• The ultimate bake sale, cheese-a-palooza and Mission Chinese: this is Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2023.

• Recipe: bring chef-worthy flourishes to your garlic-bread game with 1800 Lasagne’s guide to buttery, cheesy batons.

• After 20 years, Abbotsford Farmers Market – one of Melbourne’s favourites – has closed. Saturdays at the convent just won’t be the same.

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• First Look: A sushi train for snacks – by Masterchef maestro Poh Ling Yeow – opens in Melbourne. With plates from $8.

• Everything croissants (instead of bagels), tomato-and-Taleggio danishes and peanut-pretzel pains au chocolat: behold Lune’s February specials.

• Brunswick bakery Wild Life opens a superette, or mini supermarket, in the old Harper & Blohm site. A supersized loaf of bread marks the spot, and the Wild Life team is honouring the cheese shop’s legacy by selling (and offering tastings of) topnotch fromage.

• DIY banh mi and a skewer of the week as Sunda’s former sous-chef takes over a fiery Melbourne diner.

• First Look: Surprise snacks and a gloriously green outlook await at Kin, a new Victorian destination diner. Just over three hours from Melbourne, Rutherglen winery All Saints Estate has undergone a multimillion-dollar redevelopment.

• Tino in Brunswick is celebrating World Pisco Sour Day with three limited-edition creations this week. Bonus: they’re all $15 each.

• These are all the new Melbourne restaurant, cafe and bar openings we got excited about in January 2023.

• First Look: On a Brunswick backstreet, Disciple is a chapel of coffee from the founder of Monk Bodhi Dharma.

• Coming soon: a second Falco bakery for Collingwood. Two is better than one, so the team is taking its wildly popular concept down the hill to Langridge Street.

• You scream, we scream: a huge ice-cream festival is coming to Victoria – with 144 flavours, including Negroni Sbagliato … with prosecco in it.