• Chef Mischa Tropp opened Toddy Shop, a laid-back diner for home-style Keralan food, in Fitzroy.

• Restaurant-favourite micro-bakery Akimbo Bread opened its first retail store.

•An Iron Chef protégé opened Sara Craft Ramen & Bar in the CBD.

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• The much-anticipated underground basement cocktail den Purple Pit from Joe Jones (Romeo Lane) and Maurice Terzini (Sydney’s Icebergs) opened in the CBD’s Queen & Collins heritage building.

• Malvern’s Mietta by Rosemary is a new home for sweet sensation and former Attica chef Rosemary Andrews.

• Pickles, a nostalgic (vegan) milk bar in Carlton North, offers bakery staples, spiders and crave-worthy sandwiches.

• Skinny’s, a retro diner with standout chicken-salt hash browns, opens in an old Preston milk bar.

• Original Chai Co goes from street cart to permanent Queen Vic Market cafe.

• New Armadale restaurant Pony serves cocktails by an ex-Gimlet bartender.

Check out all the November openings we got excited about.