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AUSTRALIA’S STYLE Demure and sophisticated, Melbourne and the unpredictable weather will CAPITAL, MELBOURNE IS THE coyly hides many of its best attributes undoubtedly try to upset your plans at BIRTHPLACE OF MANY OF THE out of sight in lanes and arcades, which some stage, but never mind that. Slip on COUNTRY’S HIPPEST FASHION makes discovering the town’s treasures a few layers, pack your umbrella, and dive LABELS, NOT TO MENTION all the more enjoyable. Be warned into the fascinating cultural hub that is HOME TO SOME OF THE BEST that getting around can be somewhat Melbourne. DINING AND COFFEE YOU’RE challenging beyond the city center, LIKELY TO FIND DOWN UNDER.

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• Weather: Melbourne has spring, •  Events: What a busy, busy town. Jan: •  Coffee: discussed more heatedly summer, fall and winter almost Australian Open; Mar: Melbourne than politics, sports or religion. Any every day. Three words: learn to Grand Prix, Melbourne Fashion person proclaiming the city’s best layer Festival; Mar-Oct: AFL (Football) coffee risks public humiliation and Premiership season; Sep: Melbourne being garroted Spring Fashion Week; Oct: Melbourne Festival; 1st Tue in Nov: •  Melbourne Tullamarine Airport to Melbourne Cup; 26-30 Dec: Cricket CBD by cab: 30-40 mins / AUD$50, Int’l Boxing Day Test •  Coffee etiquette: strong means take the Citylink freeway (toll two shots; skinny is skim. Don’t be applies) surprised if a cafe doesn’t serve skinny/soy •  In peak summer season (Dec- Jan) and during many of the aforementioned events, it is •  At times it can seem as if there are essential to book way ahead for •  International code for is only three taxis in the whole of this everything +61 and 3 for Melbourne, neither vast city, so you’ll need to book well need to be dialed locally ahead at peak times silvertop.com.au

•  Smoking is not permitted at indoor restaurants and bars •  Emergency number is 000 for fire, ambulance and police •  If you are lucky enough to hail a taxi, make sure you know the area and street you are heading to, unless •  Goods and services tax (GST) is 10%, you want to end up in Fiji via Sydney tip an extra 10%

•  The tram system is convenient in •  Beer: if you are keen on a tankard, the CBD, but can be slow elsewhere, remember that a glass is 200ml, where a car is more efficient a pot is 285ml, and pints are for Guinness

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Matt Wilkinson CHEF

Originally from England, Matt trained in Michelin-starred chef Martin Wishart’s kitchen before arriving in Melbourne in 2000. He was sous chef to Shannon Bennett at acclaimed Vue de Monde, before moving into his first head chef role at Alevansi in 2004. After a subsequent successful stint as head chef at Circa the Prince, Matt left to open Pope Joan in East Brunswick with business partner Ben Foster in 2010, followed by sibling bar Bishop of Ostia in 2012. His cookbook ‘Mr. Wilkinson’s Favourite Vegetables’ was published in 2012.

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LUXE INSIDER Matt Wilkinson

WHERE WOULD YOU GO FOR A WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COCKTAIL, AND WHAT WOULD PATISSERIE OR BAKERY IN NEIGHBORHOOD TO VISIT FOR YOU ORDER? MELBOURNE, AND WHAT DO A DAY OF SHOPPING? YOU ORDER? Get into the Melbourne way of life by Most people will tell you Chapel Street, heading for a cocktail or cheeky beer Head to Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio but I’m a north-sider, so I say head at Madame Brussels (see LUXE Loves). in South Yarra. Darren the owner makes to the corner of Gertrude and Smith What to order? Leave yourself in the the best chocolates and cakes in town and Streets. Within 20 minutes of walking you hands of the proprietress Miss Pearls. You if you manage not to eat them all before have three awesome record shops, six won’t leave disappointed – I never do! you leave, he has great little packaged cracking galleries showcasing the best of treats to take home as gifts. Everybody Australian art (including everything from needs a sweet treat on holiday. modern to street), a great cookbook shop, and some amazing vintage and second- burchandpurchese.com WHAT ARE THREE OF YOUR hand clothing stores. Add to that some great restaurants, cafes and an organic FAVORITE RESTAURANTS IN MELBOURNE, AND WHY? bakery and you’ve got the best corner in Melbourne, trust me. Circa the Prince for its interesting fitout WHICH RESTAURANT OFFERS and food direction. Cutler and Co. in THE BEST BREAKFAST OR Fitzroy – make sure you try a few of the BRUNCH IN MELBOURNE, AND snacks on the menu before ordering your WHAT DO YOU ORDER? entree and main. And a must if you like Vietnamese pho is Pho Dzung – I order To enjoy the delights of early morning the beef and chicken medium with fresh eating and sipping a coffee, head to The rolled prawn cakes, mint and iceberg. European for breakfast. It’s got the feel of a European setting, with delicious food Pho Dzung / 234 Russell St and views across to Parliament House. +61 3 9663 8885 theeuropean.com.au circa.com.au cutlerandco.com.au

