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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

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

Sport and Recreation

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

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

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

Cultural Festivals

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

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

Cultural Institutions

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

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

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

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

Caulfield Racecourse

Flemington Racecourse

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

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

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

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

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

General Motors Station

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

Young and Jacksons

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

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 ...

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

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

Platform Art Gallery

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

The City Jungle

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

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

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

Moroccan Soup Bar

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

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

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

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

Literature and Libraries

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

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

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

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

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

Calder Park Raceway

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

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

Ramsey St Erinsborough

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

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

The Melbourne Cup

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

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

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

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

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

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

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 ...

Melbourne Anarchist Club

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

golden-plains-music-festival

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

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

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

Cherchez La Femme

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

Culture. This is it's apex. So far up in the artistic stratosphere that it has, indeed, disappeared up ...

The Arts Centre

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

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

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

Sport Australian Rules Football (aka AFL) Postcodes vs Suburb names Shepparton, postcode 3630, has the most football clubs ...

Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...

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

Tullamarine Airport

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

Eastment St Derby

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

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

Thai Culture and Food Festival

On the Pakenham line, long disused. Barren wasteland. Perfect space to film a zombie apocalypse film, if that's ...

General Motors Train Station

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

The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library

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

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

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

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

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

Stoney Creek Reserve

Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...

Let's face it, ACCA is ruling class art. While it claims to be contemporary, the site itself is ...

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