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Footscray
Melbourne's finest train station. It's fallen on hard times of late - it's facade could do with a ...
Flinders St Station
Swanston St
Right, let's get this out of the way. This sport is cruel and unusual. Horses that are hurt ...
horse racing
Bike Paths Buses Doorways Taxis Trains, Train Stations Trams Airports: Avalon Airport (AVV), Essendon Airport (MEB) (for the ...
Transportation
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
Restaurants, Pubs, Bars
Food and Drink
Comedians Aamer Rahman Multi disciplinary/Uncategorisable Vali Myers Musicians Buttress O'Kneel Nick Cave Percy Grainger Theatrical Lynne Ellis Visual ...
Artists
Chinese Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood, Footscray I love dumplings, CBD, Flemington and Richmond Food Courts Ong Food ...
Restaurants
CBD The Melbourne CBD is laid out in a grid with the streets running NE-SW and NW-SE. Running ...
Streets
Arts Centre Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Dome Gallery, State Library of Victoria (SLV) McClelland sculpture park ...
Art Galleries
Brunswick
Art Studios Blender River Studios Coworking Spaces Electron Workshop Inspire9 Cultural The Last Tuesday Society Melbourne Literary Salon ...
Clubs and Societies
If Melbourne does anything well, it's cafes. Coffee. We love it. They come and go, but there are ...
Cafes
Buildings Flinders St Station General Motors Train Station Queen Victoria Market (QV) Parliament Treasury Other The City Jungle ...
Landmarks
Monthly Cherchez La Femme Yearly January Midsumma Festival February The Festival of the Photocopier (FOTP) Melbourne Food and ...
event-calendar
BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza
themes
tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival The Girls on Film Festival The British Film Festival The ...
Film Festivals
Australian Football League (AFL) - aka Footy Boxing Day Test (Cricket) Eastment St Derby Lawn Bowls The Melbourne ...
Sport and Recreation
Fawkner Park
Brunswick* Carlton* Coburg* Collingwood* Cremorne* East Melbourne* Erinsborough Fitzroy* Fitzroy North* Footscray* Laverton Malvern Northcote* "North Northcote" Richmond* ...
suburbs
People in Melbourne like to drink. Inner City The Edinburgh Castle The Retreat The Reverence, Footscray The Station ...
Pubs
Flemington Racecourse
Moonee Valley Racecourse
The State Library of Victoria is a safe haven for many. Rarely visited by Pinks, it's a generally ...
SLV
Caulfield Racecourse
Burgers Chinese Indian Italian Japanese Korean Lebanese Malaysian Vegetarian and Vegan Vietnamese
Cuisines
Central Melbourne. Lots of great places to see, but they are all well hidden and spread out. Over ...
CBD
Film The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Literature 100 Story Building Hares & Hyenas The Wheeler ...
Cultural Institutions
Part of the natural route from Flinders St to Bourke Sts, Degraves is an idealised European (YES, ALL ...
Degraves St
Melbourne remains the pinnacle of Australia's street art scene. Hosier Lane is a popular favourite with tourists and ...
Street Art
At some point in 2019, shortly after the Greens took power in the state government, Moonee Valley Racecourse, ...
The City Jungle
Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Melbourne has a Magic Festival! Moomba Melbourne Writer's Festival
Festivals
Notable Events In 1816 Melbourne was flattened by a stampede of wombats (think "hairy hippopotamus") angry at the ...
History
Book stores Embiggen Books Hares & Hyenas Readings Sticky Zines The New International Bookstore Libraries The State Library ...
Literature and Libraries
Contrary to what is commonly believed, Melbourne has some of Australia's best doorways. Not always hidden, often in ...
Doorways
Birrarung Marr Carlton Gardens The Edinburgh Gardens Fitzroy Gardens Flagstaff Gardens Footscray Park The Royal Botanical Gardens Stoney ...
Parks
St Kilda Road crosses the Yarra River at Princes Bridge. There are excellent, wide, foot paths for pedestrians. ...
