The Weekly Review

A great range of fantastic food and drink, all within an easy stroll.

This three-month-old restaurant/café/bar is a massive gust of fresh air, but it’s not overrrun.

In Melbourne we really are blessed with an abundance of good, often great, eating. Gastronomy is our middle name. Bistro Gitan is a welcome new asset.

On market days, the strip of restaurant stalls in Cecil Street attached to the South Melbourne Market seems popular, full of market shoppers and colleagues lunching. By night, the contrast can be stark.

The Soho end of Flinders Lane has a new lease of life. It already had ample energy with all the chic galleries and shiny dining at the likes of Coda and Cumulus. But now another eatery beginning with C has rekindled the Flinders Lane flame.