Melbourne restaurants

[VPS]

All the other Melbourne restaurant threads are several years old. I'll be staying near Melbourne Central.

I'm not looking for fine dining (although that would be nice I don't think I'll get my expenses reimbursed) Happy to travel a bit out of the CBD.

Fish allergies so avoid Asian restaurants.

 

[SYD]

Tipo 00 - if you can get in!

Avoid the wee filled laneways. They’re mostly overrated now.

 

[VPS]

Tipo 00 - if you can get in!

Avoid the wee filled laneways. They’re mostly overrated now.

wow - it must be good - hardly any availability

 

[SYD]

wow - it must be good - hardly any availability

It’s pretty small, but they do walkins. Get there really early (I mean 5pm - 5:30pm), maybe 6pm early in the week and you might be lucky.

 

[Mr_Gimlet]

The current hottest thing is Mercato Centrale. Definitely worth a look.

The CBD and Inner suburbs is awash in great eating so some more pointers will help to narrow it down.

 

[Freq Flier 2013]

It’s pretty small, but they do walkins. Get there really early (I mean 5pm - 5:30pm), maybe 6pm early in the week and you might be lucky.

Thanks for the recommendation, the website looks good. I’m a Melbourne local and have never heard of it. Will give them try.

 

[Lynda2475]

Tipo 00 - if you can get in!

A favorite of mine. When I was travelling to and working at Melbourne Central a lot, my colleague and I would often dine here early say 5:30pm (easier to get a table) given we'd been awake since 4am having been on the 6am flight.

Sometimes when all the tables are booked they still had bar seating available (its a very small bar).

The current hottest thing is Mercato Centrale. Definitely worth a look.

Went here on the Saturday night of the October long weekend, 3 floors of food options from burgers to pizza to pasta to seafood to cannoli and gelato. It was crazy busy from 6:30 - 8pm, crowds started to think a little from 7:30pm (as those with kids left) and was no drama getting a table from 8pm.

We started on top floor with Pizza and wine, then relocated to the bottom floor for the yummiest calamari and an ok lobster roll, and finished on the middle level with gelato.

Your order via QR code on the tables (different codes on each level) most places will deliver to your table but you have to pick up the calamari.

For finer dining most of my favourites are Asian fusion like Lucy Liu and Supernaormal. Avoid Serai (over priced and average).

Menu - San Telmo is always nice for Argentinean

 

[VPS]

The current hottest thing is Mercato Centrale. Definitely worth a look.

The CBD and Inner suburbs is awash in great eating so some more pointers will help to narrow it down.

Just good decent food at not ridiculous prices. I'd rather pay a bit more to have a decent meal though.

I'm not an early eater. I like a wide variety of foods just avoid Asian because of fish allergy

 

[Blinky]

In my (probably biased) opinion, Melbourne’s best restaurants are not in the CBD at all. Maybe huge rents are the reason. It’s no coincidence that Attica, Brae, Greasy Zoe’s, Lavertine Hills, etc etc are not in the CBD. But (Brae aside) are not a long Uber away,