Everyone’s got an opinion on the best places for your lunch break in Melbourne city.
There’s bags of Melbourne dining choices for your lunch nosh-up. Is there a cafe in Melbourne city that you like to spend time in? One of the lots of best restaurants in the CBD with a lunch menu to die for? Let’s create a dining guide of superb Melbourne lunch tips for everyone!
So: where are the best Melbourne lunch spots and why?
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Postal Hall on Russell St- great soup, good coffee and fast service. Yummy cakes and the staff are nice too!
personally I can’t go past Gill’s Diner
i’ve been going to the northern china family dumplings on flinders lane a lot lately. mostly its a convenience thing but it’s not bad.
super fino – flinders lane
Butchers Grill on Bourke St. Good 2 course special on offer. Prices aren’t nearly as what you would think when walking past the restaurant. Pleasant surprise :)
This really kind of depends how you define “best”. I mean, do you want something that is genuinely the best food in the city served at lunch time? Or the quickest, cheapest feed?
Having said that, a few places that tick the quick, cheap and tasty boxes:
Don Don, 321 Swanston St St: Japanese fast food. Big bento boxes, curries, sushi and salads, all around the $7 mark, served fresh and immediately.
Satay Bar, Cnr Flinders Lane & Custom House Lane. Simple concept: choose a skewer (chicken, beef, tofu, prawn, etc), choose some sides (salads, rice, vegie crackers, etc) served with a good dose of their incredibly delicious satay sauce.
Soup in the City, 14 Centre Place. Big range of soups, all served piping hot into big bowls. Pretty simple, but they’re delicious, and perfect in winter.
Not AS good value for money (IMO) but if you need something on the run, and don’t want junk/just another sandwich, the Blue Bag stores are pretty good. They have a large, revolving menu of takeaway salads and soups (and also sandwiches and bagels, but zzzzz), which they publish on their website, which I think is neat: http://www.bluebag.com.au. They also sell their coffees and soups in reusable cups, which is good. 405 Collins St, 57 Lonsdale St, 429 Lt Bourke St, Healey’s Lane
new cafe 65degrees. 309 exhibition st, melbourne.
opened last week. these guys used to own 7grams in richmond, and have now brought their expertise to the cbd. champion barista and world latte art champion – con haralambopoulos. and award winning coffee blend – gridlockcoffee. huge range of fresh sandwiches and foccaccias, salads and hot foods for lunch. and, of course, the best coffee around!
We get the most delicious soups from Soupaman deliviered to our office every wednesday! Its great, cheap and best of all its healthy. Think they only deliver once a week but its well worth it – we just make Wednesday our soup day!! You just order online the week before. Check out http://www.soupaman.com.au.
famish’d – Little Collins St, top end b/w Russell & Exhibition. Amazing salads & spuds – either choose from the interesting salads they prepare each morning or make your own. Also daily homemade soups. Delicious La Madre bread served with everything & ST. Ali coffee. Awesome!
A good quick reasonable lunch in a convivial atmosphere can be had at Young & Jackson!
Hutong Dumpling – def best place for yummiest lunch/dumplings in the CBD. 14-16 Market Lane!
The Basement Cafe near corner of La Trobe and Queen St. Kick ass beer and sandwich combo.
The boreks at the Vic Market are also cheap and awesome.
Maha Bar & Grill
I love famish’d – BIG servings, HEAPS of vegies, GREAT service, NO mid afternoon food coma and I’m full until dinner. Winner!