The Top 61 Places to Eat Near One&Only Spa - Kéa Island
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Rank 1. Agnes
Modern Australian
Fire is the organizing principle at this wood-grill restaurant in Fortitude Valley, not a talking point. The kitchen runs beef, seafood, and vegetables through the same charcoal logic, building depth without burying the ingredient. It's spread across three levels of a heritage building, from a main dining room to a wine bar to a terrace, and the whole thing moves with a calm, unhurried rhythm. Agnes holds a spot on the World's 101 Best Steak Restaurants list.
- World's 101 Best #20 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 3. Rogue Bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 4. Restaurant Dan Arnold
Australian
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Rank 5. Joy Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 6. e'cco bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 7. Montrachet
French
The French wine list runs deep enough that you could spend the whole meal just reading it, which sets the tone for a French fine dining room that takes the classics seriously. The chef trained under Michelin kitchens, and the cooking shows it, seasonal and precise without tipping into the self-conscious. Bowen Hills is a quiet address for somewhere this polished, but regulars seem to prefer it that way.
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Rank 8. Herve's Restaurant and Bar
Modern French
Classic French technique with a Queensland pantry underneath it is the organizing idea at this modern French restaurant in Albion. The room reads sophisticated without being stiff, and the menu moves through French foundations with quiet Basque touches and local produce doing the heavy lifting. A tasting menu is available for the full commitment crowd. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 9. Fatcow on James St
Steakhouse
A sleek steakhouse on one of Brisbane's better-dressed streets, where the whole point is the cut and the kitchen knows it. The room runs warm and the service is polished without being stiff, which makes it equally good for a long lunch with clients or a dinner where you're trying to impress someone. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it two Chef Hats, which tracks for a place this serious about the beef.
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Rank 10. Gerard's
Middle Eastern
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Rank 11. Essa Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 12. Perspective Dining
Modern Australian
Tasting menus run from three to nine courses here, plant-based or protein-led, so you can calibrate how serious an evening you want. Perspective is an intimate modern Australian fine-diner on Brunswick Street in Fortitude Valley, the kind of place where the kitchen leans hard into seasonal and local produce, and the room is styled to match that ambition. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it Two Chef Hats. Private dining seats up to fourteen.
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Rank 13. Sono Portside
Japanese
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Rank 14. Ach Wine Bar & Bistro
Middle Eastern
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Rank 15. Bosco
Mediterranean
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Rank 16. Attimi by Dario Manca
Italian
A 28-seat fine dining room on Given Terrace where the chef's Sardinian roots quietly run the kitchen, pulling contemporary Italian cooking away from white-tablecloth formality toward something warmer. Arancini shaped like mushrooms give you a sense of the playfulness on the plate. The footpath spills over into aperitivo territory when the weather cooperates. A two-hat entry in the Australian Good Food Guide for a room this small is a lot of weight for one terrace house to carry.
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Rank 17. Melrose Restaurant and Rooftop Bar
Pan-Asian Thai
A rooftop bar and Pan-Asian restaurant at the quiet river end of Oxford Street, Melrose is the kind of place where the open sky does half the work. The menu runs through Southeast Asian technique with locally sourced produce, built for sharing, and the cocktail list is matched to the food rather than bolted on as an afterthought. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 18. Honto
Japanese
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Rank 21. SUUM
Korean
Sixteen seats, a cave-dark room of blackened steel and raw timber, and a Korean omakase menu that changes with the seasons. SUUM is the kind of quiet, focused dining room where you arrive, accept a glass of housemade makgeolli with a snack, and hand the evening over to the kitchen. The two Chef Hat tasting menu runs a dozen or so courses, rooted in Korean tradition and clearly comfortable straying from it.
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Rank 24. sAme sAme
Thai
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Rank 25. Winnifred’s
French
Soft lighting, warm tones, and a menu that leans hard into classic French bistro cooking occupy a quiet stretch of Arthur Street in Fortitude Valley. Winnifred's is the kind of place where a long lunch with a decent Burgundy seems not just reasonable but necessary. Steaks get proper sauces, seafood is treated without fuss, and the room manages to feel polished without making you nervous about your shoes.
