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Your New Stomping Ground

In the late 1800s, Collingwood was the home of Australian brewing. It’s been over 100 years since a commercial brewery has opened in the ‘Wood, but the team behind the...

MELBOURNE IN 24 HOURS

24 hour fun is not just reserved for White Night. Melbourne is fast becoming a 24-hour city with trams and trains running throughout the night, and restaurants and bars open...

The Quirkiest Bars In Melbourne

Long gone are the days of sitting at the current ‘it’ bars, surrounded by the same old hipster furnishings, with pot plants hanging by your head, gilded mirrors in the...

Melbourne’s Favourite ‘Feed Me’ Menus

If you are as indecisive as me, you know the struggle faced when attempting to choose a single item from a menu. You panic every time the waiter approaches your...

The Frugal Person’s Guide To VAMFF

The Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival has arrived to our fair city once again; and once again, the glitz and the glamour is tenfold. It’s quite easy to get overwhelmed by...

Albert Park Welcomes Greener Pastures

“I see trees of green, red roses too, I see them bloom, for me and you. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.” …Louis Armstrong most definitely anticipated...

Hair Of The Dog

A half-eaten sausage roll in your handbag, mysterious leg bruises and an epic hangover are all signs of a good time the night before. When you want to feel better...

Dining After Dark

Summer in Melbourne means long warm nights, a few too many drinks, and the necessary pre-bed greasy meal to soak up the evening’s festivities. However, late night dinners are no...

Hollywood Comes To The G

Outdoor cinemas seems to be all the rage right now, but Cinema at the G offers a very unique opportunity. For two nights only, you can enjoy a movie under...

Say Mahalo To The Evolution Of The Poke Bowl

Mahalo Poké, located on Swan St in Richmond, began as an UberEATS only business, but has recently opened its doors to customers to become the freshest kid on the block,...

Melbourne Top 5 Architectural Hotspots

Melbourne is an eclectic city that is arcade aplenty, and home to great coffee. Ranked as the world’s most liveable city six years running, Melbourne’s current population sits at over...

10 Things Only Hospitality Workers Will Understand

Every industry has its perils and share of cretins that employees have to deal with on a daily basis. Whether you work at a bank, in a law firm, in retail,...

Top 5 Healthy Eats Around Melbourne

With more and more people becoming health conscious, the trend of #fitspo and #cleaneating is a fast growing, cultural phenomenon. Wholesome and healthy foods are not only good for the...

How To Do White Night Right

It’s White Night and once again, you haven’t planned on how best to navigate your way through the swarms of people that are anticipated to turn up for this year’s...

Top 5 Quirky Date Ideas This Valentine’s Day

It’s that time of year again, and if you’re smart, you’ve probably already planned a lovely date night for you and your partner. If, however, you’re like the majority of...

Where to have a ripper ‘straya day

If you’re not chucking some shrimp on the barbie whilst drinking VB’s and listening to the Triple J countdown in someone’s backyard with all ya mates, then chances are you’re...

A Summer Garden Oasis In The CBD

Ms Collins has yet again pulled out something from her seemingly endless bag of tricks with the launch of Kitchen 425. Stuck on where to go for after work drinks?...

Hop Straight To Southbanks Coolest Bar

Taking the place of the old World Bar is a place that is both ironically and appropriately, so out of this world. Having undergone months of renovations and transformations, the...

Best Wine Bars In Melbourne

Wine Wine Wine. Who doesn’t love to have a good whine about wine? Whether you’re… *an A-Grade enthusiast who hosts wine tastings at their house, can pin point the geographic coordinates...

The Best Places For A Pizza In Melbourne

I believe in freedom of speech and the same rights for all humans. I believe everyone is entitled to their own opinion and that no two people are alike. We...

Melbourne’s Top 20 ‘To Do’s’ before you’re 30

Thirty. The big three-oh. A daunting prospect for most young whippersnappers – whether the big day is looming menacingly in the near future, or relatively far off in the distance. But...

What’s On in Melbourne This Weekend

Christmas is creeping ever closer, team. Whether that makes you want to deck the halls, or hit the deck, ’tis unavoidable. So whether you’re looking to gift buy, or looking...

What Not To Do At Your Christmas Party

If you haven’t read it yet, make sure you check out our article detailing the Red Flags of Christmas Venues. Provided the venue checks out on those, then let’s take...

