• Some of the best Japanese cafes in Melbourne are collaborating on Onigiri Map, a stamp rally and scavenger hunt-like event, until Saturday December 7. Visit places including 279, Ima Pantry and Tokyo Lamington to pick up a map, purchase an onigiri to get it stamped, and exchange your stamped map for caps, stickers, tote bags and more prizes.

• You can now book a table at Portugese restaurant Marmelo and sibling Spanish basement bar Mr Mills ahead of the venues’ openings on Thursday December 5.

This week in food and drink news

• The revived Bendigo Hotel is now a great hangout (with fun gigs and birria tacos).

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First look: Thornbury gets a new wine and pasta bar.

• This one thing: Inuman’s chicken skin sandwich is our food and drink editor’s new fave bar snack.

Where chefs eat: Lee Ho Fook chef Victor Liong’s go-to for breakfast in Melbourne.

• This north-side fave will close permanently next year.

• From cheeseburgers to omelettes: what to order when Chris Lucas’s Maison Batard opens this month.

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• Meet the retired couple on a mission to visit every pub in Australia.