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Rank 26. Stanley
Chinese
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Rank 27. Deer Duck Bistro
Modern Australian
Fine dining in a suburb you'd never expect it, inside a room dressed in French Renaissance furniture, antique paintings, and crystal decanters that look borrowed from a minor aristocrat's estate sale. Deer Duck Bistro runs a degustation menu threading Modern Australian cooking through European technique, and the Australian Good Food Guide awarded it Two Chef Hats. The candles and old silver do a lot of work, but the kitchen keeps up.
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Rank 28. Komeyui Brisbane
Japanese
Refined Japanese dining in a Spring Hill terrace, where the kitchen treats each plate as something closer to a still life than a meal. The team brings serious international training to bear on seasonal seafood and produce, with the kind of attention to temperature and texture that suggests they'd notice if you ate in the wrong order. It holds a One Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide, and the room takes the whole thing as seriously as the food does.
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Rank 29. The Balfour Kitchen & Bar
Modern Australian
A restored Queenslander on a quiet New Farm street, this all-day spot shifts from a sunlit verandah breakfast to a wine bar with fairy lights in the courtyard once the evening cools. Modern Australian share plates and a thoughtfully chosen wine list fill the night hours, while mornings bring specialty coffee and brunch cocktails that suggest the kitchen doesn't take the AM too seriously. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 30. Central Restaurant
Chinese
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The Dragon King of the Sea gets a two-level laneway restaurant in Brisbane CBD, all contemporary theatre and open-air bar alongside tucked-away dining rooms. The menu runs on shared plates of modern Asian cooking, leaning hard into local seafood with flavours that don't apologize for themselves. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, if that calibrates expectations. Dress like you mean it; this place clearly does.
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Rank 33. Hideki
Japanese
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Rank 34. The Brasserie at Naldham House
Modern Australian
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The Port Office Building's sandstone bones make a fitting frame for a serious steakhouse: high ceilings, heritage detail, a wine list that takes up real estate. Moo Moo keeps up to twenty cuts on the menu at once, running from in-house dry-aged beef to Australian and international Wagyu. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, and the room draws the kind of diner who has opinions about marbling.
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Rank 36. Donna Chang
Chinese
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Rank 38. Dark Shepherd
Woodfire Mediterranean
Lamb is the organizing principle at this woodfire Mediterranean restaurant inside The Star Brisbane, where the open flame does most of the talking. The menu is built for sharing, moving through premium lamb, fresh seafood, and whatever the season offers, all with that particular smokiness you only get from cooking over actual fire. The sunken dining floor adds a surprisingly theatrical quality to a room that doesn't otherwise try too hard to impress you.
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Rank 39. Clarence
Modern Australian
Seafood-forward in a way that feels like a point of view rather than a theme, Clarence is a relaxed brasserie on Fish Lane where the plates are generous and meant to be passed around. The room has that warm neighbourhood energy where conversation does half the work, and the cooking leans on produce the way some restaurants lean on adjectives. An Australian Good Food Guide Hat confirms the kitchen is doing more than keeping up.
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Rank 40. Pompette
French
Shimmering lights and a champagne list that takes its job seriously set the tone at this French bar and dining room inside The Star Brisbane. The menu runs the classics hard: escargot, lobster thermidor, duck à l'orange, steak au poivre. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat. The room is dressed for celebration, and the crowd tends to arrive already in the mood to have one.
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Rank 41. Sokyo Brisbane
Japanese
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Rank 42. C'est Bon
French
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Rank 43. Marlowe
Modern Australian
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Rank 44. Rich & Rare
Australian Steakhouse
Dry-aged steaks and fresh seafood in a steakhouse that somehow skips the macho-shrine decor most of the genre relies on. Rich & Rare sits in West End's West Village precinct with a mood that's more "open a good bottle" than "here's your complimentary steak knife set." The Australian Good Food Guide gave it a Chef Hat. Bring a group or sneak in for a solo whisky; the room handles both without making either feel wrong.
