The Best Bottomless Brunches in Melbourne
At Melbourne's top bottomless brunch spots, you can pair free-flowing margaritas, spritzes, natty wines and beers with breakfast buffets, multi-course set menus, pizzas, curries and drag bingo.
So if you prefer your hotcakes with mimosas, avo, toast and maple bacon with the grown up's espresso (you know the one), or desperately need to dull the pain of last night's hangover with a sloppy joe and bloody mary, scroll on for some of Melbourne's finest bottomless offerings — sure to medicate your hankering for a big, boozy brekkie.
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New Quarter, Richmond
Unlimited noodles, bottomless booze. That's what's on offer every weekend lunchtime at Richmond's New Quarter. The Vietnamese restaurant — from the team behind Hanoi Hannah, Tokyo Tina and Firebird — has jumped on the Melbourne bottomless brunch train, but is swapping out eggs and avocado on toast for oodles of noodles.
For $76 per person, diners get to tuck into an iced platter of Moreton Bay bug, Pacific oysters, kingfish, beef tartare bites and rice paper rolls. What follows is a made-to-be-shared medley of barramundi, accompanying veggies and your choice of vermicelli noodles or rice. Drinks don't come at a premium either, and you've got unlimited access to a wide selection, ranging from pineapple and lychee bellinis and plum and grapefruit spritzes to skin contact wines and Stomping Ground beers.
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Halycon Days, Albert Park
Okay, while there isn't a specific bottomless brunch menu here — the name says it all. You'll be on cloud nine, buzzily sipping on spritzes and Bloody Marys while dining at the nostalgia-driven, Euro-inspired cafe on Montague Street. Alongside an unpretentious and pleasure-driven menu — think baguette with soft eggs and anchovies or their signature carrot-cake toast featuring cream cheese and house-made carrot cake marmalade — Halcyon Days also has a strong list of brunch-friendly cocktails, wines, and pét-nats. Better yet, double park with one of their limited Mont Blancs or creamy cold brews.
Jean-Louis Carvalho
Bodega Underground, CBD
Bodega Underground's famed Mexican-inspired bottomless brunch takes over the CBD taqueria every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with seatings at 11am, 1pm and 3pm. Book your crew in for a brunchtime fiesta at Bodega, one of the best Melbourne CBD restaurants, for $75, and you'll enjoy a lively five-course spread (which just so happens to be entirely gluten-free).
The bottomless brunch features favourites like street corn with chipotle mayo and queso, chipotle fried chicken, chicken chilaquiles, and a 12-hour braised birria quesataco. Dessert is also taken care of: classic churros paired with loads of dulce de leche. Vegan brunch lovers can even enjoy their own five-course spread for the same price. To drink, there's 90 minutes of bottomless Mexican-themed sips, including Bodega's go-to guava-infused Mexi-mimosas. The quality and quantity of the offerings help make this one of the best bottomless brunches in Melbourne.
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Pincho Disco, Collingwood
For the bruncher who loves a fiesta before their siesta, Pincho Disco is the weekend starter (or ender) for you. Exclusively on Saturdays, the vibrant Latin-American diner promises two punchy bottomless packages from $69 per person. Indulge in a smorgasbord of Pincho's signature bites such as chipa bread with goat curd, juicy lamb tacos, chorizo skewers, and if you're partial to an oyster (or half a dozen) — slurp a round dressed in zesty, citrusy tiger's milk. Balance the rich and herby flavours with paired cocktails and wines — chilli grapefruit margarita, anyone? — close your eyes and be transported to Rio for 90 minutes.
Moonhouse, Balaclava
Balaclava's Moonhouse is home to some of the best yum chas in Melbourne. It's also one of the few dim sum haunts that offers bottomless booze. Drop by Moonhouse on a Saturday or Sunday to nab the $64 endless yum cha that cycles through 12 different dishes — think XO scallops, chicken and prawn wontons, roast duck pancakes, char siu pork buns, salt and pepper calamari, and prawn dumplings. There's also a totally vegan option for the plant-based diners out there.