Princes Bridge
McClelland sculpture park & gallery
Probably Footscray's Chinese BBQ joint - excellent pork and roast duck. If you go at just the right ...
Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood
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 ...
Train Stations
Moomba St Kilda Festival
Civic Festivals
St Kilda
Melbourne. What a town. The Dart Riots - The international Dart competition in early 2015 held at Etihad ...
Idiosyncrasies
This is a heavy product
Culture types like to claim that Melbourne has the best Art in Australia. They've obviously never been to ...
Art
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
In the mid 1990s a couple of cheap and cheerful dumpling houses opened in the CBD, with Tattersalls ...
dumplings
Calder Park Raceway
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
A small lane between Collins St and Little Collins St, Block Place should be your default coffee destination ...
Block Place
Vegetarians and vegans are well catered for in Melbourne - most places will have an option and understand ...
Vegetarian and Vegan
The smaller sister to the larger and more well known Footscray Market, this market is more similar to ...
Little Saigon
General Motors Station
The Lounge - a mainstay on the Swanston St strip. Large venue, open late, with a magnificent balcony. ...
Bars
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
A1 Bakery Tibas
Lebanese
The peak Australian horse race in a sport that looks increasingly out of date. It's one saving grace ...
The Melbourne Cup
History Melbourne has an incredibly strong live music scene. Across over a hundred venues every week, every major ...
Live Music
Somewhat archaic, but no more so than many parts of our fine city, the Sticky Zine store offers ...
Sticky Zines
media
Not strictly adhered to by all communities, but popular with the parochial, both Melbourne Cup day and the ...
Empty Days
This is everything we expect from the restaurant that it is. Immediately across from Flinders St Station, it's ...
Flora
Melbourne is the place to see and hear music in Australia. There are innumerable live venues and a ...
Music
East Melbourne
The Mechanics Institute is a small theatre venue found on the corner of Sydney and Glenlyon Rds in ...
The Mechanics Institute
Barbecued meat is a long tradition for whitey in Australia, and there are plenty of places to partake, ...
BBQ
Befitting a town with such an active music scene, Melbourne is and has been home to some of ...
Recorded Music
Melbourne has just about every type of pizza you can imagine - traditional Australian, traditional Italian, gourmet, strange, ...
Pizza
Royal Arcade is one of Melbourne's prettiest arcades, connecting Bourke Street Mall with Little Collins Street and Elizabeth ...
Royal Arcade
There are real bread bakeries all over town, although more likely to be found near where people live ...
Bakeries
A Melbourne version of the South East Asian food court, it's a breath of fresh air in the ...
Ong Food Court
Australia's foremost curated discussion group, Cherchez la Femme is a monthly forum on Feminism. Inevitably sells out, get ...
Cherchez La Femme
Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...
golden-plains-music-festival
Tullamarine - Melbourne's main airport - is world class in so much as it is contains lowest common ...
Tullamarine Airport
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...
Le Chien
Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.
Third Drawer Down
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
Simply divine Indian food, which is priced accordingly. An expensive night, but the food is worth it. Seriously ...
Aangan
An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...
White Night Festival
Traditionally held in Federation Square, it features an array of food and produce stalls, cultural performances, live music, ...
Thai Culture and Food Festival
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
We love the Trades Hall, the Bella Union Bar it hosts, the Radical Bookshop and the history. In ...
Trades Hall
Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...
Laksa King
Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...
Aamer Rahman
A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...
Footscray Park
Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.
Nick Cave
The Mechanics Institute
Live Venues
In reality, it's not the best face to put on a city. Should you disembark at Flinders St ...
the lost strip
A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...
Golden Shower
Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
This is where the Yarraville Angels live, and where power ends and where the fire gods where clothing.
Stoney Creek Reserve
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
Culture. This is it's apex. So far up in the artistic stratosphere that it has, indeed, disappeared up ...
The Arts Centre
It's hard to walk passed Danny's on the top end of St Georges road in Bruswick, almost Northocote. ...
Burgers
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