Posted: March 4, 2021
Featuring: Grampians Estate Winery, Five Duck Farm, Our Kitchenette... WE’VE taken 2021 on, with all its chaos and unpredictability, and are forging on in Melbourne and Victoria. While the sad reality of hospitality businesses closing since lockdown is a constant,...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine March April 2021 / 19 View / March 4, 2021
Posted: October 1, 2020
Featuring: Bianchet Providore, Yarra Valley Ketchup, Di Stasio Citta... MELBOURNE has been quiet. In the midst of our second lockdown the beloved hospitality industry - restaurants, cafes, retailers and bottle shops - all bunkered down for the long haul of...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine October 2020 / 23 View / October 1, 2020
Posted: August 12, 2020
Featuring: Mister Sandrino, Capitano, Bellota... OH Melbourne…what a time in our lives. Just when restaurants and cafes started opening their doors from June 1 - with restrictions in place - a second lockdown was announced. Delivery and takeaway offerings keep...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine August 2020 / 20 View / August 12, 2020
Posted: March 3, 2020
Featuring: Omnia Bistro, Frederic and Fred’s Bar, Pinchy’s... WHAT do you do when the restaurant’s bricks-and-mortar aren’t ready but the chef, his team and the front-of-house staff are? Create a pop-up to start warming up, is what. The Capitol Grand,...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine March April 2020 / 10 View / March 3, 2020
Posted: January 8, 2020
Featuring: Oster Eatery, Frederic and Fred’s Bar, The Hardware Club... MELBOURNE is embracing comfort food, especially seeing the opening of venues serving French and Italian-inspired menus. It’s going to be a bright 2020! Inspired by the informal osteria of northern...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine Annual 2020 / 43 View / January 8, 2020
Posted: November 28, 2019
Featuring: Bar Margaux, Alphington Social, Tetto di Carolina... IT was the depths of winter when Bar Margaux opened in the Melbourne’s CBD. The newest venue from the hospitality group Made in the Shade, which also owns awarding-winning bar The Everleigh,...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine November December 2019 / 24 View / November 28, 2019
Posted: September 5, 2019
Featuring: Scott Pickett’s Lupo, Pope Joan, Anthony Femia... A CHEESEMONGER sets up his bricks-and-mortar shop after operating out of a cheese stall, a popular pop-up turns into a permanent home and a chef turns to one of his favourite cuisines...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine September October 2019 / 35 View / September 5, 2019
Posted: July 1, 2019
Featuring: James Wine Bar, Bishop Sessa, Fable Dinning Room... CHEF Paul Cooper has returned home to Victoria and bought Bianchet Winery in the Yarra Valley, operating two venues within the space, to accommodate casual and more formal dining rooms. Cooper,...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine July August 2019 / 44 View / July 1, 2019
Posted: May 2, 2019
Featuring: Baia Di Vino, Farmer’s Daughters, Chin Chin events... MELBOURNE has always had a sense of sophistication about it and despite its rapid growth as a city, none of that is waning, quite the opposite. It’s growing at such a...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine May June 2019 / 69 View / May 2, 2019
Posted: March 1, 2019
Featuring: Sebastian, Green Man’s Arms, Palermo, Leonardo’s Pizza Palace... MELBOURNE’S first vegetarian pub, Green Man’s Arms on Carlton’s Lygon St, has only grown in popularity since it opened just over a year ago. Naturally, there have been challenges with an...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine March April 2019 / 29 View / March 1, 2019
Posted: January 10, 2019
Featuring: Kenji Ito, Wa Kenbo, Restaurant Shik, Matilda... SMALL, chef-owned businesses are still popping up around Melbourne, a hard slog but often the wish of many a chef to drive their own dream. And, there are the chefs who keep...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine Annual 2019 / 35 View / January 10, 2019
Posted: November 2, 2018
Featuring: Capitano, Navi, Embla Wine Bar, Bar Liberty... DESPITE the calls of an over-saturated hospitality market and the almost impossible task of finding good staff, Melbourne chefs and restaurant owners are branching out, being brave (or crazy) and opening first-time...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine November – December 2018 / 53 View / November 2, 2018
Posted: September 1, 2018
