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The best steakhouses in Melbourne

21 steakhouses in Melbourne, each with its sources, listed by name. 13 cook over wood or charcoal, 16 dry-age their beef and 7 are named by Michelin, 50 Best or 101 Best.

Facts checked Nov. 2, 2026 · No paid rankings · Listed by name, A–Z · How we choose ›

What do you want tonight?

7 selections, each with its rule

by what you want, with the rule printed

Facts checked Nov. 2, 2026 · 21 steakhouses, every fact with its source

Best for what you want: each list prints its rule, and every steakhouse shows the fact that put it there.

II want the longest-aged beefRule Listed only if a source states the number of days. Sorted by days, longest first.Steer Dining Room, A Hereford Beefstouw, Cinder at The Terminus and 6 more
  1. Steer Dining Room110 days
  2. A Hereford Beefstouw100 days
  3. Cinder at The Terminus60 days
  4. Angus & Bon50 days
  5. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbourne45 days
  6. Meatmaiden40 days
  7. San Telmo28 days
  8. Victor Churchill Melbourne28 days
  9. Railway Club Hotel20 days
III want steak over wood fireRule Wood named as the fuel by the restaurant or a source.Angus & Bon, Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne), Gimlet at Cavendish House and 5 more
  1. Angus & Bonwood
  2. Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne)wood
  3. Gimlet at Cavendish Housewood
  4. Grill Americanowood
  5. Meatmaidenwood
  6. Palermowood
  7. Reine & La Ruewood
  8. Rockpool Bar & Grill Melbournewood
IIII want steak over charcoalRule Charcoal named as the fuel by the restaurant or a source.Asado, Cinder at The Terminus, San Telmo and 2 more
  1. Asadocharcoal
  2. Cinder at The Terminuscharcoal
  3. San Telmocharcoal
  4. Victor Churchill Melbournecharcoal
  5. Vlado'scharcoal
IVI want an Argentine or Uruguayan parrillaRule The house style is a River Plate parrilla.Asado, Palermo, San Telmo
  1. Asadoest. 2018
  2. Palermoest. 2017
  3. San Telmoest. 2011
VI want wagyuRule Wagyu is named among the house's beef.Angus & Bon, Asado, Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne) and 13 more
  1. Angus & BonAustralia
  2. AsadoAustralia (Victoria: O'Connor Premium of Gippsland, Sher Wagyu, Altair)
  3. Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne)Australia
  4. Cinder at The TerminusAustralia, Japan
  5. EntrecôteAustralia
  6. Gimlet at Cavendish HouseAustralia
  7. Grill AmericanoAustralia
  8. MeatmaidenAustralia
  9. PalermoAustralia
  10. Railway Club HotelAustralia (Victoria and Tasmania)
  11. Reine & La RueAustralia
  12. Rockpool Bar & Grill MelbourneAustralia
  13. Steer Dining RoomAustralia, Japan
  14. The Meat & Wine Co (Southbank)Australia
  15. Victor Churchill MelbourneAustralia
  16. Vlado'sAustralia
VII want the old guardRule Opened before 1990, oldest first.Middle Park Hotel, Vlado's, France-Soir
  1. Middle Park Hotelest. 1889
  2. Vlado'sest. 1964
  3. France-Soirest. 1986
VIII want something newRule Opened in 2023 or later.Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne), Reine & La Rue
  1. Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne)est. 2025
  2. Reine & La Rueest. 2023

What do you want tonight?

All 21, listed by name, A–Z.

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The beef in Melbourne

What the menus here are built on, counted from the 21 steakhouses below

Melbourne is Australia's largest city, and its steak restaurants run from a Richmond charcoal grill that has served the same set menu since 1964 to a Wagyu-only dining room in South Yarra, Argentine parrillas in the CBD and pubs where diners choose their cut from a cabinet. Six of them were in the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants 2026.

