The best new restaurants and bars around Australia to know about in 2025
All the new and soon-to-open restaurants and bars around Australia to add to your hit list.
The best restaurants in Canberra to visit in 2025
These are the best restaurants in Canberra, as reviewed for our annual Restaurant Guide.
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The best restaurants in ACT right now
These are the best restaurants across the state, as reviewed for our annual Restaurant Guide.
Morks
Morks may no longer be the well-kept secret it was when the brothers Ratanakosol took over their parents’ restaurant back in 2013, but its relevance and fandom have not waned.
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Such and Such: Restaurant review
More is more at the sequel to Pilot – and Canberra dining is better for it.
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Where to stay, eat, drink and play in Canberra
We take the guesswork out of local travel with our tips on where to stay, eat, drink and play. This month, GT heads to the nation’s capital.
Wilma
Canberra’s appetite for contemporary Asian-inspired food seems unquenchable, with glitzy Wilma joining the ranks of established hotspots plying updates on classic Chinese dishes and familiar flavours from the rest of the continent.
Aubergine
Chef-owner Ben Willis continues to refine a menu that effortlessly drifts with the seasons.
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XO
A punchy pan-Asian party in sunny Scandi-esque surrounds, with a Savage Garden soundtrack.
Pilot
This Canberra restaurant is soaring: confident, playful and polished.
Corella Restaurant & Bar
Uncomplicated, unruffled, and very, very fun.
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Raku
An extensive drinks offering and clockwork service equals a leisurely dining experience at this Japanese diner.
Review: Canberra’s Corella is all polish, minus the pretence
A recent arrival in the nation's capital takes flight with a fun-forward blend of native ingredients and Oz nostalgia.
Providoor was a game-changer for Melbourne hospitality; now it’s launching in NSW and Canberra
Order finish-at-home meals from celebrated Sydney restaurants including Ho Jiak, Monopole and CicciaBella. It's another way to help restaurants survive the current lockdown.
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Canberra’s wine region: where to drink, eat and stay
While founded by exacting CSIRO scientists, Canberra’s young wine district doesn’t always play by the rules.
Bar Rochford’s ex-head chef has a new pop-up restaurant in south Canberra
A short lease, new energy and an ever-changing menu. After a self-imposed sabbatical, Louis Couttoupes is back.
First look: Rebel Rebel, chef Sean McConnell’s latest restaurant in Canberra, opens on Saturday
From Monster to culinary revolutionary, chef Sean McConnell further stakes his claim in the capital.
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The neighbourhood wine bar that has Canberra talking
The city’s hippest restaurants and bars may be clustered around the CBD. But Lamshed’s has quietly snuck in on a sleepy shopping strip down south, and it's doing great things.
Bar Rochford
Nowhere else captures Canberra's special blend of the parochial and the worldly like Rochford.
Temporada
Set between the CBD and university, Temporada bridges culinary and social divides.
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A look inside Enigma, Canberra’s latest chocolate shop
There are rainbow-freckle Easter eggs and a chocolate bar that mimics a Jackson Pollock painting.
Rock the capital: Bar Rochford’s best recipes
At Bar Rochford in Canberra, chef Louis Couttoupes brings innovation to classic ideas, creating snacks and dishes made to share with drinks.
Louis Couttoupes is leaving Bar Rochford
So what’s next for the head chef of the acclaimed Canberra wine bar?
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Canberra’s best restaurants
French bistro cuisine, modern Australian fare or pan-Asian classics - there's a restaurant to cater to every palate in the nation's capital. Here are the crème de la crème, as featured in our 2019 Restaurant Guide.
