You might already have a favourite spot you go to regularly, but if you and Este want to meet somewhere other than Olive Garden on Tuesday, here are some Melbourne venues to visit based on your favourite Taylor Swift album and era.

Taylor Swift, Lulie Tavern

Remember when Taylor Swift was just a 16-year-old country girl with a guitar, singing about pictures to burn, slamming screen doors and Tim McGraw? Oh, what a time. And no Melbourne venue better exemplifies the yee-haw era than Abbotsford’s Lulie Tavern, where a pleasing selection of bric-a-brac recalls classic American dives.

Fearless, Julie

The second venue from the Cam’s Kiosk team is the perfect place to celebrate Swift’s second album. After lunch or before dinner, you can wander around the convent, find a balcony to stand on in the summer air and if it rains, dance around in your best dress. Plus, it’s covered in yellow tiles and, much like Fearless, was a highly-anticipated follow-up project and a roaring success.

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Speak Now, Caretaker’s Cottage

Drop everything now and head over to this bar (one of the World’s 50 Best) in a former caretaker’s quarters. The tiny bluestone cottage has been tucked away in the middle of town since 1914, calls to mind the fantasy references in Swift’s third album and would be the perfect spot to interrupt a wedding or fight dragons.

Red, State of Grace

Is it cheating to choose a venue just because it’s got the same name as a track off Red? Maybe. But with its enormous chandeliers, faux-marble neoclassical sculptures and basement bar hidden behind a sliding bookcase, this CBD spot epitomises the “golden age of something good and right and real”.

1989, Stokehouse

If there’s one thing the imagery from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) taught us, it’s that this album’s job is beach. But elevated beach. And no beach venue is as elevated as this fine diner by the sea, with its stunning views of Port Phillip Bay, ceiling installation with 2000 blush-pink glass tubes, and expertly done seafood. Sip your wine or cocktail while staring out at the sand and water – clink clink, being this young is art.

Reputation, Purple Pit

Snakes are the animal that threatened to ruin Swift’s career. But she rose up from the dead and reclaimed the symbol as a key part of her dark, moody and slightly hip-hop Reputation era. The subterranean drinking den beneath the grand gothic building on the corner of Queen and Collins streets is a great (snake) pit to visit while you plan out a revenge plot. Plus – much like Swift, Ed Sheeran and Future – Purple Pit owners Joe Jones (Romeo Lane) and Maurice Terzini (Sydney’s Icebergs) both have big reputations in the industry.

Lover, Bar Romantica

All of the restaurants we’ve loved before don’t compare to Bar Romantica. Swift’s Lover era was debatably her most romantic to date, and there are very few things more romantic than sharing house-made pasta with your lover.

Folklore, Studley Park Boathouse

Put your hair up in a bun, don a plaid shirt and take your muse to The Lakes (read: the River Yarra) for a walk around the woods. (We don’t think any poets died here, thankfully.) The boathouse and surrounding Studley Park give off the cosy, lumberjack/cottagecore vibes of the indie-folk album.

Evermore, Nick & Nora’s

Champagne Problems? Not at Nick & Nora’s. Book the night train into the city and clink glasses in this opulent cocktail and champagne bar, which feels like it was plucked out of the 1930s.

Midnights, Her Melbourne

This concept album journeys through 13 (or 23, if you include all the bonus tracks) midnights in Swift’s life. Her is really four venues in one. So you can travel through Thai restaurant BKK, listening bar Music Room, marble-clad restaurant Her Bar to the rooftop bar without leaving the building. And if you end up on the floor, it won’t be from your roommate’s cheap-ass screw-top rosé.

The Tortured Poets Department, Reine

We’re taking a shotgun shot in the dark here based on the very little info (only an album cover, track list and release date) we have on Swift’s upcoming 11th album. It looks romantic, dreamy and tragic all at once. We’ll probably need a few Reine Martinis after the first listen.