Dom's

Overview

Three-storey Swanston Street stalwart Dom's is perfect for whatever weather Melbourne might throw at it. The first floor is laidback and casual with its leather booths, the second-floor bar has a-free-to-play pool table, and the semi-covered rooftop bar — heated in cooler months — boasts some of the best views in Melbourne.

If you're a fan of Preston's Takeaway Pizza and Dexter, you'll be pleased to know the same trio – brothers Sam and Tom Peasnell and Adam Goldblatt – who operate them are behind Dom's.

Rolan John

The menu at Dom's is broadly divided into snacks – featuring deep-fried goodness like mozzarella croquettes and anchovy potato skin – and wood-fired pizzas made from three-day slow-fermented sourdough. The margherita and cheese pizzas are about the only the classic ones on the menu.

Expect the likes of the snow pea pizza on a garlic base, the roast pumpkin and guanciale pizza with stilton, and the diavola which has a kalamata olive base topped with dry spiced salami and fefferoni peppers. For that interplay between sweet and savoury, you can't go past the mortadella and fermented honey pizza.

Drinks range from Italian natural wines to cocktails and local spirits. The sparkling red wine varietal of Lambrusco is especially a focus at Dom's – an entire page of the drinks list is dedicated to it.

Dasha Kud

Top images: Dasha Kud, Grifter Brewing.