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Melbourne's finest train station. It's fallen on hard times of late - it's facade could do with a ...

Flinders St Station

Art Studios Blender River Studios Coworking Spaces Electron Workshop Inspire9 Cultural The Last Tuesday Society Melbourne Literary Salon ...

Clubs and Societies

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

Caulfield Racecourse

Monthly Cherchez La Femme Yearly January Midsumma Festival February The Festival of the Photocopier (FOTP) Melbourne Food and ...

If Melbourne does anything well, it's cafes. Coffee. We love it. They come and go, but there are ...

People in Melbourne like to drink. Inner City The Edinburgh Castle The Retreat The Reverence, Footscray The Station ...

Bike Paths Buses Doorways Taxis Trains, Train Stations Trams Airports: Avalon Airport (AVV), Essendon Airport (MEB) (for the ...

Central Melbourne. Lots of great places to see, but they are all well hidden and spread out. Over ...

Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Thai Culture and Food Festival The Festival of the Photocopier Ukrainian ...

Cultural Festivals

There is excellent access to fresh food in the immediate inner city - between the QV, Footscray Market ...

Fresh food markets

CBD The Melbourne CBD is laid out in a grid with the streets running NE-SW and NW-SE. Running ...

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

Flemington Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse

Comedians Aamer Rahman Multi disciplinary/Uncategorisable Vali Myers Musicians Buttress O'Kneel Nick Cave Percy Grainger Theatrical Lynne Ellis Visual ...

Buildings Flinders St Station General Motors Train Station Queen Victoria Market (QV) Parliament Treasury Other The City Jungle ...

Brunswick* Carlton* Coburg* Collingwood* Cremorne* East Melbourne* Erinsborough Fitzroy* Fitzroy North* Footscray* Laverton Malvern Northcote* "North Northcote" Richmond* ...

Chinese Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood, Footscray I love dumplings, CBD, Flemington and Richmond Food Courts Ong Food ...

The State Library of Victoria is a safe haven for many. Rarely visited by Pinks, it's a generally ...

Part of the natural route from Flinders St to Bourke Sts, Degraves is an idealised European (YES, ALL ...

Right, let's get this out of the way. This sport is cruel and unusual. Horses that are hurt ...

tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival The Girls on Film Festival The British Film Festival The ...

Film The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Literature 100 Story Building Hares & Hyenas The Wheeler ...

Cultural Institutions

Arts Centre Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Dome Gallery, State Library of Victoria (SLV) McClelland sculpture park ...

Burgers Chinese Indian Italian Japanese Korean Lebanese Malaysian Vegetarian and Vegan Vietnamese

Australian Football League (AFL) - aka Footy Boxing Day Test (Cricket) Eastment St Derby Lawn Bowls The Melbourne ...

Sport and Recreation

The Mechanics Institute is a small theatre venue found on the corner of Sydney and Glenlyon Rds in ...

The Mechanics Institute

Don't mind it's Collins St address. This doozy is well hidden, with a blink and you'd miss it ...

The Charles Dickens Tavern

Barbecued meat is a long tradition for whitey in Australia, and there are plenty of places to partake, ...

This is a heavy product

The smaller sister to the larger and more well known Footscray Market, this market is more similar to ...

There are real bread bakeries all over town, although more likely to be found near where people live ...

This is everything we expect from the restaurant that it is. Immediately across from Flinders St Station, it's ...

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

Calder Park Raceway

A1 Bakery Tibas

A short cul de sac in Erinsborough. Dramatic Hamster has spent many years under the floorboards of most ...

Ramsey St Erinsborough

In the mid 1990s a couple of cheap and cheerful dumpling houses opened in the CBD, with Tattersalls ...

Melbourne remains the pinnacle of Australia's street art scene. Hosier Lane is a popular favourite with tourists and ...

Contrary to what is commonly believed, Melbourne has some of Australia's best doorways. Not always hidden, often in ...

General Motors Station

The peak Australian horse race in a sport that looks increasingly out of date. It's one saving grace ...

The Melbourne Cup

Vegetarians and vegans are well catered for in Melbourne - most places will have an option and understand ...

