18 Melbourne Bars, Bakeries and Restaurants That Opened in April

Openings and new coverage

• First look: chef Fujio Tamura wants Fitzroy’s Udon Izakaya Tanukiya to feel just like Japan.

• First look: Japandi bakery Bloomwood opens a second space with everyday pastries.

• First look: the botanical-themed Bar Ferdinand is part bar, part museum.

• First look: Wow Crepes brings Chinese street food staple jianbing to Flinders Street.

• First look: at Towa, a former Yugen Tea Bar pastry chef brews, candies and bakes with tea.

• First look: Thaali’s second outpost brings polished North Indian dishes to Fairfield.

• First look: almost everything is made from scratch at new Flinders Lane banh mi shop Bammi.

• Learn to love saké at Bar Kaeru in the CBD.

• At Simply Mike’s in Brunswick, a French pastry chef makes 500 cinnamon scrolls a day.

• Dutch Rules Distilling – one of Melbourne’s most exciting Sri Lankan restaurants – just opened inside a gin distillery.

• Bobby Stop Stealing Our Camping Chairs has one goal: do the opposite of every Melbourne cafe.

• Sourdough master Quentin Berthonneau starts a baking school in Preston.

• Tochi Deli rises again, with the same affordable sushi menu.

• The sangas are different at Barbados Slim.

• Gordon Street Bakery says bonjour to Ascot Vale.

• New woodfired Korean restaurant Mudo is all about restraint.

• You kept asking for dips at Tulum. The restaurant has answered with a new meze bar.

• Footscray scores Second Hand Dealer, a creative cocktail bar from a Pie Thief founder.