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Where Celebrities Eat in Melbourne: The A-List Spots Stars Love
From Drake to Dua Lipa, Taylor Swift to Jacob Elordi, celebs can't get enough of these Melbourne restaurants.
Wondering where celebrities eat in Melbourne? Follow the famous faces to Hope St Radio, Carnation Canteen, Maison Bâtard, CIBI, Florian and a collection of old Melbourne institutions that have been feeding very recognisable people for decades.
Melbourne is good at this. Someone can finish an arena show and disappear into a Collingwood wine bar, order the sandwich everyone else is ordering or drink coffee outside a Japanese design store without the whole room coming unstuck. Dua Lipa, Laufey, Lorde, Drake, Harry Styles, Jacob Elordi and plenty more have all left breadcrumbs across the city.
From the most recent 2026 sightings to long-held celebrity favourites, these are the Melbourne restaurants, bars and cafes the A-list have actually visited, eaten at or publicly recommended.
In This Guide
Billie Eilish: Smith + Daughters & Melbourne’s Plant-Based Hit List
Billie Eilish has gone further than eating her way around Melbourne. She has started recommending the menu. Back in 2022, she and her family dined at Smith + Daughters, with chef Shannon Martinez later calling them her “favourite vegan musical family”. Three years later, Billie returned for four Rod Laver Arena shows and published a Melbourne plant-based hit list for fans. Ballard’s, Brother Bon, Pickles Milk Bar, Red Sparrow Pizza, Vegie Bar and Smith + Daughters all made her edit. Love!
Visited: September 2022
Recommended: March 2025
Smith + Daughters, 107 Cambridge Street, Collingwood
Recent celebrity sightings in Melbourne
Laufey: Juju’s Deli & Carnation Canteen
Laufey did Melbourne with impeccable specificity. Between three Rod Laver Arena shows on her A Matter of Time tour, she stopped at Juju’s Deli in South Melbourne for its vanilla custard latte, then crossed town to Carnation Canteen, Audrey Shaw’s tiny Fitzroy dining room with a menu rewritten each week around whatever is good right now. Coffee with custard, dinner at one of the city’s loveliest little restaurants, then a Brunswick Street shop. The itinerary practically has her name embroidered on it.
Visited: August 2026
Juju’s Deli, 249 Coventry Street, South Melbourne
Carnation Canteen, 165 Gore Street, Fitzroy
Chappell Roan: Cherry Bar
Chappell Roan’s Melbourne night out was pleasingly small-scale. Two days before headlining Laneway Festival, she spent more than two hours at Cherry Bar on a Wednesday night with roughly 17 other punters in the room. No upstairs VIP retreat, either. Roan stayed at the main bar, drank mocktails and listened while owner James Young DJed Australian underground music. For one of pop’s biggest stars, it was an almost comically Melbourne choice: basement bar, tiny crowd, excellent records.
Visited: February 2026
Cherry Bar, 68 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
Lorde: Hope St Radio
Lorde did not merely visit Hope St Radio during her Melbourne stop. She gave it a Rod Laver Arena endorsement the following night, telling the crowd she felt as though she had met half of them there. Fair enough. The Collingwood Yards wine bar doubles as a live radio station, with DJs broadcasting from the room, minimal-intervention bottles behind the bar and plates of pasta, focaccia and whatever else the kitchen is sending out that week. A very good place to disappear between arena shows.
Visited: February 2026
Hope St Radio, 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Oasis: Punters Club
Oasis choosing Punters Club during their Melbourne reunion run has a pleasing bit of symmetry to it. The Gallaghers were back in Australia for the first time in 20 years; Punters had only recently returned after 22 years of its own. The Brunswick Street pub was a cornerstone of Melbourne’s ’90s gig circuit, once hosting Spiderbait, Magic Dirt and Something for Kate, and its new ownership crew includes Jet bassist Mark Wilson. Some nights really do write their own footnotes.
