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Melbourne February hit list: 28+ hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

Lune opens a second pastry “cube” in the city’s west end this weekend, Hugh Allen’s fine diner Yiaga is crowned with three hats, plus a trio of restaurants to try along Koornang Road in Carnegie, including Tyga (pictured right).

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East Melbourne’s Fitzroy Gardens are part of the room at Yiaga.
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Melbourne’s new three-hat restaurant Yiaga is beautiful and pointedly Australian

  • Besha Rodell
Inside the Collingwood restaurant.
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You’ll need to be quick to visit Ides before it closes on its 10-year anniversary next month

  • Dani Valent
Like its Fitzroy flagship, the new Lune location features a glassed-in, temperature-controlled “cube”.

The city’s new ‘Maxi Lune’ can churn out more than 6000 pastries a day

  • Tomas Telegramma
Tyga’s long room spills from a bar zone with DJ decks to a charcoal-fired open kitchen.
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Fusion restaurant Tyga is a game-changer for an already brilliant eat street

  • Dani Valent
The assorted tasting plate, grilled at the table.

It’s always barbecue weather at group-friendly Japanese spot Shyun Sumibiyaki

  • Emma Breheny
Pour mint-chilli-coriander water into pani puri.

‘I truly love it’: Late-night Namma Bangalore Vibbes had our reviewer in raptures

  • Dani Valent
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Santito in Collingwood is styled on Mexico City’s taquerias.

Catch up on seven of the hottest new Victorian restaurants to dine at this summer

  • Daniela Frangos
Desserts are king.

Eleven new CBD spots for lunch, treats, coffee, matcha (plus a bistro where everything is $14)

  • Tomas Telegramma
Sorbet is served in hollowed out fruits at Taste of Amalfi.

Raspberry meringue, mango sticky rice: 10 exciting places for gelato (and what to order at each)

  • Haymun Win
Steak frites made with wagyu flank at Common Cuts, a new city grill.

It’s wall-to-wall wagyu, starting at $28.50, at CBD grill Common Cuts

  • Emma Breheny
Chowon has a comfortable, Japandi interior aesthetic.

Fine dining at an affordable price at carefully considered Japanese eatery Chowon

  • Sanka Amadoru
Coupette restaurant is the bistro inside the Flack Studio-designed hotel.

The sumptuous Coupette Corner Bistro & Bar wants to shake up hotel dining

  • Dani Valent
Inside Jollof Vibe’s new Flemington restaurant.

The vibe is right at Jollof Vibe, an eatery serving every type of its namesake rice dish

  • Sanka Amadoru
Dishes at Bar Sophia including the orzo baked with saffron, leek and Moreton Bay bug.

Team behind Marameo opens Bar Sophia, an Athens-inspired wine bar

  • Daniela Frangos
Da Bepi serves Venetian-inspired drinks and snacks, including fried mozzarella sandwiches.

Da Bepi is Brunswick’s new late-night wine and cicchetti (Venetian snacks) bar

  • Daniela Frangos
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Comedy trio Sooshi Mango are opening another Lygon Street venue.

Johnny, Vince and Sam crew are opening sandwich shop Sangaweech in Lygon Street later this month

  • Donna Demaio
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