This local hero marries the Aussie milk bar with the American dive bar. Get salami and pickles, best paired with the local beers and refillable wine bottles.

This neighbourhood wine bar isn’t just a special-occasion spot. Stop by the casual front bar for mostly Victorian wines, the chef’s table for Euro-leaning snacks, or the stocked pantry for a bottle to go.

Pentridge Prison’s old bluestone jail cells are home to an intimate lounge with produce-forward bar snacks. Plus a 500-bottle, storybook-like wine list complete with anecdotes and illustrations.

The Scottish craft-beer brand found a home in Coburg’s historic Pentridge Prison. Head to the beer garden – set in a former prison yard – or the taproom in a grand old bluestone building. Find Australian-exclusive brews, sticky-glazed chicken wings and a full plant-based menu.

At this art deco pub, you’re just as likely to catch scruffy rockers playing in the front bar as you are a bijou wedding in the gorgeous dining hall. This place is a beautiful mixed bag, just like Coburg itself. If you’re eating here, expect elegant pub dishes and a specials board devoted to gnocchi.

Pentridge Prison’s old mess hall is now an elegant restaurant – with a produce-driven share plates and a serious cellar courtesy of adjoining wine bar, Olivine.

A moodily lit diner that hits all the right notes, with a big hit of nostalgia. Slide into a cushy booth for a glossy pepperoni pizza – or a culture-crossing mortadella and pineapple. Then bring a round of Negronis to the pool table.

Texas-style barbeque powered by red gum and applewood.

A Middle Eastern bakehouse specialising in pies, pizza and folded foccacias.

The sisters behind this neighbourly spot grew nearby, and now serve up pastries, coffee and take-home goods from their favourite local suppliers. Expect house-made chai, cinnamon twists and Mediterranean dips.

This family-run bakery specialises in knafeh – the crisp, cheesy golden Palestinian pastry. Plus, it also serves traditional baklava and maamoul (cookies stuffed with dates and nuts).

This Coburg cake shop has been baking cakes and piping cannoli since 1965. Visit for those, and the huose cartocci: doughy yet light Italian doughnuts coated in sugar and filled with a fluffy custard-and-ricotta cream.

Egyptian falafel and a friendly neighbourhood atmosphere.

A local cafe and bar built by mates, for mates.

An inclusive, socially conscious cafe and restaurant on the site of the old Pentridge Prison.

A socially conscious roasting company and cafe by four ex-soldiers.

Enter a world of Middle-Eastern gastronomy.

A specialty pasta shop by Take Me Home in Coburg.