Food and drink in Melbourne

Melbourne food guide: where to find real specialty coffee, Queen Victoria Market food tours, Yarra Valley wine, rooftop bars and honest laneway tips.

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Best brunch in Melbourne: where locals actually queue

Melbourne's best brunch spots, from Higher Ground to Top Paddock, with honest advice on queues, bookings and what to order.

Melbourne's best laneway cafés and where to find them

A walkable guide to Melbourne's best laneway cafés — Degraves Street, Centre Place, Block Place and beyond — with what to order and when to go.

Best restaurants in Melbourne: an honest guide by budget and style

Melbourne's best restaurants across price tiers, from Chin Chin and Supernormal to Attica, with realistic booking advice and price expectations.

Chinatown Melbourne: the oldest in the Western world

Melbourne's Chinatown on Little Bourke Street dates to the 1850s gold rush — here's its history, best restaurants and how to visit well.

Melbourne's craft beer scene: breweries worth a detour

Melbourne's best craft breweries, from Mountain Goat to Stomping Ground, plus honest advice on tap rooms, tours and getting between them.

Dandenong Market: Melbourne's multicultural produce market

Dandenong Market, in Melbourne's south-east, is one of the city's best multicultural food markets — here's what to buy and how to get there.

Footscray and Little Saigon: Melbourne's best Vietnamese food

Footscray's Little Saigon precinct has Melbourne's best-value Vietnamese food — here's where to eat, what to order and how to get there.

Lygon Street: Melbourne's Italian heart, honestly assessed

Lygon Street's Italian restaurant history, which spots still deliver, and where the strip has become more tourist trap than trattoria.

Melbourne coffee guide: the cafés that earned the city's reputation

Why Melbourne calls itself a coffee capital, the roasters and cafés that back it up, and how to order like a local rather than a tourist.

Melbourne food tours: which one is actually worth booking

An honest comparison of Melbourne's main food tour formats — laneway, market and culinary walking tours — and which suits which traveller.

Mornington Peninsula wineries: wine, coast and hot springs in one day

Mornington Peninsula's best wineries, from Ten Minutes by Tractor to Montalto, and how to combine cellar doors with the coast and hot springs.

What to eat at Queen Victoria Market: a food-first guide

The dim sims, doughnuts, cheese and Deli Hall stalls worth queuing for at Queen Victoria Market, plus the Wednesday night market's food trucks.

Melbourne's best rooftop bars for a city view and a drink

Melbourne's best rooftop bars, from the original Curtin House Rooftop to Naked for Satan, with honest advice on crowds, weather and booking.

Yarra Valley wine guide: the wineries worth your day trip

Yarra Valley's best wineries, from historic Yering Station to Domaine Chandon, plus honest advice on tours versus self-drive and what to actually book.