Eat in Fitzroy, Melbourne

Bar Liberty ★ 4.6

Bar Liberty in Fitzroy holds one Good Food Guide hat: Melbourne's natural-wine bistro of record, with small plates, biodynamic pours and a polished kitchen.

Order: Seasonal raw bar plate and house bread with cultured butter

Bar Liberty Bistro ★ 4.5

Bar Liberty in Fitzroy holds one Good Food Guide hat: Melbourne's best natural-wine bistro with seasonal small plates and a list that rewards exploration.

Order: Seasonal raw oysters and the cheese course

Bentwood ★ 4.4

Bentwood on Napier Street takes brunch seriously: seasonal produce, a Fitzroy brick-and-glass room and the kind of coffee that earns regular return visits.

Signature drink: Single-origin filter coffee

Industry Beans ★ 4.4

Industry Beans in a Fitzroy warehouse combines roastery and flagship cafe: a seasonal brunch menu alongside a coffee bar pushing processing and brew methods.

Signature drink: Experimental filter and espresso menu

Lune Croissanterie ★ 4.9

Lune Croissanterie in Fitzroy is Kate Reid's engineering-informed pastry project: technically exacting croissants cited among the world's best by food media.

Worth the queue: Classic croissant with cultured butter

Industry Beans ★ 4.4

Industry Beans in Fitzroy runs its roastery inside an old warehouse: espresso and filter menus change with harvest cycles and classes run on the retail floor.

Bar Liberty ★ 4.7

Bar Liberty in Fitzroy North is the natural wine bar that launched a thousand imitators: ferments and pours that changed how Melbourne thinks about wine.

Wine focus: Natural and minimal-intervention, skin-contact, Australian and European

Neighbourhood Wine ★ 4.5

Neighbourhood Wine in Fitzroy North fills a double-fronted terrace with Victorian producers and low-intervention pours from a thoughtful and well-priced list.

Wine focus: Victorian cellar door range and Australian small-producer

Blackhearts and Sparrows ★ 4.5

Blackhearts and Sparrows is Melbourne's best independent bottle shop for discovering something new: natural and biodynamic wines across six Melbourne stores.

Wine focus: Curated retail with bottle-shop-meets-bar model

Builders Arms Hotel ★ 4.3

The Builders Arms on Gertrude Street does a double life as a local pub and a seriously chosen wine room: natural bottles, good food and a courtyard.

Wine focus: Victorian and Australian natural, craft beer backup

Marion ★ 4.5

Marion on Gertrude Street is the Fitzroy neighbourhood wine bar: an ever-changing natural wine list and snacks designed around what was opened.

Wine focus: Natural and low-intervention, Victorian and European small producers

Black Pearl ★ 4.8

Black Pearl on Brunswick Street has been named among the world's best bars: serious craft cocktails in a Fitzroy corner pub built around technique above.

Signature drink: Seasonal bartender's choice cocktail

Naked for Satan ★ 4.4

Naked for Satan on Brunswick Street is the Fitzroy rooftop bar: pintxos, cheap vermut and a top-level terrace that draws weekend queues from midday onwards.

Signature drink: House vermouth and soda with olive

Huxtaburger ★ 4.3

Huxtaburger on Smith Street launched Melbourne's smash burger era in 2012: the double patty, American cheese and secret sauce that started the city format.

Order: Huxtaburger with American cheese and pickles

Tallboy and Moose ★ 4.3

Tallboy and Moose in Northcote makes unconventional craft beer: hazy IPAs, session lagers and some of the city's most distinctive can packaging.

Slowbeer ★ 4.4

Slowbeer on Smith Street in Fitzroy is Melbourne's best craft bottle shop: fridge-lined walls, knowledgeable staff and no mainstream macro product in sight.

Rose Street Artists Market ★ 4.2

Rose Street Artists Market in Fitzroy runs weekends with independent makers and street food: the inner north's Saturday institution for craft and culture.

Free to Feed ★ 4.7

Free to Feed in Northcote runs cooking classes taught by newly arrived migrants and asylum seekers: regional cuisines, genuine hospitality and a social.

Lune Croissanterie Pastry Class ★ 4.8

Lune Croissanterie in Fitzroy offers croissant-making workshops on laminated dough technique, beurrage and the science behind the world-famous croissants.

Bentwood ★ 4.7

Bentwood in Fitzroy applies wine-bar sensibility to brunch: benchmark granola plates, natural wine from midday and the suburb's best outdoor courtyard.

Order: House granola with seasonal fruit and labne

Evie's Disco Diner ★ 4.3

Evie's Disco Diner on Gertrude Street is the Fitzroy disco-diner: American comfort plates and cocktails in a converted ironworks open until 1am Fri-Sat.

Naked for Satan (rooftop) ★ 4.4

Naked for Satan's rooftop deck above Brunswick Street is Fitzroy's most-used outdoor drinking terrace: vermouth, pintxos and a city skyline view from a building that feels like it should charge more than it does.

The Attic at Black Pearl ★ 4.8

The Attic above Black Pearl is Melbourne's most refined small bar: a 20-seat upstairs room at one of the world's best-rated bars, accessible only through the ground-floor venue, with a cocktail list built for unhurried drinking.

The Old Bar ★ 4.2

The Old Bar on Johnston Street is Fitzroy's authentic dive: live bands most nights from local and touring acts, sticky floors, a pool table and a crowd that knows the difference between a venue that has character and one that has only designed itself to look like it does.