Barbecue in Melbourne
Melbourne has 2 barbecue spots mapped on The BBQ Atlas, spanning Korean and Modern. You'll find Seoul Garden Melbourne and Third Wave BBQ here. We don't rank them — explore each below and decide where you're eating in Melbourne, Australia.
Seoul Garden Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
This is a Korean BBQ buffet on Little Bourke Street in Melbourne's CBD, where the ritual matters as much as the meat. You order, you grill, you eat — no standing around waiting for someone else's timing. It's the kind of place that trusts you with fire and lets the food speak for itself. Seoul Garden is part of a larger operation, but this outpost does what Korean barbecue does best: strips away pretence and puts the work in your hands. Bring appetite and patience for the coals to heat properly. Everything else follows.
Third Wave BBQ
Melbourne, Australia
Third Wave BBQ built its name on patience. At the Albert Park flagship on Victoria Avenue, beef brisket goes over hickory for the long haul — twelve to sixteen hours of low, steady smoke until the bark turns dark and the fat renders to butter. It is Texas thinking, cooked in Melbourne. The menu reaches across the American map. Pork ribs come dry-rubbed in the Southern manner, pulled pork alongside, and everything carries the mark of a flavor-forward, Kansas City-style house rub built from more spices than most kitchens bother with. Maple and applewood round out the smoke. Then there is the Thor's Hammer — a single, enormous smoked beef shank on the bone, hauled out like a trophy. It is the dish people come back for, and the clearest statement of what this kitchen is about: big, honest, wood-fired cooking with nothing rushed. Come hungry, and come ready to wait for meat worth waiting for.