My favourite restaurant in Australia. Reminds me like back home (Croatia), even with some dishes better than original. Very nice place, with the best food and staff. Feels like home
Best chevapi in Australia, hands down. Great range of sausages, steaks and beer. For our group of five people, we ordered platter for 4 recommended by staff, we rolled out of the restaurant. Great place
Best steak I have had in long time. Chargrilled to perfection and lovely vegetables on the side. Everything was cooked with care and the T bone I had was amazing. Service was friendly and polite and atmosphere is friendly and warm. I will be back to try the other cuts.
Came here a month ago. Hidden gem! Tucked away at the top end of Lygon st, Carlton this place was recommended to me by a cousin. The steaks are simple, tender and tasty all at a reasonable price. The fillet mignon is highly recommended. Service is friendly, however sometimes left to wait a little longer than desired. My cousins had the rump steak medium and all say it was one of the best cuts of meats they have had in a while.
This is for all of the protein junkies! 😍😍😍 My boyfriend took me here after hearing some ultra cool Serbians ran this joint. Man we were not disappointed...
This meat platter was meant for 4, but we arrived with empty stomachs and big dreams... and so all that was left were a few sausages and perhaps a lone piece of beef.
Huge selection on their menu, great for taking groups not to mention they have these ginormous crepes if you've got room for dessert after your mains...
Oh and did I mention they do BYO wines? 😏 Sounds like a party to me.
Oh my gosh... get down here for the chaveppi ASAP!
This place can be unpredictable with regards to service and wait times for meals BUT the quality of what comes out of this kitchen is close to perfect every single time.
This is one of THE BEST steak restaurants in Melbourne.
It’s been awhile since I been here .
Steak was on our minds and nearly forgot about this little place hidden in Lygon street ..
Great steak and entrees , service the best around and still run by same family ..
450grm Ribeye and still had room for the huge pancake for dessert ..
Well worth the it all round ...
The blue roo was great, accompanied by a good house Shiraz. Staff was competent and professional and the ambience great. Chicken soup was fine, and the coffee tasted great. The place felt cold in the spring storms, a heater would have been great. Will be back.
Feast ya eyes on this Mixed Grill 'flam'n nice' especially the Cevapcici so scrumptious topped with fresh diced onions & heaps of chilli flakes, together with potato & cabbage salad and my favourite Shopska salad (it's like a salsa but on a higher level), some grilled peppers & some cold European Beer, can't beat it👍
Seriously amazing food. Really impressed.
Will 100% be back and I will make sure to bring friends and family! Cevapi was amazing, can always tell the meat is fresh when you see it as you walk in! Xx
I dined here with a group of friends after a recommendation from a friend of mine. It is situated in the quieter section of lygon street. But still has a lot of foot traffic. Much like other restaurants on lygon street, they have outside dining and heaters for cold nights. We opted to seat outside, and were always being attended to by staff. Everyone at the table was happy with their meal selection, although entree and main sizes for some meals weren't very different in size, but varied considerably with price. The staff were friendly. Overall, I thought it was a lovely steakhouse/ tradition Serbian restaurant. The menu is vast, a little pricy but the food was very good.
Visited Lygon street streak house , a couple of days ago. Must note, rissotto and pan fried liver was delicious. For main 550 rib eye steak cooked blue, with mushroom sauce. The steak was beautiful, only downside was a slight charcoal after taste. Generous amount of sauce, would say that it lacked on flavour a little.
Have eaten here on a few occasions now and food has never let us down, it is a little pricey but considering the quality of the food it all levels out in my opinion. Will definitely be back again in the future. Thanks Lilly & Staff!
It was my first time at this hype steakhouse. Fairly, the steak I ordered was pricy, on the contrary it was fabulous. Well seasoned and cooked. There was an option to choose the Grams of your steak which highlights the appetite suited to eater. Real cheeky and smart IMO. The only small dissatisfaction was the price. In saying that i will most likely come back again.
