Juni
CONTACT
Ph: (03) 8663 3422
136 Exhibition Street
Melbourne,
3000 Victoria
The Details
Cuisine
- Pan-Asian
Need to Know
- Set Menu
- Good for Groups
- Great for Dates
Serving
- Lunch
- Dinner
THE VERDICT
Fire and spice and all things nice are the name of the game at Juni, the moody, neon clad pan-Asian diner on Exhibition Street by chef Michael Lambie.
You'll recognise Lambie's name from Melbourne's OG Modern Asian diner Lucy Lui (which FYI he moved on from in 2020) and his illustrious career spanning Stokehouse, Lamaros, Taxi and The Smith to name a few. He's fronting the kitchen alongside head chef Hendri Budiman who's ex-Coda.
The pair have crafted the menu to be bold, like traditional Asian cuisine. Start your feasting with snacks and small dishes designed to warm you up for the show stopping mains. We’re talking perfectly seared tuna tataki paired with ginger and wasabi dressing, sizzling half-shell scallops drizzled with spicy tom yum brown butter, or togarashi-spiced cauliflower.
As for the mains, you can expect to gorge on dry-aged chinese duck with cucumber, pickled daikon, spicy Hoi Sin and pancakes; steamed barramundi fillets accompanied by black bean, ginger flowers and leeks, or a Japanese pumpkin and eggplant curry with lychee and hot mint.
The cocktail menu is stacks of fun with a twist on the classic pornstar martini (named Stormy Daniels—hey we didn’t make it up, just drank it). They even give you a little prosecco on the side so you can enjoy the magic of mixology too, adding it into the cocktail and watching it fizz away. The Thai Milk Punch is a must as a dessert or a pacer with dark rum, caramelised banana syrup, condensed coconut, Nutella and clarified milk.
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