Monday, August 31, 2026

The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Coffee Supreme

  1. 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.


  2. Rank 2. Minamishima

    Omakase Japanese



  3. Rank 4. Anchovy

    Vietnamese


  4. 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.


  5. Rank 6. Clover

    Modern Australian


  6. 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.


  7. Rank 8. Orlo

    Mediterranean


  8. Rank 9. IDES

    Modern Australian




  9. Rank 12. Restaurant Gaea

    Modern Australian


  10. 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.


  11. Rank 14. Yiaga

    Modern Australian


  12. A glass wall separates you from the roasting floor, so you can watch the hot-air roasters running while you drink what they just finished. This roastery cafe in a converted Collingwood brick warehouse pours consistent espresso blends alongside rotating single origins, and the sunlit courtyard fills fast on a good morning. The New Zealand brand has been around forever, but the Melbourne outpost feels like it belongs here completely.


  13. Rank 16. Zareh

    Middle Eastern


  14. Rank 17. Bar Liberty

    Modern Australian


  15. Black coffee only, full stop. Aunty Peg's is the roasting headquarters and tasting room for Proud Mary Coffee, tucked into a two-story Collingwood warehouse where the espresso bar doubles as a kind of classroom. Baristas walk you through pour-overs and microlots with the focused energy of sommeliers who've given up on casual drinkers. If you were planning to ask for oat milk, plan differently.



  16. 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.


  17. 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.


  18. Rank 22. Lagotto

    Italian



  19. Rank 24. 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.




  20. A converted warehouse painted almost entirely white, with the roastery sitting in plain view so nothing happens behind closed doors. This specialty coffee shop in Collingwood leans hard into light roasts and single origins, the kind of place where the coffee is the décor. It draws the pour-over crowd who treat their morning brew with the same seriousness other people reserve for wine, which is either admirable or a lot, depending on your Tuesday.


  21. 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.


  22. Rank 29. Ishizuka

    Kaiseki Japanese


  23. Rank 30. Circl Wine House

    Modern Australian




  24. Rank 33. Cumulus Inc.

    Modern Australian



  25. Rank 35. Vue de Monde

    Modern Australian


  26. Rank 36. Society

    Modern Australian




  27. 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.



  28. Rank 41. Saadi

    Indian


  29. Rank 42. Kazuki's

    Japanese



  30. Rank 44. Scopri

    Italian


  31. Rank 45. Kisume

    Japanese


  32. Rank 46. Farmer's Daughters

    Modern Australian


  33. Rank 47. Askal

    Filipino


  34. Rank 48. Marmelo

    Portuguese




  35. Rank 51. Amaru

    Modern Australian






  36. Rank 56. Embla

    Modern Australian





  37. Rank 60. 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.


  38. 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.



  39. Rank 63. Nomad Melbourne

    Modern Australian



  40. Rank 65. Bistra

    Modern Australian


  41. Rank 66. 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.


  42. Rank 67. Bacash

    Modern Australian



  43. Rank 69. Warabi

    Japanese



  44. Rank 71. Freyja

    Modern Australian



  45. Rank 73. Tipo 00

    Italian



  46. Rank 75. Serai

    Filipino


  47. Rank 76. Maha Restaurant

    Middle Eastern


  48. 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.


  49. Rank 78. Atria

    Modern Australian

    Fire anchors the kitchen at this hotel fine dining room in Melbourne's CBD, where the menu moves through Australian land and sea with the restraint of a place that doesn't need to shout. The produce comes from named farmers and fishermen around the country, and the cooking lets that lineage do the work. An Australian Good Food Guide Two Hat restaurant, with a wine list that takes provenance as seriously as the food does.


  50. Dry-aged seafood sits at the center of everything here, a Japanese restaurant on Queen Street where the counter omakase and chirashi bowls draw a quiet, loyal lunch crowd from the surrounding offices. The menu runs from quick sashimi plates to a full omakase sitting, so the room works for both a grabbed weekday meal and something slower. The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat, which tracks with the precision on the plate.




  51. Rank 82. Luci

    Modern Australian

    The art deco bones of Equity Chambers on Bourke Street give this contemporary Australian restaurant more grandeur than it probably needs, and it leans in accordingly. The menu runs Italian-inflected, from breakfast through dinner, with the kind of crowd that treats eggs Benedict as a reasonable way to start a Wednesday. Evenings shift toward crudo and house-made pasta with enough anchovy to mean it.


  52. Rank 83. Doju

    Korean




  53. Rank 86. UMINONO

    Japanese


  54. Rank 87. SUSHI ON

    Japanese



  55. Vivid wall murals and a glowing open bar set the mood at this Asian small-plates restaurant inside the Mövenpick Hotel, where the menu wanders from Vietnamese to Sri Lankan without apology. The kitchen leans on traditional techniques while nudging dishes in unexpected directions, beef rendang alongside ceviche with desert lime preserve. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, and the Vietnamese espresso martini is a reasonable way to start.


  56. Rank 90. Etta

    Modern Australian





  57. Rank 94. From Here by Mike

    Modern Australian


  58. The charcoal Josper grill does a lot of the heavy lifting at this sleek Japanese restaurant in South Melbourne, where the kitchen leans on technique rather than theatrics. Black leather, potted greenery, and quiet minimalist bones make it feel composed without trying too hard. The chef is from a fishing village in Hokkaido, and that background shows in cooking that takes handmade Japanese food seriously. An Australian Good Food Guide Hat is on the record.



  59. Rank 97. Tomo-An

    Japanese



  60. Rank 99. Bar Magnolia

    Modern Australian



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