Here's where we're eating right now.
This is the most exciting place in town to eat in – here are our picks of the bunch.
The venues shaping this city's culinary scene.
Sashimi masters and bustling ramen kitchens: where to find Brisbane's best Japanese dining.
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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.
A woodfired menu and a 1500-bottle wine list are just the start at one of 2020’s most impressive restaurant openings.
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.
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.
Same Same is the successor to Longtime, one of Brisbane’s most celebrated Thai restaurants. And as the name would imply, none of Longtime’s DNA has fundamentally changed, it’s just been refined. The service is sharper, the space is more beautiful inside and out and the food is more vibrant than ever.
Brick walls, leather banquettes, house-made pasta and Italian wine.
A gorgeous restaurant and bar at the centre of Brisbane's Middle Eastern moment.
Modern Chinese food and a killer wine list from brothers Cameron and Jordan Votan.
An intimate handmade pasta spot from the team behind CJ’s Secret Pasta Club.
A permanent home for some of the city's best vegan tacos, with slick wines, cocktails and Mexican beer to match.
A couple of young guns cooking (and doing the dishes) in a tiny, 10-seat omakase-style fine diner down a pokey laneway.
SK is restaurateur Simon Gloftis’s second restaurant at The Calile Hotel, after Hellenika. But where Hellenika focuses on the delicate flavours of Greek cuisine, SK focuses on big and bold ingredients such as dry-aged beef and prestige seafood. The room is expansive and so is the wine list. If you’re after New York steakhouse glamour, this is where you’ll find it.
A war-era warehouse transforms into a beautiful 60-seat Italian restaurant.
Refined share plates and mezcal on a classy corner of Brunswick Street.
This urban winery boasts a cellar door, a 70-seat restaurant and beautiful 20-seat private dining room.
A two-storey Cantonese eatery with a star chef at the helm.
A two-storey Japanese izakaya from star restaurateur Jonathan Barthelmess.
Family-style Greek from Jonathan Barthelmess, one of Sydney’s favourite restaurateurs.
Real Roman food and the Italian treatment in Woolloongabba’s antique district.
Casual but classy Italian dining.
A former Masterchef contestant takes years spent refining her skills at restaurants such as Attica and GOMA Restaurant and applies them in a slick suburban eatery.
A wood-fired Valley beauty in James Street's Ada Lane.
The Moubment Group’s best-regarded restaurant delivers innovative Middle Eastern cuisine in a texture-rich dining room.
Relaxed, generous dining in one of Brisbane's busiest suburbs.
A lynchpin venue in a more quiet part of the Valley.
A hidden eatery where wine takes centre stage.
A single-dish menu makes this restaurant distinct (and then there’s the bathhouse downstairs).
Fresh and fancy fish'n'chips to eat in or take away. This spot even has its own dedicated gluten-free fryer – making this one of the best fish'n'chip options for dietaries and intolerances around.
Open now. The new menu is all about pasta and wine.
A heritage-listed warehouse hosting a beautiful Malaysian teahouse.
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 .
A Thai diner looking to capture the spirit of some of Bangkok’s best modern restaurants.
A beautiful light-filled, leafy gastropub.
A venue built around Ben O'Donoghue's star dish.
An iconic spot transformed into an American-style barbeque joint with whiskey and Kentucky-style hospitality.
An unfussy all-day Italian diner for the CBD.
Hello Please opened back in 2016. But since moving to its permanent Fish Lane location, it's had a real swagger. The fit-out is sleek and bold in equal measure, offset by a sunny awning that garlands the exterior. On the food front, old favourites such as the crispy chicken ribs are joined by new dishes such as a Chinese bolognese and a Korean beef tartare.
Capturing the many flavours of urban New York.
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 Latin American and Spanish inspired diner in the space that formerly housed Aria.
A neon-lit stunner from the owner of Phat Elephant and Chai Thai.
Contemporary yum cha in Brisbane Quarter.
The permanent home to some of Brisbane's best 'burgs.
Burgers and concretes by the water, just how it should be.
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 contender for Brisbane's best ramen.
An American-inspired bar specialising in hot chicken, whiskey and bourbon.
It took 12 months to perfect these burgers.
You'll find it hard to leave this all-day venue, which offers board games, coffee, American food and 24 tap beers.
