Reader-voted · Updated August 2026

The Best Restaurants in Melbourne

The places Melbourne locals love most — chosen by Morning Post readers, refreshed every month.

Ranked from the favourites named by 610+ Melbourne readers. No critics, no paid placements, no algorithms — just where locals actually eat.

The three Melburnians named most

1

Chin Chin

South-East Asian · Flinders Lane, CBD

23 readers named it

Picked by Ami, Michelle, Allyson, Suzana — and 19 more. “Chin chin hands down.” — Ami

2

Gimlet

18 readers named it

Picked by Aristide, Eleanor, Michael, Joanne — and 14 more. its class, customer service, food and atmosphere

3

Supernormal

Asian-inflected modern · Flinders Lane, CBD

13 readers named it

Picked by Michael, Jacqueline, Jane, Chris — and 9 more. “Supernormal is the best!” — Jane

95 more named by two readers or more

France-Soir

11 mentions

MoVida

10 mentions

Pellegrini's

10 mentions

Maha

9 mentions

Bistro Guillaume

7 mentions

Maison Batard

7 mentions

Brunetti

6 mentions

Hochi Mama

6 mentions

San Telmo

6 mentions

Stalactites

6 mentions

Florentino

5 mentions

Lucy Liu

5 mentions

Taxi Kitchen

5 mentions

Flower Drum

4 mentions

Marion

4 mentions

Rococo

4 mentions

Shark Fin Inn

4 mentions

Tavola

Bentleigh

4 mentions

Waterfront

Southbank

4 mentions

Bacash

3 mentions

Bamboo House

3 mentions

Chocolate Buddha

3 mentions

Cookie

3 mentions

Frenchie

3 mentions

Kiss & Tell

3 mentions

Le Bouchon

Balnarring

3 mentions

Moonee Ponds Pizza

3 mentions

Paris Go

Carlton

3 mentions

Red Spice Road

3 mentions

Rice Paper Scissors

3 mentions

Sake

Hamer Hall

3 mentions

Scopri

3 mentions

Shandong Mama

3 mentions

Spaghetti Tree

3 mentions

Squires Loft

3 mentions

The George on Collins

3 mentions

Tiamo

Carlton

3 mentions

Tipo 00

3 mentions

Tonka

3 mentions

A Hereford Beefstouw

Duckboard Place

2 mentions

Amiconi

North Melbourne

2 mentions

ARU

Little Collins Street

2 mentions

Bounty of the Sun

Balaclava

2 mentions

Brick Lane

Guildford Lane

2 mentions

Centonove

Kew

2 mentions

Chois

Hawthorn

2 mentions

Ciccolina

St Kilda

2 mentions

Conservatory

Crown

2 mentions

Cucinetta

South Yarra

2 mentions

Cumulus Inc

2 mentions

Donnini's

Lygon Street, Carlton

2 mentions

Donovans

2 mentions

Embla

2 mentions

Entrecote

Prahran

2 mentions

Farmer's Daughters

2 mentions

Grazia

Malvern

2 mentions

Greasy Zoe's

Hurstbridge

2 mentions

Grill Americano

2 mentions

Il Solito Posto

2 mentions

Indochine

2 mentions

Juni

2 mentions

Kenzan

2 mentions

La Camera

2 mentions

La Cucina

Beaumaris

2 mentions

La Pinta

2 mentions

Laksa King

Flemington

2 mentions

Mario's

2 mentions

Max's

Hardware Lane

2 mentions

My Asian Neighbour

Reservoir

2 mentions

Old Man Drew's

Moonee Ponds

2 mentions

Omnia

South Yarra

2 mentions

Oriental Teahouse

2 mentions

Palermo

Little Bourke Street

2 mentions

Pastuso

2 mentions

Punch Lane Wine Bar

2 mentions

Roccella

East Melbourne

2 mentions

Rockpool

2 mentions

Rod & Gun at The Lodge

Little Collins Street

2 mentions

Romeo's

Toorak

2 mentions

Rosa's Canteen

2 mentions

Rumi

Brunswick

2 mentions

Sapa Hills

Footscray

2 mentions

Shanghai Street

2 mentions

Society

2 mentions

Tartine

Richmond

2 mentions

Ten Minutes by Tractor

Mornington Peninsula

2 mentions

The Arbory

2 mentions

The European

2 mentions

The Green Man's Arms

Carlton

2 mentions

The Langham Melba

2 mentions

Trattoria Emilia

2 mentions

Tulum

Balaclava

2 mentions

Tzaki

Yarraville

2 mentions

Va Tutto

Ivanhoe

2 mentions

Vue de Monde

2 mentions

The single-mention favourites

Readers also named these 350 Melbourne restaurants and cafes — one mention each so far.

