breathing fresh air up here—there’s only Small Print Pizza, Mount Erica Hotel and good old Lemnos Tavern to worry about.

You will be hard pressed to find something more satisfying than a classic Betty's Burger washed down with an extra thick chocolate peanut butter shake. And now the good people of Windsor can enjoy it too, because the wildly popular Betty’s Burgers & Concrete Co. have just rolled out a location on Melbourne’s Chapel Street.

Located on the former Wild Dog Winery, Hogget Kitchen is the result of a partnership between chef Trevor Perkins and renowned Victorian winemakers Patrick Sullivan and William Downie, who lease the surrounding vineyard.

Say a warm welcome to Melbourne’s newest rooftop bar and restaurant.

The Melbourne dessert plains are fraught with aggressively sweet competition. And one of its chief contenders doesn’t even have a permanent location yet. But don’t let that minor factoid deter you—these guys make some pretty mean sweet treats.

Simply put, there is no other pub like the Espy. St Kilda’s Hotel Esplanade has been an iconic establishment of the area since its inception in 1878. 

Do you get it? This place is Indian-ish. It’s sort of Indian. Almost Indian. A kind of modern subcontinent cuisine swizzled with a bit of Fitzroy.

Plant-based eaters rejoice—Weirdoughs is here to satisfy your sugar cravings with desserts and pastries that aren’t sugar/gluten/nut/fun free.

Step inside Tavlin’s new location and it’s not hard to see why it’s already buzzing. The easy-going vibe is welcoming and the fit out, by none other than Studio Y, is elite.

The Hampton’s Bakery has a simple approach towards hospitality—great food, great coffee and great service. Sounds like it’s right up our alley.

Hospitality legends and husband and wife duo Eamon and Catherine Sheahan are back with a new café in Richmond (you may know their previous café venues such as Horse To Water, Espresso3121 and Miss Frank Café).

Albert Park’s, The Beach Hotel has reopened, following the first stage of its renovations and it’s everything you could ever want in a Melbourne pub.

House Of Corrections is a tiny but mighty small bar in Melbourne’s CBD with an interesting history, to say the least. The building has been home to a medical supplies store that stocked human skeletons and death masks, it held prisoners when the old Melbourne Gaol was full, and, most recently, it was a porn cinema aptly named Shaft Cinemas—among other weird and whacky things.

If you’re looking for some elite Japanese food, look no further than Wa Kenbo, the newly opened Japanese fusion restaurant in Fitzroy from Chef Kenji.

The team that brought you Port Melbourne’s Café Lafayette (RIP) just dropped a new venue. It's bigger, more ambitious, and it's about to take Prahran by storm. Welcome Grand Lafayette.

If you’ve never heard of The Tote, we’re guessing you might not be from around here. Built back in the 19th century, and carrying its name since 1876, The Tote is now just part of the furniture in Collingwood.

We’re sitting inside CIBI’s new warehouse cafe, and co-owner Zenta Tanaka leans across the table. “Just tell people how it feels.” That’s a very CIBI approach to life in general.

Before you even walk inside Lux Foundry you know it’s going to be one of the most Melbourne cafes you’ve ever been to.

Despite what their Insta profile would have you believe, Halide Supply are not an amateur sports team.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or you don’t have an Instagram account), you’ll know Mr Miyagi and their signature Nori tacos.

Welcome to the new ultimate summer getaway.

Next time you’re walking down Dorcas Street, just follow your nose. You’ll soon pick up a smoky zephyr, a little waft of braised meat, that subtle tang of BBQ sauce. Keep following that trail and it’ll lead you straight to straight to the new Smokin’ Barry’s HQ.

Brace yourself, Moonee Ponds. Dolce House just opened a second gelateria/dessert bar/sugar temple, and it’s landed on Mt Alexander Rd.

Little Green is for people on the move.

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If you live near Seddon, you probably know Luxsmith already. It’s a modern Asian eatery that popped up back in 2015. Well, now Luxsmith has a boozy little brother, right next door. Introducing Luxsmith Bar & Wine Shop.

