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Good Food tried hot chips from 32 Melbourne venues.

Good Food ranked Melbourne’s best hot chips, and a surprise westside fish and chipper took top spot

From Mount Waverley to Maidstone, chicken shops to burger bars, we tasted 32 different hot chips. These 11 are the ones to know.

  • Good Food team
Bar Local Drop is an extension of wine delivery business the Local Drop.
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This all-day wine bar and its handwritten little black book has our reviewer hooked

  • Dani Valent
Buvons is a bar with "Vietnamese roots, French spirit".

Buvons

  • Tomas Telegramma
Portside prepares seafood as it would at a restaurant, such as Hervey Bay scallops and half rock lobsters.

Portside Market

  • Emily Holgate

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Cafe Effe makes cakes and tarts, its own, gelato, and coffee using Proud Mary beans.
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Coffee and gelato collide (including a chilli-chai flavour) at this new cafe

Lemon kosho ricotta, marinated zucchini, basil, ricotta salata, pepita and charred spring garlic salsa and olive oil.
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Somewhere between shoestring and thick-cut, the chips are painstakingly placed vertically on the buttered bread, creating four or so layers, and the perfect cross-section.

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The fried cheese empanada.

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Born out of Dandenong Market, Cafe Valentina focuses on filling Chilean brunch dishes inspired by the owners’ family recipes.

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Morgan McGlone's four ingredient chicken salt.
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This four-ingredient chicken salt recipe is the closest thing to takeaway chips at home

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