Snack Bar: The Five Best Steak Restaurants, A1 and CDMX Team Up, and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Heaps Normal has teamed up with pubs around the country to give away free schooners of its new original draught. Stop by these Victorian pubs this Friday March 27 from 5pm to 7pm to get one of more than 3000 schooners the brand is giving away. 

• A1 Bakery and CDMX are collaborating on two items available from Friday March 27 to Sunday March 29. Stop by A1’s stores in Fitzroy and Brunswick for a tawook chicken wrap made with CDMX’s al pastor marinated chicken. And drop into CDMX in Brunswick East or at Melbourne Central for quesadillas made using A1’s kefta meat.

What we covered this week

• Where Chefs Eat: Stephanie Alexander’s Melbourne restaurant recommendations.

• First look: three AFL players team up to open Prahran diner Aftermath.

• First look: a new generation makes Richmond’s 28-year-old Burmese House its own.

• First look: Mediterranean restaurant Onda opens inside Sorrento’s grand new ferry terminal.

• Collingwood’s Molly Rose goes “beer hall chic” with a new menu and a new head chef.

• Steak frites is priced between $28.50 and $395 at CBD steak restaurant Common Cuts.

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

• Ragazzi in Fitzroy is autumn’s hottest pop-up.

• Five Melbourne spots have been named on the World’s 101 Best Steak Restaurants list.

• Four to try: Melbourne’s best locally made Easter eggs.

• Madeleine de Proust is hosting a pop-up afternoon tea at Yugen Tea Bar.

• Each Sunday, Collingwood rooftop bar Slowpoke will serve a burger designed by a chef from venues including Kafeneion, Walrus and Akimbo.

You might have missed

• “It’s a bit of a brick”: why you need the new edition of The Cook’s Companion by Stephanie Alexander.

• Europe says it’s cool for Australia to use the name “prosecco”.