And if you feel like making a big party out of the whole affair, you can add on unlimited alcohol for $45 per person. Beer and wine are all that's available, but the Moonhouse crew isn't pouring the cheap and nasty stuff. Get around a Hop Nation pale ale, Stomping Ground pilsner, the pinot grigio from Mandi in Mildura and an MDI Friulano skin contact number.
MING Dining, CBD
We all love a bottomless brunch — whether it comes in the classic eggs and mimosa form, or the more contemporary lunch adaptation where you get a whole lineup of endless cocktails paired with a hefty set menu. Ming Dining's bottomless brunch falls into the latter's definition. From Friday–Sunday, the crew is plating up a seven-course Asian-fusion feed paired with bottomless cocktails, beer and wine for only $69 per person — that's a proper bargain.
During the two-hour window, that table will fill up with dumplings, spring onion pancakes, Hiromasa kingfish, Taiwanese calamari, beef short rib bao buns, sweet and sour pork, and a luxe black truffle fried rice. When it comes to cocktails, you can try some of its signature Asian-inspired sips as well as your classic Aperol spritz, espresso martini and spicy margarita. Few Melbourne bottomless brunch spots have such vast offerings (both when it comes to food and bevs), so be sure to take advantage of this one.
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Rice Paper Scissors, Fitzroy
Fuel your Brunswick Street vintage trawl with a modest and merry meal at local hero Rice Paper Scissors. Across the weekend, the Southeast Asian-inspired restaurant offers two, two-hour bottomless seating times from $79 per person — exclusively at their Fitzroy outpost. Catering to vegans and non-vegans, you'll get to nibble on crowd-favourites like mouth-watering Thai pork bao and fried chicken, tuna crudo, and generous helpings of nutty roti to mop up all the sauces and soak up the alcohol. Make a few (inevitable) bad shopping decisions on a variety of free-flowing cocktails such as the Siam Sunset Spritz (an elderflower, Thai tea-infused gin fizz), fruity hard seltzers, beer, wine, or bubbly. Just be careful of impulse purchases post-brunch.
Leah Traecey
Tokyo Tina, Windsor
Chapel Street's Tokyo Tina pairs its bingo competitions with bottomless booze and brunch fare every Saturday (12pm and 2.15pm). During this two-hour sitting hosted by Valerie Hex, guests can dab their way towards winning prizes while trying one of the best bottomless brunches in Melbourne.
Punters can choose four dishes each, including salmon tartare, crispy five-spice chicken, miso-baked cauliflower, and pan-fried market fish served with finger limes and ponzu. Complimentary kimchi rice and edamame beans are also served at every table. You can either just get the four courses of food for $55, or you can add on unlimited spritzes, bubbles and beer for an additional $24.
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The Commons Collective, CBD
If you're after a quintessential Sunday brunch, the kind dressed for Instagram and probably gingham (we're talking, elevated casual attire), The Commons Collective is the garden cafe for you. Drawing inspiration from places such as The Grounds of Alexandria in Sydney and London's iconic Petersham Nurseries, the charming and centrally located venue just off St Kilda Road offers seasonal bottomless brunch sessions from $70 per person.
During the sun-drenched months, sip on Limoncello spritzes in the Rose Garden; and when cosy fireplace moments call, head inside to the historic Ormond Hall and indulge in espresso martinis. There's fresh focaccia and dips to start, smoked lamb sandwiches and tempura whiting to follow, and a sense of bliss to carry you through the day.
Magic Mountain Saloon, CBD
This CBD diner's gutsy modern Thai food and glowing red neon fitout has made it a firm favourite with the dinner crowd. But should you fancy starting your day with a bang instead, you can't go past Magic Mountain Saloon's bottomless brunch in Melbourne's CBD.
