I haven't eaten here but I have had coffee several times and it was good. Not…read moreBEST-COFFEE-I'VE-EVER-HAD good, but the establishment itself is lovely. They've done a great job at branding and the colours & furniture are really stylish which makes your visit there comfortable. And with the cool music playing as well as super lovely staff, they've got their place happening. As far as food, this isn't something I can comment on. It appears very "fancy" on the menu, and pricey. Because of it's location, it's excellent for all-day patronage but it's not somewhere people will travel to for dinner so they should probably adjust their menu a little to suit a coffee-shop/lunch menu and the prices to match. Overall, definitely worth a visit for the coffee and ambience.

Service and food is excellent. Coffee is amazing! Even at a peak time staff were attentive and…read moreefficient. With every table full order to food delivery time was only 15 minutes. I had the whipped avocado and a side of smoked bacon. My guest has the Ruben with onion rings. Prices are what you would expect to find in the city, a little high for the suburbs but the service and quality if the food made up the difderence in pricing.

Great dumplings. Love the dumplings in chilli soup and pan fried dumplings. Great service and…read moreambience.

Normally I have to venture into the CBD to get good dumplings but last week a friend mentioned 'an…read moreamazing dumpling house in Box Hill' - I set out to investigate. I visited Luyang on Wednesday and returned only three days later. Yes it is that good. While it may not be up to the Shanghai village or Hu Tong standards, the dumplings here are still good and are very cheap. I came here with my partner and we ordered a serving of the fried pork dumplings ($8 for 15 dumplings) and the steamed dumpling combination (around $12), which included a selection of different types of dumplings. The service is charming and the girls who wait on the tables are so friendly and efficient that you just have to sit back and relax. Luyang may not be luxurious or trendy but there is free tea on your tables, and some sweet dumplings are heading your way, so sit back and relax.

We've been there a few times and still haven't gone through the whole menu .... too many to try,…read moreusually sticks to our favourites and not enough days in a week to try them. Very pleasant, spacious, modern and clean interior, so are those toilets. Typical Malaysian fares, Hawkers style, big portion. Consistently good, never missed a beat. Love their service too. GREAT WORK!

Food Republik is really fun & a tiny bit overwhelming for first timers. It's set out like a food…read morecourt with lots of little stalls around the perimeter, but is actually one big restaurant with a huge range of options on the menu. The menu is broken down into cuisines (Korean style, Taiwanese style, Japanese style etc) & the cuisines match the little stalls around the perimeter. Everything on the menu is numbered and there is a notepad on the table where you write down the numbers of the food you want & when you're ready, you use the buzzer on the table to buzz your waiter & hand him your written down order! It's actually pretty efficient and it's nice to have it all sorted without having to flip through the menu while a waiter waits for you to find the thing you want to order! You can also buzz for water or menus with different buttons which I loved! I had a phenomenal beef brisket noodle soup (the brisket was so tender, the noodles perfect and the soup delicious) & really tasty fried Korean chicken drumettes. We also shared some dumplings which were underwhelming. Definitely a unique experience and some tasty food to be had next time you venture out to Box Hill!

This is a busy place the menu is simple but filling. I always order to much. I go on sat morning…read moreand some time need wait for a table but it dose not take long. They have a big drink menu I like the milk tea If you are in Box Hill give kitchen Republic a try.

Random gem I found via google to satisfy a hungry wife. Vermicelli bowl, beef skewers and pork rice…read morepaper rolls all nailed it. Service is pretty good, prices are good! Hit it up.

Authentic pho can be found here! I've order one rare-medium beef pho and it tasted real good!!read more