Visited: November 2025
Punters Club, 376 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
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Tyler, The Creator: Pepe’s
During his four-show Melbourne run for the CHROMAKOPIA World Tour, Tyler, The Creator found his way to Pepe’s Italian & Liquor. The choice feels suitably maximal: a sprawling Italian-American restaurant inside a historic former synagogue, with soaring ceilings, murals that change with the seasons and booths made for disappearing into over dinner. Spicy vodka rigatoni and Neapolitan pizza are house signatures, with martinis close behind. Not exactly incognito dining, but then Tyler has never been especially interested in beige.
Visited: August 2025
Pepe’s Italian & Liquor, 275–285 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Gracie Abrams: Masses Bagels
Before one of three sold-out Rod Laver Arena shows, Gracie Abrams made breakfast a Masses Bagels affair. Her order was the then-seasonal persimmon number, a sweet-savoury tangle of fruit, goat’s feta, green onion and river mint. The Fitzroy bakery takes its bagels seriously, wild-fermenting the dough for three days before shaping and baking everything on site. Somewhere between the persimmon and a queue on sleepy Smith Street, Gracie-core became considerably more edible.
Visited: May 2025
Masses Bagels, 5 Smith Street, Fitzroy
Dua Lipa’s favourite Melbourne places
Dua Lipa: Hope St Radio, Carnation Canteen, Hector’s Deli & More
Dua Lipa has done enough eating, shopping and dancing around Melbourne to have assembled a very good little black book of her own. Her latest recommendations, shared through Service95 and Google Maps, include Hope Street Radio, Paperback Bookshop and Plug Seven Records: natural wine and records in Collingwood, translated fiction in the city, then an hour or two lost among crates on Smith Street.
Her Radical Optimism tour in March 2025 sent her further around town. There was lunch at Carnation Canteen, cocktails at Marmont, crudo and DJs at Cam’s Kiosk (RIP), and a stop at Hector’s Deli, where the tuna melt got a very enthusiastic review. Downtime meant Alba Thermal Springs, the NGV’s Yayoi Kusama exhibition and another visit to Plug Seven.
Earlier Melbourne trips have taken in Gimlet, Carlton Wine Room, NOMAD, Electric Bar and Hope St Radio with Troye Sivan. By now, her Melbourne trail reads less like celebrity spotting and more like somebody having worked out exactly which bits of the city they want to return to: wine bars, sandwich shops, record stores, tiny dining rooms and a dancefloor at the end of it.
Visited and recommended: 2025–2026, plus earlier Melbourne trips
Hope St Radio, 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Carnation Canteen, 165 Gore Street, Fitzroy
Hector’s Deli, multiple locations
Cam’s Kiosk, Collingwood Yards
Marmont, Crown Melbourne
Paperback Bookshop, 60 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Plug Seven Records, 313A Smith Street, Fitzroy
Gimlet at Cavendish House, Melbourne CBD
Carlton Wine Room, Carlton
NOMAD, Melbourne CBD
Electric Bar, Prahran
Alba Thermal Springs, Fingal
See more of Dua’s globe-trotting favourites on Service95 or find her lists in Google Maps.
More celebrity-approved Melbourne restaurants
Alison Brie & Dave Franco: Napier Quarter & Moon Mart
Alison Brie and Dave Franco have spent enough time in Melbourne to acquire favourites. While the pair were based in Carlton filming Together, Napier Quarter became one of their Fitzroy haunts: a 26-seat backstreet wine bar with anchovy toast, seasonal plates and bottles from tiny producers stacked around the room. Brie had already shown good Melbourne instincts on an earlier visit, posting breakfast from Moon Mart when it still occupied its little West Melbourne house. The cafe has since moved south, but its bulgogi muffins, okonomiyaki hash browns and Korean-Japanese bent came with it.
