Seamstress Restaurant & Bar

Restaurant
  13 reviews  – 
113 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000
Parliament Station (450 m)

Leela M.

Spaces for hire at Seamstress Restaurant & Bar

from $35
per person / per afternoon
Dining Room
60
75
The Seamstress dining room, celebrates the merging of traditional pan-asian ingredients with modern kitchen techniques. Our menu is all about shared dining enjoyed in a lively but casual social setting. An intimate 50 seater restaurant, featuring a canopy of sweeping fabric, colourful hanging floral arrays and scattered iconic sewing machinery. W...
from $35
minimum spend / per session
Cocktail Bar
140
Our second-floor jewel in the crown is the Seamstress Cocktail Bar, evoking memories of a colonial private members club, deep in the east indies hidden away through an Asian laundry or backstreet tailor. Western empirical style and furnishings scatter about this attic space. Ancient wooden floorboards, winding stairs & colourful hanging cheongsams...
from $15
per person / per session
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
100
110
The alter-ego of the Seamstress Cocktail Bar, this room is unashamedly everything the cocktail bar is not, and where all the mischief happens. Where-as the Cocktail Bar is all jazz & blues, cocktails, table service, Sweatshop is the New York basement bar, straight up counter service, local beers, bourbon whiskey, banter and graffiti. A robust spa...

Prices and opening hours

Sunday
Closed
Monday
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Dining Room
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
from $35–$65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Tuesday
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Dining Room
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
from $35–$65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Wednesday
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Dining Room
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
from $35–$65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Thursday
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Dining Room
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
from $35–$65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
9:00 am – 11:00 pm
from $15 per person
Friday
12:00 pm – 1:00 am
from $15 per person
Dining Room
12:00 pm – 10:00 pm
from $35–$65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
12:00 pm – 1:00 am
from $15 per person
Saturday
12:00 pm – 1:00 am
from $15 per person
Dining Room
5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
from $65 per person
Cocktail Bar
5:00 pm – 11:00 pm
from $35 min. spend
Sweatshop Basement Bar & Yard
12:00 pm – 1:00 am
from $15 per person

Facilities and catering options

Up to 140
standing
Up to 100
seats
In-house catering
Promoted / ticketed events
Alcohol provided
External catering allowed
Parking available
Accommodation available
BYO alcohol

Location

113 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, 3000
Parliament Station (450 m)

Reviews and ratings

(13 reviews and ratings – )

M
Matthew M.
August 2022

Food was awesome, staff were accommodating of everything we asked for. Awesome location. Had a ripper night, thank you so much!

C
Chris H.
April 2024

Really helpful and accommodating!

About Seamstress Restaurant & Bar

Seamstress Restaurant & Bar opened in 2007 in Melbourne's historic Chinatown district, housed in a 120yr-old former textile factory, warehouse and one-time Buddhist monastery.

We regularly host a variety of parties, events and functions across all 4 floors of our venue.

In the past 6 months alone we have catered for numerous personal gathering for birthdays, farewells & engagements as well as corporate meetings, dinners, networking drinks and team parties.