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Best Foodie Suburbs in Victoria

Suburbs with outstanding dining variety and restaurant access, scored from amenity counts and lifestyle desirability.

Abbotsford currently leads this Victoria list. Suburbs with outstanding dining variety and restaurant access, scored from amenity counts and lifestyle desirability. The index is relative to this list (100 = the top suburb here), not an overall suburb rating. Very small localities can rank highly when nearby services score well — check population and housing on each profile before treating a rank as a place to live.

Rank	Suburb	Index
#1	Abbotsford	100
#2	Albert Park	100
#3	Ballarat Central	100
#4	Bendigo	100
#5	Box Hill	100
#6	Brunswick	100
#7	Brunswick East	100
#8	Carlton	100
#9	Caulfield East	100
#10	Clayton	100
#11	Collingwood	100
#12	Docklands	100
#13	Fairfield	100
#14	Fitzroy	100
#15	Fitzroy North	100
#16	Footscray	100
#17	Geelong	100
#18	Geelong West	100
#19	Hawthorn	100
#20	Melbourne	100
#21	Moonee Ponds	100
#22	North Melbourne	100
#23	Oakleigh	100
#24	Prahran	100
#25	Richmond	100
#26	South Melbourne	100
#27	South Yarra	100
#28	Southbank	100
#29	Springvale	100
#30	St Kilda	100
#31	Sunshine	100
#32	Northcote	99
#33	Caulfield	99
#34	Kensington	98
#35	Williamstown	97
#36	Preston	97
#37	Carnegie	97
#38	Coburg	96
#39	Castlemaine	95
#40	Sale	95
#41	Mentone	95
#42	Brighton	94
#43	Dandenong	94
#44	Yarraville	94
#45	Elwood	93
#46	Ringwood	93
#47	Cheltenham	93
#48	Taylors Lakes	92
#49	Carlton North	91
#50	Windsor	91

Index shows relative strength within this list. 100 is the top-ranked suburb; lower values are further from the leader, not an overall suburb rating.

Last updated 4 October 2026 at 1:54 am AEST

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