The Top 100 Places to Eat Near O.MY Restaurant & Bar
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Rank 1. O.MY Restaurant & Bar
Modern Australian
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Rank 2. CHAE
Korean
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Rank 3. Barmah Park Restaurant & Cellar Door
Modern New American
Vineyard views stretch out from the dining room at this cellar-door restaurant on the Mornington Peninsula, where the wine list draws from grapes grown on the property itself. The kitchen runs a modern Australian menu built around estate produce and regional seasonals, the kind of place where the sourcing conversation happens before you've ordered. An Australian Good Food Guide One Chef Hat sits on the record.
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Rank 4. Amaru
Modern Australian
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Rank 5. Bottarga
Italian
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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 8. 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 10. SUSHI ON
Japanese
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Rank 11. Tulum Restaurant
Turkish
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Rank 12. Enoteca Boccaccio
Italian
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Rank 13. 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 14. Levantine Hill
Mediterranean
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Rank 15. Re’em
Modern Australian
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Rank 16. Minamishima
Omakase Japanese
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Rank 17. UMINONO
Japanese
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Rank 19. Doot Doot Doot
Modern Australian
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Rank 20. Donovans
Modern Australian
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Rank 22. 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 23. Rare Hare
Modern Australian
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Rank 24. AOI.TSUKI.
Japanese
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Rank 25. Bar Carolina
Italian
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Rank 26. Sogumm
Korean
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Rank 27. Clover
Modern Australian
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Rank 28. Anchovy
Vietnamese
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Rank 29. Bacash
Modern Australian
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Rank 30. Eleonore's
Modern Australian
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Rank 32. 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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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 34. Yiaga
Modern Australian
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Rank 36. IDES
Modern Australian
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Rank 37. 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 38. Restaurant Gaea
Modern Australian
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Rank 39. 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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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 41. Atta Restaurant
Indian
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Rank 42. Orlo
Mediterranean
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Rank 43. Lee Ho Fook
Chinese
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Rank 45. Vue de Monde
Modern Australian
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Rank 46. Ishizuka
Kaiseki Japanese
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Rank 47. Di Stasio Citta
Italian
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Rank 48. Kisume
Japanese
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Rank 49. Cumulus Inc.
Modern Australian
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Rank 50. Society
Modern Australian
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Rank 51. Cecconi's
Italian
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Rank 52. 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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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 54. Marmelo
Portuguese
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Rank 56. Bar Lourinha
Spanish
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Rank 58. Nomad Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 59. Smith Street Bistro
French
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Rank 60. Circl Wine House
Modern Australian
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Rank 61. Philippe
French
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Rank 62. 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 64. Farmer's Daughters
Modern Australian
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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.
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Rank 68. Florentino
Italian
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Rank 69. Zareh
Middle Eastern
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Rank 70. Komeyui Restaurant
Japanese
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.
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Rank 71. Embla
Modern Australian
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Rank 72. Bar Liberty
Modern Australian
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Rank 73. Longrain
Thai
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Rank 74. Askal
Filipino
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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 76. Saadi
Indian
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Rank 77. Warabi
Japanese
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Rank 78. Reine & La Rue
French
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Rank 79. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 80. Tomo-An
Japanese
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Rank 81. 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 83. MoVida Aqui
Spanish
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Rank 84. TarraWarra Estate Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 85. Freyja
Modern Australian
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Rank 86. Lagotto
Italian
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Rank 88. The Recreation Bistro & Bottleshop
Modern Australian
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Rank 89. Tipo 00
Italian
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Rank 90. Serai
Filipino
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Rank 91. Osteria Ilaria
Italian
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Rank 92. Al Dente Enoteca
Italian
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Rank 93. 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 94. Harriot
French
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Rank 95. 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 96. Doju
Korean
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Rank 97. Caterina's Cucina E Bar
Italian
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Rank 98. From Here by Mike
Modern Australian
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Rank 99. Kazuki's
Japanese
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Rank 100. 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.