Dry-aged16 of 21up to 110 days
Over wood or charcoal13 of 21
Beef origin namedAustralia 16 · Japan 2
Grade namedA5 2 · MB 2+ 2
Signature cutRibeyeat 12 steakhouses

Counts only steakhouses where the restaurant or a source states it.

The 21 steakhouses side by side

Tap a column to sort. — means no source states it yet.
A Hereford BeefstouwAustralia (South Australia and south-west Victoria) · Hereford40–100; 100 or 45 days——OtherCBD2016
Angus & BonMB 2+ · Australia30–50; 30 days—woodAmerican chophousePrahran2018
AsadoMS 5+ · Australia (Victoria: O'Connor Premium of Gippsland, Sher Wagyu, Altair)——charcoalArgentine parrillaSouthbank2018
B'Churrasco————Brazilian churrascariaCBD2014
Blackbird Bar & Dining (Melbourne)MBS 2+ · Australiayes—woodModern grillCBD2025
Cinder at The TerminusA5 · Australia48–60; 40 days—charcoalModern grillFitzroy North2021
EntrecôteAustralia · Angus———French brasseriePrahran2015
France-SoirAustraliayes——French brasserieSouth Yarra1986
Gimlet at Cavendish HouseMBS 9+ · Australiayes—charcoal · woodModern grillCBD2020
Grill AmericanoMB 4 · Australiayes—charcoal · woodFlorentine bisteccheriaCBD2022
MeatmaidenMBS 3+ · Australia40 days—woodModern grillCBD2014
Middle Park HotelMB 2–3+ · Australia———OtherMiddle Park1889
PalermoMB 6–7 · Australiayes—charcoal · woodArgentine parrillaCBD2017
Railway Club HotelMB 7–9+ · Australia (Victoria and Tasmania)minimum 20; Cape Grim up to six weeks days——OtherPort Melbourne—
Reine & La RueMBS 9+ · Australiayes—woodFrench brasserieCBD2023
Rockpool Bar & Grill MelbourneMBS 5+ · Australia14–45 days—woodModern grillSouthbank2006
San TelmoAustralia (Gippsland, Victoria)28 days—charcoalArgentine parrillaCBD2011
Steer Dining RoomA5 · Australia40–110 days—broilerAmerican chophouseSouth Yarra—
The Meat & Wine Co (Southbank)MB 2+ · Australiayes——Modern grillSouthbank—
Victor Churchill MelbourneMS 9+ · Australia28 days—charcoalModern grillArmadale2021
Vlado'sAustralia——charcoalOtherRichmond1964

Order it by its local name

The same steak has a different name in every country. What to look for on the menu in Melbourne:

CutIn MelbourneUnited StatesUnited KingdomArgentina
RibeyeCube roll · scotch filletRibeye · DelmonicoRib-eye · fore ribOjo de bife · bife ancho
T-boneT-boneT-bone · porterhouseT-bone · porterhouseT-bone · bife con lomo
TenderloinTenderloin · eye filletTenderloin · filet mignonFillet · fillet steakLomo
StriploinStriploin · porterhouseStrip steak · New York stripSirloin steakBife de chorizo · bife angosto
Short ribsShort ribs · rib plateShort ribs · chuck short ribsShort rib · Jacob's ladderAsado de tira · costillar
TomahawkTomahawk · rib eye on the bone, long boneTomahawk · long-bone rib steakTomahawk · long-bone ribTomahawk · bife ancho con hueso largo
Steak in Melbourne: the long read

Victoria had 2.6 million beef cattle in June 2025, about a tenth of Australia's 27.6 million, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics; the herd is small next to Queensland's 13.5 million, but Melbourne menus lean on it. O'Connor, a Gippsland family business that raises Angus and Hereford cattle on clover and ryegrass pasture, is named more often than any other producer: it supplies all the beef at San Telmo and is listed at Gimlet, Palermo, Asado, Meatmaiden, Reine & La Rue, Angus & Bon and the Middle Park Hotel. Grass-fed beef from Bass Strait and Cape Grim in Tasmania follows. Grain-fed beef comes mostly from interstate feedlots such as Rangers Valley in New South Wales, while Victoria's part in Wagyu is older than most: David Blackmore formed Blackmore Wagyu in 1990 as one of the first importers of Wagyu genetics into Australia, and the Sher family has produced Wagyu since 1991, grass-fed and then grain-fed for more than 400 days. Blackmore is on the menu at Rockpool Bar & Grill, Gimlet and Reine & La Rue; Sher at Meatmaiden and Asado.

