Fine dining in Melbourne
Melbourne's awash with high quality cafés and restaurants so you're always guaranteed to get a satisfying meal. Sometimes, however, there's a need for more than just a bite to eat and when it's an entire dining experience you're after, Melbourne's your city. World-class chefs, innovative cuisines, perfectly matched wines and quirky venues characterise fine dining in Melbourne. Try the selection below.
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Informal yet sophisticated, this innovative Italian gives exemplary service, while the open kitchen provides a floor show. For reasonable prices, enjoy duck with grappa or Marche-style olives.
11–25 Crossley Street, Melbourne
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Sleek and stylish, this well-known restaurant epitomises South Yarra chic. The menu is sometimes rustic, but always as refined as their loyal patrons.
169 Domain Road, South Yarra
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A simple space of subdued comfort, broken with the occasional funky feature, is matched by modern Italian food. Bow-tied waiters offer friendly service to both regulars and first-timers.
31a Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
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Executive chef Andrew McConnell's cuisine cruises the globe for exotic tastes. The food is only part of the attraction, jostling for attention with preening St Kilda fashionistas.
2 Acland Street, St Kilda
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With the feel of a funky beachside cottage, this laidback restaurant surprises with a produce-driven menu of mouth-watering dishes and great service.
40 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda
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Chef Teage Ezard has a reputation for creating elegant and provocative Asian-influenced dishes. With the plush surrounds, this is premium Melbourne dining.
187 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
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The first Fifteen restaurant Down Under. Simple Italian-inspired dishes let ingredients shine. Fifteen Melbourne offers a six-course degustation menu and boasts an impressive list of 550 wines.
115-117 Collins St, Melbourne
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Consistently lauded as the best Cantonese in Melbourne, the grace and elegance of the surrounds are a match for the seafood-focused and highly accomplished menu.
17 Market Lane, Melbourne
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Leather-bound menus and accented waiters give classic romantic appeal to this opulent fine-diner. The Cellar Bar offers a more casual alternative.
80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
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Stylish but not pretentious, and featuring occasional Brit surprises of offal or eel, Robin Wickens menu is predominantly elegant and European.
211 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
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The grand Victorian mansion is a suitably impressive stage for this gastronomic mecca. Reymond personally sources produce to make customers swoon.
78 Williams Road, Prahran
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Giving a new look to a sentimental favourite, Guy Grossi has revamped this fine diner with new interiors by architect Peter Elliot and restored murals by Mirka Mora.
42 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda
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Melbourne's society diners are falling over themselves to get to this world-renowned restaurant and try chef Nobu Matsuhisa's famed (yet conceptually unlikely) fusion of Japanese and Peruvian flavours.
Crown Entertainment Complex
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
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As warm and luminous as the gem for which it is named, this stylish restaurant offers truly multicultural cuisine with impressive attention to detail.
631 Church Street, Richmond
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Featuring several Flower Drum graduates, this seafood and yum cha specialist delivers some of the city's best Cantonese amid stellar Yarra River views.
3 Southgate Avenue, Southbank
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Woodfire-grilled meat and seafood head the menu at Neil Perry's gastronomic wonderland at Southbank.
Crown Entertainment Complex
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
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While the open fireplace keeps everyone cosy, the million-dollar beach views add glamour. Despite this, the venue is down-to-earth and child-friendly.
30 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda
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Pushing boundaries with great success, this fine diner serves Japanese-inspired food with complex flavours in a schmick space of chrome and glass.
Transport Hotel, Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne
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On the old Mrs Jones site is this fabulous eatery, with ex-Circa, The Prince chef Andrew McConnell heading up the pass. The degustation is the only way to go.
312 Drummond Street, Carlton
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Overlooking Fitzroy Gardens, both decor and cuisine are simple and light. Dallas Cuddy's time at London's Nobu shows in the strong Japanese influence.
1 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
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Chef Shannon Bennett's fine French food is displayed in all its splendour as a degustation-only experience. Set in an historic building, the restaurant space is as impressive as the food.
430 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
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