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If the name Changz rings a bell, it’s probably because you’ve screamed it at some point in your life while searching for a glass of milk. These guys do, hands down, the best hot sauce going around.

Looks like the secret’s out. When we rock up at Veneziano’s new roastery cafe, there’s already a hungry hoard inside. Waiters are zipping everywhere, and people are ploughing through French toast and Kenya roast like their lives depended on it.

Pork lovers, get the hell excited. Good old Windsor has just opened its doors to Ton & Co. Seriously, can this area get any cooler?

Finding the perfect pair of jeans is like finding a good-looking guy with nice intentions under the age of 25: close to impossible.

A lot of Melbournians still don’t know about Golden Monkey, which is weird. It’s an underground Shanghai dumpling bar that’s been kicking around since 2005.

Feeling a bit stressed? Overwhelmed by the impending doom or just plain over life? We feel you, guys. And so do our friends at Beyond Rest in Hawthorn.

You’re walking down Gertrude St when a pop of yellow catches your eye. It’s either a rogue canary, or this place—Variety Hour.

Wabi Sabi Garden may not be running in St Kilda anymore, but it never really closed. It just turned into this place: Fuji Tei.

Some people will tell you Hardware Lane is for tourists. That there aren’t any proper bars here (at least nowhere you’d choose to impress a Tinder date).

You don’t much around at Huff Bagelry. This family-run joint is modelled on classic New York-style bagel houses, and no-one walks into those expecting hipster fireworks. You walk up the counter, state your order, step to the right and eat your bagel. It’s damn good, and you’re happy to get it.

It’s hard not to get excited about suits when you’re chatting to Miles Wharton. He’s the kind of guy that makes James Bond look underdressed.

There’s really two Bombas in Melbourne. One is Jesse Gerner and Andrew Fisk’s downstairs tapas bar, famous for bodega vibes, jugs of Sangria and enough tapas to make your belt buckle explode.

All Melburnians know that Merrywell Burger Bar is a true hospitality classic when it comes to dining at Crown Casino. Their award-winning, juicy, American-style burgers have a special place in our hearts.

If you’ve never done reformer pilates, it probably looks a lot like a bunch of ridiculous active-wear people stretching their legs across a moving torture platform. Is it just one of those ridiculous fitness trends that don’t do actually do much?

The clue's in the title with Cumulus Up, Andrew McConnell's lofty wine bar. It's upstairs, above its sister restaurant Cumulus Inc.

If someone told you they just found Melbourne’s “best new restaurant”, you’d expect it to be in the CBD. Or maybe down an alley in Fitzroy, hiding behind a sign for ‘vegan tyre supplies’ or something. What you wouldn’t expect is a quiet suburban street in Yarraville, a wrought iron awning, and some gauzy grey curtains.

We’ll try not to geek out too hard with this one, but it won’t be easy. The Store Of Requirement lends itself to multiple exclamation marks, obscure Harry Potter puns and dressing in wizards robes like nobody’s watching.

Ah, Melbourne Museum. You guys probably remember it as that place you used to get dragged along to for school excursions or uni assignments.

You might have heard of K-Kore before. You know, the guys giving you the courage to ditch your personal trainer for faster results and strange exercise machines? Yep, that’s the one.

These days most people want their hotels to be chic, contemporary, zoom-zoom sort of establishments.

Leroy Espresso is hard to miss. You'll spot the slick frontage on the corner of Barkly and Acland St.

We don’t know what we were expecting at The Elk Room—South Yarra’s new hidden cocktail bar—but this wasn’t it.

You walk into Brixton Pound like it’s no big deal. Past the Oakland A’s flat caps, Champion sweaters and achingly cool Vans high-tops. On the left, there’s a ribbed door, painted grey, with a little neon keypad on the wall.

You might have spotted something weird on Gertrude St lately.

People who sigh and say Bridge Rd is dead—book a date night at ONDA immediately. It’s a new South American fusion restaurant near Church St, and it’s already our favourite eatery on the strip...and potentially in Richmond as well. Yep, it’s that bloody good.

Hibiki specialises in two things: “Japanese brunch and beats”. Any cafe with that motto is somewhere we want to get to know better.  

The Provincial is pretty much the Grand Old Dame of Brunswick St pubs. If you don’t have three stories of loose nights here, you’re not a true Northsider.

Of all the hot colour Pantones we thought we’d see in 2018, purple wasn’t on the short list. But here it is anyway, covering the ceiling and walls of The Vale, Ascot Vale’s brand new wine, pizza and charcuterie bar. It’s like someone spilled a Grimace in here.

In 2015, Chef Tom Peasnell, his mate Adam Goldbatt and brother Sam launched Dexter: a ‘no-rules’ approach to an American BBQ that champions meat and buns. In that order. 

Usually, you’d be heading down Mornington Peninsula to indulge in a bit of crisp pinot noir in a rustic setting, but if you fancy doing something a little bit different on your trip down the Nepean Highway we’d recommend poking your head into Rebel Donuts of Mornington.

Eureka Tower is hard to miss. Literally.

