• Pepperoni pizza was what inspired Lune’s unexpected, limited-edition new creation. Napoli sauce and scamorza are swirled through escargot (the pastry kind), and it comes topped with fior di latte and fresh basil. That’s amore.

• This nutty, chocolatey, begging-to-be-attacked-with-a-spoon spread by Cremorne-based chocolatier Hunted and Gathered gives Nutella a run for its money.

• Beeline for this sunny South Melbourne rooftop for 90 minutes of all-you-can-eat curry snags and free-flowing booze.

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• Two massive new watering holes have hit Moonee Ponds: one in a heritage-listed former supermarket, the other in a transformed Sporting Globe.

• Shannon Martinez’s Smith and Daughters has just reopened for all your non-carnivorous needs.

• Stroll straight off the beach into the Stokehouse crew’s relaxed, summery pop-up with White Claws, jugs of Margarita and woodfired pizzas.

• New Year’s is looming. Book one of Melbourne Food and Wine Festival’s open-air street feasts (Supernormal’s suckling pig bo ssam, anyone?).

• Roll up your sleeves for Texas-style brisket, jalapeno kranskies, mac’n’cheese and more at Brunswick’s newest barbeque joint.

• The bustling Hochi Mama is bringing its brand of Vietnamese fusion to a new south-side outpost.

• Sailors Grave Brewing’s new dark lager is a collab with author Bruce Pascoe, channelling his groundbreaking study of Aboriginal agriculture, Dark Emu.

• Sunda is crossing cuisines – namely, Southeast Asian and Italian – at its innovative, soon-to-open CBD pop-up.

• Hard seltzer, cold-drip coffee and pomelo collide in the new release from Footscray booze brand ‘Ray, launching on November 27.

• Perspex shmerspex. At this out-of-town winery, boot scoot into what could be the new frontier in outdoor dining: the tables are separated by enormous hay bales.