• A glass-walled elevator will drop you inside Yugen, South Yarra’s spectacular new modern Asian restaurant – with an intimate six-seat omakase.

• Gird your loins: after custardy croissant “wheels” go viral in NYC, new Melbourne bakery Calle introduces its own version.

• Here for a good time, not a long time: Four Pillars is opening a bar dedicated to the Martini in QT Melbourne’s lobby. How dirty is too dirty?

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• Coming soon: Jayda, Shane Delia’s suave new CBD cocktail bar – right next to the original Maha. It’ll be here just in time for summer.

• Now open: in what looks like a gothic cathedral, Freyja is Melbourne’s two-level new Nordic restaurant. At the helm? A chef with Michelin pedigree.

• Windsor’s Hawker Hall launches a banana-leaf weekday lunch special: for $25, get a seasonal curry, creamy coconut rice, pickles and the sambal of the day – all wrapped up.

• Arbory Afloat, Melbourne’s favourite floating bar, is reopening next week – as a Balearic beach club. We go inside of the full-throttle Spanish research trip behind its 2022 rebirth.

• Beloved Melbourne tapas joint Movida crosses international borders to open its first location outside Australia. Here’s the dispatch.

• Raise a glass: a Melbourne bar wins best ceiling in the world at the international Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.

• Meet Good & Fugly, a new food-waste start-up now delivering “perfectly imperfect” fruit and veg across Melbourne.

• Could you find love at 1800 Lasagne? Find out at its upcoming speed-dating event. All the details.

• You drink locally roasted coffee. But what about Australian-grown coffee? A multi-generational former tobacco-farming family is spearheading a new movement in premium Aussie brews.