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‘Friendly, cosy, warm and not too stiff’: Say bonjour to Windsor’s new classic French bistro
Call in for anchovy toast and a glass of wine, stay for the steak frites at High Street newcomer Normandy Wine and Grill.
- Dani Valent
‘I want to treat Australia as a region of Italy’: This reborn North Melbourne restaurant is only getting started
Sixteen years in, the North Melbourne restaurant formerly known as Sosta Cucina is ready to write a new chapter in Melbourne’s love affair with Italian cooking.
- Emma Breheny
Popular low-waste city restaurant reopens this week – with a surprising new cooking appliance
In the best tradition of reduce, reuse, recycle, waste-watching restaurant Parcs opens again after a three-month break.
- Dani Valent
The snack Melbourne restaurants are obsessed with just got even better at this new city bakery-restaurant
The team behind Aru and Sunda have opened a “very Melbourne” all-day venue (and soon you can swing by the bakery after work for still-warm sourdough).
- Dani Valent
First look: This revamped city rooftop bar is your new favourite spot for glam group catch-ups
Cosy booths, a private lounge, fried mortadella sandwiches – plus you can now book. QT Melbourne’s rooftop bar will sizzle this summer.
- Dani Valent
A Fitzroy North favourite unveils swanky new front bar, after-dinner trolley and snack menu
A former corner pub has a sleek new look that dials up the comfort and dials down the noise.
- Sasha Geyer
One of Collingwood’s best spots just got even better with sake on tap and homewares to covet
Newly expanded Cibi cafe and homewares store brings the best of Japan to the backblocks of Collingwood.
- Dani Valent
‘Finally!’ The Coburg couple who risked it all to open the wine bar of their dreams
Tresna Lee and Shane Farrell put everything on the line to build the cosy wine bar their neighbourhood was missing.
- Bianca Hrovat
Cheers to the weekend: Four new and improved craft breweries to slake your thirst
With the mercury rising, here are some fresh places to knock the top off a frothy.
- Dani Valent
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Mornington’s relaxed, local produce-driven new restaurant is worth getting fired up about
Expect fresh-off-the-boat seafood, wood-fired flavours and a DJ spinning vinyl at Colt Dining in Mornington.
- Dani Valent