The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Greasy Zoes
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Rank 1. Greasy Zoes
Modern Australian
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Rank 2. Eleonore's
Modern Australian
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Rank 3. Minamishima
Omakase Japanese
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Rank 4. 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 5. 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 6. 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 7. Amaru
Modern Australian
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Rank 8. 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 9. Vue de Monde
Modern Australian
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Rank 10. Levantine Hill
Mediterranean
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Rank 11. IDES
Modern Australian
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Rank 12. Restaurant Gaea
Modern Australian
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Rank 13. Enoteca Boccaccio
Italian
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Rank 14. Kazuki's
Japanese
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Rank 15. Re’em
Modern Australian
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Rank 16. Yiaga
Modern Australian
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Rank 17. Enter Via Laundry
Indian
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Rank 18. 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 19. SUSHI ON
Japanese
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Rank 21. Ishizuka
Kaiseki Japanese
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Rank 22. Al Dente Enoteca
Italian
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Rank 24. TarraWarra Estate Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 26. MoVida Aqui
Spanish
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Rank 28. Etta
Modern Australian
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Rank 29. The Recreation Bistro & Bottleshop
Modern Australian
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Rank 31. Bar Magnolia
Modern Australian
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Rank 32. Circl Wine House
Modern Australian
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Rank 33. 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 34. Zareh
Middle Eastern
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Rank 35. 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 36. Society
Modern Australian
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Rank 37. Bar Liberty
Modern Australian
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Rank 38. Smith Street Bistro
French
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Rank 39. Lee Ho Fook
Chinese
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Rank 40. Scopri
Italian
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Rank 41. Kisume
Japanese
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Rank 42. Orlo
Mediterranean
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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 44. Anchovy
Vietnamese
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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 47. Lagotto
Italian
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Rank 48. 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 49. Bistra
Modern Australian
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Rank 51. Reine & La Rue
French
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Rank 52. 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 53. Clover
Modern Australian
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Rank 54. Warabi
Japanese
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Rank 55. Sogumm
Korean
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Rank 56. Freyja
Modern Australian
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Rank 57. AOI.TSUKI.
Japanese
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Rank 58. 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.
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Rank 60. Saadi
Indian
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Rank 61. Longrain
Thai
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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 63. Di Stasio Citta
Italian
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Rank 64. Bar Lourinha
Spanish
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Rank 65. Florentino
Italian
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Rank 67. Askal
Filipino
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Rank 68. Cumulus Inc.
Modern Australian
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Rank 69. Farmer's Daughters
Modern Australian
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Rank 70. Cecconi's
Italian
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Rank 71. No.7 Healesville
Modern Australian
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Rank 72. Marmelo
Portuguese
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Rank 73. Embla
Modern Australian
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Rank 74. Philippe
French
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Rank 75. 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 78. Nomad Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 80. Tipo 00
Italian
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Rank 81. Osteria Ilaria
Italian
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Rank 82. Serai
Filipino
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Rank 83. 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 85. Caterina's Cucina E Bar
Italian
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Rank 86. Sachi Japanese Restaurant
Japanese
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.
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Rank 88. 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.
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Rank 90. Maha Restaurant
Middle Eastern
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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. Bacash
Modern Australian
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Rank 94. Bar Carolina
Italian
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Rank 95. Doju
Korean
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Rank 96. Harriot
French
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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.
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Rank 98. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 99. UMINONO
Japanese
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Rank 100. 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.