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THE OLSEN THE PRINCE ATTICA Hotel Hotel Dining

Named for the renowned Australian The sweet, boutique Prince is just Don’t be fooled by the suburban artist whose works line the hotel minutes from the seaside, as well as location or the pared-back interior, walls, The Olsen is a fittingly stylish all that vibrant St Kilda has to offer. Ben Shewry’s visionary Australian tribute to the 2005 Archibald Prize- It packs a lot of punch behind its Art fusion fine-diner has hit its stride in winner, with its effortlessly chic suites, Deco exterior, including 40 uniquely recent years, garnering recognition in cool icy-white, silver and charcoal laid-out rooms featuring natural prestigious culinary circles the world color palette, glass-bottomed pool, timbers and neutral tones, renowned over, including consistent rankings in Norbu day spa, Spoonbill and Steer foodie haven Circa, and excellent San Pellegrino’s annual World’s 50 restaurants, plus fabulous retail- Aurora Spa. Best Restaurants awards. centric position. 2 Acland St / St Kilda 74 Glen Eira Rd / Ripponlea 637-641 Chapel St / South Yarra +61 3 9536 1111 +61 3 9530 0111 +61 3 9040 1222 tasting menu Wed-Sat, 5-course Chef’s theprince.com.au Table menu Tue / book well ahead artserieshotels.com.au see website for res policy

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CUMULUS INC. LUCY LIU TONKA Dining Dining Dining

Open early till late, this hip central In the warm glow of a dramatic, raw The city’s first real foray into upscale City eatery attracts the brunch and stone and wood-lined dining room, Indian cuisine hits bang on the mark for lunch set with its knockout modern chef Michael Lambie delivers crowd- looks and flavors, with its silvery grey Australian menu, then as night falls, pleasing snack and share plates that and pink-tinged fitout, wire and mesh the simple cafeteria-like spot fills up draw inspiration from all corners of ceiling installation by local artist Naomi to become a happening after hours Asia, from Nippon-tinged tuna tataki Troski, bustling open kitchen, top-shelf watering hole. with wasabi and sesame to crispy ingredients and produce, subtly and Korean pork buns with spicy kimchi. perfectly spiced curries, terrific service, 45 Flinders Ln / City and a slick scene. +61 3 9650 1445 23 Oliver Ln / City +61 3 9639 5777 20 Duckboard Pl / City cumulusinc.com.au +61 3 9650 3155 lucylius.com.au tonkarestaurant.com.au

POPE JOAN Dining BAR AMERICANO Bar MADAME BRUSSELS In a town where coffee is a religion, Bar it takes more than a catchy name to Sister venue to the enormously stand out. Luckily, Pope Joan has both popular, now defunct Melbourne Loll on the faux grass lawn at this the interesting moniker and the right cocktail icon Der Raum, tucked-away kitschy indoor garden party, complete stuff in the cup, as well as refined Bar Americano has a serious espresso with wicker and chintz lounges, breakfasts, tasty sandwiches, and a bent by day, aperitif-mania by night, wrought iron chairs, picnic-tabled hip northern location. a concise but well-executed snack terrace and The Parlour at the rear. menu and custom-designed Burch & Add to the mix a delicious range of 75-79 Nicholson St / Brunswick East Purchese sweets to go. cocktails and punches, and you’ve got +61 3 9388 8858 yourself a dandy night out. popejoan.com.au 20 Presgrave Pl / City +61 3 9428 0055 3/F / 59-63 Bourke St / City +61 3 9662 2775 facebook.com/baramericanomel madamebrussels.com