I don't know if the review by Shadow V giving this place five stars is a real review or a…read moremanufactured review. BUT The place deserves five stars all the way - bots or no bots. This very real very live and bona fidely objective Yelp Elite reviewer thinks this is a fantastic place. * * * Claypot King is a Chinese Claypot restaurant in the gigantic Chinese food court at Box Hill Central shopping center. It is actually a chain. There are other Claypot Kings elsewhere in the greater Melbourne area. The menu is large for a food stall in a shopping court, but small for a sit down Chinese place. As you can guess - claypots are the order of the day. Claypot restaurants generally do soup as well. I had a dried scallop, winter melon, chicken herbal health soup. If you think Jewish chicken soup will make you healthy, (and Jewish chicken soup really does work), Chinese herbal health soup will make you even more healthy healthy. It is lighter, more refreshing, and just as nourishing. It has Chinese healing vegetables to boot. Even though the soup was light and mostly broth, The solid ingredients were delightful and fascinating. The shiitake mushrooms were powerful and flavorful. Dried scallops aren't as good as scallop scallops, but they had their charms. Winter melon is to fill you up and is a background player. There were various herbal bites I could not identify. The chicken stock was light as Chinese chicken stocks tend to be. This was no French double consomme. The chicken was chopped the Chinese way. (Take cleaver. Whack chicken randomly. Throw all the fragments, mis-formed or not, back into the soup. Go off and do something else.) Chinese chicken chopping is not one of the magical attractions of Asian cuisine. But the soup was absolutely positively divine. I noticed while waiting for my soup that the claypots coming out of the kitchen looked outstanding. I would love to have another thirty-eight dishes from the great Claypot King-dom.

Service was atrocious. Chicken and rice was served cold and the second dish came out almost 35 mins…read moreafter the first dish. When attempting to discuss the wait time with the attendant I was waved away by the female attendant.. WOULD NOT RECOMMEND!

A cafe that has a range of delicious food options for all, including any vegan / vegetarian folk…read more There is great coffee on offer if you're in need of a caffeine fix, and milk alternatives, including (but not limited to) soy and oat mylks are also available. If you've not had the chance, go get your Little Woodpecker on, you won't regret it!

Driving around the residential streets of Blackburn North, you'd probably never guess that a gem…read morelike this was tucked away! Little Woodpecker is a cute little cafe that only the locals seem to know about - most of the customers appear to be on first name basis with the staff, and everybody is friendly & smiling. With a menu that caters to the major groups of customers (vegan, veggie, GF, etc) you can't really go wrong if you pick this place as a brunch destination! All day Breakfast & Lunch, great variety & yummy flavours (not to mention, totally Instagrammable presentation!), great coffee & smoothie options...what's not to love? Plus it changes with the seasons, so you know everything's fresh & delicious! I came with a friend and we got the shareplate (The Last Supper) which was an AMAZING tapas board with baked eggs, grain salad, falafel, dips, roasted mushrooms, fresh sourdough....man, it was quite the smorgasbord! The shareplate for 2 seemed enough for 3 people to split, because we couldn't eat it all (and we can really pack it in, folks. No namby-pamby nibblers here) Honestly, it seemed like the way to do it, because you got to try a little of everything! If you don't choose to go that way though, don't worry - the serves are all generous & every mouthful is bliss :) Also, before I forget - they also have a countertop CHOC-FULL of freshly baked sweets! I was eying off their orange poppyseed muffins & their Doughnuts/Cronuts/danishes/croissants/omg it all looked so good I can't even list it all So yeah! If you're around, get your butt to Little Woodpecker for an awesome meal!

Over priced and over hyped! Don't even try to go without a…read morebooking otherwise they will look at you with disdain and revulsion. Simple Italian cooking and they jack up the price on it. The wine list is limited and grossly overpriced for what you get. No BYO wine. They get away with it because there are no other real alternative Italian restaurants nearby.

I have a confession to make..... I've lived nearby for more than a year and never visited. I'M A…read moreFOOL!!! What fantastic pizza. What fantastic service. Why oh why have I been going to the mediocre pizza joint around the corner when this place was RIGHT THERE??? I have a confession to make....I move from the area in exactly one month but there will be at least one more check in from me... Okay, probably two. Yum!

Not a bad Bento for around $15 including hot tea. The place…read moreis a little smelly, greasy and dirty as it is small and lots of grilling on the table.

This is the best Korean BBQ in Melbourne. My daughter and I like it very much. Ox tongue! Pork…read morebelly! Mushroom! And all kinds of soup! Not expensive, owner and staff are very nice

Above average service and friendly staff given that it's a Chinese restaurant that opens late. Much…read morebetter option over China bar and noodle kingdom for a late night eat. Given the type of restaurant and price of the food** The iced milk tea does the job; not too sweet and isn't overpowered by milk. They cooked the char kwai teow with a bit more oil than what I would put if I were cooking but aside from that it was satisfying in portion and taste. Different from other iterations of this dish there was a slight aroma of curry of some sort in it, it was strange but not in a bad way to an extent. The pork was very lackluster, luckily it is not the core ingredient of the dish so it was easily dismissed. Overall it was a good and cheap supper and it's a place I'd come back to if I was around the area again.