Looking for the best restaurants in regional New South Wales? Here are our favourites from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.
Looking for our new list? Check out our 2015 list of New South Wales’ best regional restaurants.
Subo
Subo
Visiting modern, minimalist Subo, you get a sense there’s some sort of transformation happening in Newcastle. Chef Beau Vincent’s menu is innovative, refreshing and exciting.
Read our full review of Subo.
Biota Dining
Biota Dining
With ducks and woodsmoke, a hedge and a pond, Biota could seem like the quintessential Southern Highlands eatery. But this is the picture of the modern country restaurant…
Read our full review of Biota Dining.
Town
Town
The magic of Karl and Katrina Kanetani’s cooking would flourish anywhere, but to savour such skills in a narrow heritage terrace with creaky stairs and beige carpet makes it all the more extraordinary.
Read our full review of Town.
No 2 Oak St
No 2 Oak St
Honesty really is the best policy, a point not lost at No 2 Oak Street in Bellingen, a family-run stayer that puts flavour ahead of flounce and produce before pretension.
Visit the No 2 Oak St website.
Bells at Killcare
Bells at Killcare
This restaurant-in-a-hotel has sunny beach-house charisma (blue and white palette, polished floors) with country-estate manners (formal gardens, crunchy drives).
Read our full review of Bells at Killcare.
Racine Restaurant at La Colline
Racine Restaurant at La Colline
A tin-shed restaurant among pinot noir vines on the foothills of Mount Canobolas seems an apt place to embrace the locavore philosophy.
Read our full review of Racine Restaurant at La Colline.
Margan
Margan
Since the arrival of Michael Robinson, a chef with serious time at Sydney’s Bécasse and Quarter Twenty One under his belt, the food at Margan has evolved from rustic kitchen-garden fare to fine dining.
Read our full review of Margan.
Darley’s
Darley’s
It’s a bit of a pity that Darley’s doesn’t open for lunch; winter is peak season in the Blue Mountains and after dark the stunning view this historic homestead offers of the Jamison Valley becomes just more of the darkness.
Read our full review of Darley’s.
Muse
Muse
There’s drama here in this soaring steel-and-glass temple of dining – in the stage-like setting of the spotlit kitchen, in the snowy amuse of nitrogen-treated verjuice with fizzy local finger lime.
Read our full review of Muse.
