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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

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

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

Flemington Racecourse

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

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

Clubs and Societies

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

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

Cultural Institutions

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

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

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 ...

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

Caulfield Racecourse

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

Sport and Recreation

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

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

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

This is a heavy product

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

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

Platform Art Gallery

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

Moroccan Soup Bar

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

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

Ramsey St Erinsborough

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

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

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

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

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

The City Jungle

Melbourne Anarchist Club

Calder Park Raceway

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Young and Jacksons

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

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

Literature and Libraries

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

General Motors Station

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

The Festival of the Photocopier

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

Stumbling towards not failing.

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

Cherchez La Femme

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

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

The northern edge of reality.

Rose is an Invisible. There's a secret door at the back of her shop.

Rose Chong Costumiers

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

A scene of the annual Unseen Art bacchanalia. A sedately wild affair, with confetti to mark the death ...

La Trobe Reading Room

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

golden-plains-music-festival

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

I love dumplings

In reality, it's not the best face to put on a city. Should you disembark at Flinders St ...

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

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

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

White Night Festival

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

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

General Motors Train Station

The Metropolitan train system in Melbourne is not to a German or Japanese standard. Consistently deprived of infrastructural ...

The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library

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

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

Eastment St Derby

Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...

Melbourne Knowledge Week

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

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