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Preston

Dishes are best for feasting with a group.

Persian in Preston: This is a feast you’ll want to share with friends

It’s all about Persian classics at Maryam, with an emphasis on rice dishes and kebabs.

  • Dani Valent
24-hour marinated charcoal chicken with Lebanese pita bread.

Habibi

Wagga’s favourite Lebanese chicken, now in Melbourne.

  • Quincy Malesovas
Tyler’s carrot cake.

Tyler’s Milkbar

This venue is a finalist for best family-friendly cafes in Good Food’s Essential Melbourne Cafes and Bakeries of 2025.

Jamsheed’s converted industrial dining room.
14/20

The mash-up of cuisines at this suburban winery makes our critic ‘giddy’ (in a good way)

Clara Luna serves bar food, but it’s also soul food; Middle Eastern and South American, but also Australian.

  • Besha Rodell
Clara Luna’s fruit plate which diners are encouraged to snack on throughout their meal.

Syrian-Venezuelan cuisine on the menu at Preston’s suburban winery

Chef Frankie Hadid draws on her roots with bold, wood-fired flavours at Jamsheed Wines.

  • Quincy Malesovas
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The Keys serve hot wings, steaks and pub-like meals.

The Keys

Part bowling alley, part bar and rollicking fun for all.

Outside Skinnys in Preston.

Skinnys Eatery

This retro charmer hoists the Melbourne milk bar to new ground.

The foot-long gutter dog with mustard and sweet-sour relish.

Preston strikes it lucky with The Keys bowling alley

This rollicking northside mega venue, combining a 1950s bowling alley fantasy with a Melbourne pub, is an instant classic.

  • Dani Valent
Whole chicken plate with pickles, pita and toum (tangy garlic sauce).
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Sydney's cult chicken chain hits Melbourne. Here's our verdict

There are charcoal chicken joints everywhere, many of them with similar menus, almost none of them with these queues or level of devotion. So what's so great about El Jannah?

  • Besha Rodell
The "Top of the Morning" breakfast burger.

Retro favourites revisited at Tyler's Milk Bar

Nothing at this Preston cafe is complicated but it's housemade with care and a dollop of nostalgia.

  • Dani Valent