This week in food and drink news
• First look: another Euro-leaning wine bar hits Rathdowne Village. But Malin’s built different.
• First look: Tori’s is one of the city’s best-loved bakeries. Can its sibling bistro replicate the buzz?
• The 62-year-old Lonsdale Street bakery International Cakes closed for good.
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•There’s a huge (and free) barbeque in Fed Square.
• Top Aussie bartenders predict the next drink of summer.
• Ice-cream maker Billy Van Creamy and Food & Drink Victoria team up to give away free scoops this week.
• All the new Melbourne restaurants we’re excited about right now.
• Oktoberfest plans? Join 15,000 punters at Hofbrauhaus.
• Where chefs eat: Carnation Canteen’s Audrey Shaw reveals the best baguettes outside of Paris.
• Broadsheet and Melissa Leong host a one-off dinner by Christine Manfield – and you’re invited.
Get cooking
• Try this very easy combination fried rice from a Chinese Australian institution.
• Hetal Vasavada’s dirty chai cheesecake brownies are as good as (and dusted in) gold.
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