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One of the most popular wineries to visit in Victoria, Fowles Wine’s new cellar door sits amidst acres of sprawling lawns and gardens, just 90 minutes from Melbourne.  Recently, Fowles has set a new benchmark in outdoor dining in regional Victoria.

The Big Design Market is online this year and set to finish 2020 on a high for the makers and devotees of ethically made designer goods across the country. Featuring 200+ designers, over 100 are Victorian based small businesses.

Ripe Cheese in Queen Victoria Market has launched a stunning  4-tier Christmas cheese tower, encouraging Victorians to get behind local cheese makers this festive season.

Ripe Cheese’s artisanal Christmas range, including a 4-tier cheese tower made exclusively from Victorian cheese, is just one of many Aussie cheese products designed to encourage Australians to shop local for Christmas this year.

Japanese-inspired salad bar FISHBOWL is opening their fourth Melbourne outpost on Swan St Richmond and is celebrating by offering all customers half-priced bowls for their first week of trade (Monday 9 –Sunday 15 November).

Known by its regulars as Kitchenette, the cosy, heartfelt café that opened in 2015 in leafy Hawthorn has restructured their business. They’ve moved from a café to ready-made meals, tableware and espresso bar. Chef Jenna Abbruzzese and her business partner, Maitre d’ Megan Griffey, opened Our Kitchenette to provide café-style food and warm, generous service to a hungry Hawthorn audience.

Michelin-Starred Chef Curtis Stone has joined forces with Australia’s most innovative uniform brand Cargo Crew to launch their new chefwear line, set for global expansion.

As the restaurant industry springs back to life in most parts of Australia; and with the easing of restrictions for Victorians, Curtis and Cargo Crew are ready to deck out the army of chefs and hospitality workers itching to get back to what they love.

Baby Aperitivo is back at Baby Pizza in time for the Spring/summer festive season. Good news and perfect for your next catch up! Baby Pizza's ever-popular Aperitivo is back and serving up endless $6.50 Aperol Spritz, beer and rosé daily.

Getting ready for 160th running of the Lexus Melbourne Cup, the race that stops a nation. Hope you’ve got your hampers, fashion and playlists ready for this great event. No matter who you are or where you are, everybody has a ticket to 2020 Melbourne Cup Carnival broadcast live and free on Network 10 and streamed on 10 Play.

For the first time since July, Melbourne's iconic Cinema Nova is welcoming patrons back to Carlton to serve delicious chef-prepared dishes in the Nova Bar & Kitchen.

From the team behind South Melbourne’s iconic Half Acre and caterer’s food&desire, Lakeside at Carousel is a new outdoor pop-up from Oct 31 taking over the iconic Carousel building at Albert Park Lake and the Pelican Lawn directly adjacent spanning 2000 square metres.

In conjunction with Parks Victoria, Lakeside at Carousel will be the place to be this summer where Melburnians can grab a COVID-19 safe picnic spot on the grass with the option to hire furniture to make it even more comfortable and enjoy delicious and freshly prepared food and drinks at their fingertips.

The abundance and diversity of Western Victorian produce is the cornerstone of the new cellar door/cafe, The 1878 Room & Deck at Grampians Estate Winery. The World Loves Melbourne loves the culinary scene of the Grampians and this is an exciting development.

French Cheese was celebrated and perfectly paired with local craft beers at an epic online event with European Cheeses, Mr West Bar and world acclaimed Cheesemonger Francois Robin. 

The CircuPlus Massage Gun from Froothie is the best massage gun we've ever experienced. It gets in deep and gives a vigorous massage. In the past we've used massage devices that have not been strong or sturdy enough.

The CircuPlus Massage Gun is highly impressive with its 4 settings - you can have a mild type massage or really get in to the muscle. The World Loves Melbourne was gifted with the CircuPlus Massage Gun and we are super impressed with its strength, style, easy to use, sturdy design, length of charge, attachments, value and overall features.

Pure South Food Co is an exciting new initiative from one of Melbourne's iconic restaurants; a new home delivery service heroing produce from the farmers, fishermen and artisan producers of Tasmania, and King and Flinders Island - Australia's ‘pure south’. Like many, I'm a huge fan of Pure South at Southbank; some of the best food and views in Melbourne and a favourite destination for catch ups, romantic interludes and business lunches. This new initiative is brilliant giving consumers access to world class produce and top notch ready made dishes at home.

With Father's Day on its way, here are some great foodie options from top notch Melbourne venues tailored to make the occasion extra special. Amazing offerings from Cookes Food, Maker & Monger and King and Godfrey.

Have you been jogging at the park or just sitting at your office desk, wishing you could have a quick hit of caffeine without going to the store or leaving your seat? Well now you can. Introducing Shotspresso, an all natural energy shot made from 100% cold pressed coffee 3x the strength of a standard espresso, without any added caffeine. This week announced their on-the-go espresso shot which will officially launch August 17, 2020.

Designed to be a clean energy drink that consumers can take with them anywhere, consume anytime. Shotspresso is will play a role in the coffee as well as the energy drinks industry, by combining the beverage we all love in the morning with an on-the-go energy shot.

Hofbrauhaus Melbourne is open and has just extended its delivery service and we were invited to sample a Bavaria at Home Box. The Family Weekend Feast is an outstanding taste of Bavaria delivered to your door, and we enjoyed every element of this German offering. This was a tasty, great value feasting option delivered to your door.

You can now get their famous Bavarian classic dishes and other German inspired meals to your home in the South Eastern Suburbs from their new Caulfield pop-up store.

LUCAS RESTAURANTS comes bearing good news for Melburnians in lockdown, offering its own delivery service with the launch of ‘LUCAS RESTAURANTS Room Service’. Fans of some of our city’s most innovative restaurants including Chin Chin, Hawker Hall and Baby Pizza will be able to order direct to their door. And, for the first time ever, Kisumé – Australia’s best contemporary Japanese restaurants – will also be available for delivery.

Four hotels from The Langham Hotels & Resorts global portfolio along with the entire The Langham Hotels & Resorts brand have been recognised amongst the best in the world by the readers of Travel + Leisure on their annual World’s Best list, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2020. 

Good news, iconic Sydney (and world class) restaurant Saint Peter in Paddington is set to re-open on July 17. In a letter Josh Niland comments that, "The lockdown period has provided us all with new perspectives. For Julie and I, being deprived of the nightly joy that is a busy, happy restaurant prompted us to reevaluate and make changes.