All the Melbourne Restaurant, Cafe and Bar Openings We Got Excited About in August

• Find taro milk tea-inspired danishes at Japandi-influenced bakery Bloomwood in the CBD.

• Farmer’s Daughters chef Alejandro Saravia opened Morena 1.0 in 2011 but shuttered it just two years later. Now he says the time is finally right. The Sydney original relaunched last year – now it’s our turn.

• Masterchef ’s “dessert king” Reynold Poernomo finally opens Koi Dessert Bar in Melbourne.

• Find pot stickers, smashed cucumbers and house-made wontons at the mother-daughter-run Potluck in Caulfield.

• An Ex-Vue De Monde chef leads Circl, a CBD “wine house” making rare wines more accessible.

• Thai-inspired restaurant Bang opens at Fitzroy’s new StandardX hotel.

• You’ll find loaded burgers and Biscoff doughnuts at family-run Maxiemoon in Moonee Ponds.

• Victor Liong and Con Christopoulos’s sushi train Bossa Nova pulls in.

• A hidden Japanese standing bar pops up at the back of Izakaya by Tamura in Fitzroy.

• South Melbourne sandwich shop Deli Boy opens in a former mechanic’s shop.

• Go from scrambled brekkie pancakes to late-night drinks at Elio’s Place in the CBD.

• Sot, an ex-Nobu chef’s new Korean restaurant.

• New restaurant Hacienda skips the sombreros for “what’s currently trending in Mexico City”.

• Hampton’s new Kalye Marinas introduces Melbourne to the Filipino seafood boil.

• A former Kisume chef opens Andzero, a Japanese-inspired cafe in Glen Waverley

• Shannon Martinez has reinvented Smith & Daughters (again).

• Feast on cardamom buns and honey hazelnut loaves from Semla, a Scandi bakery run out of a garage.

• At Mr L’s in South Yarra, a chef with Michelin cred cooks his childhood favourites.