About us
About Melbourne Sphere
An independently edited guide to Melbourne’s local businesses, neighbourhoods and city life.
Who we are
Melbourne Sphere is a local directory for Melbourne, Victoria. It brings the city’s cafés, trades, clinics, shops and services together in one place, alongside guides to the suburbs they sit in and stories about the city around them.
Businesses don’t hold accounts or upload their own listings. Our editors research each one, check that it operates in an area we cover and publish it only once its details are complete. When something changes, anyone can tell us, and an editor updates it.
That is slower than an open submission form, and it is deliberate: a directory is only useful while people can rely on what it says.
Our mission
To make Melbourne’s local businesses easier to find and easier to trust — one checked listing at a time.
- Published businesses
- 41
- Local areas
- 11
- Categories
- 7
- Guides and articles
- 43
Explore by area
Start with the neighbourhood you know, or one you are about to visit.
Talk to our editors
Request a listing, report something out of date or ask us a question.
What we offer
Whether you live here, have just arrived or are visiting for a weekend, the site is built to help you find the right place quickly.
How a listing gets here
Every business on the site follows the same four steps. There is no charge at any point.
Our editorial standards
The same rules apply to every listing, review and comment, and they are the reason the site stays useful.
Why Melbourne Sphere
One city, covered properly, by people who know it.
Be part of Melbourne Sphere
However you use the city, there’s a place for you here.