There are a wide variety of restaurants and pubs in South Melbourne, including Lamaro’s Hotel. The kitchen features its own custom made wood grill, making most of their main courses in it. This includes crumbed veal schnitzel, pork cutlets and thick cut scotch fillets. The menu also has a little Vietnamese influence, with sides of coconut rice and Vietnamese slaw. You’ll want to make room for dessert, with things like rose petal and Turkish Delight flavoured ice cream, vanilla panna cotta and chocolate and caramel tarts on the dessert menu. KUU Cafe could be your new favourite brunch place, with its adorable interior and menu and delicious food. Have a fried tofu sandwich complete with Japanese BBQ sauce and mayonnaise to start your day. This is also available to you on the lunch menu, along with udon, yakisoba and don with various toppings. One of the more popular lunch items is the Taco Rice, a mixture of brown rice, chicken mince and taco sauce with additions of a fried egg, tomato salsa and avocado. Bringing a bit of the West Coast to South Melbourne, American expat brewer Casey Wagner has recreated a San Diego-style beer for patrons. The overall aesthetic for the bar is alternative, with mismatched furniture and handwritten signs. The brewhouse is literally next door so you’re left with no illusions about how far the brew had to travel.

There are a multitude of spaces available to you, from residential garages to rooms to commercial storage units. Whether you need to store furniture or important documents, there’s a space for everything. Commercial spaces such as National Storage listings utilise commercial storage units and rooms for whatever you need to store.

Clarendon Street and the Princes Highway travel through South Melbourne, however since they’re popular roads, there’s a high chance that you’ll find yourself stuck in traffic. Ferrars, Park and Dorcas Streets are less prominent roads but they intersect each other and take you through to every corner of the suburb.