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MISS FOX TARLO & GRAHAM YARRA VALLEY Spa Shopping Activities

This glamorous 50s-style salon is the An interior designer’s dream store in Just an hour outside Melbourne, place to go for immaculate blown waves. Windsor, with an ever-evolving this lovely wine region can easily They offer a full range of decadent collection of quirky vintage items be enjoyed in a single day trip, or cosmetic, therapeutic and grooming handpicked for the home, including for longer. The charming region services, not to mention a central city ephemera, antiques, lighting, is an oenophile and gourmand’s locale, and they use gorgeous Shiffa statement C. 20th and industrial playground, with gastro pub Dubai products. Seriously, what’s not to furniture. Healesville Hotel, Bella Vedere love? restaurant and cooking school, and 60 Chapel St / Windsor TarraWarra Estate winery being just a 1-3/F / 285 Little Collins St / City +61 3 9521 2221 few of the terrific spots to note. +61 3 9028 0350 tarloandgraham.com Healesville Hotel missfox.com.au 256 Maroondah Hwy / Healesville +61 3 5962 4002

yarravalleyharvest.com.au BEGGAR MAN THIEF MALTHOUSE THEATRE Shopping Activities Bella Vedere 874 Maroondah Hwy / Coldstream +61 3 5962 6161 Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, The boundary-pushing resident poor man – barring the latter, when it company of The Coopers Malthouse bellavedere.com.au comes to gent’s footwear, Beggar Man is without question one of the Thief has the market covered with a country’s most acclaimed. So if edgy, TarraWarra Estate highly-curated cache ranging from contemporary local and international 311 Healesville-Yarra Glen Rd Clae sneakers to Brit-cobblers Loake productions staged in an ambient Yarra Glen and Grenson, plus a trig collection of former brewery sound like your +61 3 5962 3311 hip hats, sunglasses and tomes. preferred pint, head on over to Southbank to drink it all in. 244 Clarendon St / South Melbourne tarrawarra.com.au +61 3 9686 3006 113 Sturt St / Southbank +61 3 9685 5111 beggarmanthief.com.au malthousetheatre.com.au

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LACK OF TAXIS WEATHER HOOK TURNS

In this rather large city, two or three cabs It’s seriously unpredictable and often Waiting in the left-hand lane to turn is woefully insufficient plan-derailing – layer your wardrobe! right? A very illogical road ‘system’, sadly spreading beyond the CBD

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HOT AIR BALLOONING SHOPPING GUIDED TOURS

It can be difficult to get an angle on Being Australia’s fashion capital, Negotiating the city’s myriad nooks and Melbourne from pavement level, so take Melbourne is home to some of the best lanes unaided is no simple task, so get advantage of the opportunity to drift over bespoke craftspeople around, including some expert intel on Melbourne’s best the city in a Hot Air Balloon, then enjoy a gentlemen’s outfitter (with in-house shopping, architecture, art, vintage, champagne breakfast once back on firm barber) Captains of Industry, and milliner coffee, wine and more with a customized ground. Ward & Wylie, so forget shopping off the Hidden Secrets Tour. peg and go broke for bespoke. hotairballooning.com.au hiddensecretstours.com captainsofindustry.com.au wardandwylie.com

GETTING AROUND

With Melbourne weather and cabs equally PICNIC unreliable, you’re likely to end up stuck When the sun is shining, don’t waste on the roadside, soaked through at some time running all over town to get the point. That is, unless you make like a ingredients for a savory spread. Instead, smart local and jump on an ‘antique’ red get your hands on a delicious readymade , the free and simple Café Vue lunch box and head straight to way to circumvent the city. Or, ditch land the lovely Royal Botanic Gardens for a altogether and scoot up the sunbathe and a nibble. on a Melbourne Water Taxi. Swish! vuedemonde.com.au yarratrams.com.au bg.vic.gov.au melbournewatertaxis.com.au

