Melbourne s top takeaways to seek out during lockdown 5.0
Emma Breheny
Photo: Eddie Jim
Melburnians know the drill all too well. Stay at home, order takeaway from your local favourites (if you can) and throw in as many extras or tips as possible to keep these businesses afloat through yet another lockdown.
Here are some of the menus and creative one-off dishes from our chefs that you can take advantage of in your hood. As always, there are plenty of businesses to support. Don t treat this list as exhaustive – jump online, do your own research and direct your dollars wherever you feel they re most needed.
Here s another place to file under lockdown silver linings: a tiny Indonesian-inspired sandwich shop with excellent coffee and a bright, poppy interior.
It s owned by chef Barry Susanto and his old friend, barista Erwin Chandra. Together, they re bringing authentic regional Indonesian flavours in an exuberantly inauthentic form to the Richmond backstreets.
The pair have long been frustrated that the incredible diversity of their home country s cuisine is little known by many in Melbourne. Susanto had the idea of putting some of his favourites into sandwiches: surely everything is accessible when it s slapped between bread? Richmond s tiny Indonesian sandwich shop is worth crossing town for.