Benjamin's Kitchen

Absolutely loved my first visit to Benjamin’s Kitchen - food delicious, service great and restaurant gorgeous - will be back for sure:)

Lovely Thai food. Plates are great for sharing. Recommendations were given and they were fabulous.

Great service, atmosphere and excellent food. Had a very relaxing lunch. I had the beef stir fry and my husband had the crab bun for main. Will definitely come back and work our way through the menu.

Amazing food quality and great Customer service! Will definitely go there again. Thank You

Always enjoy having a meal here when not up to cooking at home. The staff are pleasant, the heaven duck is one of our favourites - never disappoints. Great place for a casual meal & a glass of wine (or two). Not far to drive to either - street parking.

Food is always fresh & delicious. Service is friendly & efficient. Whether it’s a birthday celebration or a dinner out with the girls it never disappoints. Everything on the menu is delicious it’s always hard to make a choice.

May 2023 4 stars
I've been here a few times but this is my first review. Always heard that they have very good Luksa here. I wasn't disappointed at all. Luksa is tasty and consistent as we order every time we dine here.

We tried soft shell crab brioche buns which was nice. Prawn dumplings were good too.

Only mark one star down as roti was tough and hard. We only had a bite or two but couldn't have it anymore. Although, peanut sauce was very nice, a little kick to it too.

We let staff know about roti when we came up to pay at the counter and he offered to make a new one for us to takeaway but we were full and didn't want it. Definitely recommend and we'll be back again for Luksa noodles.

Random location but excellent food and service. All the dishes were top notch. The laksa was my favourite. Will be back. Thanks

Love Benjamins food. Fresh, really really tasty with modern slant of asian ingredients. The service is professional always and the atmosphere I find relaxing every time I visit.

This place is beautiful on the inside, we sat on the second story and it just felt calm and peaceful. It’s definitely quite expensive but the food was good but not amazing for what I was hoping. The entrees were definitely the best out of everything. The mains really lacked flavour but we’re still enjoyable enough. My biggest regret was ordering the panna cotta, one bite and I had to stop and I LOVE dessert. The jam which must be homemade which you would think would have been good but it was full of all these spices so it was chunky and we literally pulled a full clove out of our mouths. It needed to be sieved but when we questioned the waitress she said she should have warned us like it was intentional for it to be like that. We didn’t get a receipt shown to us at the end but we don’t think it got removed on the bill which ideally would have been the professional thing to do but not a huge deal they did offer us the mousse instead but we were full at this point anyway. The finish on a positive, the staff were super friendly and that’s always a plus!

Staff were very friendly & accomodating. Food was great. Look forward to eating there again.

Awesome Thai food and attentive service. Best Thai in eastern suburbs!
My family loved our meals tonight.
Cool vibe and fully booked for a Sunday night shows we locals love this place. The entrees were so good, mouthwatering San Choi BAU and crab sliders, for main we enjoyed spicy barramundi jungle curry, steam veggies, coconut rice, top notch Pad Thai with chicken and roti with satay - perfect. Thx Chef we will be back

The food here used to be terrific, it is now tasteless and the quantities small. We ordered Heaven Duck, almost no duck was included. The special fried rice at $16 contained 3 small prawns, the chicken green curry was tasteless with almost no chicken and the Jasmine rice a solid gluggy mass. We live nearby and used to love this restaurant; it has either changed hands or changed the kitchen but now it is a restaurant we will never go back to again.

When it first opened it was as good as the nearby Paladar and one of the best Thai restaurants around; now it is as lackluster with tasteless food as most other nearby Thair restaurants. The food is now more like poor Chinese food rather than having any similarity to Thai food.

We went back recently, hoping the food had improved but it hasn't, it is still very poor. Small squares of vegetables look like they came from a frozen packet. The food was tasteless, the duck had no flavour and little texture as did the other selections we made. It is a Chinese restaurant now trying to present Thai food and has wrecked it.

There's nothing like Friday's and public holidays rolled into one. Especially the day before the AFL Grand Final.

We made the most of the day off with a visit to a new Asian fusion restaurant called Benjamin's which is located in Alphington just down the road from Ivanhoe. It's an unprepossessing little place which is easy to miss if you're driving past.

The decor was quite neutral but very calming with maybe 12 tables or so on the ground level near the bar. We had possibly the best seat on the house by the window which didn't hurt either. My bench seat was very soft and thoroughly comfortable.

Benjamin's didn't let us down foodwise with a number of absolutely delicious dishes including san choi bao, salmon/prawn fritters, salt and pepper calamari (perhaps a little more capsicums and onions could have been included for extra crunchiness and flavour?), snapper fillets and spicy rocking. Their coconut panna cotta with berries dessert was also to die for. Their drinks were a touch on the pricey side but that's not unusual nowadays.

The service was quiet, friendly and thoroughly professional. Unusually for many restaurants, their unisex toilet was sparking clean and well fitted out.

Regrets? Yes. I should have ordered another panna cotta dessert.

We had a party in one of the bigger rooms upstairs. Communication was excellent in the lead up, the staff were super friendly, attentive and accomodating with special food requirements, the food was delicious. I would highly recommend.

Wow, absolutely delicious! I'm not a local, decided to order on my way home from work was very impressed. The flavour, the freshness, the texture.
I'll definitely be coming back again! Thank you for a meal that I'll remember.

The food is delicious. We had the dim sims, tofu and rice and it was brilliant - very healthy and great vegetarian options. We’ll be back.

I'm in awe of the service each time we visit Benjamin's Kitchen. Staff are very attentive and accommodating. And the food is even better! So obsessed with the soft shell crab buns and salted egg chicken. Heaps of wine options to pair with your meals too! Only feedback would be to expand the dessert menu. Many thanks to Pai for always looking after us.

Tasty food: we love the laksa here- hits the mark without being overly spicy hot. A bit on pricey side but definitely good value

I have a very short list of dishes in Melbourne that I can count on to make me feel better no matter how low my mood, my very best friends if my friends were plates of food, and the rockling laksa from Benjamin’s is on it.

The green curry is also superb - it was so fresh and flavourful it actually made me feel a bit sorry for all the past green curries I’ve eaten. The rest of the menu isn’t far behind, either - I’ve gone through about half of it over the last few years and everything’s been excellent.

We generally get takeout from here but it’s also a lovely place to dine in, and the staff are a very friendly bunch.