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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.
 
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
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.
 
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.
 
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 ok 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 ok 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

Melbourne CBD has IME gotten very expensive in last 12 months.
 
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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
 
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,
 
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
Marcanto Centrale - went there a few weeks ago. It was very overpriced food that was average at best. We tried 5 different dishes from various vendors and all were just ok.
Interestingly the prices the shops charge in their normal locations are a lot lower than at this overpriced food court.
The concept is a very good idea but just poorly implemented.
 
Went to Reine and La Rue last week. Service from staff and somellier was top notch. Bit pricy though, but I’ll definitely be going back

It's one of my fav Melbourne restaurants, service one of the best I've had anywhere!

Shame one of the owners made a bad decision a few weeks back, and is now "no longer involved" in the restaurant.. apparently.....

Tables are easier to get over the last few weeks ;)
 
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So many of the restaurant recommendations were not suitable for work travel because they were just too expensive and I wasn't going to spend that much money while I was on my own.

French Saloon in Hardware lane was excellent. The service and food were great.

Home Pasta and Pizza in Little Bourke St was good - very small and crowded but tasty food

Piccolo Mondo – The Italian Restaurant Just an average Italian on Lygon St - nothing to write home about
 

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