Guidebook for Fitzroy
Food Scene
hip eatery in Gertrude Street!
This all-day diner serves the goods any time you need.
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Archie's All Day
189 Gertrude Sthip eatery in Gertrude Street!
This all-day diner serves the goods any time you need.
The coffee comes first, but the food's no bit-player.
All day breakfast, hearty lunches, fresh juices, smoothies, single estate teas, homemade cakes and of course bad ass coffee!
This combination of top-flight coffee and food means the raw-brick space is almost never quiet, regardless of what day or time you visit.
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Proud Mary
172 Oxford StThe coffee comes first, but the food's no bit-player.
All day breakfast, hearty lunches, fresh juices, smoothies, single estate teas, homemade cakes and of course bad ass coffee!
This combination of top-flight coffee and food means the raw-brick space is almost never quiet, regardless of what day or time you visit.
Situated behind Rose Street Artists' Markets.
An open warehouse space that offers everything from a lively cafe, a roastery, a cupping lab and expert coffee training facilities.
Expect top-grade product and intriguing flavours sourced anywhere from the Sumatran hills to the plantations of Panama. With an equally enthusiastic and ambitious breakfast and lunch menu, with all ingredients sourced locally.
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Industry Beans
70-76 Rose StSituated behind Rose Street Artists' Markets.
An open warehouse space that offers everything from a lively cafe, a roastery, a cupping lab and expert coffee training facilities.
Expect top-grade product and intriguing flavours sourced anywhere from the Sumatran hills to the plantations of Panama. With an equally enthusiastic and ambitious breakfast and lunch menu, with all ingredients sourced locally.
A hosts favourite. A great location when you are out and about shopping the Fitzroy golden 2 mile. Organic coffee, burgers & brekkie dished up in a bright, relaxed cafe with rustic-chic decor.
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Addict Food And Coffee
240 Johnston StA hosts favourite. A great location when you are out and about shopping the Fitzroy golden 2 mile. Organic coffee, burgers & brekkie dished up in a bright, relaxed cafe with rustic-chic decor.
The cafe offers a variety of options that vary day to day, as well as an extensive list of specials that are scrawled in chalk on a high-hanging blackboard.
The Breakfast Thieves isn’t bound by the constraints of one cuisine, so the menu has items on it from Malaysia and Spain, as well as France and the UK. It isn’t often you find sticky braised pork; chorizo baked eggs; and creamy porridge on the same menu.
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Breakfast Thieves
420 Gore StThe cafe offers a variety of options that vary day to day, as well as an extensive list of specials that are scrawled in chalk on a high-hanging blackboard.
The Breakfast Thieves isn’t bound by the constraints of one cuisine, so the menu has items on it from Malaysia and Spain, as well as France and the UK. It isn’t often you find sticky braised pork; chorizo baked eggs; and creamy porridge on the same menu.
very much a local spot, just around the corner on Brunswick street.
Breakfast, burgers and cakes in a cool spot with rustic wood panelling and a quaint courtyard.
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Slowpoke Espresso
157 Brunswick Stvery much a local spot, just around the corner on Brunswick street.
Breakfast, burgers and cakes in a cool spot with rustic wood panelling and a quaint courtyard.
Drinks & Nightlife
"Late Live Music is in the Hall!"
Forester's Hall, has a staggering 32 craft beers on tap
The main bar packs plenty of high tables and a cavernous ceiling.
If you're after something more intimate, head for the "secret" rock 'n' roll joint upstairs, Woody's. It's open from 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays and replicates the feel of an American dive bar, complete with picklebacks. Its 18 taps bring the venue's total up to 50.
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Foresters
64 Smith St"Late Live Music is in the Hall!"
Forester's Hall, has a staggering 32 craft beers on tap
The main bar packs plenty of high tables and a cavernous ceiling.
If you're after something more intimate, head for the "secret" rock 'n' roll joint upstairs, Woody's. It's open from 8pm on Fridays and Saturdays and replicates the feel of an American dive bar, complete with picklebacks. Its 18 taps bring the venue's total up to 50.
The rooftop at Siglo bar is a cool place to be in summer or winter. Sitting on top of the European and Supper Club it's high up in the trees with views over Spring Street and Parliament House.
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Siglo
161 Spring StThe rooftop at Siglo bar is a cool place to be in summer or winter. Sitting on top of the European and Supper Club it's high up in the trees with views over Spring Street and Parliament House.
Arts & Culture
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia’s oldest and pre-eminent public art museum, hosting blockbuster exhibitions and one of the world’s finest art collections.
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National Gallery of Victoria
180 St Kilda RdThe National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is Australia’s oldest and pre-eminent public art museum, hosting blockbuster exhibitions and one of the world’s finest art collections.
Home to major cultural attractions, world-class events, tourism, exceptional array of restaurants, bars, specialty stores and has become the city's meeting place.
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Federation Square
Home to major cultural attractions, world-class events, tourism, exceptional array of restaurants, bars, specialty stores and has become the city's meeting place.
Parks & Nature
Visit Melbourne's inner-city oasis. More than 10,000 plant species from around the world are presented in a kaleidoscope of colour and texture. Sweeping lawns, tranquil lakes and majestic trees are home to an amazing range of wildlife.
For the more physical visitor the "Tan" running track around the gardens offers a 3.8km challenge.
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Jardines Botánicos Reales de Victoria
Visit Melbourne's inner-city oasis. More than 10,000 plant species from around the world are presented in a kaleidoscope of colour and texture. Sweeping lawns, tranquil lakes and majestic trees are home to an amazing range of wildlife.
