The Top 100 Places to Eat Near CHAE
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Rank 1. CHAE
Korean
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Rank 2. O.MY Restaurant & Bar
Modern Australian
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Rank 3. Coombe Yarra Valley
Modern Australian
The hedges along Maroondah Highway hide a working winery estate that once belonged to Dame Nellie Melba, and the restaurant inside leans into that history with a seasonal à la carte menu and, yes, a Peach Melba on the dessert list. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat. The art collection and cellar door are right there if you want to make a day of it, which most people do.
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Rank 4. Re’em
Modern Australian
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Rank 5. Levantine Hill
Mediterranean
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Rank 6. TarraWarra Estate Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 7. No.7 Healesville
Modern Australian
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Rank 8. Eleonore's
Modern Australian
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Rank 9. Emerald City
Modern Australian New American
Four seats behind a dark green curtain inside a whisky bar, with a multi-course tasting menu that changes daily and a centuries-old Tasmanian myrtle bench to eat it at. Emerald City is invitation-only dining at its most compact, the kind of place where the chef is also your host, neighbor, and probably the person who foraged your lunch. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Hat.
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Rank 10. Neeri Nuff Wine Bar & Kitchen
Modern New American
A wine bar and kitchen in a small Gippsland town, Neeri Nuff leans hard into the paddock-to-plate ethos without making you feel lectured about it. The menu rotates with the seasons, and the wine list is built around boutique regional makers you're unlikely to find anywhere else. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide One Chef Hat. The room is relaxed enough that you won't feel underdressed for showing up in muddy boots.
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Rank 12. SUSHI ON
Japanese
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Rank 13. Enoteca Boccaccio
Italian
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Rank 14. Greasy Zoes
Modern Australian
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Rank 15. Amaru
Modern Australian
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Rank 17. Bottarga
Italian
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Rank 18. Attica
Modern Australian
Ben Shewry's fine-dining room in a quiet Ripponlea street is the kind of place where a spoonful of native honey arrives as a course and somehow that feels completely logical. The degustation menu moves through ingredients most menus have never heard of, leaning hard into Australian native produce and the kind of sourcing that borders on obsessive. It holds three chef hats from the Australian Good Food Guide. Clear your evening and your card.
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Rank 19. Minamishima
Omakase Japanese
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Rank 20. Steer Dining Room
Modern Australian
A wagyu-focused fine dining room in South Yarra where the menu is essentially a graduate seminar on breed, marbling, and provenance. Australian and Japanese A5 cuts are aged in-house and cooked over a hibachi grill, served simply enough that the beef does the arguing. The room is warm and understated, the sommelier knows when to stop talking, and the service hits that rare register of polished without stiff. Ranked 29th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list.
- World's 101 Best #29 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 21. Messmates Dining
Modern Australian
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Rank 22. Tulum Restaurant
Turkish
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Rank 24. Anchovy
Vietnamese
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Rank 26. UMINONO
Japanese
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Rank 27. Sogumm
Korean
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Rank 28. Clover
Modern Australian
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Rank 30. AOI.TSUKI.
Japanese
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Rank 31. Matilda 159 Domain
Modern Australian
An open fire grill anchors everything at Scott Pickett's modern Australian restaurant in South Yarra, where dry-aged beef meets live coals with the kind of discipline that makes you stop mid-bite. The room runs to warm wood and natural textures, the wine list leans Australian, and the service has that easy confidence that never tips into theatre. Ranked among the World's Best Steak Restaurants, it holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat too.
- World's 101 Best #79 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 32. Bar Carolina
Italian
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Rank 33. Victor Churchill
Steakhouse
The glass-walled dry-ageing chambers aren't decoration; they're the thesis statement. Victor Churchill is a steakhouse-meets-butcher-shop in Armadale where premium Australian beef is aged, cut, and grilled with the kind of restraint that lets the meat do the talking. The amber-lit interior runs to polished timber and bronze detailing, and it lands on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list. The wine programme skews deep and serious.
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Rank 34. Bacash
Modern Australian
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Rank 35. Donovans
Modern Australian
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Rank 36. Shu Restaurant
Sichuan
A plant-only Sichuan restaurant in an industrial Collingwood space, Shu has been quietly dismantling the assumption that vegan dining means polite and beige. The kitchen leans into the bold, numbing heat of southwest Chinese cooking, and the ten-course degustation does the convincing. There's also a cocktail bar tucked inside, which helps explain the crowd's relaxed commitment to staying a while. The Australian Good Food Guide gives it two Chef Hats.
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Rank 37. Hogget Kitchen
Modern Australian
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The name is a timer: dough ferments for 48 hours before it ever sees a flame, which gives the crust at this Neapolitan-style pizzeria in South Yarra its particular lightness. Exposed red brick, an informal room, and a menu that splits into classic, gourmet, and seasonal pies, including one topped with kangaroo salami and macadamia pesto via a collaboration with Aboriginal producers. Homemade gnocchi round things out. It ranked 93rd on 50 Top Pizza World.
