• Roving food truck Tacos LA serves birria tacos and cheesy quesadillas in St Kilda, Mordialloc and Bayswater.

• First look: try regional Nepali dishes at Lah Bros, the new 38-seat Windsor restaurant.

• First look: Brunswick scores a heaving 250-capacity bandroom at The Bergy Seltzer with two bars, an all-weather beer garden and a 3am licence.

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• First look: Abbotsford eatery Happy Mexican has opened a 200-person rooftop bar and restaurant in the CBD.

• Win: dinner and drinks at the new four-level bar Morris House and an overnight stay at QT Melbourne.

• At Welcome to Thornbury’s annual Garlic Bread Festival, sample twists on the original, enjoy the foil-wrapped classic or join a garlic bread eating relay.

• Japanese restaurant Mono-XO and Romeo Lane bartender Joe Jones are taking over Fitzroy eatery Frankie’s Tortas and Tacos with tequila cocktails, birria tacos and buttermilk fried chicken tortas.

• First look: Windsor restaurant and bar Young Hearts picks up where Galah left off, with limoncello slushies on tap, late-night DJ sessions and more to enjoy.

• Mornington dinner Wowee Zowee is bringing its fried chicken to a new spot, Rudy’s, right next door.

• David Zhou (behind beloved restaurant David’s) is bringing Sunday yum cha to Mornington Peninsula's finer diner Doot Doot Doot, for four weeks only.