Brisbane

The Arc Dining head chef and Gourmet Traveller’s Best New Talent recently presented a MAD Mondays talk at Sydney's Carriageworks on the challenges of steering a successful kitchen. Here, in an edited extract of her speech, she shares her new model for getting the job done.

Chef Louis Tikaram heads up the two-storey waterfront eatery where the menu pays homage to dishes cooked by his grandmother.

Longtime will remain open as a function space, but the restaurant concept is moving down the road with an open kitchen, new dishes and an upstairs bar.

The top restaurants in Brisbane, as featured in our 2020 Restaurant Guide, sway between artful fine dining to top-notch interpretations of French, Middle Eastern and Italian cuisine.

It's all in the name at this Brisbane bolthole, where the chef-owners serve up plates that bring nothing by a smile to your face.

It was meant to be a more discreet take on the Sydney original, but Otto Brisbane's fourth-floor mezzanine digs are nevertheless a jaw-dropper.

The complex dishes display contemporary French flair.