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Sunnyside Sliced owner Ali Cengiz.

$80 pizza isn’t the story at this new Newstead slice shop

Imported from the Melbourne suburbs and inspired (in part) by New York, here’s why this Gasworks spot deserves your attention.

  • Matt Shea

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Outside the Mentone restaurant.
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Sarirasa

For comforting Jakarta and Medan street food.

The fire marks the latest in a series of arson attacks on Davd Deicke’s businesses.

Two arrested at burning business of ‘Hollywood’ Deicke amid firebombing blitz

A second smash repairs business owned by David “Hollywood” Deicke has been firebombed a day after an arson attack at his Elwood business amid a $1 million bikie extortion plot.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Melbourne businessman, life coach and former boxer David Deicke.

Third business firebombed in suspected bikie extortion plot against Melbourne millionaire

The fire comes less than two months after two of David “Hollywood” Deicke’s panel beating businesses were torched in coordinated arson attacks.

  • Hannah Hammoud and Cameron Houston
David Deicke said his family needed to be left alone.

Millionaire businessman was victim of string of fires before attack on panel beating shops

David “Hollywood” Deicke maintains a slick public image, but co-ordinated firebombings on two businesses linked to him are the latest bad headlines for the former boxer.

  • Cameron Houston and Hannah Hammoud
Grab toasties and rolls from Applehead.

Applehead Deli

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

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Kingston City Council.

Kingston City Council: What your candidates said

Voters in Kingston will choose 11 people to represent them on council for the next four years. Here is what the candidates said about why they are running in the Victorian council elections and what they want to achieve.

  • Cara Waters and Rachael Dexter
Life in Mentone.

My bayside suburb is split in half by eight lanes of pain

When I moved house, friends in the “Bayside Bubble” promised they would visit. But one thing turned out to be as much of a psychological barrier as a physical one.

  • Sofia Dedes
Mentone Girls  Secondary College

Students accused of sharing pornographic images at girls’ school

A school in Melbourne’s south-east has made a complaint to police following the distribution of explicit images during school hours.

  • Alex Crowe
Photos of the crash scene in Mentone.

‘The noise was horrendous’: Student pilot crashes helicopter into Mentone home

The student pilot, the only person in the chopper, was rescued with the help of a crane and taken to The Alfred hospital. The homeowner was out shopping when the accident occurred.

  • Marta Pascual Juanola, Caroline Schelle and David Estcourt