Visited: Across multiple Melbourne stays
Napier Quarter, 359 Napier Street, Fitzroy
Moon Mart, 315 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne
Drake: Maison Bâtard & Nobu
Drake’s 2025 Melbourne food diary was never going to involve a sandwich eaten on a tram. Ahead of his Anita Max Win shows, he started with lunch at Nobu at Crown, then developed a far more involved relationship with Maison Bâtard. He booked out La Terrasse for his entourage, ordering steak and the restaurant’s rotisserie chicken with green olives, then came back the following night for a private party at subterranean Le Club. Phones were put away, drinks kept coming and Drake eventually took over the microphone himself. Very normal Thursday behaviour.
Visited: January 2025
Nobu, Crown Melbourne, 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
Maison Bâtard, 23 Bourke Street, Melbourne
Harry Styles: CIBI
Harry Styles traded stadium-scale Melbourne for breakfast at CIBI while Love On Tour was in town. His order: the Japanese breakfast plate and a green tea, which tells us far more than another blurry celebrity sighting. The plate is a Meg Tanaka signature, inspired by her grandmother’s cooking, with grilled salmon, tamagoyaki, seasonal vegetables, potato salad, rice and miso soup. Afterwards, there are Noguchi lamps, Japanese ceramics and kitchen tools to browse beneath the same Collingwood warehouse roof.
Visited: February 2023
CIBI, 33–39 Keele Street, Collingwood
Jacob Elordi: Florian
Jacob Elordi’s Melbourne order was refreshingly ordinary for somebody who now causes internet hysteria by leaving the house. Back in 2022, the Melbourne-schooled actor turned up at Florian for coffee, bacon and soft-boiled eggs, sending the Carlton North cafe’s staff briefly into caps-lock mode. Florian has only become harder to walk past since, with its changing blackboard menu, gruyere omelettes, seasonal tartines and pavement tables along Rathdowne Street. Elordi was also spotted later that weekend drinking a Carlton at a Richmond pub.
Visited: April 2022
Florian, 617 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North
Saoirse Ronan & Paul Mescal: Little Hop & Fitzroy
For a few months in 2022, Fitzroy had an unusually high concentration of sad-Irish-cinema royalty. While filming Foe, Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal lived in the neighbourhood, ditched the production cars for bicycles and even went swimming at the local pool. Ronan was spotted at Little Hop, the Brunswick Street taco bar still turning out quesabirria, fish tacos and margaritas today. Jack Lowden was in Australia with her, too. Then Phoebe Bridgers arrived: she and Mescal were spotted hand-in-hand on Smith Street, skeleton tee and beard included. A fairly extraordinary cast for an ordinary Fitzroy morning.
Visited: 2022
Little Hop, 277 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Troye Sivan: Hope St Radio
Troye Sivan has made no secret of his love for Melbourne’s wine-bar life. He has talked about sunny afternoons opening a bottle with friends, three-hour dinners and sommeliers who make a table feel looked after rather than lectured. Back in November 2022, he gave Dua Lipa the local tour at Hope St Radio, sharing natural Spanish wine and focaccia at Collingwood Yards. Less celebrity drop-in, more someone showing a friend exactly how Melbourne is meant to be done.
Visited: November 2022
Hope St Radio, 35 Johnston Street, Collingwood
Kourtney Kardashian & Travis Barker: Smith + Deli
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker spent part of their 2024 Melbourne stay working through the city’s plant-based food scene, with Smith & Deli earning a lunchtime stop before the NGV. Barker documented the outing as “Today’s vegan adventure”, while the table reportedly included pasta with green sauce and cream alongside a raid on Shannon Martinez’s all-vegan deli counter. They also visited Martinez’s former South Yarra restaurant Lona Misa on the same trip, before it closed in 2026.
Visited: February 2024
Smith + Deli, 107 Cambridge Street, Collingwood
Inka Williams: Marmont
Australian model and creative Inka Williams, who has built an international career across fashion campaigns, editorials and runway work, spent part of the 2025 Australian Grand Prix weekend at Marmont. The Crown Riverwalk restaurant is a fitting F1 stop: Mark Tagnipez’s menu moves through buttermilk fried chicken with pickled chilli, scallop tostadas and the much-photographed mud-crab pretzel, with DJs and cocktails carrying things later into the night. Williams was photographed at the restaurant during the weekend.