The guys behind Cheek like the term ‘non-traditional meatery’, mostly because they don’t like being limited in any way.

When Sandra Foti entered the gelato business in 2016, people thought she was “crazy” for wanting to make gelato the same way it was done 100 years ago, right down to the hand squeezed lemons and roasted pistachios.

There’s nothing wrong with CBD shopping, but you do tend to see the same brands again and again. And again.

We were pretty devo when Mexican eatery Queen Of The South closed down in 2017. Especially since they’d opened a secret gin speakeasy literally the week before. The space remained vacant for a while, as spaces tend to do in Prahran, hunting for the right tenant.

Archie Brothers smacks all your senses at once with a giant, novelty hammer. Seriously, once our hearts stop defibrillating, we’ll need time to just absorb everything going on in there.

Slowly but surely, Southbank is beginning to get cool. It’s going to take some time—there’s a lot of crappy venues and soulless apartment blocks to overcome—but at least there’s now somewhere to get a decent bottle of plonk.  

We’re simple folk, here. Give us a sandwich shop with some swagger and we’ll line up for hours. Good thing one just opened up around the corner. Expect us to be dropping a LOT of lunch money at Hero Sandwich House over summer.

It’s certainly a weird recipe. Take Melbourne’s most famous chef and one property magnate, inject them into an old strip club and add a couple of smoke machines. Congrats, you just built Geddes Lane Ballroom (GLB)

One of St Kilda’s most well-known beachside restaurants has re-opened following five months of renovations with a brand-spanking new menu to go with the re-do.

Introducing The Blow, Melbourne’s new premium blow dry boutique in Little Collins. The Blow is the brainchild of Phoebe Simmonds, who is one impressive woman. She's been in the beauty industry for over ten years, and there isn't much she doesn't know about applying heat to hair.

‘Amble’ means to walk at a slow, relaxed pace. So, when Italian brothers Marco and Joseph Assanti opened Amble on Flinders Lane, that’s exactly what they had in mind.

After selling out of chicken on their first day at their original Fitzroy store, it wasn’t long before Belles needed a second home. The CBD store, much like the one on Gertrude Street, has a cosy and warm feel, with food just as comforting. Similar to the original Belles' headquarters there are comfy chairs and booths that you sink into and enjoy the famed chicken. However, the Elizabeth Street operation has a slightly darker and almost late-night diner feel to it, fitting in perfectly with the city scene. 

Beauty expert Emma Thwaite has been obsessed with skin for a long time. Decades, in fact.

It was quite a shock seeing The Rogue Squire for the first time. It’s sitting on a very famous corner spot—the old Wheeler’s Hill Hotel, where 19-year-olds have been lining up for garage band gigs for decades (if it’s any consolation, The Wheeler’s pokies and sports bar still exists next door).

We’ll be honest, we drove straight past Half Acre the first time. And the second time too, as a matter of fact. Eventually we had to get out, walk up to the nondescript brick wall and poke our heads through the arched entrance.

We didn’t know what to expect from an infrared sauna. Is it a microwave sort of deal? Do you sit there under a heat lamp like a pub parma? And what exactly do you wear...?

Surrey Hills might be a sleepy, cardigan-wearing kind of neighbourhood, but damn there’s some good spots to eat (if you know what you’re looking for).

While we all weren’t looking, a humble café moved into the backstreets of Fitzroy, and it goes by the name of Café Louis (Bonjour, mon ami).

Whether it’s five-course fine dining or a late-night burger and fries, it goes without saying that a laneway feed is quintessentially Melbourne.

You’ve got to have some moxie to start a boutique gin distillery in 2018.

It was during their travels through Europe that Bill and Aspa Bourgazas fell in love with the feeling. You know, when you bite into something and the taste is so delicious it makes you wonder ‘Where the heck has this been all my life?’ Yeah, that feeling.

We try not to fanboy too hard at these things, but meeting Lune founder, Kate Reid, in her new CBD croissanterie...we’re fighting an urge to bow and curtsy.

Melbourne has copped Australia’s first female-driven bricks-and-mortar sneaker store, and it’s about bloody time.