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Hip fashion, major art, top-notch through the lovely Royal Botanic face, body, nail and waxing therapies dining and a world-renowned Gardens, weather permitting) for a and services will have you feeling cocktail scene – Melbourne has it spin through the fabulous Australian rejuvenated in no time. It’s almost all in sophisticated spades. Rise Centre for Contemporary Art, sunset, so scoot around the corner and shine in your chic, cool-toned home to a horde of rotating local to the terrace of quirk-kitsch sipster Olsen Hotel (see LUXE Loves) suite, and international exhibitions and Madame Brussels (see LUXE Loves) accented with sleek-lined furniture artworks. Cross the river into the City to toast the night to come, then zip and dramatic lyrical artwork by the and beeline to quirky retro eatery straight on to your pre-booked dinner hotel’s namesake, revered Australian Chin Chin for a lunch of modern table at upscale Indian dining room landscape artist Dr John Olsen. Firstly, Thai share plates, then weave in and Tonka (see LUXE Loves). It’s been a take a stroll up Australia’s most well- out of the surrounding lanes to find big day, so sleepy stylistas can retire known fashion strip Chapel Street, myriad boutiques retailing of-the- with a nightcap on the balcony of where heavy-hitters including girly- moment homegrown and imported their hotel suite, or else off you go to chic Alannah Hill and swimwear giant labels – don’t miss Green With Envy Fitzroy’s The Everleigh for precision Zimmermann share the spotlight with on Flinders Lane stocking Alexander cocktails with the city’s pretty people up-and-comers such as LIFEwithBIRD. Wang, Dion Lee and Acne amongst parade. Post-spree, either drop your bags others. By now, you’ll be growing back at the hotel, or push straight weary, so stop past Groom Spa on on to Southbank (via taxi, or on foot Spring Street, where a full range of

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While traveling for business isn’t with a string of excellent spa and heading back towards the Crown usually as enjoyable as holidaying, in beauty salons in the surrounding area. Complex, where you’ll make an impact Melbourne it’s certainly not far off. Men, head to Collins Street for expert at dinner with a pre-booked table at With excellent restaurants, bars and barber Herr Blick, ladies, to Little show-stopping power diner Rockpool cafes galore, entertaining clients is Collins Street for perfect waves plus a Bar & Grill. The soaring ceilings and all the more enjoyable. Firstly, check full range of face and body treatments wall-to-wall cellar, not to mention into your contemporary suite at A-list at Miss Fox (see LUXE Loves). Catch the local produce-driven, modern favorite Crown Towers, hard to beat up on emails over a coffee at Cumulus Australian menu will be sure to seal for its warm, plush decor and fabulous Inc. (see LUXE Loves), then charge the deal. Round off your evening with riverside position, and then get the straight on to your pre-booked lunch post-dinner cocktails in glitzy, mosaic blood pumping with a few laps of the table at basement-level style spot and banquette-lined bar The Waiting 25-meter swimming pool downstairs. Izakaya Den, where Japanese small Room, then retire to your suite just an Cross the bridge into the city to take plates pair perfectly with informal elevator ride away. your first meeting over breakfast client meet-and-greets. Take a quick at the elegant and historic Hotel skip back down Collins Street to Windsor. If you have a break in your Collins Place for a one-stop shop-a- schedule, now’s the perfect time to thon of international and local names preen for the coming day’s activities, from Armani to Herringbone, before

