The Top 61 Restaurants Near Pompette
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Rank 1. 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 3. 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 4. Sokyo Brisbane
Japanese
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Rank 5. Donna Chang
Chinese
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Rank 6. 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 8. Hideki
Japanese
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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 10. The Brasserie at Naldham House
Modern Australian
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Rank 11. 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 13. 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 14. Otto Brisbane
Italian
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Rank 15. Marlowe
Modern Australian
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Rank 16. Central Restaurant
Chinese
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Rank 17. 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 18. C'est Bon
French
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Rank 19. 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 20. Stanley
Chinese
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Rank 21. 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 22. 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 23. sAme sAme
Thai
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Rank 24. Joy Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 26. 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 28. Honto
Japanese
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Rank 29. Pilloni
Italian
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Rank 30. Essa Restaurant
Modern Australian
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Rank 31. 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 32. Gerard's
Middle Eastern
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Rank 36. 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 37. Restaurant Dan Arnold
Australian
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Rank 38. Layla
Middle Eastern
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Rank 39. 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 40. e'cco bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 41. Rogue Bistro
Modern Australian
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Rank 42. Bosco
Mediterranean
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Rank 43. 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 44. 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 45. 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 46. Sono Portside
Japanese
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Rank 47. Ach Wine Bar & Bistro
Middle Eastern
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Rank 48. Homage Restaurant
Modern Australian
Set on a vast cattle station an hour from Brisbane, this fine dining room draws almost everything on the plate from its own market garden, orchard, beehives, and free-range farm, or from producers just down the road. Fire, smoke, coal pits, and a fermentation room full of pickled jars do the heavy lifting in the kitchen. The Australian Good Food Guide awards it Two Chef Hats, and the menu shifts whenever the land says so.
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Rank 49. Blume
Modern Australian
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Rank 50. Palette
Modern Australian
Inside the HOTA Gallery on the Gold Coast, Palette is a fine dining restaurant where the art on the walls is not entirely incidental to what arrives on the plate. The room is built for celebration: private dining, long evenings, the kind of occasion that calls for a cocktail first. The kitchen earns three Chef Hats from the Australian Good Food Guide, and the cooking runs to lobster soufflé and Wagyu with foie gras.
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Rank 51. Citrique
Modern Australian
The dessert buffet alone has its own dedicated zone, which tells you something about priorities here. Citrique is a Modern Australian restaurant inside the JW Marriott on the Gold Coast, built around interactive dining stations that drift from fresh sushi and seafood through Asian curries and satays to European plates. The Australian Good Food Guide gives it Two Chef Hats, and the à la carte menu leans into local sourcing.
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Rank 52. Yamagen
Japanese
Glossy black finishes and low lighting set the mood at this contemporary Japanese restaurant inside Surfers Paradise's QT Hotel. The menu runs the izakaya staples: sashimi, sushi, and kushiyaki from the grill, all built for sharing. A focused list of Japanese whisky, sake, and cocktails keeps pace with the food. The Gold Coast isn't the first place you'd expect a moody Tokyo-ish dining room, which is sort of the point.
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Rank 53. Bar Leo Food & Wine
Mediterranean
Alfresco tables catch the Gold Coast sun at this Mediterranean share-plate bar on Panitz Street, where the wine list is tightly edited and the menu is built for grazing rather than deliberating. Small plates lean coastal, raw fish and fried seafood sit alongside grilled skewers and a shareable T-bone, with Basque cheesecake to close. The Australian Good Food Guide awarded it a Chef Hat.
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Rank 54. Kiyomi
Japanese
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Rank 55. T'ang Court
Contemporary Cantonese
The dining room inside The Langham takes its name from a Chinese dynasty, which sets the tone pretty clearly. T'ang Court is a formal contemporary Cantonese restaurant where the kitchen works through roasted meats, dim sum, and Southern Chinese classics with careful technique. The setting is polished enough that you'll want to dress for it, and the service follows suit. One Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide.
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Rank 57. Nineteen at The Star
Modern Australian
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Rank 58. Kost
Modern Australian
The open-fire grill running on charcoal and ironbark wood is the organizing principle at Kost, a coastal bar and grill on Broadbeach's Oracle Boulevard where the menu leans Mediterranean and everything worth ordering has some smoke on it. The room is polished but relaxed, the kind of place where sharing plates and a decent wine list make a long lunch feel inevitable. An Australian Good Food Guide One Chef Hat.
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Rank 60. Social Eating House & Bar
Modern Australian
A lively modern Australian restaurant on Oracle Boulevard where the room is styled for lingering, not rushing. The menu leans contemporary and social, built around dishes meant to be shared around a well-set table. It holds a Chef Hat from the Australian Good Food Guide, which signals serious cooking without the stiff-backed formality that usually comes with it. Broadbeach's Gold Coast crowd fills it out nicely.
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Rank 61. Anekawa
Japanese