Northcote

• Review
• Melbourne

Is Donny’s, is good: This new neighbourhood ‘pub’ holds its own in a boozy little pocket

Westgarth watering hole joins a new generation of venues broadening our horizons on what exactly a modern public house can look like.

• Tomas Telegramma

• Review
• Vex Dining

Vex

High Street haunt doing the most with minimal meat.

• Review
• Mesob

Mesob

Lively room for communal eating.

• Recommended
• Ophelia Westgarth

Ophelia Westgarth

Part-cafe, part-wine bar from the crew behind Terror Twilight and Convoy.

• Recommended
• Goodwater

Goodwater

Northcote hangout for whiskey-forward cocktails.

• Recommended
• Calle Bakery

Calle Bakery

Carlton North’s cult-favourite bakery, now on High Street.

• Tomas Telegramma

• Recommended
• Holy Sugar

Holy Sugar

This venue is a finalist for best treats in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

• Recommended
• Shamiat

Shamiat

This cafe is a finalist for best food in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

• Recommended
• Gray and Gray Bread and Wine

Gray & Gray

Sugar, spice and lo-fi wines.

• Just open

One of Melbourne’s favourite cafe groups shakes things up with daytime diner Ophelia

Unlike siblings Terror Twilight and Convoy, the menu at this cinema-adjacent cafe-wine bar in Westgarth will likely be different every time you visit.

• Tomas Telegramma