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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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

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

Sport and Recreation

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

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

Flemington Racecourse

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

Caulfield Racecourse

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

This is a heavy product

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

General Motors Station

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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, ...

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Melbourne's first and foremost tea towel shop.

Third Drawer Down

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

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

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 ...

We love the Trades Hall, the Bella Union Bar it hosts, the Radical Bookshop and the history. In ...

Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...

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

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

Dark, brooding musician. Works hard. Music is so-so.

The Mechanics Institute

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

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

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 ...

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. ...

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