Močan & Green Grout
REVIEW By day, in its café incarnation, Močan (they pronounce it ‘mochan’) pumps, locals lining up outside and packing onto outdoor seats. By night, it’s quieter, which gives you some elbow room to mix the egg yolk into your Crookwell steak tartare. Raw scallop is served as is with lightly charred chorizo, and Narooma oysters […]
Eightysix
REVIEW Five years on, Eightysix continues to impose its disruptive and noisy self on Canberra’s dining scene. The youthful ebullience of floor staff hasn’t waned and it’s still difficult for walk-ins to get a seat. The menu – chalked up on a blackboard spanning the elongated space – has also proven a touch too resistant […]
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Italian & Sons
REVIEW While the name evokes images of checked cloths and wax-encrusted Chianti bottles, Italian & Sons is a niftily modern affair. Pendant lamps cast a glow across a buzzy, sleek, timber-panelled space, and the wine list contrasts edgy naturals with the legends of Tuscany and Piedmont. The kitchen turns out classic pizze and pasta, but […]
Ottoman Cuisine
REVIEW The setting for celebrations, dalliances and political manoeuvres, this Canberra stalwart has tradition woven into its fabric. The long space opening onto greenery and a water feature fosters serenity, no matter how busy the action on the floor, and the staff’s dignified, warm demeanour speaks of a justifiable pride. The noise is all in […]
The Boat House
REVIEW A peaceful lakeside setting, a decorous welcome; this wedding conference- restaurant destination emanates Old World charm. But it’s in the hushed, spacious dining room with clinking cutlery and low voices that you get the big reveal: a bold menu and extensive wine list showcase the region’s best in a modern way. Cowra pork belly […]
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Otis Dining Hall
REVIEW “Dining hall” has something of an undergraduate vibe, but rare is the cafeteria that offers wallaby, let alone served cured, rolled up in pickled vine leaves with dollops of burnt-onion purée. The bones of this diner still reflect the room’s former Belgian-Beer-Café life; service is more friendly than professional, and the drinks list is […]
Ovolo Hotels makes a play for the Australian market
With vibrant design and a “never boring” service ethos, Ovolo is taking the Australian market by storm.
New luxury stay opens in the Canberra wine region
Abode Hotel's latest offering is giving the little-known wine region the attention it deserves.
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Adam Wolfers returns to Canberra, with an eye to the future
Eightysix will host the Sydney chef’s travelling restaurant, Ètelek, for three nights this month – but is a permanent move on the cards?
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Bar Rochford teams up with Tio’s Cerveceria for a Mexican fiesta
Three days, two bars, so much tequila.
Canberra’s best bars and cafés
The best of Canberra's drinking establishments, coffee hot spots and bars with bites, as seen in Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide, published in August 2017.
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Canberra’s Hotel Hotel sold to Ovolo Group
The game-changing boutique property enters a new phase of play in March.
Our favourite dishes: November 2017
Our team shares their favourite plates of the moment.
Reasons to visit Canberra in 2017
Your guide to a perfect stay in Canberra, from where to sleep to the exhibitions you need to check out.
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Hot Plates: Pulp Kitchen, Ainslie
Pulp Kitchen has reopened with a stepped-up look and a stand-out French onion soup.
Hot Plates: Avenue C Wine Co, Canberra
A wine bar with simple food to match.
Farmhouse Restaurant at Pialligo Estate
REVIEW A rural restaurant within 10 minutes of Parliament House isn’t a difficult concept for occupants of the bush capital to grasp. The farmhouse digs at Pialligo Estate offer rustic charm and the ambience is suitably refined, even if it’s at times marred by wedding-party commotion drifting from outdoor marquees. A deep cellar may be […]
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Hot Plates: Rye Café & Bar, Canberra
Smørrebrød by day, craft beer by night.
Hot Plates: Zaab Street Food, Canberra
A Thai-Laotian mix opens in Braddon.
Canberra’s new wave of great bars
Canberra just keeps getting cooler - and we're not talking about the weather.
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On the House: Bar Rochford in four drinks
In On the House, the tenders of our favourite bars talk us through their spiritual homes, glass by glass. Here's Bar Rochford’s Nick Smith, starting things with easy-slinging sweet and dark vermouth (and vinyl to match).
Hot Plates: Vincent, Canberra
Elegant classics and a vast wine list are present at Canberra's restaurant, Vincent.
Three winter truffle festivals
Choose from three hands-on truffle festivals happening across Australia this winter.
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Bar Rochford opens in Canberra
Canberra gains a new bar, with top-notch bar snacks and a touch of jazz.
Buvette opens in Hotel Realm, ACT
A newcomer to Hotel Realm in Barton, Canberra, Buvette’s playlist contains more Bruni than Bardot, more Prichet than Piaf. It’s in keeping with what’s leaving the kitchen pass – modern, lighter and more stylised versions of French bistro classics. Ham hock terrine, for instance is chunky and well-seasoned and served with pistachio nuts and capers, […]
The Chairman and Yip
The long-standing Chairman and Yip has relocated, and undergone a facelift.
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What to eat when you’re hungover
Not feeling so hot? Here are the best hangover cures Australia's restaurants have to offer.
XO, Canberra
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country right now.
Restaurants open on Christmas Day around Australia
Whether it's a family affair or a gathering with friends, we've got some great ideas for outsourcing your Yuletide good times.
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Barrio Collective, Canberra
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Stand By Me, Canberra
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Provini, Canberra
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country right now: Provini, Canberra.
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GT reader dinner: Monster, Canberra
Secure your place for dinner at the mighty Monster in Canberra’s hottest hotel. It’s one you won’t want to miss.
Molly’s Port Side Flip
Porter syrup and a whole egg make a smooth, rich winter winner.
