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Highett favourite, AM PM, have been busy lately. Not only did they refurb their cafe space on Highett Rd, they launched a new menu at the same time. 

We’re struggling to think of a bar launch that generated more social frenzy...

Hattie Molly stormed onto the Melbourne flower scene back in 2015 (oh yes, there’s a scene). She used to operate out of a private space on Rupert St in Collingwood, but now she’s got her own concept store on Johnston St. And it’s looking all sorts of beautiful.

If you’re going to open a new gelateria on Lygon St, you’d better be bringing the big guns. This strip has seen more gelato than we’ve had hot dinners (and we’ve had a LOT of hot dinners).

Melbourne hipsterisation often comes with collateral damage. Case in point: it’s actually kind of hard now to find pizza in the inner ‘burbs that ISN’T cooked in a woodfire oven...on a thin base...scattered with precisely three pitted olives and an artful basil leaf.

Moonee Ponds, you lucky devil. There’s about 20 Zeus Street Greek gyros stores around the country, but you snagged the first one in Victoria.

Bentleigh locals, we’ve got some good news. Good Times Milk Bar is officially open for business, and your Sunday mornings just got 37% more delicious.

The talented team that brought us Melbourne Short Straw and Collective Espresso has graced us with their third café: Turning Point. A stone’s throw away from Ripponlea station, Turning Point is an all-day diner boasting a brunch and dinner menu that will make you drool.

If you’ve ever been on an Aussie road trip, odds are you’ve come across the Ettamogah pub somewhere on your journey. They’re kind of hard to miss—big red barns scrawled with drawings and cartoons, dishing up outback steaks the size of your head. 

Are your brow’s looking more like second cousins rather than sisters? Look no further than the talented Eyebrow Artists over at Ottoman3 Brow Bar (that is—if you can see under those unruly face caterpillars).  

Every so often a venue comes along that defies description. But what the hell, let’s give it a go: Evies Bar & Diner is an awesome new 1980s retro vegan-friendly warehouse diner and disco bar on Gertrude St. AKA the coolest new opening of 2018. Phew. Yeah that about sums it up.

Since opening in 2003 in Fed Square, Transport Bar has become an iconic local watering hole. The sun-drenched bar is as central as you can get—making it the perfect spot for an after work refreshment. For sports fans, it doesn’t get much better than two enormous screens dedicated to all the live action.

The Toscano’s story starts way back in 1950, when the family opened its first Melbourne fruit and veggie shop. It’s fair to say the food scene has changed over the last 70-odd years, and the old grocer has done a pretty good job of moving with the times. Now they’ve got three greengrocers across town (in Richmond, Kew and Hawksburn).

If you like your Melbourne cuisine with a side of social conscience then you can’t go past Chameleon Junction.

If you’re heavy into indoor plants like us, you’re going to need to know about The Jungle Collective.

It’s Richmond’s time to shine. Yep, Melbourne’s best extraction facial team have set up shop in a new two-storey space on Swan St.

Tavlin is one of those suburban institutions (like Zataar in Coburg) that will probably survive Melbourne itself.

The first thing you need to know about Little Odessa—you won’t find it from the front. It’s actually tucked at the rear of Brunswick St, a little out-of-the-way European wine bar, specialising in Ukrainian food, natural wines and potent tequila cocktails.

Is it just us, or does it feel like Bridge Rd is beginning to turn? Cafe maestro Eamon Sheahan obviously agrees, because when a lease opened up opposite the Epworth Hospital, he grabbed it with both hands.

If you haven’t checked out Pt. Leo Estate yet, do you even Mornington?

You have a hairdresser, right? But who’s your go-to browdresser? The brow wizards at Melanie Marris Eyebrows are your new port of call for all things archery. Don’t neglect those caterpillars, guys. They deserve some TLC too.

A few years ago, Vietnamese in Northcote was pretty hard to find. Now you can’t swing a bunch of Thai basil on High St without hitting a bowl of pho. And thank god for that—if there’s one thing every city needs it’s more pho.

Undo that top button, guys. There’s a new scoop-happy gelateria in Fitzroy, and this one’s rocking Sicilian style.

You could blink and miss Monroe. The signage on Bridge Rd is pretty demure, sandwiched between a bunch of fashion clearance outlets. But there’s no misunderstanding once you’re inside—this place is a kick-ass, matt black uber-luxe coffee house...with a side of pastels.

James Knox and his wife Paige wanted one thing from their bar Miss Moses: it had to be relaxed. An unpretentious Sydney Rd brew bar. And that’s harder than it sounds, especially in a city where most new venues launch with a gimmick.

Just when you thought South Melbourne couldn’t get any more delicious...

The sign out the front of Victoria Mill proudly declares ‘Wine, Gin & Cheese’. Yeah, these guys don’t mess around.

It’s starting to become a thing—the best venues along Chapel St are no longer on Chapel St. You have to head one or two streets back. Exhibit A: Bayano The Rebel. A new vegan-friendly cafe on Ellis St, just near Leonards House of Love and Bosozoku.

If you were a 140-year-old Italian gelateria, where would you set up shop in Melbourne? Lygon St, obvs. The unofficial gelato capital of the universe, where cones outnumber people 4:1.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that getting a burger for less than $10 in Melbourne is bloody difficult. And that was one thing Anna Rogers and Gaby Zakharia wanted to remedy with their Brunswick East burger bar, Pickle.

PA's has been a watering hole for Melbourne Uni students since the beginning of time (actual time, 1926). Unfortunately Prince Alfred closed its doors in 2015, and all hope seemed lost—until the 100 Burger Group took over the venue last year.

