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The Best Truffle Menus in Melbourne This Winter
This one's for the truffle lovers.
Truffle season in Melbourne is short, rich and best approached with a booking. Each winter, the city’s restaurants turn fresh black truffle into the a cold-weather indulgence worth leaving the house for: shaved over pasta, tucked into butter, layered through cheese, stirred into martinis and sent out across one-off dinners, set menus and very serious winter specials.
If you’re looking for the best truffle menus, truffle dinners and truffle events in Melbourne this winter, we’ve rounded up the restaurants making the most of the season while it lasts.
Time After Time
Melbourne’s truffle season has found a very serious pastry moment at Time After Time. The Howey Place bakery is shaving fresh truffle over a golden, flaky number filled with truffle cream, mushroom duxelles and Parmigiano Reggiano, landing somewhere between a French bakery fantasy and a very luxe mushroom toastie. It’s rich, earthy and built for the savoury-pastry faithful (and best chased with coffee before the cabinet is cleared).
7 Howey Place, Melbourne
Navi’s Birthday Truffle Month Is Back
Navi turns eight this July, and Julian Hills is marking the milestone with a month-long truffle menu that feels very much in the restaurant’s language: intricate, native-leaning, deeply seasonal and quietly obsessed with detail. Across the dining room, Australian truffles move through miso XO macarons, potato damper with kangaroo, mud crab and fermented grains, rabbit with artichoke and nasturtium, and duck in all its winter richness. The Lounge gets its own Sip and Snack edit too, for a more relaxed taste of the season.
1st July to 1st August, 2026
$270 dinner, Wednesday to Saturday, $225 Saturday Matinee
Navi, 83B Gamon Street, Yarraville
Marmont
Marmont’s truffle menu does not tiptoe into winter. It starts with baked brie en croûte, quince and black truffle, then moves into Wagyu rump cap with celeriac and Périgueux sauce for anyone treating dinner like a sport. The smarter order might be lunch: a Wagyu Truffle Burger with Gruyère and caramelised onion, backed by garlic truffle fries and monkey bread with truffled anglaise. Southbank gets the rich stuff, minus the hushed dining room routine.
Crown Melbourne, Ground Level/8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
Cha Ching’s Winter Truffle Banquet
Cha Ching is taking truffle season off the white tablecloth circuit and sending it down Flinders Lane. Its $99 Winter Truffle Banquet runs fresh WA black truffle through seven courses, from pork and prawn siu mai in truffle miso broth to torched wagyu tartare, Black Opal wagyu flank and crab-studded truffle fried rice. It is rich without getting stiff, with chilli, prawns and a warm jujube pudding keeping the whole thing loose.
348 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Reine & La Rue
Reine & La Rue was never going to do truffle season politely. For four Sundays only, the Collins Street dining room is serving a $185 truffle set menu that moves from mushroom and truffle custard tartlet to truffled chicken and foie gras terrine, MB9 Sher Wagyu beef cheek with truffle, truffle pomme purée and Jerusalem artichoke crème brûlée. There is a truffled Délice de Bourgogne cheese course if you want to keep going, plus black truffle cultured butter to take home, because apparently dinner needed a souvenir.
$185 set menu
Every Sunday from 21st June to 12th July
380 Collins Street, Melbourne
400 Gradi x Australian Mushrooms
400 Gradi is giving mushrooms their main-character treatment for one month only, and not by scattering a few slices over mozzarella and calling it a day. Johnny Di Francesco, recently ranked the world’s fifth-best pizza maker at the Campionato Mondiale della Pizza, has built three limited-edition pizzas around roasted mushroom cream, potato and truffle purée, and mushroom pesto.
The Mushroom Delite brings sausage and crispy garlic into the mix, the Roasted Mushroom goes rich with parmesan and parsley oil, while the Mushroom Pesto throws pancetta, confit tomatoes and basil into the winter-vs-Euro-summer argument. Umami bliss!
Until 17th July
Multiple locations
Queen Vic Market Is Going Full Truffle Mode
Queen Victoria Market is making a serious play for Melbourne’s truffle crown this winter with its new Truffle Treasures Trail, running from mid-June to the end of August. More than 30 truffle products will be scattered across the Market, from fresh Australian truffles, artisan cheeses, oils and condiments to pastries, pasta and cold-weather comfort food, with prices starting from $7.
The headline act is RIPE Cheese’s cult truffle toastie, back from 5th June and loaded with up to 12 grams of fresh Australian truffle shaved to order. There’s also a truffle fondue baguette, fresh truffles sold by weight and guided Ultimate Truffle Tours on 13th and 27th June for those who prefer their winter with a map, a tasting and zero restraint.
Mid-June to end August
Free trail; Ultimate Truffle Tour $119pp
Queen Victoria Market
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NOMAD’s Sunday Truffle Brunch
NOMAD Melbourne is turning Sunday brunch into a black truffle situation from 21st June to 26th July. Head chef Jeremy has built an à la carte menu around fresh truffle and local seasonal produce, starting with steamed Pacific oysters with lardo, soft-boiled eggs with truffle soldiers and scallop and prawn manti with cauliflower velouté. The bigger moves include pumpkin fritto with honey and pecorino, culatello and gorgonzola dolce flatbread, artichoke and manchego tortilla, and wood-oven baked beans with wild mushrooms and truffle.
Dessert goes wonderfully rogue with pear tarte Tatin, artichoke and truffle ice cream, plus a black truffle and hazelnut madeleine with Madeleine de Proust.
Every Sunday, 21st June to 26th July, 10am to 2.30pm
187 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
This Victorian Fondue Comes With Gippsland Truffles, Plus a Duck, Truffle & Pinot Dinner
Farmer’s Daughters Wine House is leaning straight into winter with a Victorian Cheese Fondue made for cold nights and second glasses. For $55pp, the molten Gippsland-and-Victoria-led fondue arrives with Jones potatoes, house pickles and native herb croutons, with the option to add Salt Kitchen cured meats or shave the season into submission with Gippsland truffles. Later in winter, sister venue Victoria Restaurant brings back its Duck, Truffle & Pinot Dinner at Federation Square on Friday 21st August, a one-night celebration of duck, truffle and Victorian Pinot.
Fondue available now for $55 per person; Duck, Truffle & Pinot Dinner on Friday 21st August
71 Little Collins Street, Melbourne CBD
Federation Square, Tenancy 26/2 Swanston Street, Melbourne
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