Snack Bar: A New Cobb Lane, Di Stasio St Kilda Is for Sale and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Ice-creamery Kori and John Demetrios’s bakery Butter Days are collaborating on two Easter specials, available at Kori in Windsor and the CBD until Tuesday April 14. There’s a spiced milk ice-cream folded with strawberry-lime jam and finished with Butter Days’ signature sun cookies. And a hot cross bun ice-cream sanga: a warm Butter Days hot cross bun filled with a scoop of brown butter miso crumble ice-cream.

• Throughout April, Hawthorn’s Vaporetto and South Yarra restaurants Cosi and Cucinetta deduct 50 per cent of guests’ transport costs up to $25 from the final bill when they present a valid transport receipt (from a taxi, Uber or fuel).

• This Friday April 3, from 9am to 2pm, Italian supermarket La Manna at Essendon Fields will host an Easter Family Fiesta. The La Manna car park will be transformed with tastings, Easter eggs hunts, jumping castles and a mechanical bull. Tickets are $35 per person, with all proceeds donated to the Good Friday Appeal.

What we covered this week

• First look: Cobb Lane’s “grown-up” CBD bakery is here.

• Italian restaurant and wine room Delmonte to join the stable at King & Godfree.

• 31 Melbourne bars, bakeries and restaurants that opened or closed in March.

• Where to find fan tuan – sticky rice rolls filled with Chinese doughnut, pork floss and more.

• Where chefs eat: the best suburban yum cha, according to Juni’s Hendri Budiman.

• “It’s just not in our hearts anymore”: Cafe Di Stasio St Kilda is up for sale.

• New hire: Jake Mayhew wants to make you pâtés, terrines and sausages at Public Wine Shop.

• Chef Frankie Hadid brings Venezuelan flavours to Kensington wine bar Arnold’s.

• Five minutes with: Melbourne legend Duré Dara of Nudel Bar and Stephanie’s on her decades-long hospo career.

• Four to try: the best new soft serve in Melbourne.

• The best and worst April Fool’s pranks we saw this year.

You might have missed

• The 39 best hot cross buns in Melbourne.

• Hot Cross Crimes: the supermarket Easter buns no one asked for.

• Eight to try: hot cross croissants, cheesecakes and everything but buns.