• Like sushi train, but cheesier: Geelong’s Splatters Cheese Bar has a 20-metre-long conveyer belt filled with cheesy plates from $5. (And it’s fully licensed.)

• Kitchen Hacks: Maggie Beer’s simple tip for cooking a perfectly juicy roast chicken. “Once you do it this way, you’ll never want to cook a chicken any other way.”

• Melbourne coffee favourite Industry Beans releases a summery new range of ready-to-drink cold brew cans – including a cascara spritz with notes of cherry.

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• In Broadsheet’s new special feature on Carlton grocer King & Godfree – for its 150-year milestone – we share the stories behind the jewel in Lygon Street’s crown.

• Speaking of King & Godfree, it’s teamed up with tuna titan Sirena to bring us a super saucy tuna melt for one weekend only.

• Chinatown’s new late-night hotpot joint, Fishpot, has nearly 100 ingredients to choose from. (And hotpot “lifts” to bring any lost ones to the surface of your bubbling broth.)

• Queen Vic Market’s Ripe Cheese collaborates with That’s Amore on a limited-edition burrata-topped toastie. Yes, you read that right.

• Super Ling may have closed, but its legacy lives on in the instantly iconic mapo-tofu jaffle.

• Recipe: legendary Aussie chef Stephanie Alexander’s “quintessential summer salad” has just five ingredients.

• Smith & Deli’s sandwiches are beloved. And it’s just unveiled a brand new menu for the first time in seven years – at its new Collingwood home. Get around them.

• Find grappa tasting flights and secluded picnic huts at Warrandyte’s Pietro Gallus, which feels like a world away (but is only 30 minutes from the city).

• Should you put ice in your wine? Nomad’s owner says definitely in our first instalment of Wine Wars. And it’s not the only wine “rule” this renegade flaunts.

• Praise be: a charming, century-old Melbourne church hall is being resurrected as Trinity, a pub and food-truck park. There’ll be room for 300 people in family- and pet-friendly surrounds.

• “We have tried to hang on as long as we could, but it is now untenable”: after 21 years, pay-what-you-can restaurant Lentil As Anything is closing its three Melbourne locations.

• All aboard the Black Star-ship Enterprise: the cult Aussie bakery opens its first international store.