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Industrial warehouses covered in The place to look like a fitness model Where people go when they want to Brownstones and comedy clubs line the graffiti, any type of cuisine your heart while walking your dog, shop at trendy start a family but still be hip. Here streets in this lively area known as the desires and people covered in glitter thrift stores, and enjoy nightlife as you you’ll find tree-lined streets with center of New York’s bohemian and eating tacos at 4 in the morning. take in beautiful sunset views of the farm-to-table restaurants all next to LGBTQ movement back in the 1960s. It’s amazing. Melbourne Skyline. the Abbotsford Convent
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Brunetti Founded by the Angele family in 1991, Brunetti is an Italian pasticceria institution, serving only the finest Italian cakes, desserts, pastries, pizzas, pastas and coffee.
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Higher Ground Queen Victoria National Gallery Situated in a former power station, Higher Market of Victoria Ground pushes the boundaries of what we understand the cafe experience to be. Listed as a National Heritage building, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is the Queen Victoria Market is home to the oldest and most visited gallery in hundreds of small businesses and is the Australia. The Gallery hosts a wide range of largest open air market in the international and local artists, exhibitions, Southern Hemisphere. programs and events
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Rone in Geelong Pellegrini
Rone in Geelong is the first comprehensive Pellegrini’s is all about character, honest survey of the artist’s work, spanning early Italian fare and coffee. In fact, it is said (by stencils and photographs of his street Pellegrini’s themselves) that the first murals, which have transformed abandoned espresso machine to arrive in Melbourne spaces across the globe. was delivered here in 1954 – opening the gates to a city-wide obsession.
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Fitzroy Abbotsford Funky Love Revival Party Abbotsford Farmers Market
Peace, Love, and 45s is the motto at this all-vinyl Held on the fourth Saturday of each month, celebration of everything funky at local hangout Abbotsford Farmers' Market is not just a direct Friends and Lovers. Dance the night away every source of fresh produce but also a genuine, first Saturday at 10pm. accessible way for the public to find the real story behind how our food is farmed.
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Melbourne CBD Eat The Block is a city guide to metropolitan Melbourne made by locals, for visitors Abbotsford See that want to feel like locals. Fitzroy Do Carlton Brunswick Geelong Mt Dandenong
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EXPLORE Melbourne CBD
Home to the National Gallery of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens and the State Library. Melbourne's city centre is a mix of old and new. Exclusive shopping arcades and the bustling Queen Victoria Market, along with historical landmarks from centuries ago, blend in with modern office towers.
Good for brunch • Laidback • MULTICULTURAL • Dog-friendly
Things to Eat
Supernormal is beautifully executed; Supernormal a slick, understated fit out, an open kitchen and that indefinable X-factor that chef-restaurateur Andrew McConnell weaves into each new venture.
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Pastuso Tipo 00 Higher Ground
From the team behind San Telmo, Pastuso Tipo 00, named after the finely ground flour People walk in the door of the former brings a South American experience to used to make pizza and pasta, is owned by power station and crane their necks. The ACDC Lane. Diners can watch the cooking chef Andreas Papadakis (Vue de Monde). ceilings are 15 metres high. Natural light process by sitting at the marble-clad grill. Papadakis cooks with the same ingredients floods in. There’s a long, stainless-steel Pastuso makes the best Pisco sour in town and techniques acquired from his time in bar for brewing coffee and unusual teas, (white-grape brandy Peruvians drink). fine diners, but takes an unfussy approach and for pouring wine and cocktails. with clean, simple elements here.
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Word on the Street is...
It’s definitely a community feel. You can tell folks want local businesses to do well, so we feel that love.”
Ty Holloway • Shop owner, Rituals and Ceremony
The neighborhood has managed to keep a lot of its multiculturism, which ties us together.”
Debbie Hardy • Manager, Breukelen Coffee shop
Things to Do
Photo 2020 International Dog Lovers Show
Festival of Photography With more than 1000 dogs (and 120 different breeds), a dedicated patting station, and doggy At this major new photography biennale, see water sports in a 100,000-litre pool. Returning for works from more than 120 local and international it’s eigth year, the show will give everyone the artists across Melbourne and regional Victoria. chance to learn about different breeds, their wellbeing and their needs.
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Lightscape Queen Victoria National Gallery A field of light, luminous walkways, Market of Victoria sparkling trees, floating lights on a lake, glowing tunnels. These are just some of Listed as a National Heritage building, The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is the large-scale installations you'll be able the Queen Victoria Market is home to the oldest and most visited gallery in to wander through as part of Lightscape hundreds of small businesses and is the Australia. The Gallery hosts a wide range of at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens. largest open air market in the international and local artists, exhibitions, Southern Hemisphere. programs and events.
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Things to See
Hosier Lane State Library Shrine of Spend a long while checking out every of Victoria Rememberance little bit of this overflowing art cluster – a creative mark has been left on almost State Library Victoria is one of Melbourne's The Shrine is Victoria's national war anything with a surface and sometimes founding institutions, established 165 years memorial honouring the service and it's the smaller, easily-overlooked pieces ago in 1854, barely 20 years after the city sacrifice of Australians in war and that really astound. was settled. It is not only Australia's oldest peacekeeping. and busiest public library but also one of the first free public libraries in the world.
Hosier Lane 328 Swanston Street Birdwood Ave
Explore the NeighboUrhoods
Brunswick Fitzroy Abbotsford Carlton
Industrial warehouses covered in The place to look like a fitness model Where people go when they want to Brownstones and comedy clubs line the graffiti, any type of cuisine your heart while walking your dog, shop at trendy start a family but still be hip. Here streets in this lively area known as the desires and people covered in glitter thrift stores, and enjoy nightlife as you you’ll find tree-lined streets with center of New York’s bohemian and eating tacos at 4 in the morning. take in beautiful sunset views of the farm-to-table restaurants all next to LGBTQ movement back in the 1960s. It’s amazing. Melbourne Skyline. the Abbotsford Convent
NeighboUrhoods Explore the map About
Melbourne CBD Eat The Block is a city guide to metropolitan Melbourne made by locals, for visitors Abbotsford See that want to feel like locals. Fitzroy Do Carlton Brunswick Geelong Mt Dandenong
Copyright © 2021. Made with love and lots of coffee.