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The original jam doughnuts of American Doughnut Kitchen are hard to beat.

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
Bar owner Liam Ganley in his just-renovated Irish bar, which has remained busy.

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
Soi 38 restaurant’s owners Tasha Piyaphanee and Top Piyaphanee outside the restaurant in a carpark.

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
Kew bar Bianchetto now screens movies mid-week with movie snacks to match.

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
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The Punters Club is back where it belongs in Brunswick Street.

‘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
One of Melbourne’s most loved French bistros, Bistro Thierry in Armadale.

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
Chef-restaurateur Andrew McConnell is embarking on a new project at the storied Becco site.

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
The building where Epocha is located has been put up for sale.

‘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
Tasmanian produce-focused restaurant Pure South celebrates two decades in business this year.
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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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