Collection
Catch up on all the hot, new and just-reviewed places around town, whether you’re after a counter meal, hangover-curing sandwich or soothing sorbet.
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Cleo is Melbourne’s new summer hotspot, replacing rooftop bar Mid Air
- December 11, 2025
- Emily Holgate
Richmond’s reborn Rising Sun Hotel captures the good old days but feels very 2026
- January 1, 2026
- Emma Breheny
Former head chef of three-hatted Amaru opens Pebble pop-up in West Melbourne (reopens January 3)
- December 8, 2025
- Dani Valent
Mexican sandwich shop Cumbe’s chilaquiles tortas are ‘a delicious mess’
- December 4, 2025
- Annabel Smith and Tomas Telegramma
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Seven-storey Waterside Hotel reopens on a city corner, plus six more new Melbourne pubs for summer
- December 10, 2025
- Tomas Telegramma
‘I’ve never seen Fitzroy like this’: Sweet view, sweeter drinks at rooftop bar On Top
- December 14, 2025
- Tomas Telegramma
The Doutta Galla Hotel (aka ‘Dirty Gutter’) is spruced up into a charmer with a ‘bloody good’ parma
- December 12, 2025
- Dani Valent
Melbourne eatery Jollof Vibe serves every type of jollof rice found across West Africa
- December 30, 2025
- Sanka Amadoru
Try Turkish-style ‘soggy burgers’ at Sosmos, a stall at Queen Victoria Market
- December 5, 2025
- Dani Valent



























