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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
Raw tuna with stracciatella and a fragrant lemon-myrtle dressing.

A new day-to-night restaurant arrives with a globetrotting menu

Banksia serves dishes that take inspiration from across Europe, Asia and beyond.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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.
14/20

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
The seafood tower at the Collins Kitchen buffet at Grand Hyatt.

Buffets are booming: Four of Melbourne’s best all-you-can-eat restaurants (plus one to avoid)

Five years on from COVID restrictions, the buffet resurgence is real. Here’s what’s driving the trend and tips for getting the most bang for your buck.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Chicken katsu with Japanese gravy.
Critics' Pick

This inner-city terrace serves outrageously juicy katsu and boss-level drinking food

Craft beer hangout Benchwarmer breaks the mould with its brash and bold Japanese snacks.

  • Emma Breheny
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
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
Inside Onigiri Kitchen on Degraves Street.

Level up your midweek sushi lunch at a hole-in-the-wall onigiri shop in the CBD

Find kimchi onigiri, shokupan toasties and tofu doughnuts at Onigiri Kitchen.

  • Emma Breheny
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).
14/20

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

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/goodfood/topic/melbourne-ch7