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Stay up to date with Melbourne’s best restaurants, cafes, bars, and shops.

  • Meet the flagship of one of Melbourne’s top coffee roasters, where education is key. Order its excellent coffee, pastries by Baker Bleu and sangas made with market-fresh produce. Plus, if you time it right, wait-worthy mushroom burgers.

  • Choose-your-own-pasta adventure at this fast-casual Italian spot. Pick your sauce (be it creamy carbonara or hearty ragu) and marry it with your favourite pasta shape, before adding toppings like anchovies, prawns and kalamata olives.

  • It’s all about lo-fi wines and classic wine bar snacks (think cured sardines with cucumber, or grilled ox tongue with potatoes) at Brico. Soak them up in the light-filled corner bar or head to the airy courtyard out back.