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The 2023 Melbourne Food & Wine Christmas gift guide

Featured

Mali Mitchell-Court, Ali Currey-Voumard and their dog, Moss

Eat

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

Former Public Wine Shop and Agrarian Kitchen chef Ali Currey-Voumard brings the aïoli -scented good times to Temperance House this summer.

People

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

Pasta! Pinot gris! Pubs! Parmas! The podcast moguls on their top picks of Victorian eats and drinks.

A duck and pickle corn dog with quince ketchup at Maggie's Snacks & Liquor

Restaurants

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Yugen is a subterranean masterpiece told in several parts.

Drink

Summer drinking special: rose

Our panel of wine experts has a list of the best roses for your summer drinking.

Eat

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

An indispensable new guide to the food of Korea from an MFWF alumnus.

Eat

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

Homegrown Shoyu Co is a small-batch fermentary run by chef Oliver Edwards.

Dinner at Thai Tide restauant on Bourke Street

Eat

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

The top end of the CBD is now home to some of Melbourne’s best Thai restaurants.

Eat

Melbourne breakfast now

Drab-ocado on toast? Ricotta snooze-cakes? Bah! How about an asparagus and cheddar-custard Danish or a fresh bowl of breakfast bibimbap?

Illustration of picnic with sparkling wines being poured

Drink

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

It’s summertime, Melbourne, and the drinking is fizzy.

Eat

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

Meatsmith co-owner Troy Wheeler takes us for a butcher's hook at his butcher's book.

People

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

Pasta! Pinot gris! Pubs! Parmas! The podcast moguls on their top picks of Victorian eats and drinks.

Eat

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

Deck the halls with flambéed cherries this Christmas

2023 Regional Edition

Extravagant long lunches in Ballarat and Coldstream. Traditional Georgian feasts in Korumburra. Cheese dreams brought to life in Kongwak and a feast that took a village and fed an entire region in Inverloch.

New Restaurants

Restaurants

What to order at Amphlett House

Delis

Stefanino Panino is opening in Collingwood

Restaurants

What to order at The Recreation

Restaurants

What to order at MoVida Aqui

Restaurants

What to order at Afloat Viva Mexico

Pasta alla vongole at the Committee Room by Grossi.

Restaurants

What to order at the Committee Room by Grossi

The South Asian landmark restaurant, Tonka enters a new era with a new chef as it celebrates its 10th birthday.

Restaurants

Introducing: the new Tonka

Latest

Eat

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

People

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

Restaurants

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Drink

Summer drinking special: rose

Eat

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

Eat

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

Eat

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

Eat

Melbourne breakfast now

Drink

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Eat

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

People

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

Eat

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

Vic Grown

Vic Grown is a celebration of the best products and producers in the state. The diversity of our climate, matched with the innovation, passion and skills of our producers means we grow and make some of the best food and drinks in the world.

Drink Victorian

Drink

Summer drinking special: rose

Drink

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Drink Victorian

The Bar Crawl: Fitzroy North

Drink

Drinking Victoria: Melissa Brauer, the Prosecco Queen

Drink

Drinking Victoria: Etienne Mangier

Festival Archive

Recipes

Rumi’s fried cauliflower with caramelised onion, currants and pine nuts

Recipes

Simon Bajada’s anchovy fritters

Recipes

Adam Liaw’s chicken kra-pow

Recipes

Rosheen Kaul’s Beijing hot chicken

Recipes

Reynold Poernomo’s burnt honey Basque cheesecake

Recipes

Alice Zaslavsky’s Lady Marmalade melting moments

Eat

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

Former Public Wine Shop and Agrarian Kitchen chef Ali Currey-Voumard brings the aïoli -scented good times to Temperance House this summer.

People

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

Pasta! Pinot gris! Pubs! Parmas! The podcast moguls on their top picks of Victorian eats and drinks.

Restaurants

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Yugen is a subterranean masterpiece told in several parts.

Eat

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

An indispensable new guide to the food of Korea from an MFWF alumnus.

Eat

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

Homegrown Shoyu Co is a small-batch fermentary run by chef Oliver Edwards.

Eat

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

The top end of the CBD is now home to some of Melbourne’s best Thai restaurants.

Eat

Melbourne breakfast now

Drab-ocado on toast? Ricotta snooze-cakes? Bah! How about an asparagus and cheddar-custard Danish or a fresh bowl of breakfast bibimbap?

Eat

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

Meatsmith co-owner Troy Wheeler takes us for a butcher's hook at his butcher's book.

People

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

Pasta! Pinot gris! Pubs! Parmas! The podcast moguls on their top picks of Victorian eats and drinks.

Eat

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

Deck the halls with flambéed cherries this Christmas

People

How I Melbourne: Gary McBean

In Gary McBean you find the culmination of three generations of butchery – and the gateway to the fifth.

Eat

Celebrating 10 years of Brae

Dan Hunter talks to MFWF’s Pat Nourse about a decade at the top of the Victorian restaurant scene

The latest in food and drink culture.

The 2023 Melbourne Food & Wine Christmas gift guide

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Summer drinking special: rose

Summer drinking special: rose

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

Melbourne breakfast now

Melbourne breakfast now

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

2023 Regional Edition

What to order at Amphlett House

What to order at Amphlett House

Stefanino Panino is opening in Collingwood

Stefanino Panino is opening in Collingwood

What to order at The Recreation

What to order at The Recreation

What to order at MoVida Aqui

What to order at MoVida Aqui

What to order at Afloat Viva Mexico

What to order at Afloat Viva Mexico

What to order at the Committee Room by Grossi

What to order at the Committee Room by Grossi

Introducing: the new Tonka

Introducing: the new Tonka

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

A Table Bistro brings a taste of auberge-style restaurant dining to Castlemaine

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

How I Melbourne: Victor Liong

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor: a restaurant and bar that brings New Zealand to Brunswick East

Summer drinking special: rose

Summer drinking special: rose

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

Buy the Book: Junghyun Park’s Korean Cookbook

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

The Pitch: Homegrown Shoyu Co

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

Is Bourke Street Melbourne’s new home of Thai food?

Melbourne breakfast now

Melbourne breakfast now

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

Buy the Book: Meatsmith

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

How We Melbourne: Luke and Sassy Scott

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

The 2023 MF&W Christmas gift guide

Vic Grown

Summer drinking special: rose

Summer drinking special: rose

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

Summer drinking special: sparkling wine

The Bar Crawl: Fitzroy North

The Bar Crawl: Fitzroy North

Drinking Victoria: Melissa Brauer, the Prosecco Queen

Drinking Victoria: Melissa Brauer, the Prosecco Queen

Drinking Victoria: Etienne Mangier

Drinking Victoria: Etienne Mangier

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Rumi’s fried cauliflower with caramelised onion, currants and pine nuts