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The Time Out Food & Drink Awards are here

The best bars and restaurants in Melbourne have been nominated in our awards – and you could be a winner too.

The Time Out Food & Drink Awards are here

The best bars and restaurants in Melbourne have been nominated in our awards – and you could be a winner too.

Breaking: Rone's next installation will be in the Flinders Street Station Ballroom

Lucas Restaurants is offering an extra $125 back, on top of the Victorian cash back program

Tick, Tick... Boom! is coming to Melbourne

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What's happening in Melbourne

The latest news

Australia is getting its first-ever five-star river cruise experience

Traverse our country by water in a luxury, 20-cabin vessel

Japan has announced it will fully open to Aussie travellers

Here are the answers to all of your burning Japan travel questions

Breaking: Rone's next installation will be in the Flinders Street Station Ballroom

The prolific street artist is taking over the space in October with his new immersive exhibition 'Time'

Just in: You can buy all of Aldi's top ten products for less than $55

Saving has never been more delicious

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is going regional this summer

Taste your way through some of the best local produce and culinary talent across the state

Lucas Restaurants is offering an extra $125 back, on top of the Victorian cash back program

If you need an excuse for a long and leisurely lunch, this is it

Jupiter is coming the closest it has to Earth in 59 years tonight

Expect a once-in-a-lifetime intergalactic sight

This Richmond café is giving away hundreds of free coffees for one day only

Free coffee just tastes better than regular coffee

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Latest food and drink reviews

Daughter In Law

A new kind of Indian restaurant paying respect to old traditions while creating new ones

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Pinotta

With a new chef on board, this Italian stayer in Fitzroy North reasserts itself as a pasta-fuelled beacon of righteousness

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Lover

Windsor gets a moody cocktail haunt with a devoted Negroni menu

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Bang Bang at the Rifle Club

Easygoing South East Asian food served from dawn to late with cocktails for company? Bang Bang at the Rifle Club hits its mark

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Aperol is giving away 100,000 Spritzes this spring so all your orange-hued dreams can come true

This is not a drill. Everyone’s favourite bittersweet drink, Aperol, is giving away 100,000 Aperol Spritzes across the country this spring to celebrate...

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Five Victorian cafés where you can get your hit of Grinders Coffee

Grinders Coffee has long been synonymous with a quality brew – 60 years, in fact. Since Giancarlo Gusti first opened his single storefront on Lygon...

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Sixty years of Grinders Coffee

Giancarlo Giusti has a perhaps controversial opinion about coffee. “I think Australians know more about coffee now than Italians do,” he...

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Celebrate Spider-Man's 60th with some NYC-style pizza and a Disney+ marathon

With our Spidey-Senses tingling at the recent Spider-Man additions to Disney+, we have our friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man to thank for Marvel’s...

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Find your ultimate travel style in Victoria

Book into a BIG4 holiday park and start discovering the many charms of regional Victoria

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Check out this $4.7 million Grand Prize that could be yours in the Royal Melbourne Hospital Lottery

Say goodbye to mortgages and hello to the good life with an extraordinary prize home in the lottery that supports the RMH’s vital work

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Latest film reviews

Smile

It fades a little after a strong start, but this horror has a new director really baring their teeth

Bros

Billy Eichner’s landmark gay romcom is a riotously funny, if risk averse, revitalisation of the genre

Athena

Romain Gavras's urban Greek tragedy is a visceral tour de force

Catherine Called Birdy

Lena Dunham gets wittily medieval with this YA-inflected coming-of-age saga

Melbourne on a shoestring

How to get cheap movie tickets in Melbourne

Penny pinching doesn’t have to mean missing out on new release flicks.

25 things to do for under $25 in Melbourne

Get fancy food, see shows for cheap or take a boat ride.

The best cheap eats in Melbourne

We're talking a meal for under $20 at some of the best spots around town.

The ten best cheap (or free!) dates you can go on in Melbourne

In the words of Jennifer Lopez, love don’t cost a thing.

Love Local: A guide to Melbourne's suburbs

Footscray

This inner-city suburb is the brightest jewel of Melbourne’s west, primarily thanks to the migrant communities that have come to call Footscray home.

South Yarra

South Yarra is on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. It became a retreat for the wealthy from Melbourne town during the 1840s and...

Ringwood

Located in Melbourne’s east, Ringwood is a great spot to indulge in retail therapy or enjoy the free delights of its lake and parks. What’s...

Collingwood

The stomping ground of street gangs in the 1800s, Collingwood has a long, proud, chequered history of giving the middle finger to authority.

Sunshine

Everyone knows Sunshine is a vibrant melting pot of cultures. The suburb calls itself home to people from many different backgrounds including Malta,...