Visited: March 2025
Marmont, Crown Riverwalk, 8 Whiteman Street, Southbank
Melbourne restaurants celebrities have loved for years
Caffè e Cucina: Kylie Minogue, David Beckham & More
Some Melbourne restaurants collect celebrity sightings. Caffé e Cucina has nearly four decades of them pressed into the walls. Soon after opening on Chapel Street in 1988, Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan had a favourite table here; Kylie later singled out the calamari and rocket among her Melbourne must-eats. Former chef Carlo Sciarpa remembers her returning with Michael Hutchence, alongside visits from the Rolling Stones and U2. David Beckham came later, and F1 star Lando Norris has also been photographed at the restaurant. Bentwood chairs, white tablecloths, Italian waiters and calamari for Kylie: very little needs improving on that story.
Celebrity history: Late 1980s onwards
Caffè e Cucina, 581 Chapel Street, South Yarra
Marios: Kylie Minogue, Ryan Gosling & Heath Ledger
Forty years of Brunswick Street have passed through the white-tableclothed room at Marios, including rather a lot of famous faces. Kylie Minogue, Ryan Gosling and Heath Ledger have all eaten here, alongside Cate Blanchett and Nick Cave, but celebrity status buys precisely nothing. In 1998, Jerry Seinfeld’s team tried repeatedly to reserve him a breakfast table and were told the same thing everyone else still hears today: Marios doesn’t take bookings. Come for coffee, spaghetti bolognese or eggs at three in the afternoon; wait your turn outside.
Celebrity history: 1986 onwards
Marios, 303 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Andrew’s Hamburgers: Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran’s Albert Park lunch came with one of the better celebrity-recognition failures on record. When he walked into Andrew’s Hamburgers in 2023, owner Greg Pappas found his mum Georgia talking him through the menu before turning around in Greek to say, “I think I know this man.” Once informed, she promptly decided to cook for him, having seen his Royal Children’s Hospital visit on the news that morning. Apparently Ed later came back for seconds, sort of: on another visit, his team collected the order because he was too hungover to appear himself.
Visited: February 2023, plus a later return order
Andrew’s Hamburgers, 144 Bridport Street, Albert Park
Celebrity chefs’ favourite Melbourne restaurants
Gordon Ramsay: Serai
Gordon Ramsay has eaten in enough extraordinary restaurants to make his Serai endorsement land rather loudly. After dining at Ross Magnaye’s Filipino restaurant while filming Food Stars in Melbourne, he later called it one of the best meals he had ever eaten and named the sisig tacos the best dish he’d tasted in years. The night itself was equally good: Ramsay arrived late after a tram accident held him up, then surrendered his table when his sitting ended because the next diners were waiting. Serai tried to comp the bill. He insisted on paying.
Visited: 2023
Serai, Racing Club Lane, Melbourne
Jamie Oliver’s Melbourne Hit List
Jamie Oliver appears to have spent his 2023 Melbourne visit in a state of permanent lunch. In town filming MasterChef Australia, he went restaurant-hopping with Andy Allen at Jeow and Capitano, then worked through Lagoon Dining, Serai, Leonardo’s Pizza Palace and Gimlet. Prahran Market got a proper look-in too, with cheese at Maker & Monger followed by charcuterie and porchetta rolls from G McBean. Later, Oliver added Cumulus Inc., Supernormal and Vue de Monde to his public Melbourne praise list. One trip, very few wasted meals.
Visited and recommended: November 2023
Jeow, Richmond
Capitano, Carlton
1800 Lasagne, Thornbury
Lagoon Dining, Carlton
Serai, Melbourne CBD
Leonardo’s Pizza Palace, Carlton
Gimlet at Cavendish House, Melbourne CBD
Maker & Monger, Prahran Market
G McBean Family Butcher, Prahran Market
Cumulus Inc., Melbourne CBD
Supernormal, Melbourne CBD
Vue de Monde, Melbourne CBD
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