• First look: Sincero brings green marble, timber panelling and cheffy takes on Italian classics to the south.
• First look: Malaysian fried chicken chain Marrybrown opens at Melbourne Central.
• First look: Glory Us in Fitzroy North has breakfast pizza and wholesome community vibes.
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SIGN UP• First look: Star chef Luke Mangan’s new CBD bistro has steak tartare and Martinis eight ways.
•Coming soon: Hardware Lane lunch favourite Miznon will finally open its Collingwood outpost in July.
• Don’t miss “chaotic food” at Sleepy’s pop-up series in Carlton North this weekend.
• Kitchen must-have: Tax, small batch vinegar made in Melbourne using Yarra Valley Wines (from the grandson of Mirka and Georges Mora).
• All the new Melbourne restaurant, cafe and bar openings we got excited about this month.
• Free to Feed founder Loretta Bolotin breaks bread for a mighty cause.
• New pop-up series Palay, at Carlton's Epocha, plays with Filipino flavours and techniques in delightfully unexpected ways. “It may look modern, but I do want to clarify it’s not fusion. There’s no need to fuse our food.”
• I can’t stop thinking about: this delightful strawberry panna cotta from the Preston Market.
• Car deliberately smashes into Moon Dog Wild West’s front windows.
• Three to try: New wine bars to take you from Melbourne to Greece and beyond.
• Tedesca’s Brigitte Hafner and Firedoor’s Lennox Hastie are swapping kitchens and making two one-off feasts together.
• Three of a kind: where to find chawanmushi in Melbourne.
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