What’s happening around town

• Helly Raichura’s Indian fine diner Enter Via Laundry, which changes its menu twice a year and curates each one around a different cuisine, recently launched its Parsi menu. Dishes include Irani kheema bun (lamb mince in green spices with brioche) and oombariyu (smoky quail and root vegetables cooked in an earthen pot).

• Cameo, the bar on the 80th floor of the Ritz Carlton, has just launched a happy hour on Wednesdays through Fridays from 5pm to 7pm. Cocktails including a classic Air Mail and the bar’s Bramble (gin, lime and blackcurrant liqueur) are priced between $20 and $25. They’re accompanied by abalone katsu sandos, an uni and crème fraîche tartlet and other snacks priced between $14 and $18 from chef Michael Greenlaw.

• Juice aficionado Tom Sarafian and Pidapipo are bringing back the ashta gelato they first collaborated on last October. It’s served in a waffle cone and covered in sliced pistachios and is available at all Pidapipo stores until the end of August.

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• A new coffee to support Oz Harvest has been released by the Sustainable Coffee Company. For every kilogram of Coffee for a Cause sold, $4 will be donated to the food rescue organisation.

This week in food and drink news

• Coming soon: Andrew McConnell is opening a new venue in one of the city's “most important heritage restaurant sites”.

• First look: Masterchef’s “dessert king” Reynold Poernomo finally opens Koi Dessert Bar in Melbourne.

• First look: find pot stickers, smashed cucumbers and house-made wontons at the mother-daughter run Potluck in Caulfield.

• Foodbank Victoria is “dangerously low” on food – here’s how to help.

•Coming Soon: A peek inside ambitious Italian food hall Il Mercato Centrale.

• All the July openings you might’ve missed.

• Shannon Martinez is reinventing Smith & Daughters (again) – here’s what to expect.

•How Tarts Anon’s Gareth Whitton and Catherine Way built their “tarthole community”.

• Coming soon: Chris Lucas’s Tokyo-inspired Tombo Den to open this year.

• Where chefs eat: Masterchef alum Jess Liemantara loves this “hidden” ramen spot.

• Three to try: Candied sweet and sour fruit skewers, tanghulu, hit Melbourne.

• Swing by this south side fave for $35 gnocchi and wine.

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