Good Food Guide

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The Good Food guide to Melbourne’s top 10 hatted Italian restaurants

Whether it’s an inner-city power lunch powerhouse or a swish find on the city’s fringe, here are Melbourne’s molto buono Italian stallions.

• Good Food Guide reviewers

• Review
• Richmond

Laikon Deli

Furnishing its community with Mediterranean delights for half a century.

• Review
• Toorak

Made in Casa

Crumbed tomahawks and deified pasta rule this polished southside ristorante.

• Review
• Fitzroy

Marios

The restaurant that pioneered breakfast on Brunswick Street celebrates the big 4-0.

• Review
• Melbourne

Bar Lourinha

Celebrating 20 years of Iberian delight and sherry-heavy merriment.

• Review
• Carlton

Garfield Pizzeria

Tokyo-inspired pizzas take ground in Melbourne’s Italian heartland.

• Just open

After a shock closure, this beloved local bar is pouring drinks again

The owners of The Age Good Food Guide’s Bar of the Year for 2026 share their five-month rollercoaster to reopen the business.

• Dani Valent

• Review
• Carlton North

Bar Carnation

The white-walled wine bar filling big shoes on Rathdowne Street.

• Review
• Melbourne

Florentino

The institution to rule them all enters a new era of Italianate grandeur.

• Review
• Kew

Chowon

A suburban paragon of value and technique.