Theatre Restaurants | Melbourne Guide |
Melbourne has a long tradition with Theatre Restaurants.
Along with its theatre roots, Melburnians have always loved theatre and coupling that with its other great love, food is a give.
Some of Melbourne's best known theatre restaurants have come and gone (see below), but Melbourne still has its share of really good venues worth a night out.
What is a Theatre Restaurant
For the newbies who are not quite sure what a Theatre Restaurant is: it is a dinner and show. The dinner and drinks are served during the show often by the performers in the show.
A venue that entertains it's guests throughout the meal. In the past the food was group fare, edible but basic at best. Today the food is excellent, 3 courses plus drinks as one would expect, the service spot on and the shows (wow).
Guests arrive at a preset time, are welcomed and escorted to their table. Dinner and shows are best enjoyed with a group of 4 or more family and friends.
Theatre Restaurants
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➼ Aladdin's Theatre Restaurant
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Dinner & Show
Dinner & Shows in Melbourne include Rhythm & Blues on Puffing Billy, Murder On The Puffing Billy Express, Faulty Towers | The Dining Experience, Flamenco Dinner Show, Magic Dinner and Show, Murder Mystery Night, The Blues Train, Show & Cruise (boat), Schnitzel n Tits (Adult).
Traditional Restaurants
Let's not forget country themed restaurants like the Hofbrauhaus (German), Belgian Beer Cafe (Belguim), Ginza Teppanyaki (Japan), Teppanyaki Inn (Japan), The Aegean Restaurant (Greek), Taco Bill (Mexican), PJ O'Brien's Pub (Irish), Pugg Mahones Pub (Irish),
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Names you may remember:
Tikki and John's wonderful restaurant in the CBD. John Hancock's Theatre Restaurant in the Beaumaris/Black Rock. HUNCHBAX Theatre Restaurant in Richmond. Aladdin's Theatre Restaurant in St Kilda. Melbourne's first smorgasboard restaurant, Swagman Restaurant Bunratty Castle Theatre Restaurant, 127 Dorcas Street, South Melbourne Dirty Dick's* was in Queen's Rd South Melbourne in 1970s. They used to serve huge beef roasts and platter of vegetables. Waitresses were dressed in revealing wench costumes. Naughty Nineties Musica Hall* was in the Glenferrie Station arcade Hawthorn during 1970s. It was an old fashioned Music Hall shows with 3 course dinner. CAPERS Cabaret* was in Power St Hawthorn in early 2000s had dinner and show.
Dracula's Cabaret Restaurant bit the dust as Australia's longest-running and most successful theatre restaurant, having entertained over 3 million guests over 30 years.
Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant* Smith At Collingwood Le Joke upstairs at the Laugh Comedy Cafe Brunswick St Fitzroy Flying Trapeze Theatre Restaurant* Brunswick St Fitzroy (there's a FB group for that venue) Banana Louge* (Rod Quantock's place) I think it had dinner too. Brunswick St Fitzroy
* Thank you to Kate Herbert
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