Cuttlefish dosai.
14/20

This swish Sri Lankan restaurant serves what our critic calls ‘the perfect snack’

Hopper Joint,with its hands-on curry sets and short eats,is introducing the cuisine to a whole new audience.

  • Besha Rodell
Toscana pizza with truffle mushroom cream,mozzarella,porcini mushrooms,mixed forest mushrooms,gorgonzola cream,radicchio and crushed roasted hazelnuts and cashews.

Never trust a singing chef? L’Amorino’s panini and loaded pizza slices are on song

Chef Angelo Magliocco often unleashes an aria as he goes about his making and baking at this tiny pizza and cake shop.

  • Dani Valent
Go-to dish:Chirashi bowl.
Good Food hat15.5/20

‘Probably the best value high-quality sushi in Melbourne’:Lunch-only Japanese gem scores a hat

This lunch-only service in Prahran offers two excellent options:a $60 chirashi bowl that’s probably the best value in Melbourne,and an 11-course omakase experience for a relatively affordable $110.

  • Besha Rodell
Inside Firebird’s long dining room.
14/20

Is Firebird still firing? The flavours are fantastic but the service is lukewarm

This fire-driven restaurant may not be writing an entirely new chapter on modern Australian cooking,but it is representing the genre admirably.

  • Besha Rodell
The Desi Masala Beef Chopped Cheese Burger is a banger.

DesiNental's Philly cheesesteak meets Indian burger is a banger

The Prahran Indian fusion restaurant's signature dish has quite the backstory,reviews Dani Valent.

  • Dani Valent
Advertisement
Pasta on a spoon.

A spoonful of pasta makes the natural wine go down at Don's

This Prahran wine bar serves a tiny,snacky menu in a similarly tight shopfront.

  • Dani Valent
Osteria Renata is Prahran's posh pasta-led newcomer.
14.5/20

Pasta la vista,baby at Osteria Renata

Does an osteria by any other name smell as sweet? Larissa Dubecki heads to Prahran's posh pasta-led newcomer to find out.

  • Larissa Dubecki
Entrecote has landed in Prahran,a place where frothy French fantasies can come true.
Good Food hat15/20

So Frenchy,so chic at Entrecote,Prahran

Entrecote has landed in Prahran,a place where frothy French fantasies can come true.

  • Gemima Cody
Toasted brioche soldiers topped with whipped bonito.

The Greville's glamour extends to its plates

There's substance behind the shine at this Prahran playground for grown-ups.

  • Dani Valent
Bright flavours:a selection of dishes at Spice Pantry,Prahran.

Is this Melbourne's best butter chicken?

Spice Pantry's less-common Indian dishes are wonderful as well,reviews Besha Rodell.

  • Besha Rodell