This one goes out to your New Year’s fitness resolutions. You know the ones. They were mentally listed on the 1st of Jan and then you put them down somewhere aaand...here we are. But better late than never, right? Rebalance Pilates are here to tone you up (pre Amalfi-sun-bed season) and restore some much-needed equilibrium to your hectic agenda. In the fine words of Olivia Newton John, let's get PHYSICAL.

In a sleepy Port Melbourne backstreet, there’s a new venue that’s changing the whole concept of ‘Pub’. It’s called The Hack—a cocktail, BBQ and brewhouse set inside a cracked and peeling 1860 heritage building.

The trick with themed bars is always Less Is More. A few touches, the odd cheeky nod to the source material, but then back to the basics: a solid cocktail list, good food and rockin’ atmosphere. If you can’t get those right, it doesn’t matter how many wink wink nudge nudges you’ve got on the walls...

We’ve got three words for you guys: urban axe throwing.

We’re all about balance. A green smoothie here, a jug of beer there—that’s what it’s all about. Lucky for us, our friends at ROAR Living totally agree.

Add this one to the never-ending brunch list, guys. It’s called The Tamper Trap (note the spelling), and it’s the newest brunch bar on Bay St, Brighton.

When a restaurant has a 15ft purple Kraken erupting on its outside wall, you know it’s going to be seriously into seafood.

The Yarra Valley has certainly made a name for itself in the distilling game over the past couple of years. Melbourne Gin Company, and Four Pillars are well known for their gin, but now there’s a new player in town—Alchemy Distillers.

Fusion cuisine is always a dicey game, but when someone really nails it—you notice.

It’s finally happened, guys. For weeks we’ve been peering through the window, crossing days off the calendar, clearing stomach space in anticipation—and now it’s officially happened.

Picture a burger the size of your head. Now picture it covered in gold and practically oozing with meat and cheese. That’s what the chefs at Phat Stacks have created for your eating pleasure. And we have major ~ heart in eyes emoji ~ feelz.

‘Farro’ is Italian for 'spelt'. And ‘spelt’ is an ancient grain that’s high in fibre, boosts the immune system and helps digestion (unlike most wheat-based grains). Why does this stuff matter? Because Thornbury's health-conscious pizza joint Pizza Farro have just set up shop in Fitzroy. And they're slinging spelt bases AND dedicated gluten-free pizza all day long. 

With a maelstrom of froyo bars and gelaterias already vying for Melbourne's attention, you might roll your eyes at another foray into the icy swirl. Hit the snooze button on that sh*t, right?

Charlie Carrington has done it again. The young cooking prodigy blew Melbourne away with Atlas Dining in 2016, and now he’s loosening the tie, ditching the tablecloths and doing his own take on the ‘Big Chef/Little Menu’ trend.

What world are we even living in?

Building a rooftop bar sounds fun and all, but it’s tricky when the building you’re working with has been around since 1891. This was the problem confronting the Union Electric team when they started planning Melbourne’s newest sky-high gin parlour.

For Emma and Ben Bangay, friends always enter their house through the ‘side door’. And that’s what this place is—a bar for friends. Making them, meeting them, drinking and laughing with them...ordering way too many Aperol Spritzes with them.

If you have issues with gluten but love beer, Twobays is here to make all your hoppy, gluten-free dreams come true.

Vineyards have owned the whole 'cellar door' concept for a long time. But Hurdle Creek is doing the same thing for gin. It's a family-run distillery down a bumpy track in Milawa, and you can rock up and taste to your heart's content.

Jetty Road is the new kid on the Mornington Peninsula block, and they're already making a name for themselves. As local boys with “a passion for all things craft beer and a childhood love for the Mornington Peninsula”, friends Blake and Simon have created a funky, industrial-style brewery. The concept? Craft beers, sensational local food and a great atmosphere. Sounds good to us. 

Remember the pizzas you had when you were a kid? They weren’t exactly subtle. Their bases were more like spongy flavour pillows, onto which you could pile several hundred toppings (and then fistfuls of cheese). Well there’s a new place in Brunswick West that’s digging up some serious pizza nostalgia vibes.

Okay, we may have just found Melbourne’s Holy Grail. A fish and chip place that doesn’t leave you feeling like a bloated, overweight heffalump. It’s called Kings & Queens, and it’s specialising in something kind of revolutionary: gluten-free fish and chips.

You know this place is gonna look good on the Gram as soon as you walk in. The giveaway? A giant vertical garden on one wall, with a neon sign in the middle that says ‘I licked it, so it’s mine’. Expect to see this thing all over your feed in the next few weeks (especially with the minimal-mod fit-out, courtesy of Kern Studio). 

A burger place without ketchup or mustard? Yep, it does exist. Welcome to Kung Fu Burger, South Yarra’s Asian-inspired burger joint.

We Melburnian’s are mad for a good coffee, and as such we have cafes upon cafes around the city that dish up the perfect brew—but not all of them make you feel as welcome as the crew at Coe & Coe.

Hall Street in Newport just gained a brand spanking new cafe. And it’s not only a cafe, but also a retailer and cooking school as well. Hot damn!

Nothing says Melbourne more than imbibing way too many espresso martinis at a rooftop bar sunset sesh. Throw some brunch talk into the mix, serve up a gnarly spread of grazing options, and you’ve pretty much distilled our city’s lifeblood.

Four amazing restaurants. Two Masterchef contestants. One killer food hall. That’s the basic arithmetic behind HWKR, the CBD’s new hawker-style marketplace.

Nerds, comic book lovers and anime fans—all your dreams have officially arrived in the form of a humble burger. Based east of Melbourne in Balwyn, One Plus Piece is themed around the popular Japanese manga of the same name. And the team do not take the theme lightly.