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Red Cliff restaurant in Melbourne CBD.
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

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Cheesy beef sando with mint in the mince.

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.

HK Cafe

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

Yan’s dining room feels much cosier than the building it inhabits.
Good Food hat15/20

‘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
The signature pounding bowl.

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
Preparing the duck.

Simon’s Peiking Duck

A singular dining experience, at once casual and celebratory.

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The prawn toast uses fluffy Japanese shokupan bread.
14/20

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
Double Happy.
11.5/20

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
Scallop and prawn dumplings (top) and prawn and chive dumplings.
14/20

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
Eat the Invaders presenter Tony Armstrong.

‘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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