The Best Bottomless Brunches in Melbourne
Weekend mornings are sacred. They should often (if not always) be spent with great company and excellent food. And, if you’re that way inclined, with the option to enjoy a few buzzy drinks. Luckily, plenty of cafes and restaurants across Melbourne offer excellent bottomless brunches. And, if you’re just after one drink, plenty more are licensed.
Here are just a few of our favourite places where you can elevate your eggs Benedict, or soup up your sweet waffles, with bottomless Bloody Marys, free-flowing champagne, or a solo Mimosa or beer. Bookings come strongly recommended.
Cafe
Archie’s All Day
If you’re lucky to snag a table (especially on weekends), sit back and enjoy all-day cocktails (including four different Mimosas and Bloody Marys) on the bustling Gertrude Street strip. Plus a food menu that covers all bases and moods. Winner.
Restaurant
Firebird
Fire-focused French-Vietnamese food from the team behind Tokyo Tina. Book a weekend table for the renowned set menu, which might include woodfired seafood, a smoked vegetable curry or special fried rice. Plus, the option for bottomless wine and local beers from Bodriggy and Stomping Ground. Bookings are essential.
Restaurant
Evie’s Disco Diner
This queer-friendly, vegan-leaning American diner is true to its name with a nightclub sound system and mezzanine DJ booth. Plus, a bottomless brunch that’s more colourful than most. Book in around 1pm for extra fun with drag queens and bingo.
Restaurant
Hotel Jesus
Meet Mamasita’s more casual sibling, set in a kitschy pastel 1970s-style Mexican-inspired taqueria. At its weekend-only bottomless brunch,
expect traditional tostadas made from scratch, elote (grilled Mexican street corn) and more.
Order a frosty grapefruit margarita and feast on as many tacos as you can handle.
Restaurant
Half Acre
Behind the mysterious facade of this fine establishment you'll find an exceptional and generous bottomless brunch offering. The Feast might be the fanciest buffet you’ll see in your life, featuring coal roasted meats, woodfired vege, a smorgasbord of sweets and bottomless booze if you choose.
Cafe
Via Porta
This all-day diner serves up flavours of Southern Italy with Mediterranean influences. Highlights have included panko-encrusted eggs accompanied by sourdough, salad, ham hock and candied walnuts. Also, fried eggs in a spicy Arrabiata sauce that’s given a lift with ‘nduja, garlic and peppers.
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Bodega Underground
Friday to Sunday, this moody Mexican diner serves tacos, chilaquiles and 90 minutes-worth of bottomless cocktails – including Palomas and Micheladas. There’s a special vegan menu on offer, and everything is gluten-free. More info here.
Restaurant
Magic Mountain Saloon
From the team behind Toff and Cookie comes a Thai-inspired, neon-lit diner with a bottomless brunch club on Saturdays. The tight share-plate menu might include dumplings, fried chicken ribs, bao or fat rice noodles. Plus, enjoy bottomless cocktails, beer and wine on the long marble tables.
Cafe
Gilbert’s
Gilbert's is a bright all-day diner serving up classic Aussie brunches with a Mediterranean twist. Expect yia yia-approved spanakopita, golden slabs of fried halloumi and $5 mimosas all day, everyday.
Cafe
Higher Ground
The building alone –a heritage-listed former powerhouse – is worth travelling cross-city for. It’s no surprise the third cafe from the Top Paddock and Kettle Black crew is also good for boozing. Long lunches roll into dinner all too easily here.
Bar
Harlow
Come for the decadent brunch and cocktail jugs. Stay for the drag queen shows. Bottomless brunch includes Greek-style snacks (think lamb souvlaki and baklava waffles) and bottomless drinks, while the fabulous view is free.
Restaurant
Bang Bang at the Rifle Club
You wouldn’t know that this former rifle club sat empty for 20 years. Every weekend it brims with locals who enjoy the fun French-Indochinese snack menu with bottomless Mimosas, cocktails, bubbles and beer. There’s an upgrade for free-flowing bubbles and rosé, too.
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Fargo and Co.
This two-storey bar and terrace – set in a historic 1907 bank – will pack two hours’ of bottomless drinks, caviar and deconstructed Reubens into your weekend. Plus, there are house DJs and backdrops for photos with your crew.
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Willow Wine Cafe
This plant-filled corner store is not your average wine bar. Along with exceptional brunches and delicious pastries, you’ll also find accessible wines and bar snacks. So you can enjoy breakfast right through to aperitivo hour.
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Pilgrim
Make the pilgrimage to this breezy riverside bar for a high tea like no other. You get three tea-infused gin cocktails, plus bottomless bubbles and snacks. And yes, scones with jam and cream are involved. From midday Friday to Sunday.
Cafe
Zero Mode
This inventive cafe breaks the mould in many ways. Not only does it serve thoughtful modern takes on Asian cuisine; it also serves bottomless brunch every day.
Restaurant
The Commons Collective
Set in and around the spectacular Ormond Hall, this eclectic suite of photogenic garden bars and luxe spaces is primed for a bottomless brunch. Enjoy a weekend session in the Conservatory, complete with drinks and crowd-pleasing dishes. This one’s also pooch-friendly.
Cafe
Vertue Coffee Roasters
Stroll through the petrol station car park and past the dilapidated terrace for one of the city’s best reveals. Inside you’ll find a rich and creative brunch menu, plus cocktails that showcase Vertue’s various blends and single origins. Try the signature Turbo G&T, made with cold-brew coffee.
Cafe
The Kettle Black
Artful modern Australian cafe fare set in a spacious modernised 1880s-era terrace house. Brunch might include fluffy ricotta hotcakes or a brisket Benedict, alongside brunch-friendly cocktails (including Espresso Martinis and Mimosas).
