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A selection of cakes from Holy Sugar in Northcote.

Holy Sugar

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

Baklava ice cream sandwich at Shamiat.

Shamiat

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

After nailing Melbourne brunch, all-day diner Ophelia is moving into nights.

Ophelia Westgarth

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

Mesob restaurant in Northcote. Dishes: Omnivore combination platter, dips. 25 July 2018. The Age Good Food. Photo: Eddie Jim.
Critics' Pick

Mesob

Lively room for communal eating.

Vex’s light, bright dining room.
Good Food hat15/20

Vex

High Street haunt doing the most with minimal meat.

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The signature honey cake at Gray & Gray.
Good Food hat15/20

Gray & Gray

Sugar, spice and lo-fi wines.

Ophelia in Westgarth.

One of Melbourne’s favourite cafe groups shakes things up with daytime diner Ophelia

Unlike siblings Terror Twilight and Convoy, the menu at this cinema-adjacent cafe-wine bar in Westgarth will likely be different every time you visit.

  • Tomas Telegramma
Northcote Social Club.

Northcote Social Club

A live music institution has no business serving food this good.

Cocktails at Goodwater can be served tall, straight up or non-alcoholic.

Goodwater

Northcote hangout for whiskey-forward cocktails.

Scallops with cauliflower, pancetta, and a champagne vinaigrette.
13.5/20

Wine bar Ruckers Hill shows classic dishes aren’t over-the-hill when done well

There is a distinctly 1990s-early-2000s vibe to this menu, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

  • Besha Rodell

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