Black Cat on Lygon

If you’re down Lygon Street and this black cat crosses your path, it is far from bad luck. Rather it is auspicious good fortune, because this Melbourne Asian restaurant – very much black in terms of interior design – is one of Carlton's favourites. It’s one of those joints where you get a kind of ordering form, ticking boxes in categories like ‘fish’, ‘flavour’, ‘not just fish’, ‘extras’, ‘hot dish’, ‘cold dish’, ‘rice’, ‘dessert’, ‘drink’, and ‘beer’. Unfortunately there’s simply no option for ‘all of the above’, but you can go for a set meal for two people like the fish and prawns set with barramundi. Naturally, Sichuan style dishes are the spiciest of the list here on the corner of Queensberry and Lygon streets, but you can quench your thirst with Tsingtao, Asahi, Heineken or BYO wine. Meeeeow!