# Top 10 Restaurants in Melbourne

A cross-section of Melbourne dining from fine-dining rooms to the migrant-food institutions that define the city's everyday eating. · community starter list

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.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [Australia](/australia.md) / Melbourne
**Updated:** 2026-08-25 14:51:59

1. **[Attica](/e/attica---1216.md)** (restaurant) — Ben Shewry's set-menu restaurant, taken over and reshaped from 2005, built around native Australian ingredients and set-menu tasting courses. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_(restaurant), https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/ripponlea/restaurants/attica
2. **[Vue de Monde](/e/vue-de-monde---1217.md)** (restaurant) — 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. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/restaurants/vue-de-monde, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vue_de_Monde
3. **[Flower Drum](/e/flower-drum---1218.md)** (restaurant) — Cantonese institution founded by Gilbert Lau in Chinatown's Market Lane, known for table-side Peking duck and decades of loyal bookings. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/restaurants/flower-drum, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_Drum
4. **[Stalactites](/e/stalactites---1219.md)** (restaurant) — Family-run Greek restaurant on Lonsdale Street since 1978, its cave-like ceiling modelled on the Diros caves near founder Kon's home village. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalactites_(restaurant), https://www.stalactites.com.au/about-us
5. **[Rumi](/e/rumi---1220.md)** (restaurant) — Joseph Abboud's Middle Eastern restaurant, open since 2006 and now in Brunswick East, cooking Lebanese and Persian dishes over charcoal. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/brunswick-east/restaurants/rumi, https://www.rumirestaurant.com.au/
6. **[The Napier Hotel](/e/the-napier-hotel---1221.md)** (restaurant) — Fitzroy corner pub trading since 1866, under new ownership since late 2025 with the same pressed-metal bar and classic pub-bistro menu. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/food-and-drink/article/napier-fitzroy-new-owners, https://www.thenapierhotel.com.au/
7. **[Cafe Lalibela](/e/cafe-lalibela---1222.md)** (restaurant) — One of Melbourne's oldest Ethiopian restaurants, on Footscray's Irving Street, serving slow-cooked meat and lentil stews on injera. — score 0 — endorsements 0 — sources: https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/restaurants/cafe-lalibela, https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/footscray/restaurants/cafe-lalibela

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