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Old-world glamour at Gimlet.

Melbourne CBD

Every restaurant featured in The Age Good Food Guide 2025 in the Melbourne CBD.

Handmade pasta is a focus at Abbiocco.

10 of Melbourne’s best Italian restaurants (and how to dine for less at each)

Find $16 margherita pizza, weekend lunch menus with endless focaccia and drinks, and a date-night deal with a price that’ll have you feeling loved up.

  • Good Food Guide reviewers
Stokehouse Pasta & Bar: sand adjacent.

Victoria’s 10 best waterfront restaurants for great food with a beautiful view

From seaside stalwarts to breezy new arrivals, the Good Food Guide to the best food with a sea or lake-side view this summer and beyond.

  • Good Food Guide reviewers
Old meets new at the Builders Arms Hotel on Gertrude Street.

Builders Arms Hotel

This corner pub opened in 1853 and has spun through a dizzying variety of incarnations.

Linguini with prawns and pistachios.

Amiconi

Chef and co-owner Joe Musso has been in the kitchen more than 30 years and his gnocchi is worth a visit in itself.

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A rich lamb stew from The Abyssinian.

The Abyssinian

The Abyssinian celebrates the joy of East African spicing, with a focus on Ethiopian and Eritrean dishes.

Mixed dips, chicken and rice, silverbeet rolls, baklava and fattoush.

Abla’s

Abla Amad is one of Australia’s greatest culinary treasures and a pioneer of Melbourne’s Lebanese dining scene.

The original jam doughnuts of American Doughnut Kitchen are hard to beat.

From $2.20 doughnuts to cult chicken nuggets: Where to find Melbourne’s top 20 snacks

Whether you like your snacks palm-sized and less than $2 or built for sharing, this list from The Age Good Food Guide 2025 covers plenty of ground.

  • Claire Adey and Emma Breheny
Ben Shewry at Attica.

We know Ben Shewry doesn’t like the Good Food Guide. And we don’t care

Ben Shewry wants his restaurant Attica dropped from the Guide. This is why it won’t be.

  • Besha Rodell

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