Melbourne’s Best Vege/Vegan Hotspots

The old adage ‘you are what you eat’ is becoming increasingly relevant within today’s fast paced, stress-laden society; doctors are prescribing healthy eating as a form of disease prevention, the...

Signs Your Xmas Party Venue Isn’t Quite Right

Everyone loves a good Chrissie party and rightly so. But you have to be equal parts excited and wary. Let’s take a classic office party as an example. Firstly, you...

The Inevitable Return of The Night Noodles

Theeeey’re baaaaack! The Night Noodle Markets, that is. If you haven’t been before, then imagine all the sights, sounds and smells of an ‘Asian hawker market’, combined with the vibe of...

Best Bars to Soak Up the Sun in… St Kilda

Melbourne! Spring has sprung, the sun has decided to shine upon us and what else would we want to do as Melburnians but raise a toast? More to the point,...

What’s On In Melbourne This November

Did you hear that? That’s the sound of 2016 whizzing past at a rate of knots. That’s right – Halloween is over, but as it’s still not quite Christmas (you...

Melbourne Cup Day: Best Bars, Off Track

By Courtney White You may or may not be aware that Melbourne has a few extra public holidays on it’s books… but shh, don’t let the rest of Australia know....

What’s On In Melbourne This Weekend

 By Courtney White Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd October Spring has finally sprung here in beautiful Melbourne… and not a moment too soon! As the weather warms up, it’s getting to...

On the Hunt for Melbourne’s Best Burger?

Were you to ask a random selection of the folks on Melbourne’s streets to conceptualize their own version of Melbourne’s best burger, you’re likely to realize that you’ve got a...

Run, Brett! Run!

Brett Hillier is not going to be completing an easy feat. He’s running from Melbourne to Perth- over 3500km to raise money for The Bully Zero Foundation Australia. Along the...

Top Ten Things To Do in Melbourne This October

Hey, folks. So 2016’s been an interesting year so far, huh? If you’d have told my 2015 self about… well, any world event thus far, I would’ve had a good...

Blue Moon Melbourne Night Markets

Once in a blue moon, something incredible happens. That something is happening TONIGHT… and the first Thursday of every month to come. Yes that’s right – the good folks down...

‘This Jew Sits’ – A Review

Last night I went to see ‘This Jew Sits’, which – incidentally – was my first fringe festival show of 2016. A solo performance crafted by Sarah Reuben and Ruby Gaytime,...

Best BYO Restaurants in Melbourne

Do you have a particular bottle of wine that you can’t wait to pop open with friends over dinner? Or maybe you want to maintain a good relationship with your...

10 of the best day trips from Melbourne

So Melbourne, we have a long weekend coming up – and it’s going to be filled with footy, frivolity, and beer… lots of beer. If this doesn’t sound like your...

Best Food Challenges in Melbourne!

Melbournians love to make the most of everything, including eating meal sizes of such epic proportions that not every man and his dog could get through. Hidden City Secrets have provided...

Best Beer Gardens to Hire in Melbourne

We’ve finally made it through one of the coldest recorded winters in Melbourne’s history, so we deserve nothing more than to gather our friends and enjoy a beverage at one...

AFL Grand Final-ly!

 Australians all let us rejoice, for it’s almost Grand Final time and we all know what that means… a day off work. Of course there’s a lot more to it...

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Get Shucking At This CBD Venue

So, you need to organise that end of year work party, that big yearly catch-up with your friend group, or perhaps you are wanting to impress the in-laws? We got you! In honor of the venue you are about to shuck, allow us to guide you through opening your oyster the right way. First, we […]

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Venues for the Breakfast Club Characters in Your Life

Perms, John Hughes, and the greatest era of music to date all came together in the iconic 80’s film The Breakfast Club. A film that encapsulates all the messiness of being in high school and celebrates the time in your life where you start figuring out who you are; there’s nothing quite like it an

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Your Seat In Heaven At This Rooftop Bar

From the moment you step down Meyers Place you know you are in for an amazing time. Embellished with shimmering walls (that you could probably see from space) and painted cobble stones, you can’t miss the front of Loop Rooftop Bar! You are engulfed by excitement from the moment you enter the Laneway

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