Correction (10 October 2026): an earlier version of this page listed places and details we could not stand behind. It has been rewritten from scratch: every place below was confirmed at two independent sources on 9 October 2026, and every price was copied from the page it was published on.
A sit-down dinner for two needs three things sorted before anything else: where it is, when the kitchen is open and roughly what a plate costs. This page covers three restaurants, and only one of them has a Lower Plenty address. The other two are in Templestowe, so read this as dinner in and around Lower Plenty.
Each place was matched against at least two sources on 9 October 2026. We list what those sources say, and nothing about how a night there feels, because we have not been to any of them. Plan B for every pick is the same: ring or check the website for hours first, since two of the three have hours we could only confirm in part.
The quick picks
| If you’re after | Head to | Order this | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| An Italian dinner with a Lower Plenty address | Solana | see below | not printed here |
| A Thai dinner, evenings only | Leelavadee | see below | not printed here |
| Modern Australian, open from the morning | The Living Room | see below | not printed here |
Solana — 410 Main Road, Lower Plenty VIC 3093
Solana is the one restaurant on this page with a Lower Plenty address, 410 Main Road. Its own website lists it as an Italian restaurant, and the Australian Good Food Guide (AGFG) lists it with the tags “Alfresco Dining”, “Vegan Options”, “Child Friendly” and “Takeaway”. Those are listing features ticked on AGFG, not our description of the room.
The restaurant’s site prints its hours as “Opening Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 05:00 PM - 09:30 PM Friday - Saturday 12:00 PM - 10:00 PM Sunday 12:00 PM - 09:00 PM”. We could not read a menu or any prices for Solana, so there is no dish or price to quote here.
Stage: a third or fourth dinner is a fair fit on paper, since AGFG tags it “Alfresco Dining” and “Vegan Options”, which gives two people with different diets some room. Plan B: check the listed hours before you book, because Monday does not appear on them.
Leelavadee — 110 James Street, Templestowe VIC 3106
Leelavadee is at 110 James Street, Templestowe; its own site gives the address as 1/110 James Street. It is listed as a Thai restaurant. We could not read a menu or any prices for it.
The hours we recorded come from OpenStreetMap: the tag reads “opening_hours=Tu-Sa 17:30-22:30; Su 17:30-22:00; Mo off”. That is a volunteer-edited map tag and it may be out of date. The restaurant’s own site is undated, so check it for the current state before you head out.
Exit plan: the OpenStreetMap tag lists Monday as off and every other night as evening-only, so this is a dinner, not a lunch. If it is shut when you ring, The Living Room is the other Templestowe pick on this page.
The Living Room — 19 Anderson Street, Templestowe VIC 3106
The Living Room is at 19 Anderson Street, Templestowe. Its own site lists the hours as “Hours Tuesday to Sunday 9am to Late”, so it opens well before dinner. OpenStreetMap shows a split day, with a gap between the lunch service and the evening one.
It is listed as an Australian restaurant. We could not read a menu or any prices for it, and its site is undated, so treat the hours as what the site said on 9 October 2026 rather than as a promise.
Stage: a long lunch is as easy to plan here as dinner, because the site lists it from the morning. Plan B: “Late” is not a time, so ask the restaurant when the kitchen stops.
Quick answers
Which of these dinner restaurants is actually in Lower Plenty?
Only Solana, at 410 Main Road, Lower Plenty. Leelavadee and The Living Room are both in Templestowe, on James Street and Anderson Street.
Is there an Italian restaurant for dinner in Lower Plenty?
Solana lists itself as Italian at 410 Main Road, and its site prints evening hours from Tuesday to Sunday. We could not read a menu for it, so there are no dish prices on this page.
Is there Thai food near Lower Plenty for dinner?
Leelavadee, at 110 James Street, Templestowe, is the Thai restaurant we could confirm. The hours we recorded are from an OpenStreetMap tag, which lists Tuesday to Sunday evenings and Monday off, so confirm with the restaurant before you travel.
How we checked
We checked every place on this page against at least two independent sources on 9 October 2026: OpenStreetMap, the places’ own websites and the Australian Good Food Guide. We copied no menu prices from these places’ own pages, so this page prints none. Menus, prices and opening hours change, so check with the venue before you go. The cover photo is illustrative, from Unsplash, and does not show any place on this page.
Seen something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page link and what has changed, and we will check it again.
