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South Melbourne Market
Solid · Produce & food market · South Melbourne · $$
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South Melbourne Market has traded the corner of Coventry and Cecil Streets since 1867. Inside, one stall has sold its oversized "dimmies" for close to 60 years, per Urban List.
Provisions1
Swords Select Wine & Beer
Listed · Wine & beer merchant · South Melbourne · $$
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Nothing goes on these shelves that somebody has not tasted, and they run sixty to eighty suppliers at a time with new products arriving every week.
Craft beer1
Westside Ale Works
Listed · Craft brewery · South Melbourne · $$
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It started in 2016 on a 500-litre Braumeister, which is a very good homebrew rig rather than a brewery, because Casey Wagner wanted the West Coast beers he had grown up drinking in America.
Pubs & cask2
The Palace Hotel
Solid · Gastropub · South Melbourne · $$
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Time Out made this its Pub of the Year in 2016 and gave it five stars, on the grounds that "on every scale one could judge a pub, these guys top the list."
Wayside Inn
Listed · Gastropub · South Melbourne · $$
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The Wayside Inn cooks premium steaks over red gum woodfire grills and runs a rotisserie that changes daily, Boer goat on Monday, suckling pig on Friday, a short hop from the MCEC in South Melbourne.
Coffee5
St Ali Coffee Roasters
Solid · Specialty coffee · South Melbourne · $$
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Mark Dundon opened this warehouse in 2005 and roasted on site, which is where the Melbourne cafe-roastery came from. He sold it in 2008 and started Seven Seeds.
Clement Coffee
Solid · Specialty coffee roaster · South Melbourne · $
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The stall was the market's electrical substation.
The Kettle Black
Listed · Specialty coffee / brunch · South Melbourne · $$$
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Time Out's verdict, written weeks after it opened and still the sharpest thing anyone has said about it: "a meal here may leave you wanting some substance to go with all that style."
Proper & Son
Listed · Cafe / brunch · South Melbourne · $$
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The menu is rewritten every week from whatever the stalls around it have in, which is the one advantage a cook can have inside a market and almost nobody takes.
Brown Boys Cafe
Listed · All-day cafe · South Melbourne · $$
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Brown Boys is billed as Sri Lankan brunch and hoppers, and nothing supports it: not the agency the cafe hired to write its own copy, not three Sri Lankan restaurant guides, not one listing anywhere.
Bakes & sweet1
Dance Bakesnew
Listed · Cinnamon-scroll bakery · South Melbourne · $$
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The team started putting milk in the dough recently, which is what makes the crumb pillowy, and the head baker says the hard part is getting every scroll the same every day.
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