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Award-winning chef Jo Barrett to close hatted Lorne restaurant Little Picket
Riding high with a Good Food Guide hat, Victoria’s Chef of the Year is quitting the bowls club to tackle new projects.
- by Dani Valent
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The popular coastal suburbs where property prices rose most in summer
Some beach towns recorded consistently stronger price growth in the warmer months over the past decade than they did in spring.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
The only thing jumping at the Lorne trampolines is insurance costs
Generations of children bounced on the trampolines until they were abruptly closed in 2020, and a $500,000 insurance bill means they are unlikely to reopen this summer.
- by Cara Waters and Millie Muroi
The Good Food guide to the best places to eat and drink in Lorne
The first in our series on where to eat and drink in the summer hotspots of Victoria, here’s everything you need to know about the star of the Surf Coast.
- by Ellen Fraser and Good Food Guide reviewers
Seaside tavern from a high-profile chef will bring more sizzle to this holiday hotspot
Clam Bar will offer oysters, hand-cut chips, fish sandwiches and wine, plus a rotating line-up of food vendors hand-picked by chef David Moyle.
- by Emma Breheny
From couch to cinema, how this trio is making movies great again
It’s not an arms race to the best technology, rather creating a community of like-minded people.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Review
Little Picket
How humble bowlo restaurant Little Picket bowled our critic over (and gained a hat)
The pretension is low but the quality is high at Jo Barrett’s charming restaurant that embraces homely bowlo awesomeness.
- by Besha Rodell
Lorne seaside development languishes despite growing budget
Point Grey at Lorne has long been earmarked for development. So what is holding up progress at this site beside the pier?
- by Benjamin Preiss
Has Merivale’s gamble to open Italian powerhouse Totti’s in Lorne paid off?
While anything but local, this Sydney import is extremely fun, the food is delicious, and the view is damn near priceless.
- by Besha Rodell
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Tourism
‘It just felt special’: Billionaire peers buy up Lorne’s pubs
The local gossip is that when billionaire Justin Hemmes arrived in Lorne for the first time, he assumed the pub he had just bought was the grand building on the point – not the unassuming venue behind the surf club.
- by Cara Waters
‘Walloped’: A dozen rescued after heavy storm drenches Geelong, parts of Melbourne
There’s been widespread flooding in Geelong and thousands of properties in the area are without power after a severe thunderstorm lashed parts of Victoria
- by Caroline Schelle
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