Glen Iris
- Review
- Bar Sophia
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
- Recommended
- Bar Sophia
Bar Sophia
Contemporary Greek dishes inspired by wine bars in Athens, by the Marameo team.
- Daniela Frangos
- Recommended
- Grazia D’Asporto
Grazia D’Asporto
Serving house-baked schiacciata and a must-try prosciutto panino.
- Tomas Telegramma
‘A panino so distractingly good that I don’t notice the oil streaming onto my jumper’
Glen Iris diner Grazia just opened a takeaway joint, where house-baked schiacciata and hidden flavour bombs set its deli-style sandwiches apart from the pack.
- Tomas Telegramma
- Review
- Central Park Cellars
Our critic liked this local hangout in the leafy east so much, she visited it twice in one day
And after tasting the “flawless” tiramisu, she’s already planning visit number three.
- Dani Valent
- Recommended
- Siora Tiramisu
Siora Tiramisu
This venue is a finalist for best treats in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.
- Review
- Grazia
‘Rammed from open to close’: Glen Iris locals flock to new Italian restaurant Grazia - but is it worth the hype?
It seems that the suburb really, really wanted a modern Italian joint, with every single one of its 100 seats filling night after night.
- Besha Rodell
- Review
- Melbourne
Deeds Taproom is doing good deeds in Melbourne's east
This brewpub is a boon for an area that is – how do we say this? – not quite overrun with cool destinations.
- Dani Valent