Food & Drink in Melbourne

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For my comprehensive guide to enjoying Melbourne click here. 

Food:

Australian Style Foods:

  • Charcoal Lane (Fitzroy) has Indigenous cuisine. One of my favourite places.
  • Metro Burgers (Degraves Street), try out the kangaroo burger, emu burger or crocodile burger.
  • The Napier Hotel (Fitzroy) has amazing kangaroo steak.  
Vietnamese: 
  • Pho Dzung City Noodle Shop
  • Love Pho Restaurant Richmond
Italian
  • 400 Gradi (2014 World's Best Pizza)
  • Doc Espresso
  • Ca De Vin
Mexican:
  • Vamos
Thai:
  • Soi 38 (Carpark Thai)
Greek:
  • Melina on the Rooftop
  • Stalactites
Malaysian:
  • Laksa King (Flemington)
Dumplings:
  • Shanghai Dragon Dumplings (Russell St)
  • Empress of China
Other Good Foods:
  • Moroccan Soup Bar (Fitzroy) 
  • Kodiak Club (Fitzroy): American/Canadian style foods, make sure to try out the cheeseburger spring rolls they will change your life. 


Best Cafes

  • The Little Denn
  • Jungle Juice
  • Manchester PRess
  • Captains of Industry
  • Little Rogue
  • Father John
  • Mr Tulk
  • Stagger Lee
  • Archies All Day
  • Sonido
  • The Kettle Black
  • Code Black Coffee

Bars:


  • Naked for Satan: Named for the Russian migrant Leon Satanovic who used to make vodka illegally in their basement completely naked. 
  • Madame Brussels: Named after the most infamous Madame in the Melbourne red light precinct. 
  • New Gold Mountain: Named for the Chinese arrivals to Melbourne via the Californian Gold fields. Melbourne was known as 'New Gold Mountain' by them, but today it is a cute hangout with 100% Australian products only. 
  • Romeo Lane:
  • Arlechin: Hidden in Mornane Place it pays tribute to the harlequin, a character who is dark, moody, studious and a bit playful. 
  • The Everleigh: Recently voted the best cocktail bar in Australia. Enough said. 
  • The Black Pearl: Amazing cocktails in Fitzroy
  • Mjolner: Viking bar where when you order a beer it is served to you... in a viking horn. 
  • Pizza Pizza Pizza: Hidden behind a pizza store, go through the staff only door, past the curtain and into the quaint little speakeasy. 
  • Joe Taylors: 
  • Harley House: Famous for the Pisco Sours 
  • Bar Americano: Exclusive cocktail hangout with capacity for only 10 people. 
  • Trinket: 'Narnia Bar' - through the restaurant you will find a wardrobe which inside has a secret passage down to another bar. 

Craft Beer:
  • West Side Ale Works
  • Slowbeer Fitzroy
  • Fixation
  • The Royston
  • Sun Moth

Live Music Venues
  • Murmur 
  • Paris Jazz Cat
  • The Old Bar
  • The Tote


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