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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

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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 ...

Flemington Racecourse

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 ...

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

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

Sport and Recreation

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

Fresh food markets

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

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

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

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

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

Caulfield Racecourse

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 ...

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

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

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

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

Cultural Institutions

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

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

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

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

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

Moroccan Soup Bar

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

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

Calder Park Raceway

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

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

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

Melbourne Anarchist Club

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

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

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

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

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

Literature and Libraries

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

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

General Motors Station

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

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

The Mechanics Institute

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

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

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

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

Young and Jacksons

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

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

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

The Melbourne Cup

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

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 ...

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

This is a heavy product

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

Ramsey St Erinsborough

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

The City Jungle

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

Platform Art Gallery

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

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

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

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

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

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

The Arts Centre

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

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

Stumbling towards not failing.

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

Eastment St Derby

Every week The Wheeler Centre hosts talks by smart, intelligent speakers across a range of topics. Over more ...

The Wheeler Centre

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

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

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

Melbourne Knowledge Week

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

tilde is Melbourne’s international film festival created to showcase and support the work of trans and gender diverse ...

tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival

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

Cherchez La Femme

A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)

The Mechanics Institute

Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.

Third Drawer Down

Flagstaff. That's what they call it. Only used by bankers, lawyers and Unseen Art (for meetings - they ...

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

I love dumplings

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

The Girls on Film Festival

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

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

Long strip. Good for locals.

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

Non Personalities

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

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