• Green Cup, a popular smoothie chain with seven stores in Melbourne, has renovated and rebranded its High Street Armadale location and added a salad bar. Green Cup Canteen, as it’s now called, has Fishbowl-style lunch bowls with different vegetable, protein and carb bases, including brown rice and lettuce – and you can choose your own combinations.

• There’ll be 12 different potato dishes at Eat Pierogi Make Love’s potato party this Saturday August 17 and Sunday August 18. Stop by the Brunswick East restaurant both days this weekend from midday to 9.30pm for pyzy (soft dumplings made from grated and mashed potatoes), jalapeno and potato pierogies and an apple vodka cocktail with a sweet potato syrup.

• Armadale fine diner Amaru’s sibling bar Auterra, has moved away from its snack-focused bites and launched a new menu with bistro-style mains including a three bean cassoulet, and beef cheek served with macadamia and toasted cereals.

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• The Atrium on 35 has created a special cocktail to celebrate the NGV’s Winter Blockbuster Pharaoh. The Queen Nefertiti cocktail combines lemon, cardamom, saffron, elderflower liqueur and butterfly pea-infused gin.

This week in food and drink news

• First look: go from scrambled brekkie pancakes to late-night drinks at Elio’s Place in the CBD.

• First look: an Ex-Vue De Monde chef leads Circl, a CBD “wine house” making rare wines more accessible.

• First look: Feast on cardamom buns and honey hazelnut loaves from Semla, a Scandi bakery run out of a garage.

• Shannon Martinez, Rosheen Kaul and more top chefs join Maker & Monger for a cheese toastie collab.

• Afloat, the pop-up bar on the Yarra that has taken Melburnians to Miami, Mexico and the Turkish Riviera, has announced its new theme.

• Black Star Pastry to close all Melbourne stores at the end of the week.

• Jung Eun Chae’s new cookbook is your essential guide to Korean fermentation at home.

• Fermented sodas, nitro cocktails and more drinks to order at Abbotsford’s new restaurant, Molli.

• Asian-leaning South Melbourne venue James closes to reopen as European cafe, Kirbie.

• Track down the $6 deep-fried halloumi covered in a Korean fried chicken sticky glaze from Doju in the CBD.

• Three to try: new Melbourne patisseries twisting French classics.

• Another Melbourne brewery is shutting up shop – and discounting stock with $5-per-litre tap beer and 40 per cent off cans and merchandise.