The Best Restaurants in Melbourne
The places Melbourne locals love most — chosen by Morning Post readers, refreshed every month.
Top of the list
The three Melburnians named most
Chin Chin
23 readers named itPicked by Ami, Michelle, Allyson, Suzana — and 19 more. “Chin chin hands down.” — Ami
Gimlet
18 readers named itPicked by Aristide, Eleanor, Michael, Joanne — and 14 more. its class, customer service, food and atmosphere
Supernormal
13 readers named itPicked by Michael, Jacqueline, Jane, Chris — and 9 more. “Supernormal is the best!” — Jane
Everyone else
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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