Open 24 hours. Come Friday and Saturday night, maccas is the place to be after you've danced all night, and before joining the tedious Geelong taxi queue. Just as with all maccas, the food is cheap and somewhat nasty, but it's a great handy location where you can settle those fast-food cravings.

A great place to go with a few friends, or to host a party. The couches are so comfortable you'll want to stay all night! Often there is some acoustic live music, which really fits in well with the mood of the place. I especially love the strange painting and lights. It's well rad.

A must-see, very odd, very cool Melbourne bar. It's a laboratory/hospital themed bar right down to the end on a smelly alley, off another alley. Once you find it be prepared for a strange experience. The glass cases full of surgical equipment and God knows what else and the hospital beds in the toilets mean this is a bar you're not going to forget. If that's not enough for you, upstairs is a "dance" floor that has a really odd feel about it, reminiscent of an Adam's Family funereal, but is surprisingly fun. Go on, see it for yourself.

Good quality, modern haircuts with very friendly staff. The hairdressers at this salon understand how to produce high quality, fashionable hair styles. The most exciting haircut I got was an asymmetric hairstyle, long on one side, short on the other, and it was great. At the moment I'm sporting a d.Hair cropped "do" and I love it.

Approximate cost: $50

C.Y.C. is a nice little bar hidden among the restaurants of Lygon St. This cosy little Melbourne bar offers a great selection of drinks, including an extensive cocktail list. The ambiance can seem a little lacking at first, but with good friends and a killer cocktail you can begin to feel at home. Great for a drink or two, but not a place to spend the whole night.

Little Creatures is a great big beer hall with a great atmosphere. All the different varieties of Little Creatures beer are served, and this gives you a great opportunity to try the different beers. The small "pony" sized beers are a great cheap option, and allow you to taste all the different kinds of beer. This bar also offers a good selection of meals and even offers bikes for hire! It's a great place to take a group of friends for a relaxed night out.

"The Nash" is a great live music venue, and cool bar. The small band room out the back offers intimate gigs with performances from local bands and is arguably Geelong's premier alternative music venue for bigger names from around the country. The front bar features djs on busy nights. There is also a variety of weekly activities including a trivia night.
It's very much an "in" bar, by which I mean that people who go to the Nash all seem to know each other. But, grab a few friends and head out the the beer garden and you'll soon make five new best friends and be accepted into the crew as a local Nash goer.
Friendly atmosphere with a noodle bar open during the day. Try the Nash beer, I dare you!

This bar has many faces, and it's hard to know what to expect. If it's a quiet night you will find a local band, some comfy couches and a nice beer garden. If it's a busy night it's a completely different story... get ready to party!
Once my friends and I went on a busy night and there was a lady out the front only letting in people who were "cool" enough. We were let in (hooray) and found ourselves in a sea of the coolest people we'd ever seen, dressed in the edgy Brunswick St style and all having an amazing time.
Drinks specials and a groovin' DJ also ad to the appeal of this place.

Live bands on Friday and Saturdays give this place a great soul. The music tends to be Jazz/Latin/World and as a result the dance floor is always pumping with all types of dancing, from couples dancing Samba to students "rocking out". The mix of different people makes for an interesting place, but can also lead to younger females experiencing unwanted groping if care isn't taken on the dance floor.
The drinks are quite expensive, and being forced to pay $3 for water is quite frustrating. But it is a great place to visit for something different, and if it all becomes too much, Brunswick St is right around the corner.

This is a handy little local supermarket with a bottle shop attached. The fruit and veggies are fairly limited, but they've usually got nearly everything in stock. The meat's okay, but a the butcher's just down the street offers better quality. The bottle shop is excellent, with prices lower than any discount bottle-o in Melbourne.
Because it supports the local community it offers a better option than shopping at Woolworths or Safeway, even if it is marginally more expensive.