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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
The Wooden Spoon.

First look: Sooshi Mango’s late-night panini bar ‘had to be’ on Lygon Street

Three doors down from the comedy trio’s restaurant, their follow-up, Sangaweech, has Big Nonna Energy. Expect orange Laminex, sandwiches with cheeky names, and tiramisu.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The Pinnacle’s new team (L-R): venue manager Jamie McDonnell, chef Scott Eddington, owner Michael Bascetta.

Fitzroy North’s quirkiest pub reopens with one big difference

The wedge-shaped Fitzroy Pinnacle Hotel is back in business with a new name, a new team and a (sort of) new look. And it’s now more about food than live music.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Koi Toy’s kingfish sashimi is dressed with pink grapefruit, coconut cream and yuzu kosho.

Pentridge is now the place to be as a rule-breaking restaurant moves in

At the ever-growing former prison precinct, a big new restaurant is serving freewheeling takes on sushi, skewers and noodles. This is your first look.

  • Dani Valent
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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
Bar Carnation’s Audrey Shaw has added a slanted ceiling mirrors “for people watching” but the bar remains.

Carnation Canteen’s new bar – in the original Gerald’s site – is already a neighbourhood hotspot

Audrey Shaw knew the Rathdowne Street site came with big shoes to fill. She’s honoured its iconic history with a respectful, yet (mostly) fresh perspective.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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