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All the new and soon-to-open restaurants and bars around Australia to add to your hit list.

All the new and soon-to-open restaurants and bars in Melbourne to have on your radar.

The best restaurants in Melbourne, as reviewed for our annual Restaurant Guide. There are old favourites, new trailblazers, and a lot of dining out to be done.

From hip hotels a stone’s throw from city bars to new Melbourne hotels with rooftop pools, Melbourne has it all when it comes to world-class lodgings.

Customers are looking to dip in to fine-diners a little more lightly. Here's how to experience the best of Melbourne for less in 2025.

Turn the lights down low. Whether it's the food or your dining companion, you can't help falling in love at these Melbourne eateries.

We take the guesswork out of local travel with our inside guide on where to stay, eat and play. This month, GT is checking into the StandardX in Fitzroy.

Ring in 2025 with Australia's best parties and plates.

The 2025 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival program delivers world's longest lunch, pop-up diners, bake sales, and international chefs aplenty.

From intimate rooms for birthday celebrations to spots that will be sure to impress clients, these are the best places to enjoy a private meal of a high standard in Melbourne.

These are the best restaurants in Victoria, as reviewed for our annual Restaurant Guide.

The head chef and owner of Fitzroy's wildly popular Toddy Shop.

Two new restaurants from Lucas will open in the forthcoming $1 billion precinct at 435 Bourke Street, slated to open in 2026.

Hannah Green’s seminal Brunswick East restaurant embarks on a new chapter, welcoming Lorcan Kan into the kitchen.

From a South Melbourne 1920s worker's cottage to a Fitzroy penthouse on Gertrude.

Your chance to win two tickets to our sold-out Melbourne Food and Wine Festival dinner!

This new Carlton North wine bar with a gun team is a confident nod to European wine bars. The team here aren’t reinventing the wheel — and that is Brico’s charm.

A Cantonese headliner from Neil Perry, a Surry Hills stalwart reborn and excellent interstate imports are just some of the restaurants we’re looking forward to in 2024.

Collingwood’s getting a new day-to-night dining destination with Latin American tunes, tipples and sticky snacks.

One venue has already closed while La Salut will now be operated by Public Hospitality.

Perched 55 floors above Melbourne CBD, Vue de Monde and sister bar Lui dazzle with fresh interiors, a brand-new 18-plate dégustation menu and the same spectacular city views.

Parcs, the inventive low-waste Melbourne restaurant that closed suddenly in June, is back – and it’s headed up by Brae’s former head chef

The ACMI’s critically acclaimed in-house restaurant closed abruptly yesterday.

It's taking over the historic, cathedral-esque Melbourne Stock Exchange that has remained shut for over 20 years - and it's opening next month.

Sydney's much-loved Odd Culture Group has opened its first interstate venue in Melbourne - a hybrid bar and bottle shop that's an "exploration of fermentation".

Non HQ is breaking new ground in an already booming booze-free movement thanks to its slick new site and monthly tours and tastings.

The intimate 30-seat cocktail bar is opening right next door to the stately Gimlet dining room for cocktails and neat snacks.

Australia's Chinatowns were the first areas to feel the devastating effects of Covid. Three years on, things are finally looking brighter.

With bookings essential, run, don't walk to Melbourne's ritziest new rooftop restaurant adorning the top of the now officially-open Ritz-Carlton.

With travellers returning in droves, Australia is bringing its A-game when it comes to hotels.

He joins executive chef Michael Greenlaw to deliver hyper-local, seasonal and cutting-edge cuisine 80 floors above Melbourne's CBD.

Yūgen Restaurant has lured Alex Yu from Sydney’s Sokyo, and will be doing a six-person omakase, alongside a pan-Asian subterranean snack and dinner den.

Whether dining à deux, or in a larger group, these are the places that draw a vibrant crowd in Sydney and Melbourne.

Food by one of Victoria’s best chefs and drinks from one of Melbourne’s favourite wine lists. Ides’ new next-door neighbour is worth getting excited about.

Some like it hot. And they should be getting their fix from Mat Garthwaite’s sauce shop.

The meat comes from the family livestock farm and the produce comes from a plot of land the owners are learning to harvest. This neighbourhood bistro is out to prove that sustainable eating doesn’t have to be a special occasion.

The $15 million renovation of each of the 360 rooms, which took 18 months, has given one of Melbourne’s best-known hotels a beautiful spruce-up.

It’s the latest in a string of openings for the renowned restaurateur. This time, it’s all about classic Italian cocktails, Tuscan bistecca and handmade pastas.

It’s the city of four seasons in one day, but its Four Seasons is years away.

Plenty of great events are yet to sell out, here are our favourites.

For many, it's been a year best forgotten. But 2021 still delivered plenty of memorable moments and delicious surprises. GT's state editors reveal their best bites of the year.

“Opening a restaurant over Facetime is not an easy thing to do.”

Mauritius has a diverse cuisine, but the focus here is on its South Asian and East African influences. Plus, there's a drinks list dominated by expressive natural wines.

A luxe newcomer, the best bar seat in the city, and a Ballarat venue open two days a week. These are Victoria's best restaurants, as reviewed for our 2022 Restaurant Guide.

Handmade, dietary-inclusive, and sold by weight. And just three weeks in, word has spread.

The star of the Australian production of the Tony Award-winning musical on abalone-diving, motherhood and her very own meet-cute.

But for Attica chef-owner Ben Shewry, the gloss of the global list is worlds away from the reality of a locked-down Melbourne restaurant scene.

It’s a case of two becoming one, with the chef announcing plans to merge Smith & Daughters and Smith & Deli under one roof in Collingwood.

A recent industry survey found 63 per cent of restaurant operators are in favour of compulsory vaccines for staff. In the kitchens though, opinion is mixed about the best way to balance individual rights and responsibilities.

There’s been hype, lockdowns and delays. Now all – well, two-thirds of the venue – will be revealed on 22 July, with reservations open now.

After shuttling back and forth between the mainland and Tasmania, chef Ali Currey-Voumard is keeping things simple at Public Wine Shop.

Across the country, a new wave of café culture is emerging as chefs and owners bring their cultural heritage and traditions to the table.

“Without the pizza it’s not much of a palace.”