Bluestone

Ph: (03) 9620 4060; 349 Flinders la, MELBOURNE 3000 www.bluestonerestaurantbar.com.au

Contemporary, $$ +
Open Mon-Fri noon-3pm; Mon-Sat 6pm-late, Closed Public holidays; Licensed; AE DC MC V EFT, Seats inside 120, Private rooms 120, 100
Chef Martin Walker (7-11-07) Owner Jason & Valerie Mclean (7-11-07)

Mietta's Review
Over Elizabeth Street, and up from the cool strip of Flinders Lane, bluestone stands alone, a beacon for fine food. A favoured meeting spot for local suits, down stairs an informal bar for snacks, and great drinks, upstairs it's more refined. Dimly lit, leather upholstered, and cloth draped tables, the food is now called modern European, and the cooking is well regarded.

Other published opinions

Age Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 14/20 "Entering Bluestone is a little like entering chambers, such is the number of legal types around the room. On weeknights, long, wellspaced tables of business-suited men play jury, and staff stroll like clerks of court among the high-backed chairs"

The Age Good Food Guide 2006 score 12/20 "Decisions begin at the door: downstairs, to the clubby cellar bar for wood fired pizza and steak sandwiches? Or upstairs to the restaurant, where the former wool store's original bluestone walls are now partly hidden by gilt-framed mirrors? Clearly it isn't a hard choice for the businessfolk seated at baronial chairs around the dining room's well-spaced tables."

Age Good Food Guide 2004 14/20

The Age Good Food Guide 2003. Score 14/20.