Melbourne MATT BIRD’S

Coffea Coffffee and Melbourne are inseparable, but Coffffea, near the QV market, is the very best place for your supply of roasted beans and/or a short macchiato. Italian, serious and delicious. coffffeacoffffee.com.au The Hardware Société, a Melbourne institution on Hardware Lane CBD, is where breakfast and hedonistic food orgasms coincide. And now serving in Montmartre Paris, fyi. instagram.com/hardwaresociete Pieces of Eight is where you’ll justififiably exchange your kids’ school tuition for mind-blowingly spectacular jewels. piecesofeight.com.au Double Happiness just offff Chinatown is and will always be the place for your lychee vodka martini requirements. And stumble upstairs to New Gold Mountain for an immersive poppy-hallucinate interior and bespoke cocktails designed by Cassandra Fahey. double-happiness.com.au; newgoldmountain.com.au The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ( ACCA) at Southbank always puts on a compelling contemporary show within its fortifified rust of some serious local architecture by Wood Marsh. accaonline.org.au