Looking for the best restaurants in Melbourne? Here’s our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.
Looking for our new list? Check out our 2015 list of Melbourne’s best restaurants.
Attica
Attica
Tiny balls of steamed snow crab sit among buckwheat, purslane and 12 types of basil leaves in an exquisite shiitake broth…
Read our full review of Attica.
Cutler & Co.
Cutler & Co.
Just as the room at Cutler & Co. – a dark, sexy mix of luxe and rustic, from worn brick walls to softest grey leather banquettes – feels as fresh and exciting as ever, so does Andrew McConnell’s subtle and joyful menu.
Read our full review of Cutler & Co.
Vue de Monde
Vue de Monde
Shannon Bennett’s flagship is a perfect example of dining as theatre. There’s the view, of course – a million lights surrounding the dark-hued dining room, with its neon sculptures and kangaroo hide-covered furniture.
Read our full review of Vue de Monde.
Jacques Reymond
Jacques Reymond
For 21 years, this grand 19th-century mansion has been a beacon of élite dining in Melbourne.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Jacques Reymond closed in 2014.
Flower Drum
Flower Drum
If any Melbourne restaurant warrants the label “institution” it’s Flower Drum. It deserves accolades for longevity alone (it’s now in its fourth decade), but what’s more remarkable about this Cantonese classic is the unwavering maintenance of quality and attention to detail.
Read our full review of Flower Drum.
Rockpool Bar & Grill
Rockpool Bar & Grill
Rockpool is a steady culinary ship. The food is reliably excellent, the service is always polished, the wine list includes the good and the grand, and the masculine dining room makes any meal an occasion.
Read our full review of Rockpool Bar & Grill, Melbourne.
Café Di Stasio
Café Di Stasio
The opening of Bar Di Stasio next door to its 25-year-old big brother Café Di Stasio has created a painful dilemma: to stay in the elegantly austere bar or to slip through into the carpeted dining room with its linen-draped tables.
Read our full review of Café Di Stasio.
Pei Modern
Pei Modern
In the short time since it opened in the terrarium-like Sofitel forecourt, Mark Best’s smart-casual bistro has lodged emphatically in the Melbourne dining repertoire.
Read our full review of Pei Modern.
The Point
The Point
Maybe it’s a feng shui thing, the feeling of being surrounded by all that water, with the tables spaced just so…
Grossi Florentino
Grossi Florentino
A renovation in early 2013 saw Melbourne’s grandest Italian restaurant emerge not just looking the goods with a new private room, bar and bathrooms but with the entire package displaying newfound spring and swagger.
Read our full review of Grossi Florentino.
