The review highlights the Brunswick East restaurant’s Middle Eastern cooking and dishes including lamb shoulder, cauliflower and knafeh.
Rumi, in Melbourne’s northern suburb of Brunswick East, is featured in a roundup of restaurants associated with The Age Good Food Guide 2026. The review notes two decades of Middle Eastern cooking and the restaurant’s owner, Joseph Abboud, who was named a “Legend” in the guide’s latest edition.
The writer highlights a three-cheese pastry cigar, pilaf with golden raisins, lamb shoulder with sweet mint sauce called sirkanjabin, charred leeks with muhammara, the restaurant’s signature burnished cauliflower and knafeh topped with pistachios and a hint of rose. The review also mentions neighboring restaurant The Rocket Society, where selected skewers are half-price every day from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.