• First Look: La Cave Garage is Melbourne’s newest, tiniest natural wine shop – in a CBD car park ticket booth.

• Menu reveal: what to order at South Yarra’s Yugen Dining. (The spectacular, subterranean modern-Asian restaurant is coming very soon.)

• Bagels Baby pulled crowds in Pascoe Vale when it opened in an old butcher’s shop late last year. Today, it’s opening a sleek second store – in Greensborough. And it’s giving away a free coffee with every bagel purchased. Get there.

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• First Look: Keep the tapas and sangria coming – Arbory Afloat returns to the Yarra as a Spanish beach club. All burnt orange, salmon and sage, Melbourne’s favourite floating bar has a new look thanks to a leading interior designer.

• First Look: A sun-drenched rooftop bar is the cherry on top of South Yarra’s new Italian destination Stella. Get your golden hour fix up top, then head downstairs to the golden-lit trattoria for pizza made from a family recipe.

• Customers of the Year Party: Collingwood pub Goldy’s is throwing a big bash this Saturday – with free booze on arrival and Goldy’s Rolls (its take on the Chiko Roll) – to celebrate recently being crowned Pub of the Year.

• A campfire degustation (and more dining in unusual places) as Melbourne Food & Wine Festival goes regional with a new 10-day edition. All the details.

• Five to try: new Melbourne bakeries that really hit the sweet spot.

• Now open: Halcyon Days aren’t a thing of the past at Albert Park’s delightfully decked-out new corner cafe. Perch on a snazzy stool for marmalade-slathered carrot cake toast or hotcakes two ways.

• The team behind South Yarra’s Botanical Hotel has launched its fancy ready-made meals – under the South Yarra Deli banner – nationally.

• Now open: at Galok in Windsor, the pan-Asian brief means succulent prawn toast and spicy Tom Yum daiquiris. A gleaming 100-litre still sits at the centre of Chapel Street’s new red-accented bar and restaurant.

• First Look: Is Don’s, is good. Four things to love about Prahran’s tiny new wine bar by a Stan’s co-owner. (Right across from Prahran Market, the facade isn’t exactly attention-grabbing. But what’s inside certainly is.)