Peaches Wine Bar

A moody,walk-ins only wine bar by the Skinnys team.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Collingwood’s Bendigo Hotel.

Bendigo Hotel

Longtime live music haunt now home to a local craft brewery.

  • Daniela Frangos
Pizza Pizza Pizza does slices late into the night.

Pizza Pizza Pizza

This late-night pizza joint and cocktail bar serves New York-style pies.

  • Emily Holgate
December will mark the ten-year anniversary of Embla.
Good Food hat15.5/20

This dark,moody wine bar is our critic’s go-to because it’s exactly what Melbourne does best

This decade-old CBD favourite is still as dynamic as the day it opened.

  • Besha Rodell
Chicken skin sandwich and Tito Ray cocktail.

Inuman

A love-letter to the Philippines and its laidback drinking culture.

  • Emma Breheny
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Choose a seat to suit your mood at basement bar Mr Mills.

Mr Mills

A moody basement bar that’s all about Spanish snacking.

  • Emma Breheny
Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang.
14/20

This Korean restaurant only sells one type of soup,but the queue starts early

Sydney has a new holder for the title of Koreatown. “I didn’t expect it to be so popular,” says the chef of Guk’s Eedaero Gamjatang in the thriving new hub.

  • Kevin Cheng
Crullers and spiced almonds.

This semi-hidden CBD spot for two-hatted snacks takes orders until 11pm

Clocktower Bar at Shell House is a deep-red cocoon of cocktails and crullers nine storeys above the street.

  • Lenny Ann Low
Chef Kirbie Tate has flipped James into the eponymous Kirbie.
14/20

Restaurant goes from modern Korean to broadly European and finds its identity

Chef Kirbie Tate finally has her name up in lights at her eponymous bistro Kirbie (nee James).

  • Dani Valent
Indian-inspired ice cream at Icy Spicy in Clayton.

Icy Spicy

Indian-inspired scoops and street food.

  • Dani Valent