Vegetarian and Vegan

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

Probably Footscray's Chinese BBQ joint - excellent pork and roast duck. If you go at just the right ...

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

Somewhat archaic, but no more so than many parts of our fine city, the Sticky Zine store offers ...

Culture types like to claim that Melbourne has the best Art in Australia. They've obviously never been to ...

Book stores Embiggen Books Hares & Hyenas Readings Sticky Zines The New International Bookstore Libraries The State Library ...

Literature and Libraries

Metro Stations aka "The Loop" Flinders St Station Melbourne Central Station (née Museum station) Southern Cross Station (née ...

Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Melbourne has a Magic Festival! Moomba Melbourne Writer's Festival

A small lane between Collins St and Little Collins St, Block Place should be your default coffee destination ...

The Lounge - a mainstay on the Swanston St strip. Large venue, open late, with a magnificent balcony. ...

The kind of pub you feel like you should have a strong connection to. It's across from Flinders ...

Young and Jacksons

Royal Arcade is one of Melbourne's prettiest arcades, connecting Bourke Street Mall with Little Collins Street and Elizabeth ...

Notable Events In 1816 Melbourne was flattened by a stampede of wombats (think "hairy hippopotamus") angry at the ...

History Melbourne has an incredibly strong live music scene. Across over a hundred venues every week, every major ...

St Kilda Road crosses the Yarra River at Princes Bridge. There are excellent, wide, foot paths for pedestrians. ...

This space is dull, dated, and ethereal by nature of it's time, place and audience. Almost synergistic with ...

Platform Art Gallery

Melbourne Anarchist Club

At some point in 2019, shortly after the Greens took power in the state government, Moonee Valley Racecourse, ...

The City Jungle

Befitting a town with such an active music scene, Melbourne is and has been home to some of ...

Melbourne is the place to see and hear music in Australia. There are innumerable live venues and a ...

Melbourne. What a town. The Dart Riots - The international Dart competition in early 2015 held at Etihad ...

Melbourne has just about every type of pizza you can imagine - traditional Australian, traditional Italian, gourmet, strange, ...

Moroccan Soup Bar

Birrarung Marr Carlton Gardens The Edinburgh Gardens Fitzroy Gardens Flagstaff Gardens Footscray Park The Royal Botanical Gardens Stoney ...

Not strictly adhered to by all communities, but popular with the parochial, both Melbourne Cup day and the ...

A recent addition to the Melbourne Film Festival scene, the Girls on Film festival: is a rockin’ good ...

The Girls on Film Festival

the Upfield train line has a bike path almost all the way to ... Upfield. Not quite though ...

Stumbling towards not failing.

Simply divine Indian food, which is priced accordingly. An expensive night, but the food is worth it. Seriously ...

Brunswick Music Festival, incorporating the Sydney Road Street Party. Golden Plains Music Festival Meredith Music Festival Melbourne Ukulele ...

Music Festivals

A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...

Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.

Tullamarine - Melbourne's main airport - is world class in so much as it is contains lowest common ...

Tullamarine Airport

A relative newcomer, does an impressive array of thai and malay cuisine.

Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...

Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.

Domenico's Pizza and Pasta

Those on the north side have known and loved Piedamontes for many years. A good range, if priced ...

Little Vietnam. Lot's of Asian grocers and restaurants. Plenty of smack too, if that's your thing,

Victoria St, Collingwood

An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...

White Night Festival

Yes, Melbourne has a group of blue wearing men and women that are one part protecting us from ...

Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...

Castlemaine State Festival

Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.

Buttress O'Kneel

The Brunswick bowls club does a rollicking trade, with a young team and barefoot Sundays in the summer ...

Industrial non suburb with a train station that looks like a Star Destroyer that has crashed into the ...

A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...

A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...

Boxing Day Test (Cricket)

Famous in the 80s and 90s as a bastion of the student and underclasses, that Richmond has long ...

Flagstaff. That's what they call it. Only used by bankers, lawyers and Unseen Art (for meetings - they ...

The northern edge of reality.

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