The Best Restaurants in Box Hill
Box Hill is one of the most dynamic and diverse suburbs in Melbourne, and it has the eating to show for it. It’s home to Sichuan hotpot restaurants, Korean barbeque joints, sushi trains, Taiwanese hawker stalls, hole-in-the-wall canteens and more. Outside the CBD, it’s the best place in this city to find great Chinese food from a host of regions (although Springvale and Glen Waverley come close). And it also has a handful of Vietnamese restaurants, including longstanding Tien Dat, which opened in 1983. They’re joined by a constellation of diners serving Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian and more. These are some of the best places to eat in the vibrant suburb, curated by Broadsheet’s food and drink editors.
Tina’s Noodle Kitchen
Magic Cuisine
Little Sichuan
Zero Mode
Roast Duck Inn
Tien Dat
Katori
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Master Lanzhou Noodle Express, Box Hill
Lanzhou, the capital of the northern Chinese province of Gansu, is famous all over the country for its springy hand-pulled noodles (lamian), served in a clear, consommé-like broth with slow-cooked beef. They’re the main draw at this smooth operation in Box Hill Central, where you can watch noodles being hand-pulled in the front window. Choose from several broths and wheat noodle styles, which come in a glistening bowl studded with hunks of chewy Angus shin meat.
Haidilao Hotpot, Box Hill
This Sichuan hotpot giant offers a more memorable dining experience than most. Across manicures, singing waitstaff, board games and a children’s play area, there’s plenty to keep you entertained – before you even get to the food. For your hotpot, choose your adventure across your base (including spicy oil, mushroom, tomato and pepper), protein (with options such as tofu, Wagyu, ox tongue and marbled pork belly) and the self-serve condiment bar. And for extra theatrics, order the “dancing noodles” – waitstaff will stretch and pull the noodles tableside before dropping them into your hotpot.
