This author has only ever been to the top floor (it goes down, rather than up). A young ...
100 Story Building
Good nosh. Solid lunch. Plus a small grocery for all you pomegrante juice fiends!
A1
Australian comedian. Was in the Hifi Bar when it was stormed by the SWAT during a nazi gig. ...
Aamer Rahman
Simply divine Indian food, which is priced accordingly. An expensive night, but the food is worth it. Seriously ...
Aangan
Let's face it, ACCA is ruling class art. While it claims to be contemporary, the site itself is ...
ACCA
The Australian Football League is an 18 team ball sport that plays from April until September every year. ...
AFL
Culture types like to claim that Melbourne has the best Art in Australia. They've obviously never been to ...
Art
Arts Centre Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) Dome Gallery, State Library of Victoria (SLV) McClelland sculpture park ...
Art Galleries
Comedians Aamer Rahman Multi disciplinary/Uncategorisable Vali Myers Musicians Buttress O'Kneel Nick Cave Percy Grainger Theatrical Lynne Ellis Visual ...
Artists
Melbourne has a "second airport". Especially if you ask people from Geelong.
Avalon Airport
There are real bread bakeries all over town, although more likely to be found near where people live ...
Bakeries
An anarchist bookstore that existed for a decade from the mid 90s. Since turned into a cafe, The ...
Barricade Bookstore
The Lounge - a mainstay on the Swanston St strip. Large venue, open late, with a magnificent balcony. ...
Bars
Barbecued meat is a long tradition for whitey in Australia, and there are plenty of places to partake, ...
BBQ
The northern edge of reality.
Bell St
the Upfield train line has a bike path almost all the way to ... Upfield. Not quite though ...
Bike Paths
A small lane between Collins St and Little Collins St, Block Place should be your default coffee destination ...
Block Place
Not much of a mall. Has pretty paving, and is the location of the Public Purse. Home to ...
Bourke St Mall
A sport for people who remember landlines. A televisual broadcast for same and/or those that will settle in ...
Boxing Day Test (Cricket)
Brunswick
It's hard to walk passed Danny's on the top end of St Georges road in Bruswick, almost Northocote. ...
Burgers
Probably Australia's pre-eminent sound collage artist.
Buttress O'Kneel
If Melbourne does anything well, it's cafes. Coffee. We love it. They come and go, but there are ...
Cafes
Calder Park Raceway
A yearly get together hosted by local anarchists on the labour day weekend. It is held at Camp ...
Camp Anarchy
In Yarra Junction, Camp Eureka is a space built in the mid 1970s by Eureka Youth League, the ...
Camp Eureka
Because it happens outside the confines of the inner city, the Castlemaine State Festival is a somewhat mystical ...
Castlemaine State Festival
Caulfield Racecourse
Central Melbourne. Lots of great places to see, but they are all well hidden and spread out. Over ...
CBD
Enviropark, Farm, Market, Cafe. You can't do it too often, and the wet days are gnarly, but it's ...
Ceres
Australia's foremost curated discussion group, Cherchez la Femme is a monthly forum on Feminism. Inevitably sells out, get ...
Cherchez La Femme
A quick history of Chinatown from Asia Rising (audio, pdf)
Chinatown
Moomba St Kilda Festival
Civic Festivals
Art Studios Blender River Studios Coworking Spaces Electron Workshop Inspire9 Cultural The Last Tuesday Society Melbourne Literary Salon ...
Clubs and Societies
Lot's of Lebanese and Middle Eastern culture - Melbourne's best falafel and hummus is at the Half Moon ...
Coburg
Beautiful to look at, offensive in execution. Consistently busy, largely due to high floor staff turnover. Disturbing gender ...
Common Galaxia
Burgers Chinese Indian Italian Japanese Korean Lebanese Malaysian Vegetarian and Vegan Vietnamese
Cuisines
Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Thai Culture and Food Festival The Festival of the Photocopier Ukrainian ...
Cultural Festivals
Film The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) Literature 100 Story Building Hares & Hyenas The Wheeler ...
Cultural Institutions
One can only presume it was the first cafe on Degraves St, open most days, most hours, for ...
Degraves Cafe
Part of the natural route from Flinders St to Bourke Sts, Degraves is an idealised European (YES, ALL ...
Degraves St
Simply the best pizza in the West tasted so far.
Domenico's Pizza and Pasta
Contrary to what is commonly believed, Melbourne has some of Australia's best doorways. Not always hidden, often in ...
Doorways
In the mid 1990s a couple of cheap and cheerful dumpling houses opened in the CBD, with Tattersalls ...
dumplings
East Melbourne
Held yearly on Melbourne Cup day in Northcote since 2005 (with a hiatus in 2104), The Eastment Street ...
Eastment St Derby
Not strictly adhered to by all communities, but popular with the parochial, both Melbourne Cup day and the ...
Empty Days
Erinsborough is a leafy outer suburb of Melbourne. It is also entirely fictional. This is the setting for ...
