RecommendedEating out Elsternwick

Elster

This cafe is a finalist in the best all-rounder category in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

June 6, 2025

1 / 6Elster’s moody and polished interior.Eddie Jim

Anchovy toast with stracciatella, wood-fired peppers, shaved
tomato, pickled shallots and soft-boiled egg. — 2 / 6Anchovy toast with stracciatella, wood-fired peppers, shaved tomato, pickled shallots and soft-boiled egg.Eddie Jim

3 / 6Steak frites with bearnaise.Eddie Jim

6 / 6Broccoli salad with (optional) cured salmon.Eddie Jim

Elster

Cafe$

Carefully walking the line between cafe and restaurant is what Elster does best. It’s a cafe insofar as you can have a flat white and a granola or chicken sandwich. But it’s a restaurant in that your cereal comes with bruleed pink grapefruit, and your sandwich layers crumbed buttermilk-brined chook and oozy dill tartare between squishy milk bread.

Good to know: A solid booze menu – from bloody Marys to TarraWarra chardonnay – rounds out the offer.

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