{"id":881330,"date":"2026-09-05T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881330\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T20:54:12","slug":"the-best-restaurants-for-late-night-dining-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/881330\/","title":{"rendered":"The best restaurants for late-night dining in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Necia Wilden<\/p>\n<p>Sep 6, 2026 \u2013 5.00am<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 11.30pm on a Wednesday at the Melbourne restaurant Gimlet and a small fire has just broken out at the table next to ours. As the flames rise, diners at surrounding tables pause their lively chatter and turn their heads as one to watch.<\/p>\n<p>No need to panic, though. For this is a controlled fire, one of up to a dozen lit at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/life-and-luxury\/food-and-wine\/the-bold-and-brave-tactics-restaurants-are-using-to-lure-you-in-20230613-p5dgbu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew McConnell\u2019s flagship dining room<\/a> late at night, every night, by white-jacketed waitstaff flamb\u00e9ing an extravagant dessert on tableside trolleys.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Necia Wilden Sep 6, 2026 \u2013 5.00am It\u2019s 11.30pm on a Wednesday at the Melbourne restaurant Gimlet and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-881330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}