• Attica chef Ben Shewry will sit down for a live interview with media personality Marieke Hardy at The Wheeler Centre on Tuesday October 15 to promote his forthcoming book Uses for Obsession: A (Chef’s) Memoir.

• Ex-Supernormal and Osteria Ilaria pastry chef Amanda Lowrensa’s bakery Amande brings back its cake boxes this weekend. The boxes will be filled with desserts including a vanilla and orange mille-feuille and a slice of Meyer lemon sponge. They’re available for pick-up this Saturday August 31 and Sunday September 1, and must be pre-ordered by midday on Friday August 30.

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• First look: Alejandro Saravia opened Morena 1.0 in 2011, but it closed two years later. He’s now revived the restaurant.

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• First look: find taro milk tea-inspired danishes at Japandi-influenced CBD bakery Bloomwood.

• First look: at Mr L’s in South Yarra, a chef with Michelin cred cooks his childhood favourites.

• First look: South Melbourne sandwich shop Deli Boy opens in a former mechanic’s shop.

• Glen Iris’s Deeds Brewing reopens for a final summer run after avoiding liquidation.

• Six top chef pop-ups you don’t want to miss in September.

• Where chefs eat: Tony Tan’s pick for the best Cantonese food in town.

• All the Melbourne restaurant, cafe and bar openings we got excited about in August.

• Tokyo Lamington and Godiva team up on two decadent truffle-inspired lamingtons.

• Jo Barrett is back with Wildpie, a new range of pastries with a purpose.

• This one thing: the Starbucks-Inspired lychee rose bingsu from Nimbo in the CBD is one of the city’s best shaved-ice desserts.

• How Enter Via Laundry’s Helly Raichura went from HR professional to full-time chef.

• Northcote’s giant beer garden and food-truck park, Welcome to Thornbury, is hosting its fifth annual garlic bread festival.

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