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Top Paddock
Like its sister venue, The Kettle Black, this brunch institution dishes up breakfast cocktails, beer and wine in a chic all-day setting. Sit up at the long, communal benches or nestle into a booth as the morning fades into the afternoon.
Restaurant
Yellow Bird Cafe
Come hungry, dusty or (best of all) both to this southside institution. Wash down hangover-busting breakfast staples like the Death Benedict with beer, wine or a Bloody Mary.
Cafe
Stagger Lee’s
An all-day breakfast and lunch menu that might feature hotcakes, truffle mushrooms and a Wagyu beef burger is bolstered by Proud Mary coffee. Ring in the weekend by taking yours shaken, not stirred, in an Espresso Martini.
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Asado Bar and Grill
A languorous long brunch at this Argentinian restaurant (from the team behind San Telmo, Pastuso and Palermo) might see you eating empanadas, morcilla and cochinillo (Western Plains pork cooked over the pit). Enjoy them alongside as many beers and wines as you can muster.
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Newmarket Hotel
High tea is a great excuse to dress up – and eat cake after cake. You can do both at Newmarket's boozy high tea, which will fancify your weekend with bottomless drinks, sangas, danishes and scones. Let them eat cake.
Restaurant
The Smith
Another weekend wonder, The Smith is known for its bottomless spritz brunch, always backed by a fabulous drag show. There’s good food and serious fun here – you can’t go wrong.
Cafe
Commonfolk Beaumaris
A bright and inviting cafe that has a bit of everything. Go for exceptional creative brunches; Commonfolk’s own coffee blends enjoyed by mug or flight; and lo-fi wines with brekkie, if you’re so inclined. Also in Mornington and Frankston.
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Pantry Glen Iris and Too Good Talker
An ingenious rotating sign signals the swap from bright coffee and brunch spot Pantry Glen Iris to moody Asian-inspired diner and cocktail bar Too Good Talker – by one of Melbourne’s most prolific cafe operators.
Cafe
Lenny 3206
At this beachy brunch and lunch spot – from the duo that brought us Moby – you'll find a range of creative but approachable dishes. It's all set within a light-washed, coral-accented space with room for plenty of people.
Cafe
The Diplomat
An all-day brunch spot with a breakfast option for everyone, from hulking burgers to okonomiyaki to syrupy waffles. Plus, a tight list of wine and beer.
Cafe
Rudimentary
Sustainability, simplicity and even transportability are the guiding principles of this singular community cafe. It's set within a recycled shipping container, and surrounded by an abundant kitchen garden. Kimchi toastie? Cantabrian anchovies on toast? Back it up with an Aperol Spritz.
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Common Galaxia
Settle in for all-day breakfast and lunch staples in this buzzing semi-industrial diner. Standouts include a souped-up eggs Benny, loaded chocolate and berry waffles, and mushrooms with poached eggs and dukkah on sourdough. Plus, a tight list of Mimosas, Bloody Marys, prosecco and beers.
Cafe
Halcyon Days
Hit this Euro-inspired daytime diner for its marmalade-slathered carrot-cake toast, hotcakes two ways and killer chicken-caesar sangas. Sit at a snazzy stool inside, or in the shaded outdoor area, and sip on Industry Beans coffee, or boozy-brunch-friendly cocktails and pét-nat.
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Neds Albert Park
Order a punchy chilli scramble in the morning or a loaded chicken sandwich around lunch, which you might pair with a brunch-friendly Bloody Mary or wine. And on your way out, be sure to grab a loaf of Neds crusty seeded sourdough – or local’s favourite olive grissini.
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Cru Wine Bar
This family cafe and wine bar will take you right through your day – from all-day brunches and house-roasted coffee in the morning, to Corsican-inspired dishes and a 400-strong wine list at night.
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Nine Yards South Melbourne
A spot from the team behind some of the city’s biggest cafe hits. They’re making brunches with damper, Vegemite, Kakadu plums, wattle-seed bacon and Milo mascarpone.
Cafe
Convoy
Located across from Queens Park, this expansive cafe goes beyond the rudimentary with its brekkie offering. And with 75 seats, it’s ideal for big groups.
Restaurant
Moonhouse
In a heritage-listed south-side building, this alluring bistro does Chinese favourites in new ways. And on Sundays, it serves $59pp yum cha all afternoon. Enjoy a feast with 12 dishes on repeat, like char siu bao (pork buns), prawn dumplings and roast duck pancake. There’s an alternative vegan menu, too.
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Yakimono
Enter the cyberpunk facade to find Chris Lucas’s two-level Japanese diner. The flames are turned up every weekend for its $89pp bottomless brunch. Expect a feast of roasted chicken with miso gravy, prawn yuzu gyoza and more. Plus, free-flowing cocktails.
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Industry Beans Chadstone
Once a month, this combination cafe, restaurant, roastery and retail space puts on a fun bottomless brunch. To eat? You might order souped-up chilli scramble or pandan bubble waffle. And house espresso, cocktails and wine to drink.
More Options
Mamma’s Boy Trattoria, Brunswick
Bottomless ghocchi for breakfast? Why not. Mamma’s serves up endless potato pillows with three simple sauces (including a slow-cooked ragu) alongside garlic bread and cocktails. Dishes can be made vegan and gluten-free too. This one’s a winner.
PB’s Pizza Bar, St Kilda
Every weekend, PB’s plates up all-you-can-eat woodfired pizza, with classic toppings such as Margherita, pepperoni and mushroom. Plus, bottomless Margarita, Mojito and seasonal spritz jugs.
Mejico, Melbourne
Saturdays are always better with a little Sangria, and this modern Mexican spot serves it bottomless from midday to 4pm. It includes plenty of Mexican street food snacks, as well as Mejico’s famous guacamole, which is pounded fresh at your table.
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