Guidebook for Melbourne

Sheila
Guidebook for Melbourne

Drinks & Nightlife

It's like an extended living room to your home, but playing old school hip-hop and serving delicious cocktails in an intimate space.
15 locals recommend
Double Happiness
21 Liverpool St
15 locals recommend
It's like an extended living room to your home, but playing old school hip-hop and serving delicious cocktails in an intimate space.
Love the contained sophisticated buzz at this bar. Have an apertivo or digestive... try their espresso martini. All good.
115 locals recommend
Siglo
161 Spring St
115 locals recommend
Love the contained sophisticated buzz at this bar. Have an apertivo or digestive... try their espresso martini. All good.
If you want to watch the Melbourne life (and commuters) go by, this is the 'longest bar in the southern hemisphere' and a good place for people watching.
128 locals recommend
Arbory Bar & Eatery
1 Flinders Walk
128 locals recommend
If you want to watch the Melbourne life (and commuters) go by, this is the 'longest bar in the southern hemisphere' and a good place for people watching.

Food Scene

Their 'Feed Me' option leaves you full in the belly and the scene provides a memorable eating experience!
552 locals recommend
Chin Chin
125 Flinders Ln
552 locals recommend
Their 'Feed Me' option leaves you full in the belly and the scene provides a memorable eating experience!
Excellent coffee down a Melbourne laneway.
73 locals recommend
Patricia Coffee Brewers
493-495 Little Bourke St
73 locals recommend
Excellent coffee down a Melbourne laneway.
So close, with hipster coffee (and bagels if you're keen!).
12 locals recommend
Traveller Coffee
14 Crossley St
12 locals recommend
So close, with hipster coffee (and bagels if you're keen!).
Coffee is 'unwashed'... so more 'chemical free' and they have delicious goodies to eat on the side.
Gold Drops
183 Little Collins St
Coffee is 'unwashed'... so more 'chemical free' and they have delicious goodies to eat on the side.
Intimate, but coffee and pastries are consistently outstanding.
6 locals recommend
Brioche by Philip
99 Queen St
6 locals recommend
Intimate, but coffee and pastries are consistently outstanding.
Have vegemite and cheese on toast or a Melbourne avo on toast, in another Melbourne hideaway!
12 locals recommend
Switch Board Cafe
220 Collins St
12 locals recommend
Have vegemite and cheese on toast or a Melbourne avo on toast, in another Melbourne hideaway!

Parks & Nature

A natural respite, filled with stunning flora, to get you your nature fix from the city life- and it's so close!
1262 locals recommend
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
1262 locals recommend
A natural respite, filled with stunning flora, to get you your nature fix from the city life- and it's so close!
You want to smell eucalyptus trees and sweat a little? This is a lovely (not too crazy) hiking trail that will immerse you in nature and give you a place to work off the calories from all the Melbourne CBD eating.
71 locals recommend
Kokoda Track Memorial Walk
Tree Fern Gully Track
71 locals recommend
You want to smell eucalyptus trees and sweat a little? This is a lovely (not too crazy) hiking trail that will immerse you in nature and give you a place to work off the calories from all the Melbourne CBD eating.

Arts & Culture

Do yourself a favour: go to the top floor and take a minute to appreciate the green library lamps, molded wooden chairs and the spectacular architecture of this beautiful library.
568 locals recommend
State Library Victoria
328 Swanston St
568 locals recommend
Do yourself a favour: go to the top floor and take a minute to appreciate the green library lamps, molded wooden chairs and the spectacular architecture of this beautiful library.

Shopping

Clean, modern, diverse shops, and a great food court!
773 locals recommend
Emporium Melbourne
287 Lonsdale St
773 locals recommend
Clean, modern, diverse shops, and a great food court!

Essentials

Lux grocery store, with all things organic, delicious, and even a gelatario at the front and a fromagerie downstairs (and a wine shop next door!).
51 locals recommend
Spring Street Grocer
157 Spring St
51 locals recommend
Lux grocery store, with all things organic, delicious, and even a gelatario at the front and a fromagerie downstairs (and a wine shop next door!).
A bit pricey, but a gym with all the bells and whistles (pool, spa, etc.), and only two blocks away... no excuses for no exercise (except that you might be too busy eating through Melbourne)...
Virgin Active Bourke Street
138 Bourke St
A bit pricey, but a gym with all the bells and whistles (pool, spa, etc.), and only two blocks away... no excuses for no exercise (except that you might be too busy eating through Melbourne)...