Explore Melbourne
Melbourne is Australia's culture-and-coffee capital — hidden laneways, world-class restaurants and a sports-mad soul. Its grid, trams and sprawling suburbs reward a driver; Chauffyr links a laneway coffee, a Queen Victoria Market lunch and a riverside dinner in a fixed-price black car.
Laneway coffee and street art, a world-renowned dining scene, grand sporting events, and Victorian-era architecture along the Yarra.
The facts, upfront
The best restaurants in Melbourne
Attica
Modern Australian · $$$$ · Ripponlea
Ben Shewry's Ripponlea restaurant — long ranked among the world's best for its inventive native-Australian menu.
Vue de Monde
Modern Australian · $$$$ · CBD
A glamorous fine-dining room on level 55 of the Rialto, showcasing native produce with a knockout view.
Flower Drum
Cantonese · $$$$ · Chinatown
A revered Chinatown institution serving elegant Cantonese cuisine and legendary Peking duck since 1975.
Chin Chin
Modern Thai · $$$ · CBD
A perpetually buzzing Flinders Lane favourite for punchy modern Thai and Southeast-Asian plates.
Cumulus Inc.
Modern Australian · $$$ · CBD
Andrew McConnell's beloved all-day Flinders Lane dining room — a Melbourne modern classic.
Pellegrini's Espresso Bar
Italian café · $ · CBD
A cherished 1954 Bourke Street espresso bar — a piece of Melbourne's Italian coffee heritage.
What to see in Melbourne
Federation Square & Flinders Street Station
CBD
Melbourne's central meeting place, a bold modern plaza facing the beloved Victorian Flinders Street Station.
Royal Botanic Gardens
South Yarra
38 hectares of beautifully landscaped gardens beside the Yarra, a green heart just south of the city.
Queen Victoria Market
CBD
A vast, historic open-air market — the largest in the Southern Hemisphere — for produce, deli and crafts.
Melbourne's Laneways
CBD
The maze of graffiti-splashed laneways and hidden cafés that define Melbourne's creative culture.
National Gallery of Victoria
Southbank
Australia's oldest and most-visited art museum, famed for its Great Hall's kaleidoscopic stained-glass ceiling.
St Kilda
St Kilda
A breezy bayside suburb with a palm-lined beach, historic Luna Park and a pier where little penguins gather.
One perfect day in Melbourne
9:00 · Morning
Federation Square & Flinders Street StationCBD — The modern civic plaza
11:00 · Late morning
Royal Botanic GardensSouth Yarra — Ornamental lakes
13:00 · Lunch
Chin ChinModern Thai · CBD — Son-in-law eggs
15:00 · Afternoon
Queen Victoria MarketCBD — Fresh produce & deli halls
18:00 · Golden hour
St KildaSt Kilda — The bayside beach
20:00 · Dinner
AtticaModern Australian · Ripponlea — Native-Australian tasting
Book this day, one chauffeur
One fixed-price car and driver for every stop — no parking, no waiting, no surge.