Featuring: Messer, Matilda 159 Domain, Donovans... MELBOURNE chefs and restaurateurs continue to push their businesses, their teams and themselves, opening second (or fifth) venues and keeping the hungry Melbourne audience sated. Chef Ashley Davis opened his second restaurant, Messer, on...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine September – October 2018 / 29 View / September 1, 2018
Posted: May 1, 2018
Featuring: Pascale Bar & Grill, Hell of the North, Atta... THERE’S loads of fruit on the Grapevine this edition, with one of our favourite chefs moving to head up the kitchens of our newest CBD hotel and we’re revisiting some...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine May – June 2018 / 46 View / May 1, 2018
Posted: March 1, 2018
Featuring: Annam, Green Man's Arms, Mount Erica... THE inner-north of Melbourne gets a vegetarian pub, an old-school pub gets a makeover in the south-east and one of our favourite chefs opens her first restaurant. As always, Melbourne dining is on...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine March – April 2018 / 44 View / March 1, 2018
Posted: January 6, 2018
Featuring: Saxe, Ryne, Green Man’s Arms... TWO highly respected chefs opened own ventures in Melbourne and we got an inner-city vegetarian/vegan pub, yep, not a parma or steak to be seen. Chef Joe Grbac’s first solo-business venture, Saxe, opened in...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine Annual 2018 / 49 View / January 6, 2018
Posted: November 1, 2017
Featuring: Juliet, Wilson & Market, Park Street... WHILE Melbourne moved through another winter - a little milder than winters past - we saw a few old hands (read: long-time professionals) in the hospitality business rebuild, reopen and extend their businesses...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine November – December 2017 / 44 View / November 1, 2017
Posted: September 1, 2017
Featuring: Neptune, Nomada, Osteria Ilaria... IT MAY sound odd that restaurateurs and chefs are embracing seafood more than ever before in Melbourne restaurants, but there has definitely been a resurgence in pushing more seafood dishes on menus - rather than...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine September – October 2017 / 63 View / September 1, 2017
Posted: June 27, 2017
Featuring: Oriental Teahouse, Etta, Pure South... IN April, Melbourne closed the curtains on what was broadly considered one of the greatest culinary shows on Earth. The World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards were held, which coincided with the 25th Melbourne Food...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine July – August 2017 / 50 View / June 27, 2017
Posted: April 11, 2017
Featuring: Long Chim, Camus, Uncle Collins Street... ONE of the country’s most revered chefs has opened in Crown, his first Melbourne outpost. A classically trained chef has opened his first solo venture in our inner-north and a much-loved St Kilda...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine May – June 2017 / 63 View / April 11, 2017
Posted: February 22, 2017
Featuring: The Recreation Bar & Bistro, Stokehouse, Pontoon, Paper Fish, Gilson... IT can be seen as a pro or a con. Living in a food-centric city like Melbourne means a perpetual feast of choice in terms of where to eat...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine March – April 2017 / 51 View / February 22, 2017
Posted: February 22, 2017
Featuring: Pickett’s Deli & Rotisserie, SPQR, Builders Arms Hotel, Ricky & Pinky... LONGEVITY is not necessarily measured by survival of the fittest but by who can adapt most appropriately, and in Melbourne we are seeing high profile and well-established operators...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine Annual 2017 / 44 View / February 22, 2017
Posted: February 22, 2017
Featuring: Middletown Cafe, Saint James, Pascale Bar & Grill, Hot Sauce Laneway Bar... MELBOURNE has gone all royal - no, we’re not expecting any visits from the royal family soon nor have we broken away from the rest of the...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine Special Edition 2016 / 44 View / February 22, 2017
Posted: November 1, 2016
Featuring: Garden State Hotel, Massi, Syracuse... A HOTEL licensed for up to 850 people opened in the middle of the year in the middle of Melbourne. The Garden State Hotel in Flinders Lane - where the once iconic Rosati restaurant...Comments Off on Melbourne Grapevine November – December 2016 / 67 View / November 1, 2016
Posted: August 19, 2016
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Posted: July 1, 2016
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Posted: May 1, 2016
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Posted: March 1, 2016
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Posted: January 15, 2016
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