Quality of the meals were impressive, however the wait to receive the meals were borderline disgraceful. One hour and a half to receive a steak was ridiculous, in addition to fairly average table service. Luckily the exquisite food compensated for the sheer lack of regard
Best chevaps I've ever tasted , Chicken shashlik and shopska salads are yummmi
Finish off with a palatschinke (Pancake with the lot ) and go to heaven .
Lygon st has such a great atmosphere. I always judge grills and steakhouses very highly being a meat lover . First up had the soup of the day which was a perfect broth . Then for main me and my partner had the 400 g and the 750 g ribeye steaks . She med rare and my self rare . Cooked to perfection, charcoal taste was amazing accompanied with potatoes and a bit of veg . I always try and find things to complain about , but struggled here . Will most likely go back .
Melbourne Vegetarian
+3.5
The best PATEE in Melbourne! !
Highly recommended their Patee for entree.
Never go wrong!
We had steak and grill barramundi. Was delicious and fresh!
Was expecting a lot and ended up quite disappointed by the experience. Don't get me wrong the food was good but I would expect a little more from this place for a lower price tag Overall preferred the new grill across the road.
Completely overpriced with you get, terrible service and not flexible at all.
had never seen such a bad service in Melbourne, never to go back there again.
Great food, abit expensive i have been coming here for years alot has changed but the food is still great. . You pay for quality and thats what you get!
Fantastic steak, awesome Serb food overall. Well aged steaks in window by weight masterfully grilled by the owner. Family business who knows how to make you feel both welcome and full. Have the crepe desert! It's awesome.
Blink and you will miss it but, what a find! The chefs here know exactly what medium, medium rare, blue or well done really means. Our eye fillets were tender and cooked to perfection. This place is always busy so customer service is all about efficiency rather than building rapport. But, who needs to chat when the meat arrives! Our dishes came with vegetables (apparently) but the wee spot of peas and potatoes were as token as calling a piece of parsley a salad. But who cared - it was all about the meat! Yum!
Excellent steaks and service at a good price. The mashed potato and assorted veggies (included in the price, BTW) are also fantastic and generous. The calamari tube is the best I've ever had. We've been here at least a dozen times and never been disappointed.
Best Chevapes in town!
To clarify, the main meat options come with house veggies such as potatoes and cabbage etc. So bare in mind that the portions will be quite large!
I'll be back soon!
Couldn't fault. Porterhouse was beautiful and cooked exactly how I wanted it. Good service and delicious sides. Probably the best steakhouse in Melbourne. Will definitely be back !
On my own in Melbourne and staying in Carlton. I found this little gem with in 2 minute walk of my hotel.
It was a quite night and I'd pass on the decor; but I thought I needed indulging on a lonely night. I went for the mixed grill.
It was a generous serve, well cooked and beautifully presented.
Vegetarians,vest your heart out, it was wall to wall meet.
It was full flavoured with a few surprises in the taste of the skinless sausage
The only problem was getting through it all. Certainly, a thousand percent better than what Qantas served me for lunch.
Dietician would warn me off it and national heat foundation would not approve. I will only eat carrot and lettuce for the rest of the week
Great service and great food!. The food here is really on another level. Watching the steaks being loaded into the open grill is enough to send our saliva glands on overdrive. With friendly service and a large, fresh and beautiful variety, it is well worth the parking struggle!
Great Balkan food, friendly service. A++
Good Food, Crap Service. I love the food here, really freshly made, but the service really drags this place down!
The best Europian Restaurant! Loved the chevapi and punjena vesalica! Pancakes are delicious! We visit very often! Love the place! Friendly and Food just amazingtttt
Wow really impressed lovely crispy garlic bread chevapi was soo good. Will be back for sure.
Best Cevapcici in Melbourne. As a long term Cevapcici lover I am always searching for great Cevapcici. A Serbian friend suggested that I give this restaurant a try. I was blown away - a platter of 10 large juicy cevapcici, delicately spiced and served with potato salad, cabbage and chopped onions. My mouth is watering as I write this review.
