Snack Bar: The Death of Brunch, a Steak Frites-Only Restaurant and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Tamura Sake Bar and Collingwood’s Eclipse Cinema have teamed up for an advanced screening of Japanese director Neo Sora’s Happyend at Eclipse on Sunday October 26 at 6pm. Tickets are $40 and include saké and a snack by Tamura on arrival.

• On Sunday October 26, Julia Busuttil Nishimura will host an Italian masterclass from 2pm at Preston event space Olivia Social as part of the tomato festival Ripe. Entry is $5.

What we covered this week

• Melburnians aren’t lining up for hotcakes and avo toast the way we used to. What happened to brunch?

• First look: everything’s cooked low and slow at new Collingwood takeaway spot Chrystalla’s.

• Three new venues to open in Carlton’s King & Godfree building.

• First look: Rockpool’s new restaurant, 7 Alfred, is all about steak frites.

• The Grossi family sells its Melbourne restaurants to Rebecca Yazbek of Nomad and Reine.

• Where chefs eat: Audrey Allard of Holy Sugar loves this lemon passionfruit frozen custard.

• Rosheen Kaul to open a Chinese French pop-up bistro in Armadale.

• First look: a Guinness World Record-holding chef’s new restaurant is all about jollof rice.

• Former Masterchef contestant Simon Toohey wants to bring South Melbourne Market Energy to Geelong.

You might’ve missed

• Chef Trisha Greentree tested and rated supermarket extra-virgin olive oils for us.

• Supper Partying: food writer Becca Wang on what to cook for a summer al fresco party.

• “I had to really trust my own instincts”: Helen Goh on her new book Baking and the Meaning of Life.

• 20 years in, Second Bite now saves 68,000 kilos of food a week.