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Good Food hat15.5/20

This country spot is the ‘pub’ every town wishes it had on the corner

If you can’t find an old pub, make one. That’s the approach the You Beauty team has taken to create this award-winning community-led venue.

  • David Matthews
The 1110-person Hickens Hotel now has two additional levels.

A mega pub with a rooftop bar, private karaoke and more opens in Melbourne’s CBD

Hickens Hotel is now open in the four-storey space once housing the Crafty Squire.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Listen out for the crackle of the filo tiropita (cheese pie).

This Toorak Road taverna is hitting its stride with cheese pie and crackling filo pastry

Astoria Bar Ke Grill opened quietly last spring, but is now coming into its own with a host of dips, stews and a hefty moussaka.

  • Dani Valent
McCarrs.
14.5/20

‘Beaut little hub’: This rebadged suburban spot crackles with community spirit

McCarrs on Mona Vale Road is an excellent place to sit by the fire and share pizza slices topped with pepperoni, honey and chilli.

  • Callan Boys
Bistecca al pepe - eye fillet steak topped with a pepper sauce-filled raviolo - at Gambino restaurant in Glen Waverley.
14.5/20

Bet you’ve never had steak and pepper sauce like this before, Melbourne

Gambino restaurant and rooftop bar brings tricksy Italian dishes and Big Night Out energy to the ’burbs.

  • Dani Valent
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Thin Slizzy is Collingwood’s late night muso pizza joint

The pizzas are punny at this popular northside spot

Collingwood’s Thin Slizzy offers cheap pizzas, cocktails and pints on Wednesdays.

  • Tomas Telegramma
The prime burger at Cutler.
Good Food hatGood Food hat16/20

‘Ordering a burger here seems weird’: Our critic reviews Cutler’s flexible new menu

The restaurant formerly known as Cutler and Co. switches from pricey degustation dining to a more casual format.

  • Besha Rodell
Magiritsta soup with Victorian-grown mushrooms and truffles from Meteora in Greece.

Aegli

For traditional Greek dishes executed in ways you might not expect.

  • Tomas Telegramma
D.O.C’s soppressa pizza with pesto di casa.

D.O.C Pizza & Mozzarella Bar

One of Melbourne’s most iconic spots for wood-fired pizza.

Inside Fitzroy’s Bar Liberty.

‘Melbourne wine bar’ has become its own genre, but this decade-old spot breaks the mould

Push past the orthodoxies at Fitzroy’s Bar Liberty, where spirit infuses everything from the playlists to the legacy of cheesy, peppery dishes.

  • Dani Valent

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