Fitzroy
17 rooms on the Melbourne list
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Melbourne coffee2 here
- Calere Coffee — Ranked twenty-eighth in the 2025 World's 100 Best Coffee Shops, running one single origin at a time.
- Industry Beans — Roasts most of the group's core blends behind glass in the room and pours single origins off a Modbar.
The parma2 here
- The Standard Hotel — Cuts feta into the mozzarella over a house-crumbed free-range breast, the same build since 2019.
- Napier Hotel — Named in Urban List's best-parmas guide for layers of cheese, napoli, ham and crumbed chicken.
Restaurants4
Carnation Canteen
Solid · Modern European · Fitzroy · $$$
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Audrey Shaw worked at Kerstin Thompson Architects before she cooked professionally, designed this twenty-seat corner room herself, and rewrites the hand-written menu every week.
Cutler & Co
Solid · Modern Australian fine dining · Fitzroy · $$$$
booking essential
The bar takes walk-ins, and Time Out's own reviewer tells you to skip the set menu for a few a la carte dishes.
Belles Hot Chicken
Listed · Nashville hot chicken · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
Broadsheet names what separates this from the rest: "Belles' bird packs an intense, dry crunch, differentiating it from the soggier versions around town."
Gaea
Listed · Degustation, foraged and fermented · Fitzroy · $$$$
booking essential
Mo Zhou says he has never cooked the same dish twice: four hundred of them across three years, with nothing repeated.
Pubs & cask4
The Standard Hotel2◆
Solid · Gastropub · Fitzroy · $$
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The publican's stated method is a "continual invisible freshen up", changing the pub slowly enough that people who drank here a decade ago come back and say nothing has changed. It has.
Builders Arms Hotel2◆
Solid · Gastropub · Fitzroy · $$$
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The fish pot pie was taken off the menu once and put straight back, and Time Out's five-star review says the removal "almost caused a Fitzroy riot."
Napier Hotel
Solid · Historic pub · Fitzroy · $$
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Kangaroo is Australia's original protein, eaten on this continent for tens of thousands of years, and it's still hard to find cooked well because it's so lean that most kitchens run it to gray.
Marquis of Lornejust added
Listed · Corner pub · Fitzroy · $$
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When Matt Vero and Steve Rowley took over a pub that had stood on the corner of George and Kerr for more than 150 years, Broadsheet reported the decision plainly: they "decided not to turn…
Whisky1
The Elysian Whisky Barjust added
Solid · Whisky bar · Fitzroy · $$$
walk-in
Lagavulin normally sells its 16-year-old as a blend of barrels.
Cocktails3
Black Pearljust added
Solid · Cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
Tash Conte's family were running a restaurant on this site called Relish.
Pendant Public Barjust added
Solid · Public / cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
The name came off a coaster. Linton and Kelly ran a Name Our Bar pop-up at Black Pearl in late 2023, and the suggestions kept referring to their kelpie's one floppy ear.
Hands Downnew
Solid · Cocktail bar · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
They kept the old brass bar and its timber panelling because timber resonates, then dropped the ceiling for soundproofing, and built the room around a vintage Tannoy.
Wine2
Bar Liberty2◆
Solid · Natural wine bar · Fitzroy · $$$
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Roughly fifteen wines sit open at any one time, drawn from a list of about two hundred bins bought direct from independent growers.
Napier Quarterjust added4◆
Solid · Cafe / wine bar · Fitzroy · $$
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Asked to name his quintessential Melbourne experience, Alejandro Saravia described a piece of toast: anchovies on crisp sourdough, big dollops of mayonnaise, sliced egg and salsa verde.
Coffee3
Calere Coffee
Solid · Specialty coffee · Fitzroy · $
walk-in
There is one single origin on at a time, and if you ask, whoever is behind the counter will tell you what it is doing.
Industry Beans
Listed · Specialty coffee · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
The roastery sits behind big windows at the back of the room and produces most of the group's core blends, so the beans in your espresso came off a roaster ten metres away.
Addict Food And Coffee
Listed · Specialty coffee / brunch · Fitzroy · $$
walk-in
The bar pours five different roasters: an Axil blend for milk drinks, a Sir Charles roast for black, and filter beans from A Coffee, Dukes and Maker Fine Coffee.
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