• Attica chef and Seth Rogan fan Ben Shewry has joined forces with Melbourne brand Remedy Drinks for the second time following a kombucha collaboration in February this year. The team has now released a limited-time-only strawberries and cream kombucha, which you can purchase from the Remedy website.

• Chefs Keat Lee of Lagoon Dining and Helly Raichura of Enter Via Laundry are joining forces for collab series The South Asia Club. The pair will prepare a one-night-only Chinese-inspired dinner at Raichura’s Indian fine diner on Tuesday September 10, with seatings at 6pm and 8.30pm.

This week in food and drink news

• Coming soon: Victor Liong’s Silk Spoon, your new go-to for a fast lunch or after-work drink

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• First look: a former Kisume chef opens Andzero, a Japanese-inspired cafe in Glen Waverley

• First look: Sot, an ex-Nobu Chef’s new Korean restaurant.

• Coming soon: who would open a sandwich shop two doors down from Hector’s Deli?

• Tom Sarafian, Natalie Paull, Dan Hunter and 11 others were added to the Melbourne Food & Wine Hall of Fame.

• New restaurant Hacienda skips the sombreros for “what’s currently trending in Mexico City.”

• Hampton’s new Kalye Marinas introduces Melbourne to the Filipino seafood boil.

• Coming soon: 11 highly anticipated Melbourne restaurant, bar and cafe openings.

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