Visitors to Melbourne and came with a mate a year or so ago and we'd had a few and thought it was good. We came back for another crack and it was great! Steak was best in a long time and love to see boss cracking whip to make sure everything is right. Recommend.
First time at this restaurant. Heard about the great steaks. After trying all the major meat players in Melbourne this place takes the cake. Perfectly cooked meat, great service and a chilled atmosphere. Pricey but worth it
Love it!. This place is a little gem. We've been here numerous times and it never disappointed. We went there last night again. Ordered the saganaki to start with, then the eye fillet for me and the rib eye for the boyfriend. Saganaki came quickly and was yummy. Steaks took a while but both were amazingly tasty and cooked to perfection. They have a big menu and a wide range of steaks to choose from. I like that their portions are not small but not large enough to feed a whole army like some steakhouses do. They also have a wide range of international beers and half decent wine.
Love this place!
Amazing food. I was amazed by the variety of dishes on the menu. From gigantic steaks to more fancy dishes,
you've got plenty to choose from. All cooked on Charcoal Grill - probably the only restaurant in Melbourne who stays true to the original way of cooking steak.
The food is great. My personal favourites were the "Punjena Vesalica" (Pork fillet stuffed with cheese, mushrooms and prosciutto) and Chevapchichi.
A friend had a 450grams Rib Eye steak - cooked to perfection and infused with the natural charcoal flavour. I tasted it and it was yum as well.
The service was good and friendly.
This place just became #1 in my list of Steakhouse restaurants in Melbourne.
The original owners are back. This has been the best steak place in australia since 1992. the last couple of years it was run by a new manager they were very money hungry and did not care about the customer only for their wallet (i did not like them at all) so i stopped going, Now lily and vaso are back and the food is great you pay for what you get people dont listen to the other reviews just go in and try the amazing food!! trust me you wont be sorry.
Ignore the decor. Had a work meeting/lunch here and walking past the pseudo butcher counter entry, i was a little intrigued to see what ended up on our plates.
let me tell you, the steak//s here are unbelievable! cooked to perfection, decent sized serving for those frowning at the prices.
its not somewhere you'd go on the first date...or 2nd or 3rd. but definitely give these guys a crack,
This restaurant lygon charcoal grill & steakhouse!!! Is the best steakhouse in Melbourne . It's now been 4 years that I have been eating at this first class restaurant, and can't find anywere in Melbourne that can come close not only for there steaks but also for there 100% fresh seafood . Pricing pay for what you get !!! As a regular the staff always gives great discounts with a happy smile .. How could I forget desert !! don't worry about the pancake parlour I reccomend that there bannana & strawberry pancake with walnuts icecream & cream is without no doubt the best in Melb .. 10 /10 for all the staff at the steakhouse in lygon St thanx for all the high quality food over the years ..
Aleksandar Savanovic
+4.5
It's about the Charcoal Grill. While they do feature Steakhouse in their name, and offer a fine selection of steaks, or at least the menu would suggest, This place is about the other meats that are available.
As a Serbian ex-pat (lol, I came over as a baby) I've been exposed to some very fine examples of meat that aren't steak, and the only place I can get them is at big family BBQs or here.
I certainly prefer other places for steak, but the other meat available here even trumps that of steaks taste. True meat lovers, come and rejoice in the other food on offer here. If a 23 year old can afford to eat here every so often, and treat some friends, don't let the other reviews scare you off.
That said, it is considered "pricey", but I feel it is all of home made quality (full of flavour) and that's exactly what I come here for, and have been for nearly 18 years.
One of my earliest food memories is eating a pljeskavice (spicy hamburger) in their delicious turkish bread - oh and Pizza from Il Gamberos
Just a quick search for the term "Pljeskavica" returns - Anybody know where i can track down a good one? Ate this in Belgrade and nearly died it was so good."
So, like I said, let the ignorant eat just their steak, while the true food types can adventure and enjoy the flavours on offer.
Great. Was fantastic,we were impressed,although the rib eye bone that was left would have weighed a lot,over all ill be back
Good food but it is a touch pricey. Not so much the mains, but the sides, especially their bread, will sting you.
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