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Best Melbourne Late Night Eats
MELBOURNE | For a long time, the late night dining options in Melbourne were rather sparse and, for the most part, not that inspiring. Don’t get us wrong, there’s always a time and place for a sneaky...
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Chinacy, South Yarra
MELBOURNE | Chinacy South Yarra restaurant with a focus on “Chinese food with Australian attitude”. The word is a portmanteau of the words ‘Chinese’ and ‘harmony’, and reflects how the food on offer...
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Discovering Native Australian Ingredients
Native Australian ingredients have had a chequered history in Australia. For many years they were ignored or used in ways that didn’t recognise their full potential. In recent years, however, chefs...
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Chinese Lanzhou Auspicious Palace, Melbourne CBD
MELBOURNE | A few months ago I was walking through Melbourne’s Chinatown when I noticed a small restaurant that I hadn’t seen before. It had a line of people, mostly Asian, of all ages outside the...
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Naughty Nuri’s, Melbourne CBD
MELBOURNE | Naughty Nuri’s is a popular Indonesian restaurant chain that originated in Ubud, Bali in 1995. Founded by Isnuri “Nuri” Suryatmi and her husband Brian Kenney Aldinger, Naughty Nuri’s...
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Mr Crackles, Melbourne CBD
Image Credit: Mr Crackles Image Credit: Mr Crackles Image Credit: Mr Crackles Image Credit: Mr Crackles MELBOURNE | Mr Crackles has been a Sydney favourite since opening in 2012 and when word hit that...
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Maria’s Pasta, Carlton North
MELBOURNE | Maria’s Pasta is a family run pasta shop in North Carlton that’s been making fresh pasta for over 50 years. The current owners took over the business in 1985 (conveniently their nonna was...
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Italian Home-style Food With Semplice Cooking
MELBOURNE | Semplice is one of the newest “private chef” type services to have popped up in Melbourne and aims to differentiate itself from the crowd by focusing on the end-to-end experience, with an...
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Tahina, Fitzroy
MELBOURNE | Tahina is a Northcote favourite, with Tel Aviv born owner/chef Roy Sassonkin and his partner Natalie Powell creating a mouthwatering menu of Israeli street food bites that are completely...
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The Best Of Queen Victoria Market
MELBOURNE | The Queen Victoria Market is a Melbourne icon, and has been in continuous operation since 1878. Before that, it was home to an assortment of other markets, and earlier still, the site was...
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Drumplings, Melbourne CBD
MELBOURNE| Have you ever tried a cheeseburger dumpling? Now that I have your attention, feast your eyes and your taste buds upon a modern dumpling restaurant like no other. Drumplings on Bourke Street...
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Goodby Kappo, Hello Mr Den’s Poppu Uppu
MELBOURNE| Poppu Uppu has popped up in the space that was formerly home to Simon Denton’s (Mr Den’s) casual Japanese restaurant Kappo. We’re big fans of Denton’s other Japanese restaurants – Hihou...
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Ines Wine Bar, Windsor
MELBOURNE| Ines Wine Bar is a stylish and quaint bar which has just landed in Windsor. Matteo Bruno, mastermind behind Hana and The Meatball & Wine Bar brings us a European style wine bar with old...
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Project 281, Brunswick
MELBOURNE| Project 281 is a new cafe and coffee roastery located just off Sydney Road in Brunswick. It’s certainly not a new concept for the area, but owners Sarge Michael and Connell McGrath, who...
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Carlton Farmers’ Market, Carlton North
MELBOURNE | Carlton Farmers’ Market is held on the first and second Saturday of every month at Carlton North Primary School, and gives visitors the chance to buy fresh produce and artisan foodstuffs...
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Tipico, Windsor
MELBOURNE| Say good-bye to your stereotypical Italian restaurant with rustic furnishings and concerto music echoing in the background. High street Windsor is now home to Tipico, a brand new dining...
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BOMBA Tapas Bar & Rooftop, Melbourne CBD
MELBOURNE| BOMBA Tapas Bar & Rooftop is one of our favourite bars in Melbourne, so when we heard it was shutting down earlier this year we were very surprised. Thankfully surprise soon gave way to...
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Rice Workshop (Chinatown), Melbourne CBD
MELBOURNE| Rice Workshop is an established institution in Melbourne and the one in Chinatown has been around for more than five years. Famous for their Japanese inspired donburi (rice bowls) and bento...
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Shu Restaurant, Collingwood
MELBOURNE| Shu Restaurant opened at the quiet end of Johnston Street in Collingwood back in 2012 and has been a constant work of refinement since. Owner Shu Liu opened Shu with the aim of putting his...
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FLATIRON Side Door, Kew
MELBOURNE | FLATIRON Side Door is a local’s wine bar in Kew, designed and owned by husband and wife team Ben and Emma Bangay. It took two years to go from concept to opening with Ben, a production...
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