Eat
CaminitoLa Boca.
Asado on Nicholson. Chimichurri first.
Location
What people get wrong
205-207 Nicholson. Closed Monday and Tuesday on AGFG. Book Friday. Call (03) 7036 5795. House also prints 0472 601 771. We last walked this on 2026-09-21. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Caminito La Boca known for?
Caminito La Boca is known for asado in a room that looks like a painted corner house from the footpath and a Buenos Aires bodegon once you are in: red cloths, a cow of cuts in the fire, chimichurri already on the table.
You walk north on Nicholson from the plaza. 205-207 is the Argentine flag and the CAMINITO fascia. Inside it is a family grill. House story copy still says they cook the food and work the room themselves. MelbourneMeal, 6 December 2024, ran Roxana's note: bodegones with her abuelito, a husband, five children, a room she wanted to feel like home. Leave the first-in-Australia line in their mouth. You came because a Friday vacio still wants a Malbec and a table you booked, and because the painted glass is how this strip does Argentina without pretending it is a CBD steakhouse.
AGFG still names the asado: provoletta, ribs, vacio, chorizos, black pudding, salad, chimichurri. That is a grill, not a tasting menu. The room is about 60 seats. Maradona on the wall. A bottle lamp. A Hand of God tin. Licensed. You sit because the fire is already the conversation, and because a weekday lunch on Nicholson still feels like someone put a neighbourhood parrilla inside a shopfront and left the chimichurri as the only ceremony.
Phone (03) 7036 5795. The home page also prints 0472 601 771. Site caminitolaboca.com.au. Instagram @caminitolabocamelb. Book Sevenrooms. English at the table. You sit because the fire is the whole theatre: a Friday vacio, a red cloth, a Malbec they already listed as the point. The street noise on Nicholson does not come in once the chimichurri is open. You need a cut, not a founding myth. Stay for the last rib. The painted glass is the sitting. You booked this grill, this wine, this room.
What should you order at Caminito La Boca?
You should order asado if that is why you walked, then decide whether the table still wants a pastry to start or a stew while the fire works.
Empanadas first if you wanted the door snack. House menu-1 lists cheese, cheese and tomato, ham and cheese, then beef, chicken, tripe, corn and cheese. From $5 on the page we fetched. That is a pastry. Order a plate and stop pretending one is lunch. Prices move. Ask tonight.
The grill is the identity. Ribs, vacio, chorizos, black pudding, provoletta, ensalada rusa, chimichurri. El Obelisco is the share for four. Churrasco is 300g rump if the table was two. Osobuco sits over arborio after three or four hours. Locro and guiso are the stews. Choripan with chimichurri if you wanted sausage on bread. Milanesa in beef, chicken or eggplant. House copy still prints that beef, lamb, chicken and fish are halal certified. Ask if that is the reason you came. Do not treat a certificate as a tasting note.
Churros with dulce de leche if you wanted sweet. Thick hot chocolate with a churro if the night still wanted cocoa. Flan. Cheese with quince. Tortas fritas on Sundays with mate if the kitchen is doing them. Stay long enough to taste the chimichurri on its own terms. Eat it here. A steak walking to Hopkins is how you waste a sauce. Stay for the Malbec they listed as the point of a Friday. The cow of cuts is the menu and the conversation. You booked this grill. Behave like that is true.
Hours, payment and queues at Caminito La Boca
Quoted week from AGFG: closed Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 12pm to 10pm, Friday 12pm to 11pm, Saturday 12:30pm to 11pm, Sunday 12:30pm to 10pm. Call (03) 7036 5795. Last checked 2026-09-21. Glance at the glass.
Book Friday and Saturday if you wanted a steak sitting, not a bar stool. Cards are listed. Cash still works on this strip. Sevenrooms is the booking path. Instagram or the landline if the form died. MelbourneMeal's 8am Tuesday window is opening-week leftover. We put that fight, and the Sunday widget, in the hours note. The glass wins.
House story copy says join us every Saturday evening for weekly tango. The home meta still says monthly. Frequency is unverified. Ask when you book. Do not arrive for a show the kitchen did not put on.
How do you get to Caminito La Boca in Footscray?
You get to Caminito La Boca by walking from Footscray station toward the plaza, then north on Nicholson to 205-207, a painted Argentine door, not a concourse steakhouse and not a Hopkins arepa shop.
Read the flag. CAMINITO. You are on Nicholson. Albert Street is the plaza park if you drove. Irving is the market deck, the wrong job unless you already bought herbs. You need a reservation on a Friday night more than you need a car. Be early enough to read 205 before the hunger invents another grill.
At night Nicholson is a lit strip. Stay on it. Monday and Tuesday this kitchen is dark on the AGFG clock. Plan the asado, then the walk. A 10pm Friday arrival can still catch the fire. A Monday arrival cannot. Chimichurri on the fingers is how you know you came to the right door. The painted glass is the sitting. You booked this grill, this wine, this room.
What do people mix up about Caminito La Boca?
They walk Monday, or they trust an 8am widget, and they miss the asado that only lives Wednesday to Sunday at 205.
- 205-207 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011 only. Phone (03) 7036 5795.
- Wed-Thu 12pm-10pm. Fri 12pm-11pm. Sat 12:30pm-11pm. Sun 12:30pm-10pm on AGFG. Closed Mon-Tue.
- Book Sevenrooms. Site caminitolaboca.com.au.
- Asado and empanadas. Chimichurri. Confirm the glass.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Caminito La Boca?
- Caminito La Boca is at 205-207 Nicholson Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is the nearest train. It is a street bodegon, not a Hopkins arepa shop.
- What are Caminito La Boca hours?
- Closed Monday and Tuesday on AGFG. Wednesday and Thursday 12pm-10pm, Friday 12pm-11pm, Saturday 12:30pm-11pm, Sunday 12:30pm-10pm. House contact showed Sunday 12pm-11pm on 2026-09-20. Call (03) 7036 5795. Last checked 2026-09-21.
- What should I order at Caminito La Boca?
- Asado if you wanted the grill: vacio, ribs, chorizos, chimichurri. Empanadas if you wanted the pastry. Churros with dulce de leche if you wanted sweet. Ask what the fire is holding.
- Do I need to book Caminito La Boca?
- Book Friday and Saturday if you wanted a steak sitting. Sevenrooms, Instagram @caminitolabocamelb, or (03) 7036 5795. A walk-in lunch midweek is possible until it is not.
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