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Rank 39. IDES
Modern Australian
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Rank 40. Yiaga
Modern Australian
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A Josper grill anchors the kitchen at this Latin American fire-cooking restaurant near Smith Street, where the smoke and the playlist both run loud. Tasting menus, à la carte, bottomless brunch on weekends, tacos on Tuesdays, Wagyu on Wednesdays: they keep the calendar full enough that regulars barely need to think. The cocktails have attitude to match. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 42. Orlo
Mediterranean
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Rank 43. Restaurant Gaea
Modern Australian
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Rank 44. Gimlet at Cavendish House
European
Andrew McConnell's fine dining room inside the grand Cavendish House on Russell Street turns on an open fire grill and dry-aged Victorian and South Australian beef, which landed Gimlet a spot on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list. The room manages to feel glamorous without feeling stiff, and the wine list reads like someone actually thought about what goes with the food rather than just buying everything.
- World's 101 Best #62 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Restaurant Bar – APAC
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Rank 45. Smith Street Bistro
French
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Rank 46. Zareh
Middle Eastern
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Rank 47. ISH Restaurant
Indian
Exposed brick and copper fittings across two levels, with furniture shipped over from India, set the tone at this Indian-inspired bar and restaurant on Gertrude Street. The kitchen moves between tradition and improvisation, pairing familiar subcontinental flavors with the kind of lateral thinking Fitzroy restaurants tend to reward. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat. Go when you want spice with your natural wine.
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Rank 48. Bar Liberty
Modern Australian
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Rank 49. The Recreation Bistro & Bottleshop
Modern Australian
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Rank 52. Di Stasio Citta
Italian
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Rank 53. Lee Ho Fook
Chinese
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Rank 54. Cumulus Inc.
Modern Australian
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Rank 56. Ishizuka
Kaiseki Japanese
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Rank 57. Cecconi's
Italian
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Rank 58. Society
Modern Australian
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Hand rolls you build yourself, from platters of seafood and Wagyu laid out at your own pace, served on ceramics the kitchen threw in its own pottery studio. Temaki Sushi is an intimate omakase-style hand roll restaurant on Little Collins Street, running a seasonal menu tied to produce from the team's farm in the Dandenong Ranges. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat, which feels about right for a place this quietly sure of itself.
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Rank 60. Lagotto
Italian
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Rank 61. Bar Lourinha
Spanish
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Rank 62. Circl Wine House
Modern Australian
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Rank 63. Kisume
Japanese
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Rank 65. Marmelo
Portuguese
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Rank 66. Flower Drum
Cantonese
Flower Drum has been a Melbourne institution long enough that regulars book the same table year after year and the staff already know what they want. It's a formal Cantonese restaurant tucked into a lane off Chinatown, white-tablecloth serious, where the roast duck is carved tableside and the service runs like the dining room has something to prove. The Australian Good Food Guide awards it two Chef Hats, and the room's quiet confidence suggests it has never needed to mention that.
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Rank 67. Farmer's Daughters
Modern Australian
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Rank 69. Al Dente Enoteca
Italian
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Rank 70. Philippe
French
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Rank 71. Florentino
Italian
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Rank 72. Longrain
Thai
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Rank 73. Saadi
Indian
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Rank 74. Askal
Filipino
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Rank 75. Nomad Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 77. Embla
Modern Australian
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Rank 78. Enter Via Laundry
Indian
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Rank 79. Scopri
Italian
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Rank 80. Coffee Supreme
Coffee
The roasters share the floor with the cafe here, so the smell hits you before the door fully opens. Coffee Supreme's Abbotsford warehouse is a specialty coffee shop built around their own beans, with espresso blends alongside rotating single-origin filters. The red branding is hard to miss, the timber interior is easy to linger in, and the merch wall will test your self-control if you came in just for a flat white.
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Rank 82. Il Bacaro
Venetian
White linen and polished service set the tone at this long-running Venetian Italian in the heart of the city, where the cooking stays close to the lagoon, pasta and all. The menu leans into the kind of regional specificity that doesn't need to announce itself, and the room runs with quiet assurance. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 83. Vue de Monde
Modern Australian
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Rank 84. Akaiito
Japanese
A red thread of light twists across the ceiling of this moody Japanese fine dining room on Flinders Lane, its glow picked up by red plates below. Black marble, dark granite, and plush banquettes set the tone for a seasonal Kojin menu that moves between small plates and larger composed dishes. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it two chef hats, and the room feels like it was designed with that ambition in mind from the start.
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Rank 85. Kazuki's
Japanese
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Rank 86. Reine & La Rue
French
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- Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best International Bar Team – APAC
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Rank 89. Maha Restaurant
Middle Eastern
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Rank 90. Warabi
Japanese
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Rank 91. Bistra
Modern Australian
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A high-glam modern Pan-Asian restaurant on Flinders Lane from the team behind Cha Ching, where share plates move through bold Eastern flavours grounded in local ingredients. The room leans into occasion, so the crowd tends to dress accordingly. Clay pot duck and scallops with coconut bisque show the kitchen's range. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 93. MoVida Aqui
Spanish
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Rank 94. Oxi Tea Room
Modern Australian
Whole-leaf oolong and black teas sourced from Kenya and Taiwan are the anchor here, not a backdrop to something else. Oxi Tea Room is a high tea spot in Carlton where the tea is treated with the seriousness usually reserved for wine, and the housemade desserts lean into native Australian ingredients, lemon myrtle, green ants, and all. It holds two Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide, which tracks for a room that takes the kettle this seriously.
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Rank 95. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 96. Tipo 00
Italian
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Rank 97. Freyja
Modern Australian
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Rank 98. Osteria Ilaria
Italian
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Rank 99. Serai
Filipino
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