delicious.100: Victoria’s best value restaurants for 2019
The delicious.100 celebrates both high-end dining and the restaurants that offer an amazing night out for your money. Here are the best bang-for-your-buck restaurants for 2019.
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The 2019 delicious.100 has been released, and the best part about this fresh, new restaurant guide is that’s not just about high-end dining and one-off special occasion restaurants.
The delicious.100 not only celebrates the best premium experiences but those that offer real bang for buck and are perfect for less formal occasions.
It’s a list designed to help diners eat out well every week, for every occasion.
Here are the top restaurants around the state that offer good times and great value in spades.
ANCHOVY
If the pre-meal snacks – peanuts loaded with crispy bits of chilli, kaffir lime and galangal – don’t have you at hello, the rest of Thi Le’s menu soon will.
A thoroughly modern Melbourne mix of Asian cuisines, dishes here are bang-the-table good.
MYA TIGER
St Kilda’s reborn Espy has proven it’s more than a summer fling of prize views and long queues, still pulling a crowd whatever the weather.
And one of the grand dame’s drawcards is Mya Tiger. Helmed by ex-Longrain chef Sarah Chan, the kitchen is pumping out food that’s for enjoying not analysing, making the $57 banquet menu a winning – and value-for-money – way to maximise the fun and the feasting.
LEONARDO’S PIZZA PALACE
South Yarra’s Ramblr may be no more (RIP), but executive chef Nick Stanton’s terrific, tingling Sichuan Bolognese that topped noodles there lives on in pizza form at the team’s equally rollicking new pizza joint, Leonardo’s Pizza Palace.
It’s just one of the genre-mashing delights on offer at this retro-cool Carlton restaurant that’s pumpingly busy.
HALF ACRE
Breathing life into a renovated mill in South Melbourne’s back blocks, this lively all-day eatery, bar and events space is a pleasure dome of fun, food and good looks.
The atrium-like dining room is one of the city’s most fetching, serving an easy-please menu fuelled by a woodfired oven.
GIRO D’ITALIA
At Giro d’Italia, owner/chef Domenico de Marco is taking North Carlton locals on a ride through Italy, one dish at a time.
And don’t they race in for his tortelli – sunshine-vibrant plump packets of sweet roasted pumpkin sprinkled with Amaretti crumbs – and equally memorable gnocchi tossed through a rich duck ragu.
PRINCE DINING ROOM
It’s goodbye fine dining, hello fun dining down at The Prince Hotel in St Kilda.
Stepping out of the high-end, pinky-up shadow of Circa, the new Prince Dining Room is a casual and comfortable offering that talks all the trends – sustainable, low-waste, seasonal, traceable happy produce – but is backed up with a well-priced menu strongly weighted to the plant kingdom.
MAKAN
You’ll find My Kitchen Rules’ 2016 champs, sisters Tasia and Gracia Seger, in the kitchen of their first restaurant, Makan, which is their attempt to elevate Indonesian food here above the usual cheap and cheerful uni-student fare.
Hits include traditional street snacks like a fried crepe roll filled with chicken and veg, spicy soft shell crabs nestled in fluffy bao and a classily executed classic – nasi goreng.
ROYAL GEORGE
Frank Moylan and Melissa Macfarlane are back behind the bar of the Royal George Hotel in Kyneton. The husband-and-wife duo have been, over the years, responsible for much-loved pubs in the city and country, and ran the Royal George to great acclaim in the late 2000s.
Now, the changing line-up of taps includes sub $10 pints while wines come from a tight, well-chosen cellar of local drops and Euro flings, with an equally sharply priced menu a broadly Eastern European carte of greatest hits.
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