Dani Valent
Food writer and restaurant reviewer
Dani Valent is a food writer and restaurant reviewer.
The next venue from this two-hatted Japanese restaurant will be totally different
The creator of trailblazing basement fine-diner Ishizuka is opening a casual restaurant specialising in one of Japan’s most beloved, yet little-known, soul food dishes.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- South Yarra
This Toorak Road taverna is hitting its stride with cheese pie and crackling filo pastry
Astoria Bar Ke Grill opened quietly last spring, but is now coming into its own with a host of dips, stews and a hefty moussaka.
- Dani Valent
- Recommended
- Footscray
Settle in to the cosy dining room at this 14-year-old Ethiopian eatery
Order claypot lamb chops, firfir soup mixed with injera flatbread and more at Ras Dashen in Footscray.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Glen Waverley
Bet you’ve never had steak and pepper sauce like this before, Melbourne
Gambino restaurant and rooftop bar brings tricksy Italian dishes and Big Night Out energy to the ’burbs.
- Dani Valent
With no one to take over, Australia’s oldest Chinese restaurant is closing
Toi Shan has been serving the Bendigo community for more than 70 years. Its owners are now retiring and will take the final order for lemon chicken next week.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Fitzroy
‘Melbourne wine bar’ has become its own genre, but this decade-old spot breaks the mould
Push past the orthodoxies at Fitzroy’s Bar Liberty, where spirit infuses everything from the playlists to the legacy of cheesy, peppery dishes.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Caroline Springs
Head to a suburban shopping centre for this pork dish with ‘outrageous crispiness’
It can be difficult to decide which pork dish to order at Mrs Parks Kitchen. So don’t. Order the lot and take home the leftovers.
- Dani Valent
‘Chaotic in a good way’: The inner western suburb on the edge of a renaissance
Iconic pastries, deeply flavoured pho and ringside drinks. Dani Valent traverses Barkly Street in search of its best eats.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Seaford
Beachside pocket near Frankston has a wine bar (and club sandwich) worth travelling for
Ordain has jolted the small bayside suburb with barbecue bento boxes, fried cheese and a precision-built sanger.
- Dani Valent
13 exciting restaurant openings we’re counting down to this year
Melbourne’s only Ukrainian restaurant, two very different charcoal chicken shops, and a bakery from a pastry master: there’s lots of good eating to look forward to.
- Dani Valent
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