Every Good Food Guide hatted restaurant to add to your 2026 bucket list
From one hat to three, the essential list of every hat-winning restaurant from The Age Good Food Guide 2026.
- Full list of winners
- Victoria’s dining finest celebrated at Good Food Guide Awards
- Full list of Critics’ Picks
Three hats
- Amaru, Armadale
- Brae, Birregurra
- Minamishima, Richmond
- Vue de Monde, Melbourne CBD
Two hats
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- Aoi Tsuki, South Yarra
- Aru, Melbourne CBD
- Attica, Ripponlea
- Caterina’s Cucina e Bar, Melbourne CBD
- Cutler, Fitzroy
- Di Stasio Citta, Melbourne CBD
- Flower Drum, Melbourne CBD
- Gimlet, Melbourne CBD
- Greasy Zoes, Hurstbridge
- Ides, Collingwood
- Ishizuka, Melbourne CBD
- Kazuki’s, Carlton
- Lee Ho Fook, Melbourne CBD
- Matsu, Footscray
- Navi, Yarraville
- O.My, Beaconsfield
- Reine & La Rue, Melbourne CBD
- Sushi On
- Tomo-An NEW*
- Warabi, Melbourne CBD
- Yugen Omakase, South Yarra
REGIONAL
- Barragunda, Cape Schanck NEW
- Chae, Cockatoo
- Chauncy, Heathcote
- Du Fermier, Trentham
- Kadota, Daylesford
- Lake House, Daylesford
- Laura, Merricks
- Provenance, Beechworth
- Samesyn, Torquay
- Tedesca Osteria, Red Hill
- Ten Minutes by Tractor, Main Ridge
- Wickens, Dunkeld
One hat
CITY AND SUBURBS
- Anchovy, Richmond
- Atria, Melbourne CBD
- Bacash, South Yarra
- Bansho, Armadale
- Bar Bellamy, Carlton
- Bar Liberty, Fitzroy
- Bar Lourinha, Melbourne CBD
- Bar Magnolia, Brunswick
- Bar Olo, Carlton
- Brico, Carlton North
- Carlton Wine Room, Carlton
- Cecconi’s Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD
- Centonove, Kew
- Circl, Melbourne CBD
- Clover, Richmond
- Coda, Melbourne CBD
- Cumulus Inc., Melbourne CBD
- Dainty on Toorak, South Yarra
- Di Stasio Carlton, Carlton
- Doju, Melbourne CBD
- Donovans, St Kilda
- Embla, Melbourne CBD
- Enoteca Boccaccio
- Etta, Brunswick East
- The European, Melbourne CBD
- French Saloon, Melbourne CBD
- Freyja, Melbourne CBD
- Gaea, Fitzroy
- Grill Americano, Melbourne CBD
- Harriot, Melbourne CBD NEW
- Julie, Abbotsford
- Kafeneion, Melbourne CBD
- Kisume, Melbourne CBD
- Kolkata Cricket Club, Southbank NEW
- La Vetta, Mickleham
- Lagoon Dining, Carlton
- Lagotto, Fitzroy North
- Lucia, South Melbourne
- Maha, Melbourne CBD
- Malin, Carlton North NEW
- Manze, North Melbourne
- Marion, Fitzroy
- Marmelo, Melbourne CBD NEW
- Matilda 159 Domain, South Yarra
- Ministry of Crab, Melbourne CBD NEW
- MoVida, Melbourne CBD
- MoVida Aqui, Melbourne CBD
- Napier Quarter, Fitzroy
- Nihao Kitchen, Kew
- Nomad, Melbourne CBD
- Omnia, South Yarra
- Osteria Ilaria, Melbourne CBD
- Patsy’s, Melbourne CBD
- Philippe, Melbourne CBD
- Pipis Kiosk, Albert Park
- Poodle Bar & Bistro, Fitzroy
- Public Wine Shop, Fitzroy North
- Reed House, Melbourne CBD
- Rockpool Bar & Grill, Southbank
- Scopri, Carlton
- Serai, Melbourne CBD
- Shusai Mijo, Fitzroy
- Smith St Bistrot, Collingwood
- Society, Melbourne CBD
- Stokehouse, St Kilda
- Supernormal, Melbourne CBD
- Supreme J Kitchen, Balwyn
- Tipo 00, Melbourne CBD
- Tonka, Melbourne CBD
- Trattoria Emilia, Melbourne CBD
- Tulum, Balaclava
- Vex Dining, Northcote
- Victor Churchill, Armadale
- Vinesmith, Melbourne CBD NEW
- Zareh, Collingwood NEW
REGIONAL
- Babae, Ballarat
- Bar Midland, Castlemaine
- Brown Brothers Restaurant, Milawa
- Doot Doot Doot, Merricks North
- Grace Bar & Eatery, Rutherglen
- Hogget Kitchen, Warragul
- Ipsos, Lorne
- Many Little, Red Hill South
- Messmates Dining, Warragul
- Midnight Starling, Kyneton
- Moke, Flinders
- Montalto, Red Hill South
- No.7 Healesville, Healesville
- Norma, Albury
- Polperro, Red Hill
- Port Phillip Estate, Red Hill South
- Rare Hare, Merricks North
- Re’em, Gruyere
- Sardine Dining, Paynesville
- Stefano’s, Mildura
- The Surly Goat, Hepburn Springs
- TarraWarra Estate
- Tulip, Geelong
- Underbar, Ballarat
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* Note: NEW denotes a venue that has opened in the past 12 months
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