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Gauge

This café-by-day and restaurant-by-night has become the yardstick for ambitious Brisbane dining.
Gauge
Address
77 Grey St South Brisbane, Brisbane, Qld

Gauge started life as a dynamic daytime destination, then morphed into an ambitious restaurant space for four nights of the week. Now the tables have turned. The elegant café fit-out remains, but brunches and lunches have been sidelined to weekends and its status as Brisbane’s poster boy for big-flavoured, inventive and intricate dining has been cemented. Staff continue to overdeliver, ditto the clipped and mainly Australian drinks list, which tilts towards the lesser-known with juicy amber wines at its heart. Snacks are stellar – freeform chicken-skin crackers with anchovy cream or fluffy sebago loaded into a crisp potato shell and topped with potent malt vinegar cream and a savoury snow of cured egg yolk. There’s a briny theme to many dishes. Mussel cream with yuzu ties together an elegant tangle of cuttlefish and kohlrabi noodles, while Spanish mackerel fillets, lightly salt-encrusted and blush-centred, are served over diced celeriac with roasted hazelnuts. Bright orange tobiko crowns a lamb tartare dotted with pale scallop, finger lime and tarragon, keeping interest levels piqued. Desserts are refined; consider the poached pear with a dulce de leche-style caramel ricotta and celeriac ice-cream. By any measure of volume for creativity and skill, this Gauge is dialled for maximum impact.

Phone:

(07) 3638 0431

Website:

gaugebrisbane.com.au

Bookings:

Bookings recommended

Features:

  • Licensed

  • Vegetarian-friendly

  • Wheelchair access

  • Outdoor dining

  • Breakfast

Accepted card types:

  • Eftpos

  • MasterCard

  • Visa

  • American Express

Chefs:

Cormac Bradfield & Phil Marchant

This review was made independently for the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide. The guide’s reviewers visit unannounced and pay their way.

Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide

Wine: ★

2020 Top 50 Rank – #50

Gourmet Traveller’s restaurant guide gives a yearly snapshot at the best restaurants to eat at right now. The best-rated restaurants, as judged by the reviewers’ first-hand experience, form our national Top 50. The wine star-ratings, which range from zero to three stars are made by wine editor Max Allen on the strength of the quality of the restaurant’s wine list. View our rating key here.

Gauge
Australian
77 Grey St South Brisbane, Brisbane, Qld
Chef(s)
Cormac Bradfield & Phil Marchant
Bookings
Bookings recommended
Wheelchair Access
Yes
Opening Hours
Brunch Sat-Sun 8am-11.30am; Lunch Sat-Sun 11.30am-2.30pm; Dinner Wed-Sat 5pm-10.30pm

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