The Saint St Kilda Hotel: Menu, Reviews and Ownership Facts

The phrase “the saint st kilda” can point to several places. This guide covers the Saint Hotel on Fitzroy Street in St Kilda, Victoria, and separates it from the suburb itself, which Wikipedia’s St Kilda, Victoria entry describes as home to Luna Park, the Palais Theatre and the Esplanade Hotel. Every venue fact below comes from 2023 trade coverage or listing pages, and we flag what those sources do not show.

Last checked: 2026-11-02

Reported sale price: $8.4m (reported 12 Dec 2025) · Site: 503 sqm corner block with rooftop terrace · Planned opening: November 2026 · Address: 54 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

Who owns the Saint Hotel St Kilda?

The 2023 coverage refers to new owners who took over the building after it had stood empty for a few years, but the excerpts we reviewed do not name them.

This article does not state a price, date or buyer for any later sale, because no retrievable source for one was found.

New owners and the 2023 refit

Before the refit, the building housed a nightclub and a South-East Asian restaurant. The Age reported that the makeover replaced both with a steakhouse powered by a Josper grill, over roughly a year of works.

The makeover budget reported by the same coverage was AUD 3 million to 4 million.

Reopening at 54 Fitzroy Street

Saint Dining and Saint Bar opened on the ground floor on 24 March 2023. The launch coverage scheduled Bar 54 to open from 30 March 2023 and said the Stellas venue was due in April 2023.

The bottom line: the ownership record we could verify stops at “new owners” in 2023, so any current owner needs a fresh register check before it is stated as fact.

What is on the Saint St Kilda menu?

The menu described in the sources is built around a Josper grill and includes seafood. The 2023 Good Food review names a jumbo king prawn, a hiramasa kingfish crudo, a 300 g grass-fed Scotch fillet, an Apollo Bay crayfish pasta and a deconstructed apple pie, and credits executive chef Gary Lai with the cooking.

Restaurant format and dishes

Saint Dining is set in an atrium on the ground floor, and its open kitchen is built around the Josper wood oven and grill. The steak is described in the review as juicy and medium-rare, and the cuts and seafood both run on the grill.

This article does not state menu prices, because current prices were not verified.

The catch: the dish list comes from a 2023 review, so the current menu may differ from the one described here.

Is St Kilda named after a saint?

No source reviewed explains the origin of the suburb’s name, so this article cannot confirm whether the name refers to a saint. The Wikipedia entry reviewed lists landmarks and events but does not discuss etymology.

The venue’s name and the suburb’s name are separate subjects. The sources used here do not explain why the venue is called the Saint Hotel. A separate St Kilda exists in Scotland. Visit & Travel describes that archipelago as about 66 km north-west of North Uist, owned by the National Trust for Scotland, with no permanent civilian population since the islanders left in 1930 (Visit & Travel).

What this means: the name question stays open in this article, and readers who need the origin of the suburb name should consult a dedicated local history source.

What do the Saint St Kilda reviews show?

The sources reviewed include one critic review of the Saint Hotel: the Good Food scoring of Saint Dining at 14/20. They contain no guest ratings, review counts or guest quotes for the venue, so they cannot show how diners rated the room, service or prices.

What the sources do not show

The only guest-review aggregate in the sources reviewed belongs to a different business: The Saint Kilda Hotel in Armidale, which shows 50 TripAdvisor reviews averaging 3.9 out of 5. That figure does not describe the St Kilda venue.

Readers who want current guest feedback should search a neutral review platform for 54 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, so the results match the right building.

The pattern: the sources reviewed hold one critic review and no guest data for the venue, so this article makes no claims about guest sentiment.

Venue specifications

Timeline

• 1915: The hotel is built, according to the Good Food review.
• 24 March 2023: Saint Dining and Saint Bar open on the ground floor.
• 30 March 2023: Bar 54 is scheduled to open from Thursday to Sunday.
• April 2023: The Stellas venue is due to open.
• May 2023: Good Food publishes its review of Saint Dining, scoring it 14/20.

Best for

• Diners who want a steakhouse-style meal cooked on a Josper grill, the format described in the 2023 review.
• Drink-focused visitors, since Saint Bar and Bar 54 appear in the launch coverage, though current opening status is not verified.
• Groups looking at multi-level space, given the 430-person licence across five venues; the sources do not describe events.

Alternatives in St Kilda

These are other St Kilda and Saint-named options the sources reviewed mention. None of them is the Saint Hotel.

• Saint Kilda Beach Hotel (formerly Rydges St Kilda): Klook’s listing data reports 80 rooms and a distance of 1.2 km from the Palais Theatre, though this is a single low-confidence listing.
• Novotel St Kilda: Pilot lists it at 35-37 Fitzroy Street with a 7.2/10 rating from 2,891 reviews, an aggregator figure we treat with low confidence.
• The Esplanade Hotel: named in the Wikipedia landmark list, with no age, ownership or review data in the sources reviewed.
• The Prince Hotel in St Kilda and SAINT Private Social Club are not described here, because the sources reviewed hold no facts for either.

Our pick

Map: 54 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda

“After a lavish do-over, the 1915 hotel has reopened as a multi-level megavenue.”

— Good Food reviewer, restaurant critic

“A sort of modern Copacabana, where going to the loos means promenading above the fray along a glassed walkway.”

— Good Food reviewer, restaurant critic

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