Mietta's Review
This is a great neighbourhood restaurant. A corner shopfront with windows on two sides, tables on a widened footpath outside and a bright breezy atmosphere. Service is good and the food is well balanced and flavoursome - high praise in a world where cleverness rates better than taste. Can be noisy if full.

Other published opinions
Age Good Food Guide 2010 Score: 14/20

Herald Sun Bob Hart, 18-08-09 "Suckling pig is the Sunday favourite. In addition, there is always a selection of Richardson's house-made salumi, and his outstanding sausages."

Age Good Food Guide 2009 Score: 14/20

Herald Sun 10-06-08 Score: *** "Herald Sun Chef/owner Adrian Richardson has sharpened his focus on meat - especially the grass-fed beef he dry ages on the premises"

Herald Sun Eat, Bob Hart, 8-12-07 "For 10 years La Luna has prospered in premises that, curiously, once housed a lame vegie haunt called Lord Lentil. God awful, actually. Every year La Luna has improved to some degree. But in the past year - in concert with a stylish facelift - standards have soared. And business, happily, has boomed right along with them, which would suggest that people really can tell the difference ... Richardson has loved meat since the day his father, for reasons unclear to me but probably not involving selfdefence, instructed the young Adrian to shoot a sheep. Which he did."

Age Good Food Guide 2008 Score: 14/20

Gourmet Traveller 2006 Australian Restaurant Guide "Every neighbourhood should have a bistro like this one. Friendly, unpretentious, but just a touch more special than a cafe. The place is generally humming with a very Carlton crowd (over 30, left-leaning, the women smartly dressed, the men not), all intent on a good feed without fuss. And that's exactly what they get."

Age Good Food Guide 2006 score 15/20

Herald Sun Eat Bob Hart 4/6/05 "All the food at La Luna is good even the lentils. But the loyalty of many regulars relates to the brilliance of the beef Adrian serves and the miraculous, beefy sausages he makes. Now, the quality of both can be traced to superb meat that is aged on the bone for at least four weeks, often longer, in a cool room behind the restaurant."

Age A2 Jane Faulkner

Age Good Food Guide 2005

Gourmet Traveller 2005 Restaurant Guide "La Luna still does that Carlton all-day-all-weekend brunch, to huge acclaim, but has morphed into the restaurant it is today. Not a place of cutting-edge gastronomy, but a home to food rooted in sound principles of quality produce handled carefully."

The Foodies' Guide 2004, Allan Campion & Michele Curtis,'Chef and owner Adrian Richardson offers a large menu of modern Mediterranean cuisine,with brunch on the weekends and an early dinner to tempt junior tastebuds.Very family-friendly at all times.'

AGFG 2004, score 14/20

Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Australia 2004,'La Luna is the quintessential bustling Melbourne cafe/bistro.Generous is every sense, it speaks volumes of its interesting inner-city locale...has a set a template of robust, Mediterranean-inspired flavours married with good produce, and it clearly works.The restaurant gets better-and-busier every year...professional,friendly staff

Age, Epicure, 14/10/03, John Lethlean, score 14/20

Sunday Age, Sunday Life, Eat Streets, 6/4/03, John Lethlean