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Gigi Rooftop overlooks suburban Thornbury and beyond.

There are plenty of new rooftop bars in Melbourne, but there’s still nothing like Gigi

The suburban view is not spectacular, exactly – but there’s something special about golden hours spent on this summer-only sundeck.

  • Dani Valent

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Sandro at dusk.

With five new openings within 300 metres, one of our best Eat Streets is getting even better

Thornbury’s High Street is booming, with a new fire-fuelled Lebanese restaurant, elite ice-cream and more.

  • Tomas Telegramma
116 Rennie Street, Thornbury.

Young man outbids seven others for $2.2m Thornbury retreat – $381,000 over reserve

The clinker-brick, three-bedder features a vine-clad pergola and an open fireplace, and benefited from some well-timed updates.

  • Sarah Webb
Darebin City Council.

Darebin City Council: What your candidates said

Voters in Darebin will choose nine people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
Cafe Gummo.

Patron charged with violent disorder for chasing neo-Nazis from suburban fundraiser

A man is facing jail time as the only person charged over a melee that broke out when he asked 20 neo-Nazis to leave a Thornbury venue.

  • Erin Pearson
Thornbury’s abandoned Le Pine Funerals site.

Welcome to Thornbury: Boarded up windows, graffiti and run-down cars

Thornbury’s abandoned Le Pine Funerals site is defying High Street’s recently bestowed status as the world’s coolest street.

  • Tim Boreham
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47 Nimmo Street, Middle Park.

Downsizers compete to pay $4,325,000 for double-fronted Middle Park terrace

The home’s high-spec renovation prompted two bidders to push the price well beyond the quoted price range. It was one of 1028 auctions scheduled on Saturday.

  • Tom Carey
The steak-like lion’s mane mushroom dish.

Meet the meaty main that’s so convincing, vegans have sent it back to the kitchen

Restaurant-bar Ballard’s, and its plant-based food, is anything but bland.

  • Dani Valent
Jonathan O’Brien, from YIMBY Melbourne, says the unwanted church should make way for housing.

Empty church ignites tension between heritage and housing

The fate of a church in Melbourne’s inner north raises questions about preserving the past and meeting the needs of the community.

  • Tom Cowie
High Street, Thornbury. The recently proclaimed “coolest street in the world” is eight kilometres long and runs across three suburbs.

Is this Australian street really ‘the world’s coolest’? Not for me

My dream street has good and diverse food; classy, creative boutiques; bars that are friendly and unpretentious. Some cities have them.

  • Ben Groundwater

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