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From Port Melbourne to Brooklyn: How Born Social built a creative agency across two continents

From Port Melbourne to Brooklyn: How Born Social built a creative agency across two continents

July 3rd, 2026 - Sean Car

What started as a one-woman social media business in Melbourne has grown into an international creative agency with offices in Port Melbourne and Brooklyn, New York.

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Frontier wars memorial in the heart of the city

June 24th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

Tucked into a tiny pocket of native trees, shrubs and plantings on one of Melbourne’s busiest corners is a surprising monument.

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New cocktail bar to open inside historic Queen St building

June 24th, 2026 - CBD News

A new cocktail bar and private dining venue will open on Queen St next month, adding another hospitality offering to Melbourne’s historic Gothic Bank precinct.

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Queen Victoria Market stalwart marks 50 years

June 24th, 2026 - Daniel Gawne

A family-run Queen Victoria Market business is celebrating 50 years of trading, with a third generation now taking the reins.

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Good Nature Hotel brings new pub and beer garden to Fed Square

June 10th, 2026 - Sean Car

A new urban pub and beer garden has opened at Federation Square, bringing a fresh all-weather hospitality venue to one of Melbourne’s busiest cultural and sporting precincts.

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A bar, a laneway and 25 years of city life at Hells Kitchen

May 27th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

When Melbourne pub rockers-turned-stadium band Amyl and the Sniffers had their show cancelled and famously donated their $35,000 fee to the patrons of seven local music venues, Hells Kitchen was one of them.

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How the Arslans turned gozleme into a QVM staple

May 27th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

Ekrem Arslan and his wife Asiye were the first in Melbourne to sell gozleme, he says. Nearly a quarter of a century on, his happy family market business has expanded but remains largely unchanged.

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Tuscan-inspired wine bar The Florence opens above Flinders Lane favourite

May 6th, 2026 - Sean Car

A new late-night venue has opened on Flinders Lane, with Tuscan-inspired wine and cocktail bar The Florence taking over the level above The Meatball & Wine Bar in the latest move from Melbourne hospitality group Valarc.

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Sally’s latest Capp: former Lord Mayor joins Hickory

April 30th, 2026 - Sean Car

Former Lord Mayor Sally Capp has taken on her latest post-council role, joining Melbourne construction and property company Hickory as its inaugural chief strategy officer.

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Old church welcomes young crowd

April 29th, 2026 - Jenny Denton

A Neo-Gothic bluestone church nestled into a pocket of greenery overlooked by skyscrapers, St Augustine’s, consecrated in 1869, is one of the CBD’s oldest churches. Its original timber building stood on the Bourke St site from 1853.

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