The Best Australian Food in Brisbane
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The best Australian food in Brisbane, according to the experts: the World's 101 Best, the Australian Good Food Guide, and The 50 have all weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Agnes comes out on top.
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Joy Restaurant and Restaurant Dan Arnold hold the next two places. The Australian Good Food Guide shows up on more of this list than any other guide, with The 50 next.
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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.
The awards
- World's 101 Best World's 101 Best: #20 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
- The 50 The 50: The 50 Discovery
- World's 101 Best #20 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Australian Good Food Guide 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
- The 50 The 50 Discovery
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Rank 2. Joy Restaurant
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 17/20 · Three Chef Hats
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Rank 2. Restaurant Dan Arnold
Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 17/20 · Three Chef Hats
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Rank 2. Rogue Bistro
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 16/20 · Three Chef Hats
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Rank 5. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 15/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 5. e'cco bistro
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 5. Essa Restaurant
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 15/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 5. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 14/20 · Two Chef Hats
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Rank 9. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 9. Marlowe
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 9. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 13/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 9. 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.
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat
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Rank 9. The Brasserie at Naldham House
Modern Australian
The awards
- Australian Good Food Guide Australian Good Food Guide: 12/20 · One Chef Hat