Erinsborough
Essendon Airport, once Melbourne's main international airport, is only suitable for small boats. But it has a nice ...
Essendon Airport (MEB)
Monthly Cherchez La Femme Yearly January Midsumma Festival February The Festival of the Photocopier (FOTP) Melbourne Food and ...
event-calendar
Fawkner Park
Children's Book Festival Crime & Justice Festival Melbourne has a Magic Festival! Moomba Melbourne Writer's Festival
Festivals
tilde: Melbourne Trans & Gender Diverse Film Festival The Girls on Film Festival The British Film Festival The ...
Film Festivals
Melbourne is served by both the Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) and the Country Fire Authority (CFA). Melbourne's summer ...
Firies
Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne's finest train station. It's fallen on hard times of late - it's facade could do with a ...
Flinders St Station
This is everything we expect from the restaurant that it is. Immediately across from Flinders St Station, it's ...
Flora
Restaurants, Pubs, Bars
Food and Drink
Footscray
Right in the centre of Footscray, across from the train station, this market is predominantly known for meats, ...
Footscray Market
A huge park on the edge of the Maribyrnong River that the local punks sometimes use for a ...
Footscray Park
There is excellent access to fresh food in the immediate inner city - between the QV, Footscray Market ...
Fresh food markets
General Motors Station
On the Pakenham line, long disused. Barren wasteland. Perfect space to film a zombie apocalypse film, if that's ...
General Motors Train Station
Held at the end of summer in the most glorious Meredith Supernatural Ampitheatre. A three day, one stage ...
golden-plains-music-festival
A hang over from 1950, still does the cheapest breakfast in town - and it tastes like it. ...
Golden Shower
HAHA was a Kiwi that came to Melbourne for the greater opportunities available to street artists. By virtue ...
HAHA
An excellent seated venue - potentially the best - unfortunately let down with incredibly poor choice of music ...
Hamer Hall
Mental Health Lifeline is a national charity providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 ...
Health
Notable Events In 1816 Melbourne was flattened by a stampede of wombats (think "hairy hippopotamus") angry at the ...
History
Probably Footscray's Chinese BBQ joint - excellent pork and roast duck. If you go at just the right ...
Hong Kong BBQ & Seafood
Expect to queue to get in. Does amazing looking cakes and a Devonshire Tea. In the rather swanky ...
Hopetoun Cafe
Right, let's get this out of the way. This sport is cruel and unusual. Horses that are hurt ...
horse racing
Melbourne. What a town. The Dart Riots - The international Dart competition in early 2015 held at Etihad ...
Idiosyncrasies
Does excellent, well priced, dumplings and central Chinese cuisine. The seats in the Flemington restaurant and grandiose and ...
I love dumplings
Notables Franco Cozzo - every Melbournian's favorite childhood multicultural television moment, Franco's sing song "Megalo!, megalo!, megalo!" stuck ...
Imagined
Kerry Greenwood is the mind behind the beloved fictional character the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, Lady detective. Kerry ...
Kerry Greenwood
Long time cheap and cheerful mainstay. Fast and furious - don't be put off by a long queue, ...
Laksa King
Buildings Flinders St Station General Motors Train Station Queen Victoria Market (QV) Parliament Treasury Other The City Jungle ...
Landmarks
A scene of the annual Unseen Art bacchanalia. A sedately wild affair, with confetti to mark the death ...
La Trobe Reading Room
They built planes here "during the war". Ghosts still wander the fields, telling stories about the scorn of ...
Laverton
The Brunswick bowls club does a rollicking trade, with a young team and barefoot Sundays in the summer ...
Lawn Bowls
A1 Bakery Tibas
Lebanese
Go there1, order the peas. It's the winning dish. The mural is open to interpretation. 1. We no ...
Le Chien
The State Library of Victoria The Docklands Library
Libraries
Book stores Embiggen Books Hares & Hyenas Readings Sticky Zines The New International Bookstore Libraries The State Library ...
Literature and Libraries
The smaller sister to the larger and more well known Footscray Market, this market is more similar to ...
Little Saigon
History Melbourne has an incredibly strong live music scene. Across over a hundred venues every week, every major ...
Live Music
The Mechanics Institute
Live Venues
Flies under the contemporary radar. Specialises in teaching young theatrical students radical ideas. Has probably done more for ...
Lynne Ellis
Petaling Street Papa Rich Killiney Koptiam
Malaysian
McClelland sculpture park & gallery
media
Melbourne Anarchist Club
Knowledge Melbourne, is an initiative designed to enhance and promote Melbourne’s knowledge sector so that it is more ...
Melbourne Knowledge Week
The Melbourne Writers Festival is held at the end of August each year. This festival celebrates writers and ...
Melbourne Writers Festival
No one really knows what it's about, tbh. But people seem to have a good time, and that's ...
Moomba
Moonee Valley Racecourse
Let's face it, Moorabin is a ridiculous place for an airport. Maybe once, well before landlines became popular, ...
Moorabbin Airport
Moroccan Soup Bar
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