[citation needed] Neighbouring suburb, Cheltenham, comprises one of the biggest shopping centres in Australia – Westfield Southland.

This shopping mall incorporates a two-level bridge that spans the six lanes of Nepean Highway.

The redevelopment included demolishing the original centre that was "ageing" and building a larger Woolworths supermarket plus additional stores.

Mentone is serviced by a variety of Public Transport Victoria buses, which are the 903 bus from Mordialloc, 811 and 812 from Brighton and Dandenong, The 708 to Hampton and Carrum and the 825 and Metro Trains Melbourne services, focused on the Mentone railway station, a station on the Frankston train line.

[10] A new railway station was built at Mentone in 2020 as part of the Victorian government’s removal of the level crossing previously on Balcombe Road.

Mentone is also home to numerous sporting clubs including cricket, football, tennis, swimming, field hockey, and lawn bowling.

In late 2013 it was announced the iconic Mentone Tenpin Bowl on the corner of the Nepean Hwy and Warrigal Rd would close by the end of that year after fifty years of operation in order to make way for a new multi-storey residential apartment and retail complex.