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Where to Find the Best Steak Nights in Melbourne
From steak frites to pub sirloins, these are Melbourne’s best steak nights.
Across Melbourne, a new wave of European-style neighbourhood bistros is changing the way the city eats midweek. The formula is appealingly straightforward: good wine, a short menu and a handful of dishes done very well. Increasingly, one of those dishes is steak.
Once reserved for steakhouse splurges, the classic steak-and-fries combination has found a second life as a midweek ritual: generous, affordable and made for long dinners over a bottle of red. At Elio’s Place, co-owner Adam Mariani says accessibility is central to the appeal. “Steak has notoriously been a premium product in restaurants,” he says, “so putting it on a Monday night as a special makes it something people can actually come in and enjoy midweek.”
At 98 Lygon Street (a Sitchu award-winner), owner Ben Clark is taking things in a more indulgent direction with a bottomless steak night. “It’s a playful, bistro-style take on the format,” says Clark, “but leaning into a premium offering without the price tag.”
These are the best steak nights in Melbourne right now.
Bar Sala
Wednesday steak night at Bar Sala has more going for it than the $29 price tag. The new Abbotsford dining room from The Mulberry Group pairs white tablecloths and candlelight with a separate vinyl-filled music room, while former Lene chef-owner Cam Williams keeps the food Mediterranean-leaning and woodfire-led. Midweek, that means a $29 steak special, best followed by a move into the music room for a martini and whatever is on the turntable. It’s one of those rare specials that feels like a night out rather than a deal.
20 Mollison Street, Abbotsford
Daphne
Tuesday is steak night at Daphne, and Brunswick East gets a very good deal out of it. $30 lands a rotating cut of woodfired beef with fries and seasonal leaves, with past editions including rump cap under a glossy peppercorn sauce. The room fills fast with locals, bottles open early and the chalkboard usually offers enough temptation to stretch dinner beyond the steak. Warm, assured and pleasingly unfussy, Daphne has nailed the art of making Tuesday feel far better than Tuesday usually does.
52 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Builders Arms Hotel
Monday night has long belonged to steak at Builders Arms Hotel. The Fitzroy stalwart serves 250g O’Connor striploin with fries, cabbage salad and sauce for $28, with a 200g eye fillet option at $39 for anyone feeling flush. Andrew McConnell’s pub has the rare knack of making a special feel like part of the furniture rather than a marketing exercise, and this one has become exactly that. A cold beer and excellent beef are plenty, though a few sides would hardly hurt.
211 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Common Cuts
At Common Cuts, steak night has escaped the calendar entirely. From Monday to Saturday, $28.50 gets you either 220g Margaret River Wagyu flank M4–5 or 300g O’Connor Angus rostbiff with fries, all butchered in-house and cooked over charcoal. Former Kisumé chef Reki Reinantha and head chef Anita Hermanto oversee the grill, while sauces veer from fermented mustard and horseradish to ’nduja butter. Behind it all, vinyl spins from a dedicated DJ booth. We see you, Common Cuts.
Ground Floor/380 Russell Street, Melbourne
Bistro X
Steak night gets a very Fitzroy upgrade at Bistro X, the ground-floor bistro at The StandardX. Every Tuesday and Wednesday, $35 buys a 250g MBS4+ Wagyu steak with crisp fries and salad, which feels almost suspiciously reasonable for beef of this calibre. Executive chef Ben John, whose CV runs through Vue de Monde, Iki-jime and London’s The Ledbury, keeps the broader menu grounded in French technique and Victorian produce. Nab a glass of something interesting, order the steak medium-rare and enjoy one of Melbourne’s rare midweek deals that doesn’t feel remotely like a compromise.
419 Fitzroy Street, Fitzroy
The Pinnacle
The newly revived Pinnacle makes Wednesday feel like the right night to be in Fitzroy North, with a $28 steak special joining its weeknight ritual lineup. Set inside the much-loved St Georges Road pub, it’s the sort of low-fuss, high-reward dinner that works for locals, post-work plans and anyone chasing a proper pub feed without the Friday-night fuss.