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Rank 45. Ippin Japanese Dining
Japanese
The charcoal robata grill does real work here, turning out duck breast and Wagyu alongside a raw bar stocked with kingfish and sea urchin. Ippin is a Japanese dining room inside West Village that leans into the full spread, from tempura through to sashimi to grilled mains, in surrounds that feel dressed-up without being stiff. One Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide. Probably not the place for a quick midweek ramen fix.
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Rank 46. Firma Italian
Italian
The pasta here is made in-house, and the room takes itself seriously enough that you probably won't show up in thongs. Firma is a polished Italian restaurant inside Emporium Hotels on Grey Street, the kind of place built for a long lunch that quietly becomes dinner. The cooking runs from antipasti through to mains, with the precision you'd expect from a kitchen that holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 47. Otto Brisbane
Italian
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Rank 48. Layla
Middle Eastern
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Rank 49. Pilloni
Italian
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Rank 51. Ramona Trattoria
Italian
The focaccia and pizza dough ferments for at least 48 days before it ever sees an oven, which tells you most of what you need to know about this Coorparoo trattoria. Pasta is hand-shaped daily with local organic eggs, each shape matched to its sauce with the seriousness of a structural engineer. The room runs on the kind of unhurried Italian hospitality that makes you feel like you were expected.
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Rank 52. SK Steak & Oyster
Modern Australian Steakhouse
Marble surfaces, pale timber, and enough natural light to make Brisbane's notorious heat feel intentional set the tone at this modern Australian steakhouse inside The Calile Hotel. The wood-fired grill handles both dry- and wet-aged beef with restraint, while oysters and seafood sit alongside the meat as equals rather than afterthoughts. It ranked 77th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which gives you a sense of the room's ambitions.
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Rank 53. The Tamarind Restaurant
Contemporary Thai
An open timber pavilion set in the rainforest above Maleny, with the kitchen running Thai-rooted contemporary Asian cuisine and a degustation menu for anyone who wants the full tour. The food trades in the kind of sweet, sour, and spicy balancing act that looks simple and isn't. Two Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide. The retreat around it is lovely, but the restaurant is the reason to book.
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Rank 54. The Long Apron
Contemporary French
White tablecloths and rattan chairs look out over the Sunshine Coast Hinterland from the terrace of this fine dining room tucked into the hills above Montville. The kitchen leans French, drawing on local produce to run a seasonally shifting menu, and the pacing is deliberately unhurried. The Australian Good Food Guide has given it two Chef Hats, and the drive up the escarpment is half the point.
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Rank 56. Honeysuckle Restaurant
Modern Chinese
A white-clad building on Ballinger Road with a breezy alfresco deck that earns its Sunshine Coast address. Honeysuckle is a modern Chinese restaurant built around sharing plates, where Australian produce gets folded into East Asian technique, char siu kangaroo sitting comfortably alongside more expected company. The room leans relaxed, aqua tiles and cane pendants, and the menu runs from yum cha at lunch to something more considered by evening. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat.
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Rank 57. Fish House Steak & Grill
Steakhouse
Right on the Mooloolaba waterfront, this steak and seafood restaurant pairs dry-aged cuts with line-caught fish in a room that leans into natural textures and open-air ease without feeling like a beach shack. The menu moves between land and sea with the confidence of a place that knows its crowd comes in after a long day on the water and wants something a little more than a burger. It holds an Australian Good Food Guide One Chef Hat.
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Rank 58. Bella Venezia
Italian
Red velvet booths, blue velvet seating, and a Champagne garden facing the Esplanade, all under one roof at this Italian restaurant inside the Pacific Beach Resort in Mooloolaba. The kitchen leans into Sunshine Coast produce and seafood from the nearby port, turning them into the kind of composed, plated dishes that earned a One Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide. Dress a little, linger over pasta, and let someone else worry about the drive home.
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Rank 59. Soka
Japanese
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Rank 60. Orleans Restaurant and Bar
New Orleans French
A cocktail bar and restaurant on the Sunshine Coast that takes the French Quarter seriously enough to earn an Australian Good Food Guide Chef Hat, which is a commitment in Maroochydore. The kitchen runs French technique through a New Orleans lens, so the menu leans toward bold flavors and premium produce rather than Parisian restraint. Handcrafted cocktails make it worth arriving early, and the room is polished enough that you'll want to linger.
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