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Wagyu lasagne with truffled manchego.

Here’s your March dining hit list, Sydney (featuring this late-night lasagne)

Catch up on all the hot, new, coming soon and just-reviewed places around town.

Bread, a crown-shaped brioche brushed with a caramel made from vegetable scraps, is complimentary.

Here’s your March dining hit list, Melbourne (featuring this free bread that’s good enough to pay for)

Also this month: our guide to one of the best suburban dining hubs, plus discover restaurants and bars hidden inside pubs.

Nightbird is nesting at the back of Godby Hotel.

Eight new bars to try, from a secret rooftop to a pub in an old train station

There’s also a Thai cocktail bar hidden above a laneway restaurant, two cosy new spots for Abbotsford locals and a massive beer garden in Melbourne’s south-east.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Owners Dom Gattermayr and Rose Richards outside Florian To-Go.

Queue-magnet cafe Florian’s new spot gives you more of the food you love, and then some

The Carlton North favourite adds a takeaway outlet and providore that will act as a pressure valve, feeding people from breakfast through to dinner.

  • Claire Adey
Duck sausage roll with hoisin sauce from Baker Bleu.

Where to get a Peking duck sausage roll this Lunar New Year

Baker Bleu teams up with Lee Ho Fook on Lunar New Year range, try new wave Chinese wines at Love, Tilly Devine and the best fibre-rich foods to add to your diet.

  • Erina Starkey
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Dishes at Tyga in Carnegie.

Melbourne February hit list: 28+ hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

Lune opens in the west end, Hugh Allen’s fine diner Yiaga is crowned with three hats, plus a trio of restaurants to try along Koornang Road in Carnegie.

Like its Fitzroy flagship, the new Lune location features a glassed-in, temperature-controlled “cube”.

Melbourne’s new ‘Maxi Lune’ can churn out more than 6000 pastries a day

“We’re maxed out in Fitzroy,” says Lune founder Kate Reid, but a second city store and glass-walled “cube” will boost pastry production.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Desserts are king.

Ease back into office life with 11 new city spots for lunch, coffee and afternoon treats

Beat the back-to-work blues with breaks centred on cake, bargain lunch plates, iced matcha and even icier coffee.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Santito in Collingwood is styled on Mexico City’s taquerias.

Seven of the hottest new Victorian restaurants to dine at this summer

The Greek wave arrives in Glen Iris, a Venetian wine bar lands in Brunswick, and 1970s Bangkok comes to Carnegie. Plus, two favourites up stumps – but don’t stray very far.

  • Daniela Frangos
Shake Shack is known for its 100 per cent Angus beef burgers and hand crinkle-cut fries.

What to expect when Shake Shack’s cult burgers land in Australia next week

The US burger chain is finally headed our way for a pop-up at the Australian Open. We asked the team what’s on the menu, including some one-off items.

  • Tomas Telegramma