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Tuesday 5:30pm - 9:30pm Wednesday 5:30pm - 10pm Thursday 5:30pm - 10pm Friday 12pm - 2:30pm 5:30pm - 10pm Saturday 5:30pm - 10pm

Lagoon Dining

Name: Lagoon Dining
Address: 263 Lygon Street, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC, 3053, AU
Telephone: +61 447 525 573
Price range: $$

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Lagoon Dining is a contemporary Chinese restaurant in Carlton, Melbourne.

23/10/2026

Fried chicken, white pepper togarashi and house made tonkatsu sauce served alongside a salad of chrysanthemum, Taiwanese sesame paste with toasted pine nuts. Who knew green and gold could be so pretty or taste so good! Reservations via link in bio.

18/10/2026

Sun’s out hats on. We’ve again been awarded one hat in this year’s Good Food guide! A very heartfelt and humble thanks to our incredible staff and everyone who has dined with us over the last year (especially our wonderful regular diners).

18/10/2026

15/10/2026

Charcoal roasted char siu, with hot mustard on the side, about to get the 13 spice tare treatment. Tare is a broad umbrella, but generally it is considered a dipping sauce, though it can also season stocks and soups. It is made from mirin, sake, soy sauce, and sugar. We flame the alcohol off the sake and mirin before combining it with roasted chicken bones, boiled pork trotters, percolate the whole lot over a number of hours before seasoning it with brown sugar and13 spice. Rich, sweet, salty, with caramelly and spicy and moreish depth. The best advice we can possibly give is to pour any remaining tare over your steamed rice. It might even steal the show. Reservations via link in bio.

08/10/2026

Our latest parfait iteration is very likely to stop you firm in your tracks - sometimes it’s ok to be greedy, and this is one such instance: don’t share! Coconut parfait with kaya jam, passionfruit, banana cream, and oat munchies.

02/10/2026

Weekend eating. Sichuan brasied WA octopus: all glistening rather energetically with a belacan sambal (think sour, aromatic, sweet, funky), cushioned on a bed of toum with cassava crackers at the ready to scoop the whole lot up. It’s sublime, in our humble reckoning. Doors open from 5pm, walk-ins welcome.

30/09/2026

O'Connor beef short ribs are the key player here. The ribs are braised overnight in Higashimaru soy sauce and Shaoxing before being grilled over charcoal. With a few generous spoonfuls of a Cantonese-inspired black pepper sauce. A salad or parsley and shallot with a cheek of lemon on the side to help seal the deal. Available for youreating pleasure even at this very moment.

24/09/2026

Leave the saucing to us (in this instance doubanjiang bisque), and we shall leave the sousing to you. Hump day is here, spring is here, we are at shop 263 Lygon St, and you should be, too. Dinner is a good place to start, reservations via link in bio. Normal trading hours all week including Friday September 25 lunch and dinner.

18/09/2026

Lightly cured hiramasa kingfish dressed in leek dashi, ponzu, fresh lime and shiso. If you think it looks good, it tastes perhaps ten times better. Come and see (or taste, rather) what we mean. Doors from 5pm.

10/09/2026

We’re quite the sucker for a decent pudding, and even a perfunctory nibble on our genmaicha and peanut pudding, gula malacca and orange will render you just as enthusiastic a fan as we are.Close the meal out just so with one of these.

Address

263 Lygon Street, Carlton
Melbourne, VIC
3053

Opening Hours

Tuesday	5:30pm - 9:30pm
Wednesday	5:30pm - 10pm
Thursday	5:30pm - 10pm
Friday	12pm - 2:30pm
	5:30pm - 10pm
Saturday	5:30pm - 10pm

Telephone

+61 447 525 573

Website

http://lagoondining.com/

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