Comments on: The best restaurants in Melbourne? http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/ The insiders' guide to food and drink in Melbourne. Since 2005. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Noosa Accommodation http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-50287 Noosa Accommodation Fri, 21 May 2010 11:29:30 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-50287 Thanks.. I'm not from Melbourne but this has given me a good list of places to try when I visit soon. I'll be sure to come back & give my feedback after I have dined at a few of these places. bon appetit Thanks.. I’m not from Melbourne but this has given me a good list of places to try when I visit soon. I’ll be sure to come back & give my feedback after I have dined at a few of these places. bon appetit

]]> By: JenSusantoLee http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-50261 JenSusantoLee Tue, 18 May 2010 12:35:36 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-50261 Thanks guys. I'm pretty keen to try the up-scale places. Haven't been back to Melbourne in years so am completely out of touch with what's good in re to high-end dining these days. Thanks again for your reco's, hope you get some good dining experiences in Perth, Ed! :) Thanks guys. I’m pretty keen to try the up-scale places. Haven’t been back to Melbourne in years so am completely out of touch with what’s good in re to high-end dining these days.

Thanks again for your reco’s, hope you get some good dining experiences in Perth, Ed! :)

]]> By: Ed http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-50206 Ed Wed, 12 May 2010 23:22:01 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-50206 Thanks Eliott for helping Jen out. I'm with all your comments. People also forget Bar Lourhina. You can't book but it never takes long to get a table and the food is every bit as good asMovida. Don't forget cafes either. Seven Seeds, Proud Mary, St Ali. the big news is Philipa Sibley at Il Fornaio in St Kilda. the food now is really a cut above the usual cafe fare. Thanks Eliott for helping Jen out.

I’m with all your comments.

People also forget Bar Lourhina. You can’t book but it never takes long to get a table and the food is every bit as good asMovida.
Don’t forget cafes either. Seven Seeds, Proud Mary, St Ali.

the big news is Philipa Sibley at Il Fornaio in St Kilda. the food now is really a cut above the usual cafe fare.

]]> By: Elliot http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-50197 Elliot Wed, 12 May 2010 00:44:45 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-50197 Hi J.S.L. Maze is distinguished by slow delivery of expensive morsel sized serves. Give it a few months to settle down. Re the best it depends on what you want. MoMo is beautiful but you have to like that sort of food, Matteo's is very good, sort of Italian, Vue du Monde is excellent, inventive and reliable, as is Attica, JaquesReymond more classical and less reliable usually excellent. Silks at Crown has a very good banquet at $100 in great surroundings. Cutler & Co is another place that offers a dining experience. There are also a lot of excellent Japanese places. Chose your poison and we'll recommend a venue!! Hi J.S.L.
Maze is distinguished by slow delivery of expensive morsel sized serves. Give it a few months to settle down. Re the best it depends on what you want. MoMo is beautiful but you have to like that sort of food, Matteo’s is very good, sort of Italian, Vue du Monde is excellent, inventive and reliable, as is Attica, JaquesReymond more classical and less reliable usually excellent. Silks at Crown has a very good banquet at $100 in great surroundings. Cutler & Co is another place that offers a dining experience. There are also a lot of excellent Japanese places.
Chose your poison and we’ll recommend a venue!!

]]> By: JenSusantoLee http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-50196 JenSusantoLee Wed, 12 May 2010 00:23:34 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-50196 Hey Ed, I'm heading over to Melbourne later in the year. Any 2010 recommendations? Would you add Maze to the list, or is it famed for name only? Hey Ed, I’m heading over to Melbourne later in the year. Any 2010 recommendations? Would you add Maze to the list, or is it famed for name only?

]]> By: Ed http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-45141 Ed Thu, 07 May 2009 06:09:59 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-45141 I think the Eat and Drink ones are good - they are the same as the cards but half the price and with a few more features. Also they focus on the cooler places rather than with some online guides that give hundreds with ratings that aren't always up to scratch. I think the Eat and Drink ones are good – they are the same as the cards but half the price and with a few more features. Also they focus on the cooler places rather than with some online guides that give hundreds with ratings that aren’t always up to scratch.

]]> By: martinjy http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-45140 martinjy Thu, 07 May 2009 05:48:17 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-45140 So what do you think of drink.melbourne? It's put out by the dudes behind Deck of Secrets, afaik. So what do you think of drink.melbourne? It’s put out by the dudes behind Deck of Secrets, afaik.

]]> By: Ed http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-44824 Ed Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:24:06 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-44824 Fitzroyalty, Davy I think the answer is a combination of unique content by people who know what they are doing - the expensive bit - combined with diners reviews comments and tips. As I've said before urban Spoon lacks local knowledge and most of the sites all fail for not having that really good input. Sort of like the Good Food Guide with user reviews and comments. Fitzroyalty, Davy

I think the answer is a combination of unique content by people who know what they are doing – the expensive bit – combined with diners reviews comments and tips. As I’ve said before urban Spoon lacks local knowledge and most of the sites all fail for not having that really good input. Sort of like the Good Food Guide with user reviews and comments.

]]> By: Davy http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-44817 Davy Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:31:37 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-44817 Yeah, agree with Fitz re the accuracy, it's great to be on there but I question why Cafe Vue has 5 votes and a 100% approval rating and is positioned at No5 in the top 100 list whereas, as of the other day, The Commoner had 20 votes, a 100% approval rating and yet was floundering in the 50's....since then there's been a negative vote yet The Commoner jumped up about 14 places! Me no get it....someone's algorithims are a little wonky. Also, as Fitz pointed out, it lists The Commoner's mains at under $15! If it isn't mainatined regularly then the integrity of the info declines dramatically...hence the argument for user amendments. Yeah, agree with Fitz re the accuracy, it’s great to be on there but I question why Cafe Vue has 5 votes and a 100% approval rating and is positioned at No5 in the top 100 list whereas, as of the other day, The Commoner had 20 votes, a 100% approval rating and yet was floundering in the 50′s….since then there’s been a negative vote yet The Commoner jumped up about 14 places! Me no get it….someone’s algorithims are a little wonky.

Also, as Fitz pointed out, it lists The Commoner’s mains at under $15! If it isn’t mainatined regularly then the integrity of the info declines dramatically…hence the argument for user amendments.

]]> By: Fitzroyalty http://www.tomatom.com/2009/03/the-best-restaurants-in-melbourne/comment-page-1/#comment-44814 Fitzroyalty Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:53:02 +0000 http://www.tomatom.com/?p=1147#comment-44814 Any hospitality venue that chooses to opt out of being included in online guides like this needs psychiatric help; not that they'll be able to afford it as they'll soon be bankrupt. Having said that, the data provided by US sites for non-US locations is uniformly terrible. $$ for Peko Peko and only $ for The Commoner? This is inaccurate and misleading for the owners and customers of both. Guides like this should implement systems to enable users to correct their data, which would increase accuracy as well as interaction and engagement. Any hospitality venue that chooses to opt out of being included in online guides like this needs psychiatric help; not that they’ll be able to afford it as they’ll soon be bankrupt. Having said that, the data provided by US sites for non-US locations is uniformly terrible. $$ for Peko Peko and only $ for The Commoner? This is inaccurate and misleading for the owners and customers of both. Guides like this should implement systems to enable users to correct their data, which would increase accuracy as well as interaction and engagement.

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