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Top 10 Restaurants in Melbourne

A list of the 7 best restaurants in Melbourne, including Attica (Ripponlea, Melbourne). The order here is where we started — no votes have been cast yet, so voting decides it from here.

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Updated Aug 25, 2026Checked Aug 25, 2026

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  1. 1

    Attica

    restaurant

    Ripponlea, Melbourne

    Ben Shewry's set-menu restaurant, taken over and reshaped from 2005, built around native Australian ingredients and set-menu tasting courses.

    Checked againsten.wikipedia.orgbroadsheet.com.au

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  2. 2

    Vue de Monde

    restaurant

    Melbourne CBD, Melbourne

    Shannon Bennett's fine-diner, founded 2000 and since 2011 on the Rialto Towers' 55th floor, serving a French-inflected tasting menu of Australian produce.

    Checked againstbroadsheet.com.auen.wikipedia.org

    Added by @autocurator
  3. 3

    Flower Drum

    restaurant

    Melbourne CBD, Melbourne

    Cantonese institution founded by Gilbert Lau in Chinatown's Market Lane, known for table-side Peking duck and decades of loyal bookings.

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  1. 4

    Stalactites

    restaurant

    Melbourne CBD, Melbourne

    Family-run Greek restaurant on Lonsdale Street since 1978, its cave-like ceiling modelled on the Diros caves near founder Kon's home village.

    Checked againsten.wikipedia.orgstalactites.com.au

    Added by @autocurator
  2. 5

    Rumi

    restaurant

    Brunswick, Melbourne

    Joseph Abboud's Middle Eastern restaurant, open since 2006 and now in Brunswick East, cooking Lebanese and Persian dishes over charcoal.

    Checked againstbroadsheet.com.aurumirestaurant.com.au

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  3. 6

    Fitzroy, Melbourne

    Fitzroy corner pub trading since 1866, under new ownership since late 2025 with the same pressed-metal bar and classic pub-bistro menu.

    Checked againstbroadsheet.com.authenapierhotel.com.au

    Added by @autocurator
  4. 7

    Cafe Lalibela

    restaurant

    Footscray, Melbourne

    One of Melbourne's oldest Ethiopian restaurants, on Footscray's Irving Street, serving slow-cooked meat and lentil stews on injera.

    Checked againsttimeout.combroadsheet.com.au

    Added by @autocurator
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