  • 226
  • Advieh Yarraville
  • Aeglei South Melbourne
  • African Taste Seddon
  • Albert Park Hotel
  • Amaru South Yarra
  • Amatrice Cremorne
  • Amertrice Cremorne
  • Angie's Kitchen Moonee Ponds
  • Arbory by the River
  • Arundel Farm
  • Atlantic
  • Attica
  • Auction Rooms North Melbourne
  • B'Churrasco Brazilian BBQ
  • Back to BKK
  • Ballard's
  • Bang Pop
  • Bar Carolina
  • Bar Lourinha Little Collins Street
  • Basq
  • Bekka Moonee Ponds
  • Bellezza Malvern
  • Bello Piatto Croydon
  • Bellota South Melbourne
  • Bellotta Wine Bar
  • Berth Docklands
  • Big Elma Coburg
  • Birichino Balwyn
  • Bistro Gitan
  • Bistro Gitan Toorak Road, South Yarra
  • Bistro Sou Sou Fitzroy
  • Bistrot Bisou
  • Bistrot D'Orsay Collins St
  • Bluestone Restaurant Wollert
  • Bocca Pizzeria Warrandyte
  • Bon Ap Fitzroy
  • Boon Chou
  • Bottega Bourke Street
  • Braybrook Hotel
  • Brother Bon Northcote
  • Brother Shota Albert Park
  • Builders Arms
  • Ca de Vin
  • Cafe La Wheels Seaford
  • Cafe Saffron
  • Cafe Southall Hampton
  • Caffe e Cucina
  • Caffe e Torta
  • Capitano Carlton
  • Cardens Dandenong
  • Carluccis Templestowe
  • Carter Lovett
  • Casa Chino Brunswick
  • Casalinga Croydon
  • Cecconi's Flinders Lane
  • Cerberus Beach House Black Rock
  • Cervo
  • Cha Ching Little Flinders Street
  • Charntra Thai
  • Chiba Japanese Restaurant Moonee Ponds
  • China Bar
  • China Red Chinatown
  • Chine on Paramount
  • City Wine Shop
  • Clocks Hotel Flinders St
  • Club Kilsyth
  • Coconut House Moorabbin
  • Coda Flinders Lane
  • Cognoscenti Belgrave
  • Cookatoo Kitchen Richmond
  • Cooks Corner Kallista
  • Copperwood Carlton
  • Corner Store Mentone
  • Criniti's Southbank
  • Cumulus
  • Curry Town Carrum Downs
  • Cutler and Co
  • D'Penyet Lygon Street, Carlton
  • Da Giuseppe Bentleigh
  • Daughter in Law
  • Deer Park Club Ballarat Rd
  • DenDeke Japanese Bar & Dining
  • Dessous
  • Di Stasio
  • Diner on Franklin
  • Disco Pincho
  • Dodee Paidang Collins Street
  • Dolly
  • Dom's Social Club
  • Don't Tell Mama Doncaster
  • Donatos Mount Martha
  • Dujo
  • Elba Sorrento
  • Elios
  • Elwood Bathers
  • Emilia
  • Errol's North Melbourne
  • Escagrill Essendon
  • Estelle Northcote
  • European Spring Street
  • Evening Star South Melbourne Market
  • Fancy Hank's
  • Farm Vigano South Morang
  • Farmer's Daughter
  • Fiorelli Camberwell
  • Flora Flinders St
  • Flora's Flinders St
  • Frankies
  • Fruttellies Frankston
  • Gilbee's lower Johnston St, Abbotsford
  • Ging Thai Southbank
  • Goldy's Collingwood
  • Gradi
  • Grand Royal Mornington
  • Greca Oakleigh
  • Green Fields Vietnamese Restaurant Brunswick
  • Guac and Roll Bayswater
  • Harriot
  • Hawker Hall
  • Hazel CBD
  • Ho Liao
  • Hofbrauhaus Market Lane
  • Holy Basil Croydon
  • Hope and Spice Ascot Vale
  • Hopper Joint Greville Street, Prahran
  • Horn Please
  • Hotel Gitan
  • Hunky Dory Eaton Mall, Oakleigh
