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Heading to the F1? Save some vroom for this epic fish burger
Some of Melbourne’s hottest eateries have revved up the food offerings trackside at Albert Park this year. Beat the queues and make a beeline for our top picks.
- Emily Holgate
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
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
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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
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
Sicilian style comes to Frankston’s waterfront (plus nine hot and new-ish venues to try)
The Frankston Yacht Club’s shiny new restaurant is part of a wave of changes rippling through the sometimes scoffed-at bayside suburb.
- Donna Demaio
The bars, bakeries and backyards where people are ditching screens to reconnect
Done with doomscrolling, Melburnians are getting off their phones and joining quirky gatherings where bars become reading nooks and bakeries double as dance floors.
- Dani Valent
- Analysis
- Restaurant news
Is Melbourne’s one-time hottest food strip losing its grit?
Smith Street has long been defined by its diversity and grungy energy. But things are changing, with decade-old fine diner Ides closing and fast-food chains moving in.
- Quincy Malesovas
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