From 11.30am–1pm each Saturday, you can sit down to menu hits like barbecue chicken skewers, garlic chive dumplings, mozzarella curried rice bowls, prawn tom yum and a heap of fried rice. How much money you part with depends on your chosen drink situation. Include 90 minutes of bottomless booze — beer, wine, spritz and sangria — for $65 per person, or opt for some solid alcohol-free mocktails for an easier $50.
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Baby Pizza, Richmond
Okay, more of a bottomless lunch than brunch — Baby Pizza is the place to start the weekend, la dolce vita way. Sleep in and then savour the Richmond favourite's Free-Flowing Festa, featuring a heap of their hearty delights between 12pm and 3pm. From $66 per person, you get to share antipasto options like house-made focaccia with whipped ricotta and cacio e pepe arancini, before moving onto their signature pizza offerings. Wash it all down with a selection of wines, beers, and spritzes (if you're after something a little different, we suggest the shiraz-gin and rhubarb-infused Festa Spritz). Once your 90 minutes is up, you can easily kick on at another pub or bar on Church Street.
Zero Mode, Box Hill
The masters of envelope-pushing, innovative fare at Box Hill's Zero Mode are serving up one of the most impressive bottomless brunches in Melbourne. This one's on offer from 10am–3.30pm every day of the week, priced at $69 a head.
For that, you'll score a special six-course menu and two hours of free-flowing cocktails, beer and wine. But if you'd rather get boozy at night, stop by for Zero's bottomless dinner, which includes three snacks, one main, one side and a dessert, as well as unlimited cocktails, beer, wine and non-alcoholic drinks for $99.
Flour Child, Richmond and St Kilda
Flour Child's Richmond and St Kilda bottomless brunches can get super rowdy — especially as they openly welcome hen's groups and big boozy birthday parties to join in on the festivities. Running from Friday–Sunday, the deal includes bottomless cocktail jugs, beer, wine, and non-alcoholic bevs alongside its famed pinsa romana pizzas — 11 different varieties are up for grabs.
Flour Child divides its bottomless sessions into multiple time slots and menus, all for the same price of $89 per person. First is a 12–3.30pm lunch session, then a golden hour window from 3.30–5.30, an Italiano dinner session from 6–8pm, a late-night 8.30–10.30 session and even a midnight window from 10.45pm to 12.45am.
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Farmer's Daughters, Collins Precinct
Whether you're shopping in the city on a Sunday or checking out an exhibition at the NGV, there's no better excuse for a lazy bottomless brunch at one of Melbourne's best paddock-to-plate restaurants. Set on the rooftop of Farmer's Daughters, you'll be taken on a two-hour culinary journey through the Gippsland region. From $99 per person, dine on a ploughman's platter of soda bread and housemade cured meats, crudités and crudo, and a nourishing chicken and mushroom pie. There's also a sweet conclusion of salted caramel doughnuts. Make sure to book in advance for this one — seating is limited and always in demand.
Fargo and Co, Richmond
Fargo & Co's bottomless brunch is a long-held weekend ritual that's not going anywhere, anytime soon. The Richmond venue's boozy brunch feasts run every Friday and Saturday. If brunch (at 3pm) is your wish, it'll set you back $69 a head, but post-6pm the price climbs to $89 for every diner — the trade-off is shots and spritzes on arrival.
Both sessions come with bottomless cocktails, wine and beer alongside a selection of share plates and your choice of slices from Fargo's Detroit-style pizza, an ideal pick to soak up the aforementioned shots if you come late.
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Horn Please, Fitzroy North
You can't talk about the best bottomless brunches in Melbourne without raving about Horn Please. This much-loved North Fitzroy Indian restaurant runs its 90-minute 'proudly unauthentic' curry feasts every Saturday and Sunday from 12–3pm.
Expect a selection of Indian-inspired street food, creative mains and desserts from the talented hand of North Indian Chef Amar. The $55 feast also comes with an unlimited amount of beer, wine and your choice of the bar's top cocktails. If you want some top-notch Indian food and feel like getting boozy, this deal is a no-brainer.
