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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.
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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.
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
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
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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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.
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
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
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
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