Snack Bar: Two Hot New Bakeries, Maker & Monger Sangas and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Food stylist Kirsten Jenkins and food photographer Patricia Niven are hosting a smartphone food photography workshop at Urbanstead in Abbotsford on Sunday November 30 from 10.30am to 1pm. Bookings essential.

• Long known for its cheesy toasties, Prahran Market’s Maker & Monger now has fresh sandwiches on the weekends. Options include ham and comté on a Baker Bleu ficelle, and a green goddess sandwich with Dreaming Goat fromage blanc on Baker Bleu spelt.

• On Sunday November 23, YTB (formerly, Yugen Tea Bar) will welcome floral artist Azumi Ishikawa for a hands-on ikebana (Japanese floral art) workshop. The class will be followed by high tea with bites including scallop tartar on a lotus root chip and red bean mochi. Bookings essential.

What we covered this week

• Tivoli Road founders Michael and Pippa James are opening a new bakery in Abbotsford.

• First look: Torori, the Osaka-born chain famous for warabi mochi, arrives in Melbourne.

• New Lygon Street bistro Bar Elsie makes you want to stay a while.

• Where Chefs Eat: Residence’s Robbie Noble wants you to “get weird” at this ice-cream shop.

• First look: nobody does Venetian wine bars like Da Bepi.

• Former Small Batch pastry chef Charlie Duffy is opening his own bakery.

•. South Yarra’s Atlas Dining to close this month.

• “Every time, I’m blown away”: 15 Melbourne chefs on their favourite special occasion restaurants.

You might’ve missed

• Recipe: lavender honey madeleines by Hyoju Park of Madeleine de Proust.

• Where Chefs Eat: former Public Wine head chef Ben Sears gets the “wonderfully crisp and juicy” goose at this Hong Kong icon.

• Broadsheet Access members are invited to an exclusive evening with Mecca and Pommery Champagne.