Snack Bar: Pipis Pops Up North-Side, $5 Smashburgers and More Local Food News This Week

What’s happening around town

• Parisian-inspired Sydney bar Caravin is popping up at Pour Diane in North Melbourne this Saturday January 31. Drop in from 4pm for Adaption wines and freshly shucked oysters.

• Fitzroy cafe Lumen People is now hosting dinner service from 5pm on Thursdays through Sundays. Walk in or reserve a table and order plates such as pork scotch with stone fruit and curried almond; cured ocean trout with confit fennel; and caramelised koji parfait with blackberries.

• Hot listed Pendant has launched a Julep menu to help mitigate the hot weather. There are three takes on the classic cocktail: a Georgia Mint Julep with peach brandy and cognac; a Garden Julep with mint, dry vermouth, pastis (an anise-flavoured spirit) and gin; and a Cactus Julep with mint, orange, Campari and mezcal.

What we covered this week

• Victor Churchill to open a second Melbourne location.

• Peter Gunn to close Ides in March. “If I’m honest, this is not really about the restaurant. It’s about me.”

• First look: Acoffee opens a new store for the first time in eight years.

• First look: Pipis Kiosk brings its seafood expertise to Fitzroy for the summer.

• How to get $5 smashburgers at Shotkickers until the end of February.

• Three to try: new indie cinemas to visit for movies and cocktails.

• Where chefs eat: a Daylesford and Castlemaine restaurant hit list from Bar Merenda’s head chefs.

• Mulberry Group’s new all-day eatery Coupette aims to transform Southbank.

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