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Dani Valent

Dani Valent

Food writer and restaurant reviewer

Dani Valent is a food writer and restaurant reviewer.

Inside Arlo in Elwood.

Conversation-stopping spuds make this cafe a must-visit in Elwood

Plus three more food spots to try in Melbourne’s heartland of “oat lattes and Bugaboos”.

  • Dani Valent
Ravi Presser, owner of Caulfield North wine bar Ruzia’s.

A south-eastern suburb loses a local favourite, but gains the cosy wine bar it was missing

Pick at preserves and smallgoods, or meatballs and cheesecake made to family recipes at longtime chef Ravi Presser’s “wholesome” first venue.

  • Dani Valent
The kavurma snack pack with chicken.

A food truck in an op-shop car park serves some of the best Turkish snacks in town

Find crusty kavurma rolls and meaty snack packs at Latif’s Street Foods in Melbourne’s northern suburbs.

  • Dani Valent
Falafel with tahini, pickles and zhoug.
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One of Melbourne’s favourite falafel crosses the river to get to this southside bar

It’s worth coming to cocktail bar Nobody’s Baby for the crunchy-fluffy falafel alone.

  • Dani Valent
Army stew (budae jjigae) with sausages, beans, tofu and kimchi.

Get Korean street food until 2am at this late-night CBD haunt

Seven Star Pocha brings street-food energy to its casual, sometimes raucous dining room.

  • Dani Valent
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Fried chicken washed down with Cass beer at Seven Star Pocha in Koreatown.

Finger-licking late-night fun: An expert’s guide to eating (and drinking) in Koreatown

Good Food joins Doju chef Mika Chae for a tour of the city’s now-official Korean hub, Healeys Lane.

  • Dani Valent
Outside Dong Dae Moon in Melbourne’s Koreatown precinct.

Find kimbap, tteokbokki and more at this energetic Koreatown restaurant

Dong Dae Mun is located in the heart of Melbourne’s Koreatown.

  • Dani Valent
Mains, such as inside skirt steak, come with a salad, Colombian-style sauces – one a lemony sour cream, the other a zesty tomato – and a choice of fries, rice, plantain fritters, cassava chips or golden potatoes (pictured).
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This surprising steakhouse serves limousine food at rust-bucket prices

Juan Berbeo of Berbeo Bar & Grill isn’t our best-known steak specialist, but it’s hard to imagine many local chefs have cooked as much meat as he has.

  • Dani Valent
Outside Malvern’s new bakery, Breadcetera.

Malvern East is now home to a sandwich shop and grocery store with fine dining pedigree

Peruse tinned fish, hot honey and flowers, or grab a sanger to go at Breadcetera.

  • Dani Valent
Salad sandwich at Rippers Ripponlea.

Suburban sandwiches: Three spots upping their area’s sanger game (and the must order)

Including a railway station gathering spot, a community cafe in lush surrounds and a deli giving spanakopita the toastie treatment.

  • Tomas Telegramma and Dani Valent

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