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Late-night dining

Red Cliff.
14.5/20

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
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
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
Assorted tiramisu at Siora.

Siora Tiramisu

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

Rare cheese, a cheesecake-inspired kakigori with pineapple compote.

Sebastian Kakigori

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

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Thali on a banana leaf.
14/20

‘The flavours are alive’: Roll up your sleeves for this $30 all-you-can-eat weekend special

Sri Lankans will often tell you that food tastes better when eaten with the fingers. Dani Valent tests the theory at Prince of Yazh.

  • Dani Valent
Garlic snails.

Porcine and P&V team up on courtyard wine bar

The French-leaning menu features garlic snails and pigeon melba toast.

  • Bianca Hrovat
Tartine gives toast the bistro treatment.

Tartine

Handsome corner spot draws a following for its namesake open sandwich.

Inside Tamura Sake Bar.

Tamura Sake Bar

Party-starting pocket-rocket fuelled by whisky and vinyl.

Sophisticated dining at Punch Lane in Melbourne’s CBD.
14.5/20

Punch Lane

If sophisti-casual was a word, this place would define it.

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