Cheap eats
- Exclusive
- Just open
First look: Sooshi Mango’s late-night panini bar ‘had to be’ on Lygon Street
Three doors down from the comedy trio’s restaurant, their follow-up, Sangaweech, has Big Nonna Energy. Expect orange Laminex, sandwiches with cheeky names, and tiramisu.
- Tomas Telegramma
Nine CBD lunches worth heading into the office for
Make going into the office the highlight of your week with lunches from $3.70, to a hefty muffuletta sandwich and a sashimi deal at a two-hatted restaurant.
- Isabel Cant
Ease back into office life with 11 new city spots for lunch, coffee and afternoon treats
Beat the back-to-work blues with breaks centred on cake, bargain lunch plates, iced matcha and even icier coffee.
- Tomas Telegramma
As nostalgia dominates food, why is the Aussie lunch bar dying out?
Once a staple, the cafe-meets-lunch bar loved by tradies is fading fast, while pubs and milk bars are riding a wave of nostalgia. Can the old-school Aussie cafe be revived?
- Quincy Malesovas
20 banging BYO restaurants from the Good Food Guide
From a forever-busy corner wine bar with great snacks to a raucous spot for grilled meat on sticks, these Victorian restaurants are the ones to know when you want BYO (plus, updated corkage info).
- Frank Sweet and Good Food Guide reviewers
It’s wall-to-wall wagyu, starting at $28.50, at this new CBD grill
Offering steak and chips for under $30, the new venue is banking on bargain pricing to shake up Melbourne’s steak scene.
- Emma Breheny
From bargain breakfast to classy date night: 10 deals for a skint January in Melbourne
Broke again? How about that! Console your wallet after an exxy festive season with $2 oysters, $20 pasta, and all-you-can-eat Malaysian.
- Frank Sweet
Five top Melbourne swimming spots and where to snack afterwards
From prawn rolls with potato-crisp crunch to North African surf’n’turf and cool pastel-toned desserts, we’ve found Melbourne’s best post-swim eats – and timed the trip for you.
- Aastha Agrawal
- Exclusive
- Just open
One of the most anticipated bakeries of 2025 is launched with pistachio banoffee pie and more
Popular plant-based micro bakery Ard opens its first bricks-and-mortar in the inner west, selling gingerbread buns mango sponge cake and miso caramel cookies.
- Bianca Hrovat
$15 martinis, midnight spag and Bloody Mary salad. Inside Lygon Street’s new ‘public house’
Hatted Etta restaurant’s owner has today opened a more easygoing and economical venue, Daphne, just down the road. It’s “fun, loose and for you to use as you see fit”.
- Tomas Telegramma