Grub Food Van
Unlike other vehicle-based food operations the Grub Food Van will not be visiting you at your local pub every second Wednesday. Unless your local pub... read more...
The Crafternoon Cafe
Tegan Cumerford moved here from Brisbane, rented a house/shop on Nicholson Street and began building a cafe where the floor is papered with pictures and... read more...
Seoul Soul
The recently opened Seoul Soul on Victoria Street is a good one. Be careful not to miss it; the grey façade sort of blends in with the footpath but... read more...
Hell of the North
There are so many reasons brothers Adam and Christian Ferrante could give for naming their bar Hell of the North. For instance, when Adam rang up to... read more...
The Bishop of Ostia
Straight from the tawdry vestibules of the Vatican comes another addition to the Nicholson Street black-pudding-prayer house, Pope Joan. The new bar,... read more...
Badger Vs Hawk
Badger Vs Hawk is a coffee shop collaboration between Cosmo and co-conspirator Lucien Kolff (the ‘badger’ in the equation, obviously). Weighing in... read more...
Carolina
In the cultural crater of Nicholson Street, in what was once a genuine Italian shoe shop full of genuine Italians and their footwear, Carolina has kept... read more...
Bang Bang Vietnamese restaurant
Bang Bang. It’s the new Vietnamese joint on High Street. I know, I know, good Vietnamese food is only meant to exist in certain places – your Victoria... read more...
Pinotta
The love that went into creating Pinotta is almost palpable. By the bar there’s a framed business plan that owners Andy and Heidi scrawled out one... read more...
Backstreet Café
Spinoff sitcom to the popular Birdman Eating, Backstreet is taking a softly softly approach to starting something new: while it operates for now as a... read more...
Merricks General Wine Store
Around the corner from a seaweed stricken but pleasant Westenport Bay beach is the Merricks General Wine Store. It’s not what you’d expect... read more...
Latte Bar
The Latte Bar is the world – if you lived here, you would’t need to travel. Staff at the Latte Bar say, “No shirt? No shoes? No problem.” ... read more...
Zombie Espresso
Jonna Gunn of Coffee Supreme and his friend Anthony Fewster have set up their own coffee machine on the back of a ute parked at the end of Zombie Dance... read more...
For the Love of Pizza
I love the part of High Street where things get a little bit ghetto all of a sudden. All the hip establishments like Joe’s Shoe Store, Penny Farthing... read more...
Black Coffee Orphans’ Christmas
I can’t think of anything more normal to do for Christmas than drink black coffee with strangers from sunrise to sunset. And then for a few hours more.... read more...
Patricia
There’s one born every minute. Brand new cafes with passable to great coffee/food, store bought design, a gimmick or two, a couple of beardy baristas... read more...
Massive Wieners
There’s so much to tell you about these massive wieners I don’t know where to start. As soon as Dave Brennan and Liam Magee opened their hot... read more...
Living Burrito Loca Pop-Up
Operating out of a wagon in the hollows of Odessa Creative Space, Living Burrito Loca is a Mexican pop-up putting on cheap and easy eats Thursdays to Sundays... read more...
Lowlands Espresso
Contemporary Australian design, specialty coffee and the highest quality produce are brought together by Brisbane transplants Oliver Mackay and Chrissie... read more...
Twenty & Six Espresso
Twenty & Six Espresso is a North Melbourne café that has great coffee, lovely staff and is far enough away from Errol Street to be a little bit... read more...
Storm in a Teacup
There was a time when adding a splash of milk to her liquorice leaves was the height of liquid indulgence for Hannah Dupree but past guilty pleasures... read more...
Fonda Mexican
The taco renaissance trailing through Melbourne shows no sign of abating and thank God because I’d really like to see those Old El Paso jerks go out... read more...
St Andrew’s Pizza Shop
The venue is owned by Steve Simich, refined gent and all-round bon vivant, and Dan Zeidan, part owner of the Grace Darling Hotel and Strange Wolf Basement... read more...
Threefold Foodstore & Eatery
Threefold is in the business end of town and for all the gloss there is a perfect match of honest to goodness food, service, coffee and home made EVERYTHING. ... read more...