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12 of Melbourne s best private dining rooms for group bookings
Carrie Hutchinson
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Special occasions and long overdue catch-ups deserve a touch of class. And you re in luck because we ve rounded up 12 of Melbourne s best private dining rooms.
Melbourne seems to have come alive again. The streets are pumping on the weekend, but if you re catching up with a crowd your booking ducks need to be in a row. Two-hour seating times, limits on numbers inside venues and the dreaded end-of-evening bill can all make a fun time turn feral.
The solution: hire a private space in a favourite restaurant, gather loved ones and tell them this is how you re all rolling.
Melbourne s best food moments and movements of 2020
Gemima Cody
Photo: Kristoffer Paulsen
Whoever wrote the script for this endlessly unpredictable year is hopefully now taking a well-deserved break, leaving us to reflect on the year that was. And here s the thing. It was rocky and devastating for the hospitality industry. But it was unquestionably one of the most innovative and delicious years on record.
If I told you last year that Everleigh bartenders would be dropping their cocktails at your door, lobster prices would be down, Ben Shewry might make your birthday cake, and you were about to discover some of the best Sumatran and Rajasthani dishes you ve ever had, 2020 would have sounded like a dream come true.