• Ride-or-die condiments: here are 11 flavour-enhancing oils, sauces and spreads Broadsheet editors can’t live without. Add to pantry.

• Bottle Shop Thursdays at East Melbourne’s French-inspired Hemingway’s means a blanket 50 per cent off vino as expensive as $580 a bottle. Splash out without really splashing out.

• It’s Wagyu cheeseburgers till 1am and $40 steak frites and vino at Scott Pickett’s new late-night Parisian-style bistro. (You’ll recognise the spot.)

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• Ticket time: inimitable UK food personality Nigella Lawson is headlining this year’s Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. More on the cracking 2022 program here.

• “It’s the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer.” Do as Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly did in the 2008 comedy Step Brothers at this all-out Melbourne wine festival.

• New York sandwiches with LA convenience: Saul’s is opening a racing-red sandwich drive-through in Melbourne next month.

• New plant-based eatery Marko is giving away free falafel (in bowl or pita form) this Thursday and Saturday. All the deets.

• Helly Raichura’s wildly popular dining pop-up (which amassed a waitlist in the thousands after appearing on Masterchef) has found a permanent home in Carlton North.

• Lofty modern-Chinese fine diner Laurus is doing snacks – including crisp fried chicken and caramel-glazed eggplant – and beers from $5 with its new Twilight Hours offering.

• Broadsheet’s social media editor Steph Vigilante can’t stop thinking about this perfectly creamy, velvety cake. It stole her heart.

• Starts this week: eight top Victorian chefs are doing limited-edition gelato flavours with Piccolina. First up: Sunda and Aru’s Khanh Nguyen.

• There’s free prosecco-rosé gelato this Saturday, thanks to a collab between Messina and Brown Brothers. From 12pm till scooped out.

• Summer is winding up (sorry). Get your fish’n’chip – and potato cake – fix at these three new Melbourne spots.

• Ishizuka’s lockdown takeaway was next level. So, it’s launched an online bakeshop with Japanese-influenced picnic bento boxes, Wagyu pies and matcha tarte tatins.

• Thirty per cent off your bill, $8 cocktails and free parking: for Lucas Loves Melbourne, big-name restaurateur Chris Lucas – who’s behind Chin Chin, Kisume, Yakimono, Society and more – is doing a month of dining deals.