Chinese
- Review
- Melbourne
This city restaurant’s signature dish has been served 100,000 times
Red Cliff is a sensory assault and heartfelt celebration of China’s spiciest cuisines.
- Frank Sweet
- Recommended
- Hawthorn
Four Kilo Fish
This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.
- Review
- Wolli Creek
‘Damn good value’: Why it’s worth visiting this humble suburban bolthole
Locals flock to one-hatted Yan for natural-born-killer dishes humming with garlic, a towering dessert and moments of elegance.
- Callan Boys
- Review
- Melbourne
Tough day at the office? Take out your frustrations at this ‘smashing’ city lunch spot
Pounding Rice Bowl provides the mortar, pestle, rice and pork and asks diners to smash away.
- Dani Valent
- Recommended
- Box Hill South
Simon’s Peiking Duck
A singular dining experience, at once casual and celebratory.
- Review
- Glen Huntly
You’ll hit the jackpot at this suburban Chinese restaurant with heart – and perfect prawn toast
Come for the dumplings and prawn toast, stay for the warm, cosy atmosphere at convivial Potluck.
- Dani Valent
- Review
- Annandale
Dead flies in the soy sauce: Our critic’s verdict of George Calombaris’ Chinese restaurant
Callan Boys digs the cosplay dining room, but wonders if diners should spend their money at a theme-park tribute or a family-run original.
- Callan Boys
- Review
- Huntingdale
Is this suburban yum cha spot serving Melbourne’s best dim sum?
Melburnians should be grateful for Chef Wong’s beautiful dumplings and exemplary egg tarts, writes Dani Valent.
- Dani Valent
‘I want a lazy Susan and ’80s decor’: TV host Tony Armstrong’s go-to bars and restaurants
The ABC TV presenter is a fan of Italian classics, heavyweight steaks and weekend yum cha – unless he has to queue.
- Jane Rocca
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