Longrain Restaurant & Bar

Longrain Melbourne is a contemporary restaurant and bar uniquely located within an
expansive, 100-year-old converted warehouse-style building. The hip yet welcoming
atmosphere, combined with warm and friendly service, original cocktails and an
inspired wine list can also be found here.
Longrain's Food & Wine
The wine list features a distinctly Victorian flavour, the wine list perfectly balances
the menu's combination of hot, sour, salty and sweet flavours, which can often be tricky to match wine with.
Dining at Longrain
The long and round communal tables that feature in the restaurant enable visitors to dine in
true Longrain tradition - banquet style. This mode of dining is essential to eating successfully
at Longrain, as the generous main-dish portions are designed to be shared. It is important to
combine your chosen meal with a variety of other dishes and to eat it with steamed jasmine
rice so that the correct balance of hot, sour, salty and sweet flavours are experienced.
Longrain's Bar voted 'Best of the Best'
A resident of one of the world's most vibrant bar capitals, Longrain Melbourne's bar was
voted one of Australia's best bars in the Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine's prestigious
'Best of The Best' edition. A central point of the restaurant's space, the bar is dramatically
set at centre stage cleverly dividing the cocktail lounge and the restaurant's main dining
area. The bar opens early each evening until late, making it a great pre and post-theatre
spot. If you haven't got time to wait for a table, you can order early or late from Longrain's
scrumptious bar menu and thirst-quenching cocktail list.
Longrain Melbourne | Food
Executive chef Martin Boetz creates scrumptious food that is a delicate blend of Thai
and Southern Chinese influences.
Eating at Longrain is a journey into Asian-style dining. The large dining tables are communal so
that dining is traditional banquet style. Designed to be shared, and eaten with steamed jasmine
rice, the generously sized main meals work to combine the contrasting flavours of hot, sour, salty
and sweet. Boetz's resulting menu is a luscious balance of textures, flavours and aromas.
Side dishes accompany many of Longrain's dishes. This is another essential ingredient of
the Asian table - enabling individual tastes to be catered for. Longrain's signature Eggnet, for
example, is served with a side dish of Nahm Pla Prik (a mixture of chilli, fish sauce, finely sliced
eschalots and lime juice).
Your Longrain waiter will be able to advise you on the best combination of dishes (hot, sour, salty
and sweet) in order to get the best balance of flavours during your meal. The strong flavours of
chilli and spicy pastes can wreak havoc with some wines but over the years Longrain's sommelier
Sam Christie has carefully constructed a wine list to complement Martin's food, so don't be afraid
to also ask your Longrain waiter to suggest the best wine match for your specific order.
Martin Boetz | EXECUTIVE CHEF
'My love affair with Thai food began at Darley Street Thai in Sydney's Kings Cross,
I was totally blown away by the restaurant and the range of amazing flavours in the food.�?�
Where is Longrain Melbourne?
Located in the block between Spring and Exhibition Streets, Longrain Melbourne is situated
within the heart of the city's CBD - just steps away from the vibrant China Town and theatre
districts. A heritage-listed former horse stables, the impressive red-brick building stands on a
classic cobblestone street on the corner of Little Bourke Street and Punch Lane. As if tucked
away from the rest of the world, the Soho-like shopping and dining district that surrounds
the restaurant is referred to by locals as the 'Bourke Hill Precinct.'
Longrain only takes bookings for lunch on Friday and limited
group bookings for dinner
The secret to dining cleverly at Longrain in the evening is to arrive early, put your name on
the waiting list and then sit back and relax in the cocktail lounge with a pre-dinner cocktail.
Or why not take the healthy option - eat early and drink later?

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