Meet our local dining legends

You might not read about them on hip food blogs but that’s just the way these veteran restaurants and their customers like it.

THIS week it’s the Argentinian grill. Last week it was Mexican. The week before that – who can remember? Food fashions come and go as restaurants try to catch the next wave. But the real legends of Melbourne’s food scene are out in the suburbs, far removed from the bright lights and hype of this week’s gastronomic darlings.

They may not rate a mention in the glossy food mags or hippest blogs, but they’ve been keeping the locals coming back year after year, decade after decade, for lashings of hearty fare and old-fashioned hospitality. You won’t find queues snaking into the street as you do outside the latest no-bookings, industrial-chic dining

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