Fancy a cup of coffee or a bite to eat in the city?
It shouldn't be too hard to find somewhere - there are more than 1600 cafes and restaurants to choose from, data from the City of Melbourne shows.
This map shows where they are. The larger bubbles correspond to areas with multiple food outlets in the one building.
Note: This map does not let you read the names of the outlet at each location. Scroll further down for another version of this map.
As you can see, there are 26 eateries at Melbourne Central, 23 at Crown, 16 at Southgate, 16 at the Emporium, 15 at Waterfront City in Docklands, 15 at QV Melbourne and 12 at Federation Square.
Unsurprisingly, there is a massive concentration of cafes and restaurants in the CBD. You can find almost 1000 in the Hoddle Street grid alone.
And even though more foodie hotspots have shot up in recent years, the greatest density of eateries is still Chinatown. The city block bounded by Bourke, Swanston, Lonsdale and Russell Streets is home to 58 cafes or restaurants, while the adjacent one bordered by Exhibition Street has 48.
Chinatown is where you can find the highest density of eateries in Melbourne. Photo: Daniel Pockett
Standing out from the crowd is key for eateries in this competitive section of the city, and at Mister Close in Midtown Plaza they do this by offering a different menu each day.
"Every day customers will be excited and surprised to see different items here at the cafe. Today's food could be totally different from tomorrow's," head chef Gurmeet Baljaut said. "Every day they are coming to a different restaurant but are getting the same standard of food."
Mister Close head chef Gurmeet Baljaut (centre): "the same menu every day is boring". Photo: Daniel Pockett
He said Mister Close had been open for eight years and had accumulated hundreds of loyal fans who were always asking when their favourite items would appear on the menu again.
On the day The Age visited the cafe some of the items on the menu included ricotta and spinach spanakopita, vegan kottia balls and ginger crunch bars. But the line-up could be different by the time you read this article.
Note: Only one outlet is displayed for each location. Some locations house multiple cafes and restaurants.
Melburnians who take pride in the individuality of the city's cafe and restaurant culture will also take heart from the data. There are very few chain outlets that have more than a handful of locations.
Within the City of Melbourne you can find 14 Nando's, 12 McDonald's restaurants, nine Subways, seven KFCs and seven Hungry Jack's.
There are 12 places in the City of Melbourne where you can buy one of these. Photo: Eddie Jim
But the new upstart chains are catching up - Shuji Sushi has 13 outlets throughout the city, Grill'd has seven, Max Mex has five and Schnitz has four.
Shuji Sushi outnumbers some of the big fast food chains in Melbourne. Photo: Daniel Pockett
But if anything this map understates the number of food outlets in the city.
This data only includes places that are classified as cafes or restaurants. There are plenty of spots in Melbourne where you can get a coffee, but which have a different primary use so do not show up on the map.
For example, there are two car washes in Melbourne that are also cafes and two internet cafes that are java enabled. You can have a cup of coffee after scanning the bookshelves at Dymocks on Collins Street, and there may well be someone out there who goes to Melbourne Aquarium for the 198-seat cafe rather than the sharks.
Also, the data is accurate as of 2015, and more cafes and restaurants would have opened since then.
The City of Melbourne collects this data by visiting every building in its domain and noting how the place is used, its floor space and everything from number of seats to the number of car parks and bike spaces.
This land use census is published every two years, and takes so long to conduct that by the time they have finished collecting the data, it is time to do it all over again.