The oldest steakhouse still trading is Vlado's, opened on Bridge Road, Richmond, in 1964 by Vlado Gregurek, who had arrived from Croatia five years earlier; it still serves one set menu from a charcoal grill, and his son Michael has run it since Vlado's death in 2012. The Middle Park Hotel has been licensed since 1889, and the Railway Club Hotel in Port Melbourne has had one of the city's busiest dining rooms for four decades, with a meat cabinet from which diners choose their cut. France-Soir, a Parisian-style brasserie on Toorak Road, opened in 1986. The modern steakhouse arrived with Rockpool Bar & Grill at Crown in 2006, Gourmet Traveller's New Restaurant of the Year 2008, and with San Telmo in 2011, which brought a Pirincho parrilla from Argentina to Meyers Place.

Most of the newer rooms are in the CBD laneways (Flinders Lane, Russell Street, Collins Street, Duckboard Place) and in South Yarra, Prahran and Armadale. Six Melbourne restaurants were in the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants 2026: Steer Dining Room (No. 29), Victor Churchill (31), Gimlet (62), Matilda (79), Meatmaiden (81) and Grill Americano (95); Entrecôte and Blackbird were also in the guide's Australian top 30. Fire is the common thread: ironbark at Rockpool, Reine & La Rue, Angus & Bon and Blackbird; Josper charcoal ovens at Grill Americano and Cinder; coals at Victor Churchill and Gimlet; mallee-root charcoal and an asado pit at Palermo.

Three names from recent lists have closed: Botswana Butchery on Flinders Lane (May 2024), Adrian Richardson's La Luna Bistro in Carlton North (August 2024, after 26 years) and Scott Pickett's Matilda 159 Domain in South Yarra (August 2026; the site is now Kiki's Tavern). Also in the city: weekly steak nights at pubs and wine bars such as the Marquis of Lorne in Fitzroy and Lilac in Cremorne, Wagyu over charcoal at the Korean barbecue Mansae, and Steak Ministry in Glen Waverley.

Listed by name, never by payment or score. Facts last verified: Nov. 2, 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best steak restaurant in Melbourne?

Six Melbourne restaurants were in the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants 2026: Steer Dining Room, Victor Churchill, Gimlet, Matilda (closed in August 2026), Meatmaiden and Grill Americano; Time Out Melbourne's October 2026 guide adds San Telmo, Vlado's, the Railway Club Hotel, Cinder and Entrecôte. The restaurants below are listed in alphabetical order with what each one states about its beef and its fire. Steakpedia does not score or rank restaurants.

Where does the beef in Melbourne steakhouses come from?

Almost all of it is Australian. Gippsland, east of the city, supplies the most-named producer, O'Connor (grass-fed Angus and Hereford); Tasmania supplies Cape Grim, Bass Strait and Robbins Island; Victoria's Blackmore and Sher raise Wagyu; and grain-fed beef comes from Rangers Valley in New South Wales and Mayura Station in South Australia. Steer Dining Room also serves Japanese A5 beef, including Kobe.

Which Melbourne pubs are known for steak?

The Railway Club Hotel in Port Melbourne, where diners pick their cut from a meat cabinet and the beef is dry-aged on site; the Middle Park Hotel, licensed since 1889, with O'Connor's grass-fed beef on its menu; and Cinder, the Josper-grill dining room of the Terminus Hotel in Fitzroy North. Others run weekly steak nights, such as the Marquis of Lorne in Fitzroy on Tuesdays.

Related

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