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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

Art Studios Blender River Studios Coworking Spaces Electron Workshop Inspire9 Cultural The Last Tuesday Society Melbourne Literary Salon ...

Clubs and Societies

Central Melbourne. Lots of great places to see, but they are all well hidden and spread out. Over ...

Flemington Racecourse

CBD The Melbourne CBD is laid out in a grid with the streets running NE-SW and NW-SE. Running ...

Restaurants, Pubs, Bars

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

Caulfield Racecourse

Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Thai Culture and Food Festival The Festival of the Photocopier Ukrainian ...

Cultural Festivals

If Melbourne does anything well, it's cafes. Coffee. We love it. They come and go, but there are ...

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

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

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

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

Fresh food markets

Comedians Aamer Rahman Multi disciplinary/Uncategorisable Vali Myers Musicians Buttress O'Kneel Nick Cave Percy Grainger Theatrical Lynne Ellis Visual ...

BBQ Bakeries Dumplings/Yum Cha Pizza

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

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

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

Sport and Recreation

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

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

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

Cultural Institutions

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

Moonee Valley Racecourse

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

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

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

This is a heavy product

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

A1 Bakery Tibas

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

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

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

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

Moroccan Soup Bar

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

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

Vegetarian and Vegan

Not strictly adhered to by all communities, but popular with the parochial, both Melbourne Cup day and the ...

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

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

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

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

Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood

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

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

Young and Jacksons

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

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

McClelland sculpture park & gallery

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

The Mechanics Institute

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

Calder Park Raceway

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

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

The Melbourne Cup

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

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

Melbourne Anarchist Club

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

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

General Motors Station

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

Literature and Libraries

Moomba St Kilda Festival

Civic Festivals

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

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

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

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

Platform Art Gallery

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

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

A loose collection of theatrical ne'er-do-wells, comedians, poets, and performance artists - a true cabaret. Can been seen ...

The Last Tuesday Society

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

An excellent seated venue - potentially the best - unfortunately let down with incredibly poor choice of music ...

The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library

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

Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.

Domenico's Pizza and Pasta

Stumbling towards not failing.

Famous in the 80s and 90s as a bastion of the student and underclasses, that Richmond has long ...

Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...

Kerry Greenwood

This is where the Yarraville Angels live, and where power ends and where the fire gods where clothing.

Stoney Creek Reserve

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

An all night Arts festival - from 7pm to 7am - held at the end of February in ...

White Night Festival

The Lord Mayor - a clown chosen by the local mass media as backup fodder for unfilled column ...

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

Non Personalities

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

An anarchist bookstore that existed for a decade from the mid 90s. Since turned into a cafe, The ...

Barricade Bookstore

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

Eastment St Derby

Let's face it, ACCA is ruling class art. While it claims to be contemporary, the site itself is ...

Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...

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

The Girls on Film Festival

The Brunswick bowls club does a rollicking trade, with a young team and barefoot Sundays in the summer ...

Sport Australian Rules Football (aka AFL) Postcodes vs Suburb names Shepparton, postcode 3630, has the most football clubs ...

The Other Film Festival is one of Melbourne's coolest, from their site: The festival programs the very best ...

The Other Film Festival

The northern edge of reality.

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

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