The best gastropubs in Fitzroy right now

Fitzroy keeps some of Melbourne's most famous kitchen-pubs, and this guide ranks the suburb's gastropubs by their Curateria Score and what reviewers keep saying on their most recent visits, with chains and far suburbs left out. This is a pub list by design, the rooms Fitzroy goes to for a parma, a steak night or a Sunday roast with a pint, and these are the ones locals actually name. Here is how they sit this month.

Top of the list is Napier Hotel, the pub reviewers rate for the kangaroo steak and the burger, the kangaroo steak with bearnaise and a Bogan Burger beside a steak sandwich, a kangaroo parma and a Sunday roast pie. Marquis of Lorne follows, the pub reviewers come to for the Sunday roast and the fish burger, the treacle baked beef Sunday roast and a rockling fish burger beside a kangaroo steak, a chicken schnitzel, potato cakes and salt cod croquettes.

The Birmingham Hotel is the pub reviewers rate for the schnitzel and the wings, the parmesan schnitzel and chicken wings beside a pork porterhouse steak, loaded chips and vegan alternatives. St Andrews Hotel - Fitzroy is the pub reviewers come to for the steak night and the roast, the Thursday porterhouse steak night and a Sunday roast beside beer-battered fish and chips, a duck salad and a chicken parma. Builders Arms Hotel is the pub reviewers rate for the steak special and the pie, the Monday twenty-five-dollar porterhouse and a Guinness and beef bone marrow pie beside a sticky date pudding, a fish pie and a Tuesday half chicken special.

The Evelyn Hotel is the pub reviewers come to for the beers and the live music, the cold beers on tap and pub food beside pool, entertainment and nightly live music. The Provincial Hotel is the pub reviewers rate for the parma and a martini, the chicken parma and a schnitzel beside a margherita pizza, a pornstar martini and a spicy margarita. The Stone Hotel is the pub reviewers come to for the steaks and the bangers, the scotch fillet and porterhouse steaks and a parmesan beside fish and chips and bangers and mash.

The list closes across the suburb. Fitzroy Town Hall Hotel is the pub reviewers rate for the Sunday roast and the steak night, the rotating-protein Sunday roast and a Wednesday twenty-five-dollar steak night beside a lamb shoulder for two and a schnitzel. The Rose Fitzroy is the pub reviewers come to for the parma and the kangaroo, the chicken parmigiana and a kangaroo sirloin beside a barramundi and a beef parmesan. The Gertrude Hotel is the hotel reviewers rate for the hot honey pizza and the steak, the stracciatella sopressa hot honey pizza and a Monday steak with bottomless fries beside a crab linguine, an eggplant parmigiana and calamari. And Rochester Hotel rounds it out, the pub reviewers come to for the Sunday roast and the curry, the Sunday roast with perfectly roasted cauliflower and a chicken parma beside a Monday fifteen-dollar curry special.

If a pub night is the thread you want to pull, follow it across the city. There is a guide to the best gastropubs in Melbourne for the citywide picture, and a cross-cuisine tour of the best restaurants in Fitzroy for the rest of the suburb.

How we ranked it

Every pub here carries a Curateria Score built from its full review history, then weighted toward its most recent hundred reviews so the order reflects the room as it runs today, not as it ran two years ago. We hold the cohort to this one suburb and a tight inner-Melbourne radius, roughly 15km of the city, and we drop the multi-location chains and national franchises that trade on a logo more than a local following, so what is left reads as the genuine local order. Because a long-running room collects more reviews than a newcomer, we shrink the raw average toward the cohort mean for places with thin review counts, so a handful of glowing reviews cannot leapfrog a room a thousand diners have judged. For a gastropub page the cohort is the kitchen-pubs themselves, the rooms Fitzroy goes to for a parma, a steak night or a Sunday roast with a pint, so the order reads as the genuine local pub ranking rather than a broad restaurant list. The corpus is Victorian and scored; no AI writer ever reads it. The ranking is arithmetic; the words are ours.

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