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Your November hit list: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

Can you feel it? Warmer weather is on the way, so get set for Mexican seafood by the sea, bright and cheery new cafes and sunshine in custard bun form (pictured). Plus, you can now create your own custom saved hit list on the Good Food app.

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Three Horses bar in the Melbourne CBD.

The Caretaker’s Cottage team’s new bar Three Horses is off to a galloping start

  • Tomas Telegramma
Steak frites with peppercorn sauce at 7 Alfred.

7 Alfred, Melbourne’s steak frites-only restaurant by the Rockpool team, is now open

  • Tomas Telegramma
El Columpio’s Ricardo Garcia Flores at his new “taqueria and marisqueria” in St Kilda.

Fitzroy Mexican favourite El Columpio opens ‘risky’ seafood spin-off in a kiosk

  • Dani Valent
The BOM cheese roll.

Dessert Masters winner opens sunny Scandinavian-ish bakery Butter Days

  • Dani Valent
Chef Hugh Allen at the terracotta tile-lined entrance of Yiaga, his first solo restaurant.

Yiaga, chef Hugh Allen’s next venue, is nothing like what he’s done at Vue de Monde

  • Myffy Rigby
The signature hummus with king prawns and spanner crab, and aish baladi bread (top right) at Zareh.
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Why magical Middle Eastern restaurant Zareh is more than the sum of its parts

  • Besha Rodell
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A divided hotpot with spicy mala broth (left) and mild, milky, beef-bone broth.
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This rollicking all-you-can-eat restaurant is Melbourne’s only hatted hot pot spot

  • Dani Valent
Whimsical glass balloons are a feature of Beautiful Jim Key’s interior.

The whimsical Beautiful Jim Key cafe in Brunswick serves a standout breakfast sanger

  • Tomas Telegramma
Fava with caramelised onion and capers (left) and coal-roasted eggplant.
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The Pontian Club is a charming Greek venue with only 12 words on its menu

  • Dani Valent
Ceylon Spicy Foods owner Rajika Bandara.

Ceylon Spicy Foods is an all-you-can-eat Sri Lankan flavour extravaganza

  • Sanka Amadoru
Re-fried jollof rice with plantain at Mary’s.

The Old Raffles Place site is now home to day-to-night Nigerian cafe Mary’s

Bar Elsie’s owners want to create a homey neighbourhood hangout.

It’s all about comfort food at Bar Elsie bistro-bar in Brunswick East

  • Daniela Frangos
Chauncy is operated by chef Louis Naepels (standing, rear) and sommelier Tess Murray (right).
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‘It’s rare to be looked after in such a way’: Regional gem Chauncy serves 14 diners daily

  • Dani Valent
Art deco design features inside the second-floor restaurant of Rodd & Gunn’s global flagship.

Basement cocktail bar Cellar & Caffetteria ushers in a new era for the old Coles cafeteria

  • Tomas Telegramma
Inside Palestinian cafe Beit Siti in Coburg.

Forget avo toast, Beit Siti is serving one of the best value brunches in town

  • Dani Valent
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Cantina Moro, Fitzroy.
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Alta Trattoria is no more. How does its replacement Cantina Moro compare?

  • Besha Rodell
Atria restaurant and bar.
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The gloves are off at the 80th floor Ritz-Carlton restaurant Atria, and that’s a good thing

  • Besha Rodell
Saadi has taken over the former Sunda space in Punch Lane.
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Sliding into a familiar city site, Saadi reframes what ‘going out for Indian’ means

  • Dani Valent
Whimsical glass balloons are a feature of Beautiful Jim Key’s interior.

The whimsical Beautiful Jim Key cafe in Brunswick serves a standout breakfast sanger

  • Tomas Telegramma
On the Good Food app, you can save all of your favourite recipes and restaurants in one easy place, and create your own custom saved lists.

Save your favourite recipes and restaurants now on the Good Food app