• Longread: The Little Things That Make France-Soir Such a Big Deal: An Oral History, 35 Years On.

• These are Melbourne’s best restaurant openings of 2021 (so far).

• A next-level convenience store is popping up in Melbourne, with a hulking deli-style “motherlode” sandwich stacked with cold cuts and cheese from every single deli in Queen Victoria Market’s Dairy Hall.

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• In a nondescript Brunswick East warehouse, the trailblazing Brunswick Aces Bar has all the makings of any conventional cocktail spot – bar one. Read all about it here.

• Ten days, 150 events and a new home: behold Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s winter program.

• Maximum Chips, a night of all-you-can-eat hot chips, is coming to Melbourne. Finally.

• Cheery social-enterprise cafe Kinfolk is closing this month after more than a decade. “It’s definitely been something we’ve tried to delay for as long as we could. The space was really important to a lot of people.”

• Home Grown is a spiffy new brand of ready-to-drink spritzes by a Bar Liberty and Capitano co-owner. Go for a Creamy Soda Highball for a hit of ’90s-milk-bar nostalgia.

• Now open: a luminous new cafe – with flaky Colombian-inspired pies and weekend-only empanadas – that can change colours like a chameleon.

• For one night only, show-stopping Mornington Peninsula diner Tedesca Osteria – one of Victoria’s best and most unique dining experiences – is popping up in the city. And there are two ways to get in.

• Take a look inside Society, Melbourne’s most anticipated restaurant opening of the year. (You can book a table now.)

• The Big Spaghetti is a mammoth pasta party with 20 different pasta dishes from 10 stalls, helmed by the country’s best Italian restaurants. Among them: Tipo 00, Marameo and Sydney’s Cafe Paci.

• Get $6.50 Aperol spritzes, Peroni Reds and glasses of pinot at Baby’s Winter Aperitivo Hour.

• Recipe: have this cheesy cauliflower bake – using all the leaves, stems and florets – on the table in under an hour.

• Fifteen to try: booze-free Aussie beer, wine, spirits and more for your Dry July supply.