South Melbourne area guide

An interior shot at St Ali showing the main room full of people — Photograph: Graham Denholm

Lest you only make the trek occasionally to visit South Melbourne Market, let us tell you, there's a whole lot more to South Melbourne, from St Ali and Chez Dre for coffee, to Lûmé for dinner and Bibelot for dessert.

South Melbourne highlights

Shopping

South Melbourne Market

Things to do

Mine Escape Room

Restaurants

St Ali

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The Kettle Black

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The best restaurants in South Melbourne

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Bibelot

Bibelot dishes up cakes and confectionary so couture, you’ll want to walk out wearing them

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Tempura Hajime

Tiny, hidden and serving elegant cuisine, Hajime ticks all the best of Japan boxes

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Lamaro's Hotel

A bodega? Not exactly, but the old Lamaro’s has a newly Iberian spring in its step

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The Kettle Black

The goal-kicking team behind Top Paddock has flung open the doors to a fresh new café in South Melbourne. It’ll look fab in your Instagram feed

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Chez Dre

Give in to the devil on your shoulder for just one afternoon to indulge at this hidden South Melbourne café/patisserie

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St Ali

A new chef is yet another reason to spend all your time and money at St Ali South

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Half Acre

The wood-fire grill burns bright at this glass-domed beauty in South Melbourne

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Bars

Bellota Wine Bar

South Melbourne: much handier than Rome, Paris, Athens or San Sebastian

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Lûmé

OK, adventure-hounds. You want something out of the box? Lûmé is just the ticket

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Restaurants

Mrs Kim's Grill

Experience the thrill of the grill

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The best bars in South Melbourne

Bars

The Palace Hotel: South Melbourne

Time Out's 2016 Pub of the Year remains at the head of the pack

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Hats and Tatts

Rowdy becomes your middle name when you walk through the doors of this (not quite a) frat bar in South Melbourne

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The Railway Hotel

One of Melbourne’s great classic pubs doesn’t need any gimmicks

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Bars

Mr Brownie Rooftop Hotel

Jessi Singh's curry pub brings four floors of fun to South Melbourne

More great venues in South Melbourne

Shopping

Azalea: South Melbourne Market

Michael Pavlou, proprietor of South Melbourne Market’s Azalea, has an impressive floral heritage – his dad and uncle are wholesalers, and his first job, at...

Shopping

Izzi & Popo

If you yearn for your apartment to be provincial France rather than shabby KMART chic, then head down to Izzy and Popo. These importers of European antiques...

Things to do

Woodbury Escape Rooms

Try not to scream...

Sport and fitness

Albert Park

Albert Park boasts 225 ha of beautiful parkland including a picturesque lake and network of trails. The park includes an 18-hole golf course, golf driving...

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