Yakimono, CBD
There are stacks of Chris Lukas restaurants in the CBD (Chin Chin, Kisume, Society and Grill Americano), but only Yakimono serves up a bottomless food and bev experience (do note that you can get great bottomless brunch experiences further afield at Hawker Hall and Baby). You can drop by any day of the week from 12–3pm, to get share plates and 90 minutes of unlimited alcohol for $77 per person.
Your Melbourne bottomless lunch eats might include a snapper sando, Japanese potato salad, karaage chicken, charcoal-roasted edamame and tuna hand rolls. And the Yakimono team isn't slinging cheap and nasty booze. Throughout the 90-minute experience, you can order unlimited amounts of Shochu soda, hibiscus spritzes, prosecco, wine and beer. You can also choose to lengthen the experience to two hours for an additional $11 per person. And while this deal runs every day, the Friday and Saturday sessions are the most fun — with DJs spinning tunes throughout four hours.
Hotel Nacional, CBD
This five-storey, totally gluten-free Mexican restaurant on Hardware Lane is home to a banger of a bottomless brunch. Running from midday every Friday–Sunday, the deal includes a selection of its most-loved Mexican bar snacks (think tajín-coated corn ribs and housemade potato croquettes) as well as 90 minutes of unlimited classic margaritas, frozen margaritas, prosecco, wine, beer and more.
Just be sure to check the weather forecast before booking as Hotel Nacional's bottomless brunch is exclusively available up on the sun-soaked rooftop. This is one of Melbourne's best rooftop bars, and the best way to experience it has got to be with unlimited margaritas in hand.
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Fable Rooftop, CBD
Fable, the CBD's highest rooftop bar (don't worry, it's got heaters and a retractable awning), is home to one of the best bottomless brunches in Melbourne. Every Saturday, from 1–3pm, the team pairs two hours of unlimited spritzes, prosecco, mimosas and beers with a five-course lunch.
If it's a hot Melbourne day, the roof will open up and let the sunshine in while you brunch. But we also love dropping by during a rainstorm. There's something quite romantic about drinking the day away while you're encased in a glass room covered in raindrops.
Mr. Miyagi, Windsor
Mr. Miagi is proof that despite Melbourne's ever-rotating door of hospitality venues, the best restaurants endure. It's been around for over a decade now, serving up fun and fairly affordable contemporary Japanese fare within a really upbeat space. And one of the most fun times to drop by is during its weekly Loose Lunches.
Running from Wednesday–Sunday, they include a bunch of eats (edamame, salmon nori tacos, chicken katsu, sesame slaw and a dessert) alongside two hours of free-flowing locally sourced wines, SAPPORO beer and specialty cocktails. This costs an easy $69 per person, and can be upgraded with more premium cocktails for an additional $20 per person — this gets you unlimited cold drip martinis and margaritas throughout the two-hour booking.
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The Rifle Club, Elsternwick
Here's one you won't have to rise too early for: The Rifle Club hosts its Italian-inspired brunch from 12–4.30pm every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, treating guests to a parade of shared snacks paired with unlimited drinks for an easy $89 per head.
Plates might include the likes of steak tartare, torched tuna, broken king prawn linguine, roasted quail and more. The drinks list offers plenty of choice, too. Wash down your brunch feast with free-flowing beer, prosecco, local wines and spritz.
Evie's Disco Diner, Fitzroy
The sparkly disco vibes of Evie's are the perfect antidote to a big ol' work week, so it's handy the venue's bottomless drag bingo brunch is now yours to enjoy between 2–4pm every Saturday and Sunday. The two-hour bottomless packages come in either a $59 per person 'basic bitch' or $89 'rich bitch' form — the main difference being the added options of frozé, Aperol Spritz and frozen margs on the latter.
You get plenty of choices for the $20 add-on meal; perhaps the chicken and waffles, brekkie wrap, or french toast doused in maple syrup and crispy bacon. There are vegan options aplenty, espresso martinis for $16 and sober options of juices, soda and frozen slushies.
Top images: New Quarter by Ashley Ludkin.
