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Brunetti restaurant in Lygon St, Carlton.

Brunetti Classico

This venue is a finalist in the icons category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Good Measure’s signature mont blanc.

Good Measure

This venue is a finalist in the best matcha and specialty drinks category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Tea brewing at Assembly.

Assembly

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

Pickled octopus and baked ricotta with agrodolce.

Sunhands

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Kaprica is pure Melbourne, with high ceilings and white walls and simple wooden tables and chair.
Critics' Pick

Why this ‘pure Melbourne’ trattoria is attracting a new wave of admirers

The Carlton favourite has long delivered just about everything you’d want from a casual neighbourhood restaurant, says our critic. Now Gen Z has discovered its appeal, too.

  • Besha Rodell
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Leonardo’s Pizza Palace sticks to the pizza script.

Leonardo’s Pizza Palace

Timber-panelled den for creative pizza and natural wine.

Cheese pizza with mortadella at Capitano

Capitano

Crowd-pleasing Italo-American.

Roasted bullhorn peppers Agostino in Carlton, Melbourne.

Agostino

A palazzo of pasta, full of history and heart.

Mixed dips, chicken and rice, silverbeet rolls, baklava and fattoush.

Abla’s

Abla Amad is one of Australia’s greatest culinary treasures and a pioneer of Melbourne’s Lebanese dining scene.

Pondok Laguna restaurant.
Critics' Pick

Pondok Laguna

An in-and-out restaurant with bolted-on grocery store.

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