The Top 100 Restaurants Near Montalto
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Rank 1. Montalto
Modern Australian
Floor-to-ceiling glass frames the Red Hill vineyard and, on a clear day, Western Port beyond, which sets the tone for what Montalto is: a winery restaurant where the estate gardens supply the kitchen and the wood-fire grill does the heavy lifting. The menu shifts with the seasons and is designed to share, arriving in courses. Matt Wilkinson shapes the culinary direction. The Australian Good Food Guide awards it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 2. Paringa Estate
Modern Australian
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Rank 3. Ten Minutes by Tractor - Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 5. Laura
Modern Australian
Sea urchin mousse arrives before flambéed rock lobster, which tells you most of what you need to know about Laura. It's a fine dining destination on the Mornington Peninsula, set among a vineyard and sculpture park with Western Port in the near distance. The menu takes its cues from the surrounding landscape, the wine list goes everywhere, and the service is the kind that makes a long lunch feel like the only reasonable use of a day. Three Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide.
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Rank 6. The Dining Room at Lancemore Lindenderry Red Hill
Modern Australian New American
Vineyard views through the dining room windows mean you're watching what's on your plate grow a few hundred metres away. This is a formal, sit-down restaurant on the Mornington Peninsula doing European-leaning seasonal cooking with a two Chef Hat nod from the Australian Good Food Guide. The wine list leans heavily into the estate's own bottles, which is either charming or convenient depending on how you feel about that sort of thing.
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Rank 7. Polperro Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 9. Pt. Leo Restaurant
Modern Australian
Floor-to-ceiling windows frame a sculpture park rolling down toward Western Port, which sets up the dining room's whole argument before the menu arrives. This is a Modern Australian à la carte restaurant on the Mornington Peninsula, with a wine list drawn entirely from Victorian producers. The kitchen leans into local produce, and the service team seems to genuinely enjoy explaining what's on the plate, which is rarer than it should be.
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Rank 10. Port Phillip Estate Dining Room
Modern Australian
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Rank 11. Moke Dining
Modern Australian
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Rank 12. Doot Doot Doot
Modern Australian
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Rank 13. Rare Hare
Modern Australian
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Rank 14. Cape
Modern Australian
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Rank 15. Barragunda Dining
Modern Australian
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Rank 16. 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 17. O.MY Restaurant & Bar
Modern Australian
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Rank 18. Bottarga
Italian
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Rank 19. Moonah Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 20. 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 21. Tulum Restaurant
Turkish
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Rank 22. Amaru
Modern Australian
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Rank 23. Donovans
Modern Australian
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Rank 25. Samesyn 2.0
Modern Australian
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Rank 26. UMINONO
Japanese
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Rank 27. 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.
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- Australian Good Food Guide 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 28. Atta Restaurant
Indian
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Rank 30. AOI.TSUKI.
Japanese
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Rank 32. Bar Carolina
Italian
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Rank 33. Minamishima
Omakase Japanese
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Rank 35. Vue de Monde
Modern Australian
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Rank 36. Bacash
Modern Australian
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Rank 37. Tomo-An
Japanese
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Rank 38. 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 39. Sogumm
Korean
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Rank 41. Clover
Modern Australian
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Rank 42. MoVida Aqui
Spanish
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Rank 44. Felix
French
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Rank 45. Sumi
Modern Australian
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Rank 46. Yiaga
Modern Australian
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Rank 47. Ishizuka
Kaiseki Japanese
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Rank 48. Warabi
Japanese
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Rank 49. 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 50. Freyja
Modern Australian
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Rank 51. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 52. From Here by Mike
Modern Australian
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Rank 53. Kisume
Japanese
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Rank 54. Reine & La Rue
French
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Rank 55. Lee Ho Fook
Chinese
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Rank 56. Anchovy
Vietnamese
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Rank 58. Society
Modern Australian
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Rank 59. 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. Restaurant Gaea
Modern Australian
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Rank 61. Harriot
French
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Rank 62. IDES
Modern Australian
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Rank 63. 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 65. SUSHI ON
Japanese
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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. Nomad Melbourne
Modern Australian
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Rank 68. Doju
Korean
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Rank 69. Circl Wine House
Modern Australian
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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 74. Cecconi's
Italian
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Rank 75. Cumulus Inc.
Modern Australian
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Rank 76. Ronin Omakase
Japanese
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Rank 77. Marmelo
Portuguese
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Rank 78. Philippe
French
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Rank 80. Navi
Modern Australian
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Rank 81. 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 82. Di Stasio Citta
Italian
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Rank 83. 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 84. 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 85. Farmer's Daughters
Modern Australian
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Rank 86. Serai
Filipino
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Rank 87. Embla
Modern Australian
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Rank 88. Osteria Ilaria
Italian
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Rank 89. Tipo 00
Italian
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Rank 90. Tulip Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 91. Bar Lourinha
Spanish
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Rank 92. Caterina's Cucina E Bar
Italian
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Rank 93. Florentino
Italian
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Rank 95. Askal
Filipino
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Rank 97. CHAE
Korean
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Rank 98. Kazuki's
Japanese
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Rank 99. 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 100. Longrain
Thai