the CBD.

the CBD's public board: read free, post as a member. This is not your weekly table or a group chat. Night signals here are aggregate interest, not a seat claim.

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What is on the board.

Laneway tables that work after work

THE HOUSE

The grid empties at six, which is exactly when it gets good: the laneway rooms that were impossible at lunch have tables at 6:30. The move for a first table is somewhere off Flinders Lane or Hardware Lane with a long table and no DJ, close enough to a station that nobody does the "I should get going" at 7:40. City workers and city dwellers: post the rooms that keep a weeknight table of five, and how late they will let you hold it.

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REAL PLACES TO MEET

Rooms in the CBD that work for five.

Each read one way: could five people who just met hear each other, fit around one table, and want to stay? We suggest, we never book.

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Higher Ground

All-day dining · Melbourne (CBD)

A soaring old powerhouse near the station, grand enough to feel like an occasion, central enough that five people can all get there.

✶ Built for a group, bring the whole table

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Chin Chin

Thai sharing plates · Melbourne (CBD)

Built for a group and made for sharing, so the table orders together and talks by default. Loud and buzzy, no bookings downstairs, put your name down as a five.

✶ Built for a group, bring the whole table

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THE CBD

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