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Ondo

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

June 5, 2025

1 / 9Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed, sprouts.Bonnie Savage

3 / 9Soy-braised wombok, potato and chilli.Bonnie Savage

4 / 9Yukhoe (raw beef) with seaweed wrapping.Bonnie Savage

5 / 9Outside the Little Lonsdale Street restaurant.Simon Schluter

6 / 9Saeseonjjim (fish dish). Simon Schluter

7 / 9Dig into noodle dishes like makguksu.Simon Schluter

8 / 9Manduguk (dumpling soup).Simon Schluter

Korean$

As the culinary K-boom reverberates along Little Lonsdale Street and its laneways, we’re seeing Korean food in higher resolution than ever before. Happily, that means more Korean breakfasts. If your heart wilts at the mention of chicken and mung bean congee, gentle pork broth, or beef tartare bibimbap, you’ll want to begin your day within the soothing timber walls of Ondo – preferably with a black sesame latte.

Good to know: Turn your meal into a set with a coterie of banchan led by blushing salted squid.