Wednesdays, $28
251 St Georges Road, Fitzroy North
The Godby Hotel
South Yarra’s buzzy Godby Hotel is giving Monday steak night a very tidy upgrade with $35 steak frites from midday, complete with bottomless frites and butter lettuce salad. Set inside the old station surrounds with velvet booths, heritage details and Nightbird waiting in the wings, it’s a sharp little excuse to turn Monday into a long lunch or post-work pub date.
Mondays, from 12pm
163 Toorak Road, South Yarra
98 Lygon Street Bar & Bistro
Carlton’s 98 Lygon Street takes the steak-night format into more indulgent territory with its Wednesday bottomless steak offering. For $69, diners get 90 minutes of unlimited steak and fries, with premium cuts arriving steadily from the kitchen alongside green peppercorn sauce. It is generous, high-spirited and pure bistro theatre, turning an ordinary Wednesday into a dinner that runs long and leaves no one hungry.
98 Lygon Street, Brunswick East
Elio’s Place
At Elio’s Place, Mondays are all about steak frites. From 5pm, the Flinders Lane bistro serves a $28 steak with crisp fries, finished with your choice of classic bordelaise or béarnaise sauce. The atmosphere is relaxed but buzzing, with tables settling in over a bottle of wine and easy conversation. This is neighbourhood bistro dining at its most appealing.
1/238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
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Marquis of Lorne
At Fitzroy’s Marquis of Lorne, Tuesday steak night centres on a 250g sirloin served with chips, salad and sauce for around $25. The cosy upstairs dining room and strong wine list only add to its appeal, with locals regularly filling the room for one of Fitzroy’s most reliable midweek dinners. It’s a classic pub steak night done properly, and clearly one people come back to again and again.
411 George Street, Fitzroy
Hotel Railway
This steak night comes with a twist. Every Saturday from 12pm to 4pm, Brunswick’s Hotel Railway runs its Steak & Chips Doubled Down special: a steak served with chips, salad, a baguette and rich entrecôte sauce for $39. Then, halfway through, a second steak and fries land on the table. It is a double hit of generosity and nostalgia, and exactly the kind of pub lunch that turns into one of the best afternoons of the weekend.
291 Albert Street, Brunswick
Bonny Bar
Fitzroy wine bar Bonny Bar keeps things refreshingly simple with its Wednesday and Sunday Wagyu steak night, serving a $30 charcoal-grilled striploin with crisp fries and fresh leaves. Pair it with a glass from the venue’s excellent wine list and the whole experience feels effortlessly European.
177 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Dr Morse
Tuesday nights are for steak at Abbotsford’s Dr Morse. The pub serves steak with puttanesca butter, chips and salad for $25, alongside rotating beers, cocktails and an easygoing wine list. Add the lively beer garden, and you have one of the inner north’s most dependable midweek specials, made for an after-work dinner that rolls pleasantly on.
274 Johnston Street, Abbotsford
Mount Erica Hotel
Prahran institution Mount Erica Hotel runs one of the city’s most dependable Tuesday steak nights, serving a 250g sirloin with chips and béarnaise for just $26. It’s classic pub comfort: a well-cooked steak, a generous plate of fries and a dining room filled with locals who know exactly why they’re there.
420 High Street, Prahran
Union Hotel Windsor
Union Hotel Windsor gives steak night two chances to shine midweek. Mondays bring a $24 rump steak with chips, salad and jus, alongside a 250g eye fillet with fries and chimichurri for $33 for those in the mood for something richer. On Wednesdays, it’s a $25 porterhouse with chips and salad, keeping things firmly in classic pub-steak territory.
90 Chapel Street, Windsor
Middle Park Hotel
Over in bayside Middle Park, Middle Park Hotel runs Steak and Jazz Thursdays, with a choice of porterhouse or scotch fillet served alongside chips, salad and sauce. With prices sitting between $29 and $35, it is an easy midweek reason to settle into the dining room for steak frites and live jazz.
102 Canterbury Road, Middle Park
Whether it’s a generous pub sirloin or perfectly cooked steak frites at your local bistro, Melbourne’s steak nights make a strong case for the midweek dinner done right: good beef, crisp fries and excellent company. Still hungry? These hot pot favourites and French restaurants serve up even more delicious reasons to eat your way across Melbourne.
