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Kokoras is a Greek charcoal chicken joint by the Tzaki team.

Kokoras

Greek charcoal chicken by the Tzaki team.

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Louise Karch (right) in her vintage car about to drive through the tunnel.

‘Magic meets industry’: West Gate Tunnel to welcome (and charge) drivers on Sunday morning

From midnight, the long-awaited West Gate Tunnel will open progressively, with all traffic flowing through by 7am on Sunday morning, but a month of free travel on weekends won’t kick off until January. 

  • Nicole Precel
Yarraville

ABC’s Michael Rowland sells Yarraville home for $2.47m at auction

The renovated house on a double-fronted block netted the high-profile journalist and his wife nearly $200,000 more than the reserve.

  • Jim Malo
20 Juniper Court, Frankston North VIC 3200

Melbourne investor sells $855,000 house on huge block to first home buyer

The updated home with a spacious backyard was advertised with the potential to subdivide and sold for $116,000 over reserve.

  • Shona Hendley
An internal archway separates Navi’s dining room (pictured) from its lounge bar.
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Navi

Hitting the sweet spot between culinary thrills and unpretentious delight.

Chickpeas a la Diporto and wood roasted sardines.
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Tzaki

A pocket-sized piece of contemporary Athens.

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Yarraville resident Sarah Tartakover, who lives near one of the two West Gate Tunnel vents, is calling for filters to be urgently added.

‘Like a bathroom exhaust fan’: West Gate Tunnel air stacks leave locals exposed to noxious fumes, report finds

Residents of suburbs around the West Gate Tunnel will breathe in truck pollution as twin ventilation stacks feature sleek design but no filters.

  • Sophie Aubrey
From left: Jessica Marsh, Mia Cusack, Graeme Hammond Anthony Warren and Derek Begg are members of Voices of the Inner West.

Voices group eyes Melbourne’s inner west in first tilt at Labor seats

The community-backed Voices of the Inner West will field independent candidates at the state election as it tries to break Labor’s grip on the area.

  • Annika Smethurst
Navi restaurant in Yarraville.
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Why this inner-west neighbourhood gem is among Victoria’s finest places to dine

If every suburb needs a good baker, butcher and cafe, perhaps it also needs a perfect little fine-dining restaurant like Navi.

  • Dani Valent
Mother-of-three Felicity Forrester, pictured with Maia and Rex, has lived at the corner of Williamstown Road for two decades, and she is angry that the road has not been given truck curfews.

The residential road set to become a highway for toll-dodging trucks

Residents want a truck curfew on Williamstown Road, which thousands of trucks a day are expected to use from later this year to avoid costly West Gate Tunnel tolls.

  • Sophie Aubrey