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Magiritsta soup with Victorian-grown mushrooms and truffles from Meteora in Greece.

South Melbourne’s latest dining addition serves dishes you’d find in Greece

Aegli chef Ioannis Kasidokostas takes traditional Greek recipes and executes them in unexpected ways.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Aegli chef Ioannis Kasidokostas with his wife and business partner Maria Tsilfoglou.

First look: This Greek newcomer in South Melbourne cranks up the creativity

Humble Greek cooking is having a moment. But at Aegli, a Greek-born chef with experience in Michelin-starred kitchens is remixing the cuisine in unexpected ways.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Meze plates include taramosalata dip, green chilli kingfish and tirokafteri.

Muses Wine Bar

A laidback Greek wine bar with a meze-heavy menu.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Chef Hugh Allen at the site of his new restaurant, Yiaga, in Fitzroy Gardens.

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
Salona owners Stavros and Alex Konis.

‘It’s a blessing’: A Greek dining institution gets its biggest change in nearly 60 years

Richmond’s new-look Salona joins the Greek renaissance that’s sweeping Melbourne, plus three more venues to try.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Akti’s dining room.

Hellenika chef heads up new Greek restaurant on the wharf

Akti, meaning coast in Greek, is your port of call for charcoal-grilled kontosouvli skewers and bubbling saganaki on the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf.

  • Erina Starkey
Plenty of lunch options to grab and go at Foti and Friends.

Foti and Friends

Grab-and-go cafe for Greek lunch packs and sweets.

  • Dani Valent
Slow-cooked lamb shoulder with labne and salad.

Athos

This cafe is a finalist for best food in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Olympic Meats proves takeaway food can offer the same level of care as a fine-diner.
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The stakes are high in Sydney’s gyros heartland. Does Olympic deserve the hype?

Large families, pilgrims from far-flung suburbs and locals flock to Olympic Meats for briney octopus, crunchy spanakopita and barbecued chicken, pork and lamb.

  • David Matthews
Saganaki at Eleni’s.

Eleni’s Kitchen & Bar

Longstanding Greek restaurant for time-honoured favourites.

  • Daniela Frangos

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