• We knew beloved Melbourne bakery Beatrix was shutting in early August, but now we have a (slated) closing date: Saturday the sixth. You’ve got less than two weeks left to experience Nat Paull’s sweet sorcery in North Melbourne.

• Win seven dinners in seven nights at Melbourne’s best restaurants – including Tipo 00 and Embla – worth more than $4000. Enter here.

• The sophisticated new riverside restaurant by Farmer’s Daughters is so fiercely Victorian that it’s literally called Victoria. There’s a glass-walled 3000-bottle “wine library” and a terrace with river views. Plus, unmissable rosti and supersized steaks.

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• Loaded fish sangas, garlicky crab ravioli and zesty prawn risotto: The Fishmonger’s Son launches weeknight-perfect “Take and Bake” packs.

• The future of Melbourne’s hottest new Italian restaurant is up in the air as chef Joe Vargetto confirms he “will not be reopening Cucina Povera”.

• Now open: Mont Albert bakery-cafe Via Porta brings its lovely pastries and sangas to a pint-sized corner spot in Kew. Take a look.

• There’s free-flowing vino, plenty of pasta and bangers galore at Marameo’s new pasta parties. All the details.

• First Look: All-you-can-eat Sri Lankan for just $20? Maalu Maalu brings back the buffet with a bang. Curries, rice, sambol – you name it.

• Recipe: Put on Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s weekend sauce and let it simmer into magnificence. It’s from her just-released cookbook Around the Table.

• Now open: the reincarnation of impressive Port Fairy fine diner Fen is hidden behind a wine store. There’s one sitting, two nights a week, for just 14 people. And it’s worth travelling for.

• One of Melbourne’s best burger joints – known for its beef-smash patties – has just opened a new spot. It’s its first not on the north side.

• The Higher Ground and Top Paddock team opens a sunny new pizzeria and provedore. It’s behind a longstanding limestone facade, but the interior bears little resemblance to the venue's former self.