For the more physical visitor the "Tan" running track around the gardens offers a 3.8km challenge.
Fitzroy Gardens is one of Melbourne’s most historic and beautiful Gardens. Originally set aside as a reserve in 1848, the layout follows a classic Victorian–era design, featuring pathways lined with magnificent Elm trees, and a variety of flowers, ornamental shrubs and trees which together with extensive lawns create a diverse and layered landscape.
Points of interest include the magnificent floral displays in the Spanish mission style Conservatory. Cooks Cottage, a scarred tree, the Fairies’ Tree and model tudor village, sculptures, fountains and a stormwater cleaning and re-use system.
The Fitzroy Gardens visitor centre provides tourism information and entry tickets to Cooks Cottage. A free guided walking tour departs from the visitor centre every Saturday at 10 am.
Refreshments are available from Kere Kere café at the visitor centre and at the Pavilion café in the centre of the Gardens
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Parque infantil Fitzroy Gardens
Wellington ParadeFitzroy Gardens is one of Melbourne’s most historic and beautiful Gardens. Originally set aside as a reserve in 1848, the layout follows a classic Victorian–era design, featuring pathways lined with magnificent Elm trees, and a variety of flowers, ornamental shrubs and trees which together with extensive lawns create a diverse and layered landscape.
Points of interest include the magnificent floral displays in the Spanish mission style Conservatory. Cooks Cottage, a scarred tree, the Fairies’ Tree and model tudor village, sculptures, fountains and a stormwater cleaning and re-use system.
The Fitzroy Gardens visitor centre provides tourism information and entry tickets to Cooks Cottage. A free guided walking tour departs from the visitor centre every Saturday at 10 am.
Refreshments are available from Kere Kere café at the visitor centre and at the Pavilion café in the centre of the Gardens
Edinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy is one of Melbourne's best and most popular parks. Every weekend there is something happening in the gardens, whether it be a BBQ, group get-together, kick to kick of the footy, skate board riding, meeting point for the Naked Bike Ride, you name it, Edinburgh Gardens has it all..
Edinburgh Gardens is located in the heart of North Fitzroy, just north of Brunswick St with facilities including barbeques, tennis courts, a basketball court, playground and sports field.
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Jardines de Edimburgo
Alfred CrescentEdinburgh Gardens in North Fitzroy is one of Melbourne's best and most popular parks. Every weekend there is something happening in the gardens, whether it be a BBQ, group get-together, kick to kick of the footy, skate board riding, meeting point for the Naked Bike Ride, you name it, Edinburgh Gardens has it all..
Edinburgh Gardens is located in the heart of North Fitzroy, just north of Brunswick St with facilities including barbeques, tennis courts, a basketball court, playground and sports field.
The 26 hectare (64 acre) site contains the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning children's playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast. According to the World Heritage listing the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are "of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria."
The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian landscape design with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park. The northern section contains the Museum, tennis courts, maintenance depot and curator's cottage, and the children's playground designed as a Victorian maze.
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Jardines Carlton
The 26 hectare (64 acre) site contains the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning children's playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast. According to the World Heritage listing the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are "of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria."
The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian landscape design with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park. The northern section contains the Museum, tennis courts, maintenance depot and curator's cottage, and the children's playground designed as a Victorian maze.
Shopping
This is a Melbourne institution. An open-air Market packed with stallholders who are passionate about fresh produce.
It's popular with locals as their go-to for fresh fruit, veggies, meat and an outstanding variety of dairy and small goods, and has also become something of a 'must visit' for tourists. With a huge number of stalls selling clothes, accessories and other bric-a-brac the market has evolved into more than just the place to get your weekly shop.
In summer and winter, be sure to visit the Night Markets, held every Wednesday.
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Mercado de la Reina Victoria
Queen StreetThis is a Melbourne institution. An open-air Market packed with stallholders who are passionate about fresh produce.
It's popular with locals as their go-to for fresh fruit, veggies, meat and an outstanding variety of dairy and small goods, and has also become something of a 'must visit' for tourists. With a huge number of stalls selling clothes, accessories and other bric-a-brac the market has evolved into more than just the place to get your weekly shop.
In summer and winter, be sure to visit the Night Markets, held every Wednesday.
THE ROSE ST. ARTISTS’ MARKET, is where those in-the-know find Melbourne’s best art and design talent and its located just down the street from your Fitzroy digs. Each Saturday and Sunday there’s a huge line-up of creative types, so expect to feast your eyes on plenty of unique gems and one-off wonders that you won’t get anywhere else! There’s everything from art, photography, fashion, jewellery, accessories, home wares, collectables, tasty treats, rooftop bar….and more!
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The Rose Street Artists' Market
60 Rose StTHE ROSE ST. ARTISTS’ MARKET, is where those in-the-know find Melbourne’s best art and design talent and its located just down the street from your Fitzroy digs. Each Saturday and Sunday there’s a huge line-up of creative types, so expect to feast your eyes on plenty of unique gems and one-off wonders that you won’t get anywhere else! There’s everything from art, photography, fashion, jewellery, accessories, home wares, collectables, tasty treats, rooftop bar….and more!
Lively indoor market with stalls for produce, meat & seafood & cafes serving global fare.
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Mercado del Sur de Melbourne
322-326 Coventry StLively indoor market with stalls for produce, meat & seafood & cafes serving global fare.