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Charlong is so much more than a standard suburban restaurant, reviews Dani Valent. It’s clever, creative, run by women and could only be in Melbourne.

Valentine's Day is notoriously tricky for restaurants, so some eateries are changing things up in 2022.

It has been just over one year since Janine Barican opened her business, and then had to switch to takeaway for COVID. Thankfully, the siren song of home has rung out to the local Filipino community, helped in part by Fides Santos-Arguelles and Grace Guinto who run the Entree Pinays, a website and social media channel that amplifies Filipino-run businesses (and has just launched a mercato for goods). Now, last-minute tables are hard to book, but a dozen stools lining the sleek central bar and some shorter squats around the kitchen are always there for walk-ins. It's encouraging to see any res...

Advertisement But one advantage of having no fireworks, he said, is that customers will not abruptly disappear at 11pm to watch them. Loading Mr James said he had not received much information from the council about how the New Year's Eve event, for which council was setting up barriers and lighting on Wednesday, would work. "It should be good," he said. However, lately his venue and others had been in "uncharted territory", with fewer people working in the city, no tourism and staff hard to find. "The reopening process has been very hard work," Mr James said. The council and the state govern...