Here’s your excuse to try somewhere or something new this month… NEW BARS Bodriggy Brewpub This big, beautiful former mechanic’s warehouse space has been transformed into an active brewery and expansive beer bar (there’s *plenty* of wine and cocktails too). Here you’ll spy items salvaged from the MCG and the […]

Presenting your monthly excuse to try somewhere new… NEW BARS Eazy Peazy  The team behind – one of Australia’s only sake labels – Toji Sake, presents Eazy Peazy. Naturally, the Japanese bar and eatery is influenced by the sake-making process (spot the rice-laden interiors, from the walls to the ceiling). […]

  As part of their continuing 10th birthday celebrations this year, Andrew McConnell’s Fitzroy bar and dining room Cutler & Co. has acquired one rather special barrel of Starward whisky to call its very own. There will only be 250 bottles of this limited edition drop ever available to purchase […]

Get out of the house! Cheers to the most notable new bars in which to escape this winter. Bar Margaux Joining The Everleigh and Heartbreaker family, Margaux seems to take the best of both venues (serious cocktails and good times, respectively) to create an underground bar meets brasserie that stands […]

NOW OPEN A new hotel bar for Southbank, Edwin Wine Bar & Cellar has an all-Victorian wine line-up by Dan Sims. Our next new wine bar has appeared in Sandringham. Baia di Vino (above; Jake Roden), from the Riserva Wine Bar crew, spruiks European wines and a trio of negronis. Hawthorn […]

From the long-awaited return of old favourites to colourful new comers, here are 11 notable new Melbourne bars to try this month. Catch up on last month’s openings here. – Meyers Place Get your old crew back together and make a stop at the new/old Meyers Place bar. Melbourne’s original […]

Here’s all the news that’s fit to drink this month… – Congratulations to all of the winners at last night’s 2019 Time Out Melbourne Bar Awards: Congress (best bar food), Clooney (best new bar), Kirk’s (best wine bar), The Everleigh (best cocktail bar and bar of the year), The Elysian […]

We’re back and raising our glasses to another year of Australian craft spirits and boutique bars. In case you missed it: here are 14 brand new haunts to try (in what’s left of) this month. — Johnny’s Green Room An homage to a former neighborhood bar of the same name, […]

I’m not sure what’s in the water – or seasonal eggnog – at the moment, but temporary bars are popping-up everywhere this December. Here’s your hit-list of pop-ups. Try them before they disappear… Stomping Ground La Boca The Arts Centre Melbourne has invited Collingwood’s Stomping Ground Brewing Co to help […]

Let’s raise a toast to summer and the most notable bar openings this month… Hotel Esplanade The beloved Espy has risen from the dead and it sure is alive and kicking. There’s a dozen different bars to explore from beer gardens to cocktail lounges over a whopping six levels (plus […]