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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
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- 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
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- 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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- South Yarra
Dainty Sichuan returns with a luxe new look, name and rejigged menu. But is the spice still right?
With more than 100 items on the rejigged menu, it’s easy to get confused – or greedy – at the renovated and rebranded Sichuan stalwart.
- Dani Valent
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- St Kilda
Birthdays, parties, anything: This beloved bayside restaurant is the definition of dependable
Dismiss Donovans as outdated at your peril. The classic food and charming service make it ideal for young and old.
- Besha Rodell
After 40 years, the service – and singing – has finally stopped at this uniquely Carlton restaurant
The Olive Jar didn’t have Melbourne’s best Italian food, and the service was eccentric, but chief critic Besha Rodell was smitten. Now, it’s time to move on.
- Besha Rodell
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