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Glen Waverley

Kingsway in Glen Waverley is one of Melbourne’s best suburban dining hubs.

‘People around here understand food’: Insider tips for eating your way through one of Melbourne’s best suburban dining hubs

Catch a train or nab a park in our secret spot, then start at the shopping centre for Good Food’s guide to noodles, mini banh mi and a retro Cantonese restaurant.

  • Dani Valent
The pepper sauce is hidden inside the raviolo of the bistecca al pepe dish.
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Gambino Restaurant & Rooftop

For high-wire chef tricks and Big Night Out energy.

Beef rendang with roasted coconut.
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Danny’s Kopitiam

A love letter to pulled tea and wok hei.

Bistecca al pepe - eye fillet steak topped with a pepper sauce-filled raviolo - at Gambino restaurant in Glen Waverley.
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Bet you’ve never had steak and pepper sauce like this before, Melbourne

Gambino restaurant and rooftop bar brings tricksy Italian dishes and Big Night Out energy to the ’burbs.

  • Dani Valent
Grill your own all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue at BBQ King.

BBQ King

All-you-can-eat Korean barbecue with a sushi bar and an instant noodle station.

  • Tomas Telegramma
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Spicy Wicket

Roomy restaurant for great-value lunch set and more.

Kariton Sorbetes’ taho sundae.

Kariton Sorbetes

Ice cream inspired by nostalgia for traditional Filipino sorbetes.

  • Cheyenne Bardos
Marble Yakiniku’s crab chawanmushi.

Marble Yakiniku

DIY sizzling wagyu in a refined room.

The signature tofu soup, sundubu-jjigae (bottom left), comes with banchan (snacks) and rice.

DooBoo's bubbling spicy tofu hotpot is delivered by robot

When it's soup weather in Melbourne summer, get jjigae with it at this Korean diner, writes Dani Valent.

  • Dani Valent
Marble Yakiniku is perhaps one of Glen Waverley's best-kept secrets.
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Glen Waverley's Marble Yakiniku offers an embarrassment of magnificence

Marble Yakiniku is perhaps one of Glen Waverley's best-kept secrets.

  • Besha Rodell