The Feed | All The Melbourne Food News You Need To Know

The food news has been coming in thick and fast in Melbourne, and to make sure that you're across all of the food and bev movements, we've wrapped up everything that you need to know in a handful of digestible servings. 

And if you're chasing Melbourne's best cheap eats right now, best restaurants, best cafes, best bars or basically anything else you need a rec for, we've got you covered. 

Keep up to date with all of Melbourne's food and drink news right here, hot and fresh out the kitchen as of August, 2025:

Enjoy $30 Lunch Menus To Celebrate 30 Years Lucas Restaurants

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For those unfamiliar, Chris Lucas is the brains behind some of Melbourne's most-loved dining experiences: think Chin Chin, Yakimono, Grill Americano, and most recently, Masion Bâtard. Lucas made his mark on the hospitality world back in 1995 , and this August they are celebrating 30 years of his time in the industry—and they are not holding back. 

From 5 August to 4 September, all of the Lucas restaurants are joining in on the celebrations, with specials, daily offers, giveaways and more—some would say they are celebrating like it’s 1995. With a nod to the year it all started, every Lucas venue will offer a selection of cocktails, including a Negroni, Spicy Margarita and Dirty Martini, for just $19.95, available all day, every day. But the specials don’t just stop there! 

Each restaurant will be offering its own signature two-course lunch menu for $30, showcasing some of Lucas’s most iconic dishes. Our fave offers include the Kingfish Sashimi followed by the Butter Chicken Curry at Chin Chin, and the Grill Americano’s Wagyu and Porcini Pappardelle, with their mouth-watering tiramisu to finish the meal off. And the gifts just keep giving, with every customer walking home with a 19.95%-off voucher to use for your next visit! 

Lucas shared that “as we celebrate 30 years, we’re honouring not just our venues and our team, but every guest who has ever pulled up a chair at one of our tables”. 

And the best part of the deal? There are six different places you can use this deal at, so you can use the deal again and again with different experiences each time. This offer only comes once every 30 years, so make sure you join in on the month-long celebrations.

For more on Melbourne’s best restaurants, head over here.

Ribs & Burgers Launches A Decadent Dubai Chocolate Thickshake

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The people have spoken: we simply can’t get enough Dubai chocolate in our system, but luckily there’s a new contender on the menu serving dessert decadence in a cup. Ribs & Burgers have just launched a Dubai chocolate thickshake—treating you to a rich and creamy blend of all the good stuff. We’re talking pistachio paste, chocolate sauce, pistachio crush, and crispy kataifi pastry for sip after sip of indulgence. Available for a limited time only, you can find your nearest store here.

They're Only Making 20 Portions Of This Laksa Every Week At Etta, So You Know It's Good

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Etta’s fiery, winter laksa special has followed in the footsteps of many great restaurant dishes: from staff meal to menu.

This epic, $30 steaming bowl of coconut curry laksa will be available at the front bar every Wednesday night throughout winter. Its broth is loaded with lemongrass, garlic, makrut lime, galangal, chilli and choc-full of egg and rice noodles, house-made golden tofu, a tumble of fresh herbs and a punchy Nonya sambal.

Each soup will be served with a stick of deep-fried dip-it-yourself school prawns, inspired by the Malaysian street-food vendors known as skewer aunties who make the steamboat-style skewered meats and seafood known as lok-lok. If they’re not enough you can add on sticks with house-made fish balls of flame tail snapper, arrowhead squid brushed in sambal and cooked over coals and satay curry-martinated chicken, grilled over the woodfire. 

Make sure you carve out a weeknight for this limited treat. And if you love Etta, check out the goss on their new spot due to open where Bar Romantica was. 

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This Riff On A Fillet-O-Fish Just Won Australia's Best Burger

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That's right, in what might be one of the biggest upset wins in history, a fish burger has been awarded Australia's best burger for 2025.

Jonathon Donovan from CBCo Brewing in Port Melbourne won the highly coveted Best National Burger award dished out by Foodservice Australia. 

Chef Donovan was applaued for his unique twist on the Macca's classic Fillet-o-Fish burger featuring shrimp, panko crumb with a ranch and Japanese mayo sauce.

The inaugural Australia’s Best Burger and Best Pizza Awards formed part of Australia’s most anticipated foodservice trade show: Food & Hospitality Week, which took place at Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre (MCEC) from 18-20 May 2025.

For more of Melbourne's best burgers, head this-a-way.

Our Fave Chicken Ramen Is Back On The Menu Just In Time For The Chilly Weather

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Yes, it’s back! It seemed like it just left but honestly we couldn’t be more stoked for Supernormal’s epicly silky lunchtime chicken ramen special. We’re hearing it’s back on the menu to coincide with the cooler months, but you know the drill. Their ramen is a rich chicken bone broth poured over tender noodles with prawn and chicken dumplings, grilled chicken and a perfectly soy-marinated egg. Dig in Monday to Friday at lunchtime for the (wallet-friendly) price of just $24. 

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