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Our local recommendations

Best coffee snob stops:

  • Brother Baba Budan, Little Bourke Street
  • Disciple Roasters, Brunswick
  • Market Lane Coffee, Prahran
  • Traveller Coffee, Crossley Street
  • Good Measures, Carlton
  • Auntie Pegs, Collingwood

Top breakfast / brunch spots:

  • Jungle Juice, Centre Place
  • Krimper, Guildford Lane
  • Cibi Japanese cafe, Collingwood
  • Wide Open Road, Brunswick
  • Archies All Day, Fitzroy
  • Degraves Espresso, Degraves Street
  • The Wall, Balaclava

Best Cheap Eats:

  • Heart of Carlton, Carlton
  • Green Refectory, Brunswick
  • Borek Bakehouse, Queen Victoria Market
  • Kim Sing, Flinders Lane
  • B3 Baguettes, Centre Place
  • Crossways, Swanston Street
  • Maria’s Pasta, Fitzroy North

Top Markets:

  • Queen Victoria Market
  • Footscray Market
  • South Melbourne
  • Prahran
  • Preston Market
  • Rose Street Artist Market
  • Camberwell vintage market
  • Esplanade Market St Kilda

Top live music venues you can’t miss:

  • The Tote Hotel, Collingwood (indie, punk, metal)
  • Forum Theatre, Flinders Street  (touring bands)
  • Uptown Jazz Cafe, Fitzroy (jazz)
  • Nighthawks, Collingwood  (post-punk, indie)
  • The John Curtin Hotel, Lygon Street  (indie, punk, rock)
  • Brunswick Ballroom, Brunswick (rock, folk)
  • Avalon Bar, Fitzroy  (electronica, experimental)
  • New Guernica, Collingwood (house, edm)
  • Section 8 (RnB, Hip Hop, world)

Top Social Enterprises to support:

  • Streat cafe, Collingwood (helping young adults)
  • The Little Social Cafe, Hosier Lane (helping the homeless)
  • Clothing The Gaps, Northcote (helping First Nations communities)
  • Social Studio, Collingwood (helping migrant and asylum seeker women)
  • Homie streetwear, Fitzroy  (helping homeless teens)
  • Salamatea Persian Cafe, Sunshine (helping new migrants and refugees)
  • Purpose Precinct, Queen Victoria Market (a collection of over 40 Melbourne social enterprises)

Top Free Art Spaces:

  • National Gallery of Victoria
  • Collingwood Yards
  • ACMI
  • ACCA
  • Nicholas Building, Swanston Street
  • Centre For Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy
  • Abbotsford Convent
  • Linden Arts, St Kilda

Nature Near Public Transport:

  • Newells Paddock Wetlands, Footscray
  • 1000 Steps and Sherbrooke Forest, Dandenong Ranges
  • Yarra Bend Flying Fox viewing
  • Fairfield Boat House, Fairfield
  • Melbourne Museum Forest Secrets section
  • Plenty Gorge kangaroo habitat, Bundoora (last stop on 86 Tram)
  • Westgate Biodiversity Park, Fishermans Bend
  • Royal Park native habitats, Parkville

Best Breweries and Distilleries:

  • Molly Rose brewery, Collingwood
  • Little Lon Gin Distillery
  • Starward Whiskey, Port Melbourne
  • Gales Brewery, East Brunswick
  • Brunswick Aces, East Brunswick
  • Four Pillars Gin, Healsville, Yarra Valley

Top Neighbourhoods to explore:

  • Fitzroy and Collingwood
  • Footscray and Yarraville
  • Flemington and Kensington
  • Brunswick
  • Northcote and Thornbury
  • Prahran and Windsor
  • St Kilda and Balaclava

Best City viewpoints:

  • Melbourne Skydeck (also visited on our Melbourne Bites and Sites tour)
  • The Shrine of Remembrance rooftop and steps.
  • Footscray Community Arts Centre
  • The toilets at the 35th floor of Sofitel Hotel, Collins Street (trust us)
  • Naked In The Sky rooftop bar, Fitzroy
  • Point Ormond Hill, Elwood