Everyone's talking about the steaks. The lasagne is what has me hooked.
Common Cuts sits on Russell Street in the Melbourne CBD, opposite the Old Melbourne Gaol. It opened in 2025 and it is, by any reasonable description, a steakhouse: cuts butchered in-house, a dry-aging program, six sauces, a wall of wagyu.
And the best thing on the menu is a pasta dish.
| What we ordered | Price | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| Wagyu brisket lasagne, bone marrow | $37.50 | 10/10 |
| Sher wagyu steak tartare | $22 | 9/10 |
| Two cuts of steak | from $28.50 | 8/10 |
| Chips | $11 | 8/10 |
| Charred broccolini, whipped tofu | $14 | 8/10 |
| Grilled flatbread, prosciutto, hot honey | $27 | 7.5/10 |
Wagyu brisket lasagne, bone marrow
10/10 $37.50Crunchy layers filled with rich wagyu brisket, a generous serving of bone marrow, parsley and capers, sitting in a bright tomato sugo under a heavy blanket of parmesan.
It arrives with the marrow bone alongside, topped with salsa verde, and you spoon it over the top yourself. That's the moment the dish makes sense. The marrow melts into the pasta and turns something already rich into something you keep going back to, and the capers and parsley are what stop it becoming too much.
A solid 10/10. If you order one thing here, order this. It's also the reason we came back twice in one week, which genuinely never happens.
Sher wagyu steak tartare
9/10 $22Sher wagyu topside, served with potato bread. You can add cured salmon caviar for another $10.
The tartare itself is excellent, and at $22 it's one of the better-value things on the menu. The only reservation is the bread: the potato bread is soft where the tartare wants something with more crunch to push against. Not a dealbreaker, and worth ordering anyway.
Two cuts of steak
8/10 from $28.50The steak frites cuts start at $28.50 for a 220g wagyu flank or a 300g Angus rostbiff, both served with chips. From there it climbs through Angus sirloin and scotch to dry-aged and Japanese A5, and sauces are $4.50 each.
Cooked properly, seasoned properly, and exactly what a steakhouse should deliver. 8/10 is not a criticism, it's just that the lasagne is doing something you can't get elsewhere and the steak, while very good, is doing something you can.
Cuts and farms change depending on what's best that week, so what's on when you go may differ.
Grilled flatbread, prosciutto, burrata, hot honey
7.5/10 $27Blistered flatbread under a pile of prosciutto with a whole burrata in the middle and hot honey over the top.
Good, and it looks the part, but the hot honey could have been more generous. The heat and sweetness are what's meant to cut through all that salt and fat, and there wasn't quite enough of it to do the job. The lowest score of the night and still a perfectly nice plate of food.
The sides
8/10Chips ($11) are thin, crisp and salted properly. Charred broccolini with whipped tofu and spiced tenkasu ($14) is the one to get if you want something green: the tofu cream is savoury rather than worthy, and the tenkasu adds crunch. Both 8/10.
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What else is worth ordering
We didn't get to everything. Based on the menu and what was coming out of the kitchen around us, these are the ones we'd go back for:
- Grilled scallop, seaweed butter, pangrattato ($19.50 for 2) — the snack that kept catching our eye on other tables.
- Spanner crab croquettes with salmon caviar ($25 for 2) — if you're starting with something rich, start here rather than the flatbread.
- Squid ink tagliolini, fermented chilli, Moreton Bay bug ($37.50) — the other non-steak main, and given how the lasagne turned out, the kitchen has earned the benefit of the doubt.
- Four cheese, spinach and mushroom lasagne, camembert sauce ($35.50) — the vegetarian version of the dish they do best.
- Dry-aged Angus bone-in club steak, 600g ($115) — four weeks dry-aged, served with two sauces, roughly 45 minutes' wait. Order it when you sit down.
Worth knowing that they also run a proper cocktail list and a vinyl-led soundtrack, so it works as somewhere to stay after you've eaten rather than a place you leave straight after the bill.
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Common Cuts
- Address
- Ground Floor, 380 Russell St, Melbourne VIC 3000
- Website
- commoncuts.com.au
- @commoncuts.melb
- Hours
- Mon to Wed 5pm–9pm. Thu to Sun 11:30am–3pm and 5pm–9pm.
- Getting there
- Top of the CBD on Russell St, opposite the Old Melbourne Gaol. Walking distance from Melbourne Central.
- Price guide
- Snacks from $15, steak frites from $28.50, mains around $35 to $40. Dry-aged and A5 cuts run considerably higher.
- Best for
- A steak dinner, a date night, or anyone who wants the lasagne.
Menus and prices change, so treat the numbers above as a guide and check their menu before you go. Cuts in particular rotate weekly.
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