Here's where we're eating right now.
The venues shaping this city's culinary scene.
Help your local favourite as they begin to reopen in this uncertain new stage. Start by scanning this live list to see who’s opening back...
This is the most exciting place in town to eat in – here are our picks of the bunch.
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A woodfired menu and a 1500-bottle wine list are just the start at one of 2020’s most impressive restaurant openings.
An intimate handmade pasta spot from the team behind CJ’s Secret Pasta Club.
Longtime's successor Same Same is one of the restaurant openings of the year.
This beautiful, fast-paced and very fun Italian restaurant is from the Same Same and Ages crew. Expect house-made pasta, stacks of antipasti and soft-serve gelato, accompanied by a 350-bottle wine list – all in one of Brisbane's most beguiling dining rooms.
Prawn doughnuts with yuzu curd are the kind of creative fare you can expect at this moody, communal Japanese restaurant from the owners of Longtime.
Refined share plates and mezcal on a classy corner of Brunswick Street.
A Tex-Mex joint serving everything from Buffalo wings and jalapeño poppers, to fajitas, burritos and soft-shell tacos. As well as an OTT selection of frozen Margaritas.
A couple of young guns cooking (and doing the dishes) in a tiny, 10-seat omakase-style fine diner down a pokey laneway.
Brick walls, leather banquettes, house-made pasta and Italian wine.
Salt and pepper cuttlefish sangas, Moreton Bay bug char kway teow, fancy wines and spicy cocktails – all in a jaw-dropping three-storey space from the Rick Shores crew.
A gorgeous restaurant and bar at the centre of Brisbane's Middle Eastern moment.
This urban winery boasts a cellar door, a 70-seat restaurant and beautiful 20-seat private dining room.
An iconic spot transformed into an American-style barbeque joint with whiskey and Kentucky-style hospitality.
A contender for Brisbane's best ramen.
A tiny fine-diner serving hyper-seasonal degustations in a minimalist courtyard.
Real Roman food and the Italian treatment in Woolloongabba’s antique district.
Vietnamese hawker food in a grungy space.
The Moubment Group’s best-regarded restaurant delivers innovative Middle Eastern cuisine in a texture-rich dining room.
Modern Chinese food and a killer wine list from brothers Cameron and Jordan Votan.
A two-storey Cantonese eatery with a star chef at the helm.
A two-storey Japanese izakaya from star restaurateur Jonathan Barthelmess.
A wood-fired Valley beauty in James Street's Ada Lane.
Family-style Greek from Jonathan Barthelmess, one of Sydney’s favourite restaurateurs.
Prawn, bug and lobster cocktails, oysters served with champagne mignonette, caviar, and platters of up to six different types of shellfish. Plus award-winning Kiwami Wagyu.
A war-era warehouse transforms into a beautiful 60-seat Italian restaurant.
A single-dish menu makes this restaurant distinct (and then there’s the bathhouse downstairs).
Contemporary fine dining from an acclaimed chef-owner.
A Latin American and Spanish inspired diner in the space that formerly housed Aria.
Open now. The new menu is all about pasta and wine.
The permanent home to some of Brisbane's best 'burgs.
An American-inspired bar specialising in hot chicken, whiskey and bourbon.
A hidden eatery where wine takes centre stage.
A venue built around Ben O'Donoghue's star dish.
A neon-lit stunner from the owner of Phat Elephant and Chai Thai.
A heritage-listed warehouse hosting a beautiful Malaysian teahouse.
Relaxed, generous dining in one of Brisbane's busiest suburbs.
It took 12 months to perfect these burgers.
Pan-Asian share plates and an impressive drinks list in a moody Valley dining room.
An all day cafe, restaurant and wine bar in the basement of Rowes Building.
A Thai diner looking to capture the spirit of some of Bangkok’s best modern restaurants.
Contemporary yum cha in Brisbane Quarter.
Burgers and concretes by the water, just how it should be.
A lynchpin venue in a more quiet part of the Valley.
A polished seafood restaurant and drinking spot.
An unfussy all-day Italian diner for the CBD.
A beautiful light-filled, leafy gastropub.
This elegant Italian restaurant moved into the space which once housed Stokehouse Q at the start of 2021. It's a perfect fit: one of Brisbane's best restaurants deserves one of its best locations. Whether you're here for the main event or the more casual Otto Osteria, you'll be in for some superlative drinking and dining .
Capturing the many flavours of urban New York.
You'll find it hard to leave this all-day venue, which offers board games, coffee, American food and 24 tap beers.
Casual but classy Italian dining.