A few years ago, Virtual Reality was something nerds did in the privacy of their own homes. Most people didn’t know what it was, and they didn’t want to know. Something about dragons? You put this weird headset thing on? It all sounded a bit Matrix.

It’s not often we write about North Balwyn, but it might be time to launch some serious Sunday investigations. Especially if more places like this pop up.

Add this place to your list of special-occasion-pay-cheque-blowing getaways. It’s Victoria’s hottest new boutique escape, set on rolling green hills behind the Pt Lonsdale bluff. Write the name in your dream journal now: Lon Retreat.

Matti Fallon really likes pies. But not your regular, gristly, hope-that-thing-was-a-tendon variety. He likes New Zealand-style pies, baked with love, from recognisable domesticated animals.

You’d never know it was here from down on Collins St. Perched up on the second level, with a view of leafy plane trees, there’s a New York-style jewellery store with a history going back to Melbourne’s gold rush days. This is the new-look Kozminsky.

What do you get when you take two France-Soir alumns, one beautiful brasserie and a lot of butter? You get Franco-Belge—Camberwell’s classy new French-Belgian bistro.

Forget everything that comes to mind when you think of science. Including your old physics teacher who crushed your dreams of being a scientific genius when he gave you a D on your physics test (it’s a sore spot, okay).

When the crew from Moby 3143 open a new cafe, it pays to take notice. And how could you not, with this stunning corner spot in Albert Park?

Glenferrie Rd Hawthorn is no slouch when it comes to good eats, but it’s been a while that anything opened on the strip that wasn’t franchised or plastered with giant neon signage.

We try not to play favourites when it comes to Melbourne venues, but it’s hard not to love Austro.

We’re gonna try and get through this review without using the words ‘opulence’, ‘old-world’ or ‘glamour’. But it won’t be easy. Trinket, the CBD’s swanky new cocktail bar, hits that note from the get-go.

It was a bit of a shock to drive past Mr Scruff's and find another bar in its place. Sort of like seeing another family living in your childhood home. Of course, it helps when the new bar is called ‘Foxxy Dolphin’. Anything named Foxxy Dophin is aces in our book.

If you’re anything like us, you’re always on the lookout for your next tasty sushi morsel or epic matcha dessert. Which is why, when we heard the news about MONOU, the brand spanking new venue from the team behind South Melbourne’s super-kawaii Japanese café KUU, we hot-footed it down there in search of our latest mouth-watering fix.

BEAU is the kind of cafe you pray you get ‘round the corner.

Sit down young people, and we’ll tell you the tale of Murphys, Geelong’s historic Irish bar.

Marysville was one of the towns hit hard by the Black Saturday bushfires back in 2009, and it took a while for the place to rebuild.

Looking for Tommy Ruff fish bar in Mordialloc? It’s not where you remember. In fact, the guys have opened a new flagship store on the main street, a few doors down from the old spot. It’s bigger, fishier and contains 13% more crab. Nice.

A small part of us never left Hawthorn’s Nevermind bar. We’re still there rocking Wednesday night trivia, wearing questionable fedoras and knocking back strange blue cocktails like it’s 2006. The less said about the goatees the better.

Lovers of Italian food (so, everyone...basically), we've got some good news. We’ve found a new spot to add to your carb-filled pasta list, and its name is Bruno & Co.

If there’s one thing every city needs, it’s more rooftop bars. We’re looking forward to the day when every scrap of Melbourne’s roof real estate serves craft beer and strong cocktails (we’re also hoping they have slip n’ slides and rope ladders between the buildings, but maybe it’s a good thing we’re not city planners...)

As soon as the lift doors open, you know you’re in for a good time. Pupils dilate just trying to fit it all in: hanging red lanterns, a dragon climbing across the ceiling, smoke, flame and faded Malaysian rock posters. Welcome to Heroes, you’re going to love it here.

If you haven’t stopped by Greener House Nursery on Sydney Road in Brunswick yet you’re seriously living your life wrong.

Everyone needs a place like Deko Boko in their lives. If you work in the CBD, that’s probably Purple Peanuts or Brim CC—somewhere you can get amazing Katsu curry, matcha treats and gyoza at a reasonable price, cooked fast and hot and delivered straight to your mouth.

Talk about pedigree. The guys behind Port Of Call are the same ones that did (take a deep breath here...) Touchwood, Tall Timber, Coin Laundry, Left Field and Plain Sailing. Err, calm the farm, guys. Leave some cafes for the rest of us.

Pépite started in 2017 as a pop-up in Northcote: a small place for founder and artist Irina Rybakov to display her creations and champion some local designers.

Tokyo may have more Michelin-starred restaurants than anywhere else on Earth, but the real fun in Japan isn’t the flashy stuff—it’s discovering tiny, perfect eateries down some mist-shrouded alley like you’re a character in a Miyazaki movie.

Never trust a barber with bad hair. Everyone knows that. Well you’ll be happy to know Dario Krejic looks super trustworthy: this guy has the sort of chiselled chocolate hair you see on shampoo commercials.

What do you reckon, guys, best business name in Melbourne?

Geelong is like Melbourne’s younger Kardashian sister—brash, thirsty and eager to prove itself.