  • Il Caretto Carlton
  • Jacky Jones Reservoir
  • Jim's Tavern Collingwood
  • Jinda Thai
  • Johnny, Vince and Sam's Ristorante
  • Jolly Miller Doncaster
  • Juk Jut Thai Droop Street, Footscray
  • Julia's North Ringwood
  • Julie Restaurant Abbotsford Convent
  • K. Lee
  • Kafe on Hemmings Dandenong
  • Kazu Japanese Mornington
  • Kazuki Carlton
  • Ken Beaumaris
  • Kilsyth Club Kilsyth
  • Kirbie South Melbourne
  • Kisume Little Bourke Street
  • Kisumé
  • Knox Club
  • Kobi-Q Brunswick East
  • Koko's Crown
  • Korya Brunswick
  • Küche Kew East
  • La Spaghettata Lygon Street
  • Labbaik
  • Lady Dan Burwood Road, Hawthorn
  • Lagotto North Fitzroy
  • Lakeside Bakery Edwardes Street, Reservoir
  • Landing Place Essendon Fields
  • Lankan Tucker Lygon Street, Carlton
  • Laurent
  • Le Phan Sandringham
  • Le Tonkin Armadale
  • Lime Leaf Thai Ferntree Gully
  • Little Black Duck Wheelers Hill
  • Little Black Pig Heidelberg
  • Little Mexico Beaconsfield
  • Lobster Cave Beaumaris
  • Longsong
  • Lou Lu's
  • Lume
  • Lupino
  • Macaroni Trattoria Italiana
  • Madonna Electric
  • Maharani Indian Restaurant Bentleigh
  • Maja
  • Mama Noui Aspendale
  • Mammalinas Keilor Road
  • Mandarin Bistro Vermont
  • Many Hands Coldstream
  • Maria's Trattoria North Melbourne
  • Marmelo
  • Marquis of Lorne
  • Matteo's
  • Meat Me Oakleigh
  • Melba Buffet
  • Melba's
  • Melbourne Cellar Door
  • Melbourne Hwaro Korean BBQ
  • Melbourne Winery Flinders Lane
  • Middle Park Hotel
  • Miss Matt Carlisle Street, Balaclava
  • Miss Pearls
  • Mission District Ripponlea
  • Misuzu's Albert Park
  • Mitre Tavern
  • Mooks South Caulfield
  • Mornington Thai Restaurant
  • Mornington Yacht Club
  • Moroccan Soup Bar
  • Mountain Gate Nepalese Indian Restaurant
  • MoVida Next Door
  • MoVida Original
  • Mr Bianco Kew
  • Mr McKrakens Essendon Fields
  • Mr Ramen San
  • Mr Sandrin Bar Riversdale Road, Hawthorn
  • Mumtaaz Surrey Hills
  • Mustang Cottage Balnarring
  • Mya Tiger
  • Naga Moon Moonee Ponds
  • Naughtons Hotel
  • Navi Yarraville
  • Nicosia Malvern
  • No. 1 The Strand Williamstown
  • Nomad
  • Nonna's Place South Melbourne
  • Old Palm Liquor Lygon Street
  • Omi Japanese
  • Onda
  • OXI Tea Room
  • Pacific Barbecue & Grill South Yarra
  • Paper Plate Richmond
  • Parrot House Kensington
  • Passion Cafe Patterson Lakes
  • Past/Port The Waterside
  • Pastor's
  • Patris
  • Peko Peko South Melbourne
  • Pepe's
  • Pepe's Italian & Liquor
  • Phihellene Moonee Ponds
  • Philippe
  • Pincho Disco Collingwood
  • Pink Hill Hotel Berwick
  • Pizza Classe 90
  • PJ O'Brien's Southbank
  • Pochana
  • Poke the Bear
  • Proserpina Ferny Creek
  • Provence Hawthorn
  • Quan 88 St Kilda
  • Rabira's by the Bay
  • Rare Midtown
  • Red Emperor Little Bourke Street
  • Regretless
  • Reine & La Rue Collins Street
  • Remy Glenferrie Rd
  • Remy's Malvern
  • Republica Economica South Yarra
  • Ricardo's Albert Park
