Bookings With Benefits at 12 Top Melbourne Restaurants

The festive season may be over, but that spending hangover can linger. From now until Tuesday December 16, 2026, NAB credit card holders can score $50 off their bill when they spend $250 or more and pay using their NAB credit card at a clutch of Melbourne’s most in-demand restaurants. To access the offer, diners simply need to book via the NAB-exclusive link before dining.

The list includes some of the city’s most consistently booked dining destinations – from buzzy newcomers to long-running icons – making it the perfect excuse to lock in a dinner reservation without the guilt.

In the CBD, Hot Listed Marmelo is the Melbourne debut from Sydney restaurateurs Ross and Sunny Lusted, serving Portuguese-inspired dining with global influences from Macau to southern India. Expect seafood-heavy plates like garfish with coriander and vinho verde vinegar, plus signature snacks and rich, pork-forward dishes that have already earned it cult status.

Also in the CBD, Farmer’s Daughters – also on the Hot List – is a three-level restaurant, bar and deli from local Peruvian chef Alejandro Saravia. A love letter to Gippsland built around local produce and a charcoal-fuelled “campfire kitchen”, the experience is best taken in via the set menu, which features dishes like slow-braised O’Connor beef short rib finished on the grill and glazed with blueberry and black garlic.

For a Malaysian feast, Ho Jiak brings chef Junda Khoo’s Hot Listed Sydney restaurant to Bourke Street in a $7 million dining destination. The menu features signature favourites like laksa bombs, roasted dry-aged duck, and char kway teow topped with Queensland mud crab – plus plenty of XO-butter seafood and punchy Penang flavours.

In Richmond, Future Future (from the Suupaa team) offers a modern Japanese menu that channels izakaya dining through a distinctly Melbourne lens. Go a la carte for shokupan with wakame butter, tuna nigiri in wasabi oil and gyoza with black vinegar – or let the kitchen take the lead with the omakase menu.

And for a proven classic, Maha remains one of Melbourne’s most enduring special-occasion restaurants. Shane Delia’s opulent Middle Eastern fine diner is best experienced via its set menu, featuring its famous 12-hour roasted lamb shoulder, house-baked flatbread, garlic dumplings, and a finish of milk chocolate mousse – with Turkish Delight doughnuts as an optional (but highly recommended) add-on. Additionally, there are more excellent Melbourne restaurants to choose from. Find the full list here.

The Broadsheet Dining Program Special Offer of a $50 discount when you spend $250 or more is available when you dine at a Participating Restaurant between 13 January to 16 December 2026. To be eligible for the Discount Offer, you must make a booking via the NAB Exclusive Booking Link for the Participating Restaurant which is found on the landing page and spend a minimum of $250 on your NAB credit card. The Discount Offer will apply at the Participating Restaurant when you pay the final bill amount including GST and service fees and charges (if any) with your NAB credit card (includes a digital NAB credit card). The Discount Offer is only valid once per booking and will not apply to any split bills and cannot be used in conjunction with any other offers. For the full Terms and Conditions of this Offer, please click here.

This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with NAB.