Chapel Street

Chapel Street is a 4-kilometre retail, dining and entertainment precinct in Melbourne's inner southeast, running through South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor and St Kilda within the City of Stonnington, Victoria. Established in the 1850s, it is one of Melbourne's most famous shopping strips, known for fashion boutiques, the historic Prahran Market, cafes, restaurants, bars and nightlife, blending Victorian-era heritage buildings with contemporary retail venues.

Visitors can expect a long, straight commercial street lined with fashion boutiques, designer outlets, vintage stores, department stores, cafes, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs. The precinct includes the undercover Prahran Market, heritage shopfronts, modern shopping centres like Chapel Street Bazaar and Pran Central, street art and busy footpaths. Trams run along the street and the area is walkable, with distinct sections for day-time shopping and evening dining and entertainment.

Chapel Street was surveyed in the 1850s and named after a chapel built on the corner of Chapel Street and Toorak Road. It developed rapidly after the Prahran Market opened in 1864 and with the arrival of the railway in the 1860s, becoming the main commercial spine for Prahran and South Yarra. Victorian and Edwardian shopfronts, arcades and former town hall buildings reflect its 19th and early 20th century growth as a suburban retail centre.

Chapel Street is one of Melbourne's most recognised fashion, dining and entertainment precincts and a long-standing social hub for inner southeast Melbourne. It is known for its mix of independent boutiques, hospitality venues, LGBTQIA+ friendly nightlife, and the Prahran Market as a community food hub, representing Melbourne's contemporary retail and cafe culture within a heritage streetscape.