  • Rice Fields Avondale Heights
  • Rice Paddy Thai South Yarra
  • Richmond Oysters
  • River Kwai Clayton South
  • Riverland Bar
  • Rosa Mao Little Bourke St
  • Rosie's
  • Roti Bar
  • Roule Galette
  • Rowano's Croydon
  • Rubira's Port Melbourne
  • Ruzia's Wine Bar Caulfield
  • S.OWL Carnegie
  • Sages Cottage Baxter
  • Saigon Dumplings
  • Saigon Square
  • Salsa's
  • Salted Egg
  • San Marzano Docklands
  • Seamstress
  • Sebastian's Williamstown
  • Second Home Eltham
  • Serai
  • Shamrock Sunbury
  • Shanikas Berwick
  • Shiraz Upper Ferntree Gully
  • Shop225
  • SHU
  • Sincero Glenferrie Road, Malvern
  • Sip Society Dingley Village
  • Sip'N'Bite North Rd, near Ormond
  • Sofia Camberwell
  • SoPho Sogood High Street, Ashburton
  • Southbank Spices
  • Spitfire Rosebud
  • Sporting Club Hotel Brunswick
  • Steak Grill Hardware Lane
  • Stonemill Lygon Street, Brunswick
  • Sugo Armadale
  • Sumalee Centre Road, Bentleigh
  • Sunni Dumplings Notting Hill
  • Super Inn Chinatown
  • Super Taco Crossley Lane
  • Suze
  • Taverna Brunswick
  • Teatro Southgate
  • Tedesca Mornington Peninsula
  • Teller Brunswick East
  • Temaki Sushi Little Collins Street
  • Thai Town
  • The Boot Factory Pentridge
  • The Bot
  • The Cellar Bar Bourke St
  • The Courthouse North Melbourne
  • The Cray Essendon
  • The Dubliner Mornington
  • The Edinburgh Castle Brunswick
  • The European Middle Park
  • The Fitz
  • The Food Republic Blackburn
  • The Galleon Carlisle Street, St Kilda
  • The Garden Restaurant NGV
  • The George
  • The Graham Hotel Port Melbourne
  • The Langham
  • The Last Jar
  • The Little French Deli Bonbeach
  • The Main Cafe Berwick
  • The Meat & Wine Co
  • The Meatball & Wine Bar Flinders Lane
  • The Northern Git Thornbury
  • The Olive Tree South Melbourne
  • The Press Club
  • The Rising Sun South Melbourne
  • The Sands Hotel Carrum Downs
  • The Spice Yard 75 Pier St, Altona
  • The Waterside Hotel Port Melbourne
  • Tocca Werribee
  • Tofulicious Richmond
  • Tonda Preston
  • Tonda Italia Preston
  • Topolino's
  • Transport Hotel
  • Umberto's Thornbury
  • University Cafe
  • Up Stairs
  • Vinh Cuu North Melbourne
  • Vinh Ky Victoria Street, Abbotsford
  • Vivace Restaurant Brighton
  • Vlado's
  • Wangs East Bentleigh
  • Westlake Chinese
  • Yakimono
  • Yorkshire Stingo Hotel
  • Young and Jackson's
  • Yoyogi Sushi Train & Hand-Roll Bar Swanston Street
  • Yu & J's
  • Yugen
  • Yum Sing House
  • Zareh

Why you can trust this list

Morning Post is a free daily newsletter read by Melburnians across Melbourne. This guide is built from the places our readers — locals who actually live and eat here — tell us are their favourites, counted by hand and refreshed every month.

No restaurant can pay to appear. No critics, no sponsors, no algorithms — just the spots Melbourne readers name most often.

Updated August 2026.

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