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Pellegrini's Espresso Bar is a café on Bourke Street in Melbourne, Australia, described as "one of Melbourne's most iconic destinations, in a city that prides itself on coffee and fine food". [1] The café was established in 1954 by Leo and Vildo Pellegrini - brothers and migrants from Italy. [ 2 ]
Melbourne's first theatre opened on Bourke Street as the Pavilion (1841), and by the late 1840s the east end was established as Melbourne's main entertainment zone. Theatres and public halls were complemented by billiard halls , cigar divans, rifle galleries, bowling alleys and sideshows.
A view of the Excelsior Hotel on Bourke Street in 1861. The plot of land on 20-30 Bourke Street was occupied from the late 1850s Excelsior Hotel.The association between hotels and theatres at the time was close, and the hotel incorporated a hall (known as the Queen's Hall) used for vaudeville performances and other entertainment including boxing and wrestling.
It occupied a large site on Bourke Street in central Melbourne, formerly occupied by the grand Eastern Market, and was the premier hotel in the city into the early 1980s. The Southern Cross was the preferred hotel for celebrities in this period, most famously The Beatles in 1964, and the ballroom was the preferred location for locally and ...
Designed by Leslie M. Perrott, the Hotel Australia was a 12-storey building with 94 rooms, numerous private dining and function rooms, and was the most prestigious hotel in Melbourne in its day. [1] The hotel included two small cinemas , [ 2 ] a restaurant and bar in the basement, and a through-block shopping arcade on the ground floor which ...
Bourke Place is a 224-metre (735 ft) skyscraper situated at 600 Bourke Street, Melbourne central business district, Victoria, Australia. As of 2024, it is the equal 18th tallest building in Melbourne and the 37th tallest building in Australia .
Chinatown (Chinese: 墨爾本華埠) is an ethnic enclave in the central business district (CBD) of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Centred at the eastern end of Little Bourke Street, it extends between the corners of Swanston and Spring streets, and consists of numerous laneways, alleys and arcades.
The Florentino (Il Florentino) started out as a wine shop at 78 Bourke Street, bought by recent immigrant Samuel Wynn in 1918, which he then gradually expanded whilst living upstairs. [3] Wynn's wine selling interest gradually moved into wine making, and he went on after WW2 to purchase the Coonawarra Estate vineyard, making Wynn's a household ...