Dainty on Toorak

About Dainty on Toorak

Flagship of Tina Li and Ye Shao's Dainty Sichuan group at 176 Toorak Road — the South Yarra mothership since 2009, rebranded and renovated in 2024 from Dainty Sichuan South Yarra. Australia's only Sichuan restaurant with an Age Good Food Guide hat (2025–2026), serving a 100-plus-item menu of numbing-spicy Sichuan classics, mild Cantonese-style plates, Peking duck, live seafood and private rooms seating 8–50. Chongqing chilli chicken won The Age World Food Dish of the Year (2005); ma po tofu was named by Gourmet Traveller among 50 dishes that define Australian dining (2016). Anthony Bourdain filmed No Reservations here in 2009; David Chang has praised the fish-fragrant eggplant. Lunch and dinner seven days; BYO wine with $10 corkage.