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The soup's base is a reduce beef stock of depth and distinction; its cheesy topping grilled to melty magnificence.
14/20

Find perfect French onion soup at a local favourite flying under the restaurant radar

The cheese is grilled to melty magnificence, atop a pearlescent broth that gleams like a sword tip.

  • Dani Valent
Winter wine recommendations

Wintry wines to try right now (featuring a mate for sticky date)

These styles partner well with the foods we like to eat when the temperature plummets.

  • Huon Hooke
Pani puri at Bombay Meri Jaan Indian restaurant in Richmond.
13.5/20

It’s located in Melbourne’s Little Saigon, but the ‘balls of joy’ will transport you elsewhere

BYO-friendly Bombay Meri Jaan serves up Mumbai’s street-food hits on Richmond’s Vietnamese strip.

  • Dani Valent
Helen Goh's almond and raspberry ripple cake.
EASY

Almond and raspberry ripple cake

With its marbled interior and pink icing, this delicious almond butter cake is perfect for Mother’s Day.

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Bar Lourinha's bric-a-brac filled wall.
Good Food hat15/20

Why this 20-year-old treasure should be on every Melburnian’s list of go-to restaurants

Dani Valent raises a glass of sherry to two decades of eating, drinking and being merry.

  • Dani Valent
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Bistecca fritta, a crumbed T-bone steak pan-fried in clarified butter then finished in the oven, is carved tableside at Made In Casa.
14/20

You won’t find this showstopping Italian-style steak anywhere else in Melbourne

It’s no small feat to perfectly cook a large bone-in piece of meat, and this one, carved theatrically tableside, is exemplary.

  • Dani Valent
My Father's Yeeros.
13.5/20

For juicy yeeros and chips, it’s hard to resist the all-ages pull of this family-run Greek shop

The menu is stripped back here: marinated meat, swaddled in pita or served with Greek salad; souvlaki that puts up just enough fight with the teeth and, good heavens, those chips!

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A dessert of "tamarind four ways" and asin tibuok (“whole salt”, pictured right).
14/20

Eating this ‘dinosaur egg’-garnished dessert will blow your mind in five different ways

Kumbira’s menu is a creative rethinking of Filipino food for modern Melbourne.

  • Dani Valent
Thick, bone-in lamb chops are braised overnight in lamb stock.
14.5/20

This Greek restaurant’s fork-tender lamb chop will blow your mind

With confident, wood-fired cooking from a former Good Food Guide Young Chef of the Year, Bar Sophia is one of Melbourne’s most compelling new restaurants.

  • Dani Valent
Breakfast board loaded with fried eggs, ful medames, zaatar manoush, labneh, cold-cuts, assorted pickles, fresh vegies and village cheeses.
14/20

Merrylands’ hot brunch spot serves a breakfast board loaded with the lot

Kabul House is still hugely popular, but young families and Zoomers are flocking to impressive modern Middle Eastern restaurant Iftar.

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