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Dani Valent

Dani Valent

Food writer and restaurant reviewer

Dani Valent is a food writer and restaurant reviewer.

Umami Tokyo’s signature ramen is made with chicken broth instead of tonkotsu pork.

Get disco-friendly ramen and snacks at Chapel Street’s new late-night izakaya

A music-loving ramen chef creates a venue for those craving Japanese food after midnight.

  • Dani Valent
Times New Roman’s napolitana pasta.

The hot new Melbourne restaurant where pasta starts at $6

Times New Roman is difficult to Google but easy to love for its affordable spaghetti, wine and penchant for Cheezels.

  • Dani Valent
Steak served with carbonara is available for $25 on Thursdays.

A Scandi cafe in the southeast is now open at night for steak carbonara, share plates and more

Oppen in Windsor has extended its hours from Thursday to Saturday.

  • Dani Valent
Maalu Maalu specialises in all-you-can-eat Sri Lankan buffet.

One of Melbourne’s best all-you-can-eat Sri Lankan deals is found at this inner-north eatery

Maalu Maalu offers one of the best value buffets in the city.

  • Tomas Telegramma and Dani Valent
Chef Tomotaka Ishizuka behind the counter at Tomo-An kaiseki restaurant.
Good Food hatGood Food hat16.5/20

This newly two-hatted laneway restaurant in an old warehouse is ‘a portal to Japan’

Tomo-An chef Tomotaka Ishizuka serves his Aussie-fied Japanese tasting menu to six guests at a time.

  • Dani Valent
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Rippers’ salad sanger.

An old cottage next to Ripponlea Station serves one of the best salad sangers in town

Stop by Rippers for milkshakes, fries, burgers and more.

  • Dani Valent
Popular Melbourne cafe Ophelia is now open for dinner three nights a week, serving pasta, share plates, cocktails and more

$20 pasta and bargain bowls: Five cafes now staying open for (budget-friendly) dinners

Melbourne’s thriving cafes are now coming for your evenings, with the lure of cocktails, share plates, DJ sets and excellent dinner deals.

  • Dani Valent
Inside the Bridge Road restaurant.

Richmond’s Love Letter is an ode to Yorkshire puddings, gravy and chaos

After a slow start, the Bridge Road restaurant is now pumping most nights of the week with a feel-good menu that makes you glad it’s winter.

  • Dani Valent
The Fantastic Four pizza at Pizza Monster made with black rice.

Pizza Monster

Italian-Korean fusion done right.

  • Dani Valent
Tiramisu at Central Park Cellars in Glen Iris.
13.5/20

Our critic liked this local hangout in the leafy east so much, she visited it twice in one day

And after tasting the “flawless” tiramisu, she’s already planning visit number three.

  • Dani Valent

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/by/dani-valent-hven6