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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

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

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

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

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

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

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

Flemington Racecourse

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

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 ...

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

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

Cultural Festivals

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

Sport and Recreation

Caulfield Racecourse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Clubs and Societies

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

Cultural Institutions

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

Fresh food markets

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

The Mechanics Institute

General Motors Station

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

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

Calder Park Raceway

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

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

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

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

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

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

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

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

The City Jungle

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

This is a heavy product

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

Literature and Libraries

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 ...

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

Young and Jacksons

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

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

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 ...

Melbourne Anarchist Club

Moroccan Soup Bar

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

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

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

Ramsey St Erinsborough

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Melbourne Cup

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

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

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

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

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

Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...

Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...

Kerry Greenwood

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

Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...

For the cheapest and best herb pizza with salad (still $3.50!), Tabet's is your eatery.

The Australian Football League is an 18 team ball sport that plays from April until September every year. ...

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

Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...

golden-plains-music-festival

The Other Film Festival is one of Melbourne's coolest, from their site: The festival programs the very best ...

The Other Film Festival

Long strip. Good for locals.

Newman, Sam - trained monkey, encouraged to throw shit at the public. Mock outrage ensues and the working ...

Non Personalities

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

Andy Griffiths Author of excellent books for children. Usually pretty gross ("The Day My Bum Went Psycho"), always ...

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Chinese Museum Heidi Museum of Modern Art Immigration Museum Melbourne Steam ...

HAHA was a Kiwi that came to Melbourne for the greater opportunities available to street artists. By virtue ...

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

The Girls on Film Festival

The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library

Traditionally held in Federation Square, it features an array of food and produce stalls, cultural performances, live music, ...

Thai Culture and Food Festival

Does excellent, well priced, dumplings and central Chinese cuisine. The seats in the Flemington restaurant and grandiose and ...

I love dumplings

The northern edge of reality.

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

An award winning artist, illustrator, and film-maker, Shaun is based in Melbourne. Shaun has a blog, where he ...

In Yarra Junction, Camp Eureka is a space built in the mid 1970s by Eureka Youth League, the ...

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

Tullamarine Airport

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