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Nothing says romance like a day at the to St Kilda beach. Finish your ride with a back to St Kilda, stopping for a nightcap seaside, especially when there’s lengthy well-deserved and (fingers crossed) sun- at dim-lit cocktail den Laik, where pampering and oodles of indulgent kissed feast on the patio of seafront diner vintage-inspired decor, gently tinkling food thrown in, so with that in mind Republica, and then drift back towards piano keys and delicious handcrafted begin your sweet sojourn in the funky your hotel for an afternoon spa session. cocktails provide the perfect end to beachfront suburb of St Kilda. Enjoy a The Prince’s elegant and contemporary your romantic evening, before heading leisurely lie-in in your rustic, minimalist Aurora Spa is both fabulous and very home to your charming suite where the suite at boutique hotel The Prince (see popular, so make sure you book ahead sweetest of dreams await. LUXE Loves), followed by breakfast and arrive punctually (there is a strict at on-site restaurant Circa. Wander a time policy) to enjoy decadent signature few blocks over to St Kilda Cycles on therapies like the blissful Kitya Karnu, Barkly Street, where your pre-booked comprising body exfoliation, massage, tandem bicycle (and hairstyle-ruining facial and hair treatments. Feeling all helmet) awaits. Take a tour around the sparkly and new, slip into your evening’s area, firstly northwest along Albert Park attire and taxi to your pre-booked dinner Lake – being sure to stop at eclectic table at acclaimed restaurant Attica (see treasure chest Empire Vintage for one- LUXE Loves), where chef Ben Shewry’s of-a-kind homeware, and Truman Café visionary modern Australian tasting for coffee and cake – then back down menu has earned praise from the world’s along picturesque Beaconsfield Parade culinary elite. Following your supper, taxi

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STYLE

• Olsen Hotel • Green With Envy (see LUXE Loves) 268 Flinders Ln / City +61 1800 674 047 • Alannah Hill greenwithenvy.com.au 533 Chapel St / South Yarra +61 3 9826 2755 • Groom Spa alannahhill.com.au 49 Spring St / City +61 3 9650 6261 • Zimmermann groomspa.com.au Shop 4 / 566 Chapel St South Yarra • Madame Brussels +61 3 9827 2123 (see LUXE Loves) zimmermannwear.com • Tonka • LIFEwithBIRD (see LUXE Loves) 563 Chapel St / South Yarra +61 3 9029 6934 • Everleigh lifewithbird.com 1/150-156 Gertrude St / Fitzroy +61 3 9416 2229 / no res • Australian Centre for theeverleigh.com Contemporary Art 111 Sturt St / Southbank +61 3 9697 9999 accaonline.org.au

• Chin Chin 125 Flinders Ln / City +61 3 8663 2000 / no res chinchinrestaurant.com.au

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BUSINESS

• Crown Towers • Collins Place 8 Whiteman St / Southbank 45 Collins St / City +61 3 9292 8888 +61 3 9655 3600 crownhotels.com.au collinsplace.com.au

• Hotel Windsor • Rockpool Bar & Grill 111 Spring St / City Crown Complex / Southbank +61 3 9633 6004 +61 3 8648 1900 thehotelwindsor.com.au rockpool.com

• Herr Blick • The Waiting Room 1/F / Suite 13 / 12 Collins St Crown Complex / Southbank City / +61 3 9939 0181 +61 3 9292 5777 herrblick.com.au crownmelbourne.com.au

• Miss Fox (see LUXE Loves)

• Cumulus Inc. (see LUXE Loves)

• Izakaya Den B/F / 114 Russell St / City +61 3 9654 2977 lunch Mon-Fri, dinner Mon-Sat izakayaden.com.au

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ROMANCE

• The Prince • Aurora Spa (see LUXE Loves) 2 Acland St / St Kilda +61 3 9536 1130 • St Kilda Cycles aurorasparetreat.com.au 150 Barkly St / St Kilda +61 3 9534 3074 • Attica stkildacycles.com.au (see LUXE Loves)

• Empire Vintage • Laika 63 Cardigan Pl / Albert Park 9 Fitzroy St / St Kilda +61 3 9682 6677 / closed Mon-Sun +61 3 9534 0002 / Thu-Sun empirevintage.com.au laika.com.au

• Truman Café 381 Montague St / Albert Park +61 3 9077 1372 facebook.com/pages/Truman-Cafe

• Republica St Kilda Sea Baths 10-18 Jacka Blvd / St Kilda +61 3 8598 9055 republica.net.au

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Your LUXE notes

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