Australia’s best winter soups
Come winter, nothing beats a heart-warming bowl of soup. Here are a few of our favourites from around the country.
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Grease Monkey, Canberra
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Bacaro, Canberra
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The Hamlet, Canberra
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Bistro Nguyen’s, Canberra
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Lilo Tang, Canberra
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Australia’s best restaurant pavlovas
With Australia Day just around the corner, here's our pick of some of the best pavlovas around the country.
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Kiyomi, Fino at Seppeltsfield, Propeller, Akiba
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
Etsu Izakaya, Tipo 00 Pasta Bar, Three Japanese, Lonsdale Street Eatery
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
LuMi Bar & Dining, Mezzalira Ristorante, Longtime, Mestizo Cocina Peruana
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
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GT’s favourite dishes of 2014
Our team of restaurant reviewers serve up their 10 favourite dishes of the year.
Pei Modern Sydney, The Flour Factory, Pike & Joyce, Les Bistronomes
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Acme, David’s, Lennons Restaurant & Bar, EightySix
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Alfio’s, Green Park, E’cco Bistro, Wood & Coal
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Monster
REVIEW Club sandwiches. Hushed, clubby surrounds. Mature waiters. Tablecloths. Monster isn’t having a bar of it. This is an entirely new kind of lobby restaurant. Just as Hotel Hotel celebrates Canberra at its most creative, with wild design and a vigorous engagement with the arts scene, Monster puts a spotlight on the region’s produce. Three […]
Pinbone at Pei Modern, Lot Twenty, Hopscotch Bar, LP’s Quality Meats
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Rockpool, Attica, Esquire, Aubergine, Garagistes, Restaurant Amuse, Penfolds Magill Estate, Evoo
Our restaurant critics' picks of the best eats around the country.
Monster, Canberra review
Monster has the requisite wow-factor but, more than that, it has charm and ambition matched only by its performance, writes Pat Nourse.
Best kitchen and tableware shops in Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Tasmania
We’ve been all over the shop, ransacking the racks and shelves of kitchen and tableware purveyors across the land, to round up Australia’s best boutiques in Adelaide, Perth, Canberra and Tasmania.
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Rockpool, BentSpoke Brewing Co, Pei Modern, Olé Fuego: Hot Plates
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
One Penny Rd, Monster Kitchen and Bar, Chiara, GOMA Restaurant
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
Monster, Canberra
One of the most hotly anticipated restaurants in Canberra finally offers its full menu today...
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Canberra travel guide
There’s an exciting new Australian city in our midst, filled with history and culture, great new bars and eateries, and quite possibly the coolest hotel in the land. And that city is Canberra.
Molly, The Noble Experiment, The Ramblin’ Rascal, Noosa International Food & Wine Festival
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Fish Face Dining, Nu Nu, Capitol Bar & Grill, The Tasting Room
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Samosorn, The Moor’s Head South, Eat Drink Perth, Da Rosario
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On the pass: Ben Willis, Temporada
Temporada chef Ben Willis on what he's cooking, homemade butters, and Easter lunch.
Hotel Hotel, Canberra
There’s nary a detail or fitting in Hotel Hotel that hasn’t been considered at length, laboured over and placed with intent.
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Danjee, Le Bon Ton, Brika, Temporada
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Gordita, Penny University, Francoforte Spaghetti Bar, Gin Long Canteen
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.
Nithik’s Kitchen, 85 Miskin St, Kusina, Maylands Hawker Markets
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Papi Chulo, Northern Light Bar & Eatery, Howzat Burger, The Cupping Room
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Bentley, Sorellina, Ruyi, Print Hall Bar & Dining Room, Hotel Hotel, Orana
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Canberra’s top ten restaurants 2014
Looking for the best restaurants in Canberra? Here's our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.
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Noble Canteen, Thomas Olive, Primo Estate Winery, Morks
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Top 20 new restaurants of 2013
We've eaten our way across the country in search of the best new restaurants of 2013. Here's our top 20.
A Baker, Cutler & Co., Penfolds Magill Estate, Vincent
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On the pass: Sean McConnell, Mocan & Green Grout
We put Sean McConnell, from Canberra's Mocan & Green Grout, in the hot seat...
Eightysix, CIRA Pizza e Birra, Sarti, Toastface Grillah
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Cipro, Pad Thai Cafe, Assaggio Ristorante, The Conservatory Restaurant
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Bacchus South Bank, BangPop, La Bonne Table, Pulp Kitchen
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Gastro Park, Little Hunter, Aria Brisbane, The Boat House by the Lake
Our restaurant critics' picks of the latest and best eats around the country this week.