• Andrew McConnell’s Cutler & Co has brought back its long, lazy Sunday lunches. Just look at this feast.

• ’Tis the season: these are Melbourne’s best hot cross buns.

• When it comes to HCBs, toasted or microwaved? We asked top Aussie pastry chefs for their preference (and reasoning). The verdict.

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• Want to go beyond the bun? Consult our guide to Melbourne’s best Easter treats for 2022. Some are chocolatey, others are boozy, but they’re all very on-theme.

• Come Past-a, Eat Fast-a: Carlton’s pasta paradise Al Dente has a new express lunch option – focaccia, pasta and a beer or wine for $40. Buonissimo.

• First Look: Bask in the glow of Bar Paradox, Supernormal’s subterranean drinking den, before it’s too late. Descend the spiral staircase for delightfully squishable pork katsu rolls and build-your-own “baolinis”.

• New to Providoor: Three Blue Ducks, the popular Sydney-based cafe chain, which also has a location at Melbourne’s surfable wave park Urbnsurf. The best way to experience it is with an all-out at-home banquet.

• Come for reimagined cacio e pepe, stay for the food “scrap” revolution at Parcs, an energetic new wine bar from the Sunda and Aru team.

• Popular Italian food hall Mercato Centrale is opening its first location outside Italy – in Melbourne. All the details.

• First Look: Mortadeli’s new deli and grocer is like a mini, modernised Mediterranean Wholesalers. And the OG cafe is now serving booze. Road trip?

• Here’s a look inside the Heartbreaker team’s old-school trattoria and rooftop terrace. It opens next week, but bookings are open now.

• For Death by Taco, on Mondays, Abbotsford brewpub Bodriggy is doing $5 tacos, $12 frozen Margs and $15 taco-and-pint combos (with its Utropia Pale Ale and Stingrays Draught).

• Need seafood for Easter? Order oysters, prawns, whole fish, lobsters and sashimi to your door with these nine delivery services.

• This is everything we know about the first Melbourne venue by Sydney hospo giant Merivale. (There’ll be a rooftop bar and a Chinese restaurant with a star chef leading the charge.)

• One of Korea’s greatest comfort foods, jajangmyeon, is the star at Paik’s Noodle – now open in Melbourne. It’s by South Korean celebrity chef Paik Jong-won.

• Coming soon: Henrietta, one of Sydney’s finest charcoal-chicken restaurants (with banging chips), is coming to Melbourne.