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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fresh food markets

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

Clubs and Societies

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

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

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

Cultural Institutions

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

Caulfield Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

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

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

Cultural Festivals

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

Flemington Racecourse

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

Sport and Recreation

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mechanics Institute

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

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

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

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

Calder Park Raceway

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

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

Platform Art Gallery

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

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

The Melbourne Cup

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

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

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

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

The City Jungle

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

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

General Motors Station

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, ...

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

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

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

This is a heavy product

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

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

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

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

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

Literature and Libraries

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

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

Young and Jacksons

Moroccan Soup Bar

Melbourne Anarchist Club

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

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

Ramsey St Erinsborough

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

Enviropark, Farm, Market, Cafe. You can't do it too often, and the wet days are gnarly, but it's ...

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

This is where the Yarraville Angels live, and where power ends and where the fire gods where clothing.

Stoney Creek Reserve

The Zinesters. They get together and trade their wares, their tips and their stories. Unseen Art think highly ...

The Festival of the Photocopier

Not much of a mall. Has pretty paving, and is the location of the Public Purse. Home to ...

It's hard to walk passed Danny's on the top end of St Georges road in Bruswick, almost Northocote. ...

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

Held yearly on Melbourne Cup day in Northcote since 2005 (with a hiatus in 2104), The Eastment Street ...

Eastment St Derby

Australia's foremost curated discussion group, Cherchez la Femme is a monthly forum on Feminism. Inevitably sells out, get ...

Cherchez La Femme

Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.

Domenico's Pizza and Pasta

A Melbourne version of the South East Asian food court, it's a breath of fresh air in the ...

Currently Melbourne's best Lebanese according to this person who has only ever eaten Lebanese in Melbourne. Honest mob. ...

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

Beautiful to look at, offensive in execution. Consistently busy, largely due to high floor staff turnover. Disturbing gender ...

We love the Trades Hall, the Bella Union Bar it hosts, the Radical Bookshop and the history. In ...

Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...

An anarchist bookstore that existed for a decade from the mid 90s. Since turned into a cafe, The ...

Barricade Bookstore

Andrew Bolt - Arch conservative commentator. Excels at distracting the masses, a master magician. On-sight. Malcolm Fraser - ...

An excellent seated venue - potentially the best - unfortunately let down with incredibly poor choice of music ...

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

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

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

Tullamarine Airport

They used to do a pizza. There was a semi fine dining restaurant on site. I worked there ...

The Station Hotel (Prahran)

Good nosh. Solid lunch. Plus a small grocery for all you pomegrante juice fiends!

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