What we covered in Melbourne food and drink this week

• First look: Brico, a slick wine bar from a hospo dream team with experience including Bar Liberty, Public Wine Shop, London’s P Franco and Bright, opens in Carlton North.

• First look: there are already lines down the block for Genovese-style focaccia and Roman Empire sandwiches at new south-side focaccia bakery Zita’s.

• First look: Kori Ice-Cream’s new CBD store has Japanese-inspired scoops made by an ex-Tonka pastry chef and a vending machine filled with ice-cream pints.

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• First look: Ceree is a light-filled spot bringing home-style Filipino dishes like silog and lumpia to the CBD.

• First look: it’s “no panini, no party” at Hawthorn’s new pint-sized spot Piccolo Panini Bar.

• First look: Preston Market favourite, boulangerie Publique, opens its second store after 12 years in business – this time at the Queen Vic Market. There are ceiling-high shelves stacked with loaves and bow-shaped laminated pastries.

• Rosheen Kaul, James Beard award-winning Chinese-ish author and Etta head chef, shares her Melbourne restaurant hit list.

• Celebrity chef Karen Martini to launch St Kilda diner Saint George with Sydney’s Public Hospitality group.

• Nine of the city’s best secret sandwiches from creative cafes, charming eateries and wine bars.

• Collingwood’s new Jollygood Diner marries the Melbourne wine bar with American diner culture.

• Three new specialty bakeries by restaurant chefs to try.

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• Melbourne Filipino ice-cream shop Kariton Sorbetes to open first Sydney store in the coming months.

• Restaurant booking site The Fork to shut down Australian operations in March.

Listen up

• This week on Broadsheet’s podcast Around Town, we hear from Maker & Monger’s Anthony Femia.

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• Austin Allen and Kantaro Okada’s Japanese cafe 279 is donating $1 from every musubi sold from now until Monday January 14 to the Ishikawa Local Council Disaster Fund to assist with Ishikawa earthquake aid. Thai cafe Udom House will also be donating $1 from every pie sold from today until Thursday January 18 to the fund.

• Le Bajo Milkbar in North Melbourne will host kakigori (Japanese shaved-ice dessert) pop-ups with chef Hiroshi Kawamata from Japan’s Kakigori Sebastian every Thursday from 11am to 2pm.

• Hugo’s Deli is bringing back its famed steak frites baguette this Saturday January 13 and Sunday January 14 from 9am to celebrate its second year in business.

• A group of Melbourne food fans just wrapped season one of their Youtube cooking web series Crudites a Day.

• CBD lobster roll spot Pinchy’s is popping up in Sorrento this summer, bringing dishes including crab tacos, wasabi potato salad and, of course, lobster rolls with truffle fries.

As seen on the web

• The Shareable Feast of Jeremy Allen White’s Calvin Klein Beefcake Ad – via The New Yorker