• New space, more seats, same pizza: Thornbury’s Wolf and Swill, one of Melbourne’s absolute best pizza joints, has moved – across the road.
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• This Melbourne institution transports our writer straight to her Lebanese grandmother’s kitchen.
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SIGN UP• First Look: Behind an art deco facade, Kensington’s Cassette wants maximum flavour with minimum waste. Find DIY sushi bowls, loaded potato rosti and innovative coffee-spiked bacon and eggs.
• Midnight Mixers is a stellar new range of Aussie-made, sustainably packaged mixers. Up your spirits game with bitter lemon tonic, zingy ginger beer and classic dry tonic.
• First Look: Kew’s new wine bar is a Turkish delight. At the intimate Nazar, Turkish chef Ayhan Erkoc is reimagining dishes he grew up eating. Breakfast staple sujuk and eggs is unrecognisable (and bite-sized) here, plus find duck pastirma and beetroot-and-labneh kebabs.
• Recipe: make a crowd-pleasing classic cob loaf even more Australian with native warrigal greens and saltbush.
• Now open: loaded focaccia, prosecco salami and fun Italian vino at Pezzo, the Umberto team’s new wine bar. (The collab with specialist wine importer Quelvino is here for a good time, not a long time.)
• First Look: New neighbourhood cafe Lennox is the closest you’ll get to the Greek Islands in Hampton. It’s bright, breezy and built for sunny days (there’s a back courtyard with private cabanas).
• Big bao burgers, a playful mochi-doughnut hybrid and deep-fried Milo gelato: Melbourne’s Night Noodle Markets announces its full menu for 2022. Take a look.
• Free bibimbap alert: Paik’s Bibim – by South Korean celebrity chef Paik Jong-won – is giving away plant-based creations this weekend to celebrate World Vegan Day.
• Just opened: Atet, Melbourne’s first floating open-air club, with room for 550 people.