• First Look: the brass speakers are works of art at Stellas, St Kilda’s new listening bar with a 3am licence.

• First Look: American barbeque technique meets Asian flavours at Yan, the first interstate outpost from the Sydney restaurant.

• First Look: drink beer and help feed those in need at Local Brewing Co’s Clifton Hill taproom.

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• Pinche Cantina is a new Thornbury taqueria from one of Melbourne’s best pizza-makers.

• Some of Bali’s most exciting young chefs are taking over the kitchens at Hope St Radio, Parcs and Florian.

• Piccolina has launched Festa Della Mamma, a limited-edition Mother’s Day box containing 12 creative gelato-filled chocolates.

• Coming soon: Studio Amaro, an upbeat Italian restaurant from the team behind Firebird, Moonhouse and Tokyo Tina.

• Celebrate Mother’s Day at Flinders Lane restaurant Nomad with a special set menu including woodfired flatbread stretched to order, wood-roasted king prawns and more.

• Coming soon: Reine, the Nomad Group’s new French brasserie set inside the former Melbourne Stock Exchange’s magnificent, 132-year-old Cathedral Room.

• Black Star Pastry’s new limited-edition Mother’s Day cake, Starry Night, is packed with blueberry, lavender and pistachio goodness.

• A new monthly farmers market is coming back to Abbotsford Convent – and the first edition is this weekend.

• Check out our top picks of where to drink in Melbourne on World Whisky Day.