WhereUna Una Came From

Una Una started as an idea during Melbourne's COVID lockdowns, when Sam Hatherley stepped away from 20 years in professional hospitality to play stay-at-home dad. In those quieter months, he identified something Box Hill was missing: a place where locals could sit down for genuinely good food and drink without having to go into the city.

Sam's background includes time at Neil Perry's Rosetta Ristorante, and that experience is visible in the precision of the dinner menu. But the ambition at Una Una isn't about impressing people with technique. It's about giving the neighbourhood something it deserves.

The business is named after his daughter. The four-table dinner service runs on Friday and Saturday evenings, by Instagram booking, the way most good things in hospitality have always worked: small, personal, and worth the effort to get in.