New-Restaurants on MELBZ

Aftermath: All-Day Diner By Three Afl Players -- New Restaurant in Prahran (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Aftermath: The All-Day Diner Built for Appetite

Prahran’s brunch scene has been crowded for years. Chapel Street and its side roads are lined with cafes that serve smashed avocado to Stonnington locals every weekend. Into this already competitive strip comes Aftermath – an all-day diner backed by three AFL players that takes the position that brunch should not require a nap afterwards because you are still hungry.

Aftermath opened with a premise that is either refreshingly honest or deeply obvious depending on your perspective: big portions, protein-heavy options alongside the classics, all-day breakfast service, and a casual atmosphere that does not care whether you are coming from the gym or from bed. The AFL connection brings an audience, but the food has to justify the visit on its own terms, and largely it does.

Common Cuts: Steak Frites From $28.50 To $395 -- New Restaurant in Melbourne CBD (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Common Cuts: Steak for the People (and the Splurge)

Melbourne has always had steak restaurants. The old-school chophouses in the CBD, the suburban RSL counter meals, the high-end dining rooms where a wagyu rib-eye costs more than your phone bill. What Melbourne has lacked is a steak restaurant that deliberately spans the full spectrum – where you can eat a genuinely good steak for under $30 or spend $395 on a dry-aged showpiece, and both experiences feel like the restaurant was designed for you.

Da Bepi: Venetian Wine Bar -- New Restaurant in Brunswick (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Da Bepi: Venice on Sydney Road

There is a moment, standing at the bar at Da Bepi with a glass of skin-contact something-or-other and a plate of salt cod crostini, where Sydney Road disappears. The traffic noise fades. The tram bells stop. For a minute you are in a bacaro on a Venice side street, elbow to elbow with strangers who are all there for the same reason: good wine, good food, no fuss.

Garfield Pizzeria: Pizzas, Natural Wine, And Soft-Serve In A Heritage Building -- New Restaurant in Carlton (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Garfield Pizzeria: Lygon Street Gets Serious About Pizza Again

Lygon Street has a reputation problem. For decades it was Melbourne’s Italian strip – the street where you went for red-sauce pasta, cheap chianti, and the kind of dining that tourists loved and locals learned to avoid. In recent years, the better Italian cooking has migrated to Fitzroy, Northcote, and the inner west. Lygon Street became a punchline.

Garfield Pizzeria is part of the correction. Opened by Jamie Valmorbida – the person behind Pidapipo gelato, which proved that Lygon Street could still produce something world-class – Garfield occupies a restored heritage building at 293 Lygon Street. The offer is wood-fired pizzas, a natural wine bar, and a soft-serve window that tips a hat to Valmorbida’s gelato roots. It is the kind of venue that Lygon Street needed: serious about food, unstuffy about atmosphere, and priced fairly enough that Carlton locals will come more than once.

Ginza Kagari: Tokyo Cult Chicken Paitan Ramen -- New Restaurant in Melbourne CBD (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Ginza Kagari: Tokyo’s Queue-Worthy Ramen Comes to Melbourne

Melbourne has no shortage of ramen shops. From cheap and fast to slow and ceremonial, the city has been building its ramen credentials for over a decade. But when Ginza Kagari – the Tokyo original that had people queueing in the rain on a Ginza backstreet – opened its first international location on Russell Street, it changed the conversation. This is not another ramen shop. This is the ramen shop.

Patris: Greek-Cypriot Home-Style Cooking -- New Restaurant in Brunswick (2026)

Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:00:00 +1100

Patris: Your Yiayia’s Table, Professionalised

Every suburb in Melbourne’s inner north has a Greek restaurant. Most of them are fine. Some are good. Patris, tucked away on Albert Street in Brunswick, is something else entirely – a family-run Greek-Cypriot kitchen where the food tastes like someone’s grandmother made it, except the technique is sharper and the ingredients are better sourced.

The name means “homeland” in Greek, and the owners run the place like they are feeding family. The menu is shared plates, the portions are absurd, and the lamb shoulder has been on the bone for eight hours by the time it reaches your table. This is not modern Greek cuisine. There are no deconstructed anything, no smears of sauce on oversized plates. The food comes out in heavy dishes meant to be passed around, and the table fills up fast.