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From $2.20 doughnuts to cult chicken nuggets: Where to find Melbourne’s top 20 snacks
Whether you like your snacks palm-sized and less than $2 or built for sharing, this list from The Age Good Food Guide 2025 covers plenty of ground.
- Claire Adey and Emma Breheny
These iconic Aussie restaurants’ anniversaries are worthy of celebration and recognition
It’s been quite the year for special birthdays, so crack open the champagne and raise your glass to these pioneers.
- Terry Durack
An icon closes and St Kilda restaurants slump as diners head to the pub instead
Iconic restaurant Prince Dining Room is the latest closure in the bayside suburb as price-conscious punters turn to pubs to stretch their dining dollar.
- Dani Valent
- Exclusive
- Coming soon
Melbourne’s favourite Thai restaurant is exiting the car park, and adding a second venue
Melbourne’s best-known Thai restaurant is about to move, with a new home that’s less hidden but holds plenty of other perks.
- Emma Breheny
From vintage movies to flamenco: The Melbourne restaurants reviving ‘dinner and a show’
Skip dessert and do an hour of karaoke. Dine mid-week when there’s a live band and cheap gnocchi. Or sink into a booth with a negroni and watch a vintage film.
- Emma Breheny
- Exclusive
- Pub dining
‘We want to replicate that spirit’: Fitzroy’s legendary Punters Club reopens after 22 years – and it still rocks
The Brunswick Street icon relaunches today with a menu of rejigged pub classics, affordable drinks and a cracking line-up of free gigs.
- Tomas Telegramma
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- Best of
Food-obsessed Melbourne deserves gold in this genre, but these gems are overlooked
Our city does this dining experience better than most places in the world, writes Besha Rodell.
- Besha Rodell
Gimlet’s Andrew McConnell to take over legendary laneway restaurant Becco, with big plans for the site
Melbourne’s best-known restaurateur is taking on one of the city’s most desirable sites, starting with a third branch of his cafe-grocer Morning Market.
- Emma Breheny
‘This was not just a restaurant’: Beloved Carlton stalwart to close after 12 years
Come September, Angie Giannakodakis and Guy Holder will turn off the lights at their European restaurant Epocha.
- Tomas Telegramma
- Review
- Southbank
This 20-year-old restaurant showcases Tassie, but its riverside setting is pure Melbourne
Pure South has matured into a great Melbourne restaurant: committed, consistent, creative and, in the right light, prone to making a person emotional.
- Dani Valent
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