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Melbourne City restaurants: Takeaway in Melbourne CBD, South Yarra, Richmond

Lockdown has changed how the city’s favourite restaurants serve up famous dishes, now Melbourne’s best are delivering straight to your door. SEE THE LIST

Melbourne’s best known restaurants may have been forced to close their doors to the public due to coronavirus restrictions, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped working.

Here’s our pick of the best restaurants delivering delicious food right to your door during lockdown.

MAHA, Melbourne

Chef Shane Delia of Maha is donating food and meals to My Room children's cancer charity. Picture: David Caird
Chef Shane Delia of Maha is donating food and meals to My Room children's cancer charity. Picture: David Caird

Shane Delia’s Maha Go is bringing flavours and memories of the Delia Group venues to you, creating balanced meals that you can eat every day.

For those who fancy themselves a DIY chef, a Maltese Independence Day cooking class will run on September 19 online with Shane Delia.

Banquets highlighting the soul of Maha, the Middle Eastern Soufra menu are available with the restaurants best and showstopping dishes.

For more, visit providoor.com.au/promo/mahago

FRANCE SOIR, South Yarra

Head chef Geraud Fabre of French restaurant France Soir waits for takeaway orders in Melbourne. Photo: William West
Head chef Geraud Fabre of French restaurant France Soir waits for takeaway orders in Melbourne. Photo: William West

A South Yarra icon since opening in 1986, France Soir has continued to bring Melburnians the French food they love.

With escargots available in lockdown, the new takeaway menu includes French favourites like soupe a l’oignon gratinee (French onion soup), steak tartare, boeuf bourguignon and creme brulee.

Fore more, visit order.hungryhungry.com./francesoir/menu

MINAMISHIMA, Richmond

Minamishima restaurant, Richmond
Minamishima restaurant, Richmond

A dining experience like no other, Minamishima has designed a seasonal at home set menu to blow your socks off.

The spring menu in collaboration with chotto serves a light genmaicha broth to compliment a rich hitsumabashi – an eel dashichazuke native to Chef Minamishima’s town of Nagoya.

For the budding foodies, a 12 or 24 piece collection of nigiri is on the cards with discounts on sake and wine for at home diners.

For more, visit minamishima.com.au/athome

TIPO 00, Melbourne

Melbourne’s TIPO 00 is dishing up home delivered pasta during lockdown.
Melbourne’s TIPO 00 is dishing up home delivered pasta during lockdown.

Is it possible to think about Italian food in Melbourne, without considering pasta from Tipo 00?

Owned by chef Andreas Papadakis, the restaurant, which closed for three weeks during initial shutdown stages, is now delivering.

The ready to eat menu includes crowd favourite dishes, and for those happy to try their hand in the kitchen – you can order fresh pasta, rabbit ragu, wagyu bolognese and finish the dish off at home.

For more, visit tipo00.com.au

CUTLER & CO, Fitzroy

Cutler & Co serving steak tartare
Cutler & Co serving steak tartare

A Gertrude St institution, the Andrew McConnell-owned eatery, has adapted the formal dining experience into a finish-at-home experience aimed to brighten up your weekend.

The menu changes weekly and boasts local produce from small scale farms to bring spring flavours into your home.

Most of the cooking is done, with some instructions provided in the take-home menu.

Paired wines are available as curated by Head Sommelier Liam O’Brien.

For more, visit cutlerandco.com.au/athome

ABLA’S, Carlton

Abla Amad, 77, has been serving up Lebanese food at her iconic Carlton restaurant for 35 years. Picture: Eugene Hyland
Abla Amad, 77, has been serving up Lebanese food at her iconic Carlton restaurant for 35 years. Picture: Eugene Hyland

You can now enjoy mouth-watering Lebanese food from Alba Amad’s Elgin St restaurant in the comfort of your own dining room.

From a bread recipe passed down for generations, to smokey baba ganoush, foulia Medammas and grilled kafta with rice pilaf.

It’s no wonder diners both young and old flock here and see it continuously seen as one of the cities best eateries since opening in 1979.

For more visit, ablas.com.au/takeaway/

TAQUITO, Carlton

You can’t fly to Mexico right now, but having Taquito at home is the next best thing,

Hand making ever tortilla from scratch, the Mexican bar and eatery has rolled out a pick-up and delivery menu for Melbourne postcodes.

Serving everything from homemade corn chips with fresh guacamole to chaila con pollo topped with chipotle chicken.

For more, visit mryum.com/taquito

CHIN CHIN, Melbourne and Richmond

Asian inspired food from Chin Chin, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Picture: Visit Victoria
Asian inspired food from Chin Chin, Flinders Lane, Melbourne. Picture: Visit Victoria

Load up your tastebuds at home for Melbourne’s favourite Thai eatery, famous for its forever changing South-East Asian flavours dished up in a quintessentially Australian way.

Order chilli salt chicken wings, prawn siu mai dumplings, penang duck curry and add a cocktail pitcher to round off the night.

With bookings for the first time in memory being taken, takeaway and delivery is available for a limited time from Flinders Lane, Melbourne and Church St Richmond.

For more, visit chinchin.melbourne

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