Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Brisbane from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Brisbane
Our guide counts 20 exceptional wine programs in Brisbane, citywide. Bacchus, in South Brisbane, Rosmarino Ristorante & Wine Bar, in Fortitude Valley, and Cru Bar & Cellar, in Fortitude Valley, are three of them.
Bacchus, in South Brisbane, is a modern Australian restaurant on the podium level of Rydges South Bank. Chef Marco Sfamurri's kitchen serves a tasting menu and an a la carte menu. The cellar holds 650 selections and 3,600 bottles, with depth in Australia, Burgundy, France, and Italy. Sommelier Rory Ilic runs the list. The restaurant holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025.
Rosmarino Ristorante & Wine Bar, in Fortitude Valley, is a modern Italian restaurant operating as both a restaurant and a wine bar. The wine list is sommelier-led, and the wine program is exceptional. It holds a Star Wine List award for 2026. The kitchen serves house-made pasta and white chocolate-cured steak in a Tuscan-inspired courtyard, a la carte and as small plates.
Cru Bar & Cellar, in Fortitude Valley, is a wine bar with a retail cellar. Bottles from the cellar can be purchased and drunk on-site. The bar holds a Star Wine List award for 2026.
Tasting menus in the guide include +81 Sushi Kappo, in West End, Agnes, in Fortitude Valley, and Golden Avenue, in Brisbane CBD. Each serves a tasting menu, and +81 Sushi Kappo also serves omakase at a 12-seat counter.
+81 Sushi Kappo, in West End, is a 12-seat sushi kappo restaurant. Chef Ikuo Kobayashi, who trained in Tokyo, leads an omakase tasting menu at the counter. The rice is enriched with spirulina, and the menu is largely gluten-free. The wine program is exceptional and sommelier-led, with a sake program, an extensive wine list, and craft cocktails.
Agnes, in Fortitude Valley, is a wood-fired restaurant in a heritage building with a dining room, wine bar, and terrace. All food is cooked over open wood fires with different local woods, and with no electricity or gas. The menu covers vegetables, seafood, and dry-aged beef, a la carte and as a tasting menu. Agnes is number 20 on the World's Best Steaks 101 Best Steak Restaurants list for 2026.
Golden Avenue, in Brisbane CBD, is a modern Middle Eastern woodfire restaurant. Cooking uses woodfire and charcoal grills. The menu includes Spring Bay mussels, house-strained labneh, vine leaves, potato bread, and Iranian pistachios. Formats include a tasting menu, a la carte, small plates, a set menu, and family style. It is on the Conde Nast Hot List Restaurants for 2026, with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
Our guide counts zero Michelin-starred restaurants in Brisbane, citywide.
Fortitude Valley has the most venues in our guide, with 21. The Brisbane CBD is second, with 13. Rooms in Fortitude Valley in this guide include Rosmarino Ristorante & Wine Bar, SK Steak & Oyster, Agnes, Cru Bar & Cellar, and Savile Row.
Tasting menus in our guide are at Golden Avenue, in Brisbane CBD, Agnes, in Fortitude Valley, Bacchus, in South Brisbane, +81 Sushi Kappo, in West End, and La Belle Vie French Restaurant Brisbane, in Bardon. Omakase is at +81 Sushi Kappo, in West End, and at Sono Japanese Restaurant Portside Wharf, in Hamilton. +81 Sushi Kappo seats 12 at the counter.
Bacchus, in South Brisbane, is the only venue in our guide with a Wine Spectator award. The award is the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence for 2025. The cellar holds 650 selections and 3,600 bottles, with depth in Australia, Burgundy, France, and Italy. Sommelier Rory Ilic runs the list.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Brisbane
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Selected entries from the current guide for Brisbane.
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On the South Bank riverfront, Otto Brisbane positions modern Italian cooking within one of Queensland's most recognisable dining addresses. Operated by the Fink Group with Head Chef Will Cowper in the kitchen, it holds Star Wine List recognition and a reputation for consistency that has made it a benchmark in Brisbane's broader Italian dining conversation.
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European Terrace Bar at 443 Queen St, Bar Miette pairs an open kitchen and terrace with craft cocktails, an extensive wine list, and a leisurely pace for brunch, lunch, or dinner.
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Agnes in Fortitude Valley has become a marker for where Brisbane's fire-led cooking sits at its most considered. Housed in a heritage building on Agnes Street, the restaurant works across three levels, from a main dining room to a wine bar and terrace, with wood and charcoal as the organising principle throughout. The cooking is modern Australian, the approach is restrained, and the produce-first agenda runs across vegetables, seafood, and dry-aged beef alike.
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Bacchus occupies the podium level of Rydges South Bank, where a wine list of 650 selections and 3,600 bottles in inventory sets the tone before the food arrives. Chef Marco Sfamurri leads the kitchen through a dinner-only format priced at the upper end of Brisbane dining, while sommelier Rory Ilic steers one of the city's most serious cellars, with particular depth in Australia, Burgundy, France, and Italy.
Brisbane, Australia
Golden Avenue brings Brisbane’s CBD dining shift into sharper focus: architecture-led rooms, shared feasting, and Levantine-Australian cooking built around local produce rather than imported nostalgia. Spring Bay mussels, house-strained labneh, vine leaves, potato bread, and Iranian pistachios give the menu its sourcing story, while Anyday’s first CBD restaurant places the group inside the city’s more ambitious hospitality tier.
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Rosmarino Ristorante & Wine Bar occupies a corner of McLachlan Street in Fortitude Valley, operating as both a restaurant and wine bar with a Star Wine List White Star recognition awarded in December 2021. It sits within Brisbane's broader Italian dining scene, drawing on the wine-forward trattoria tradition that has found consistent ground in the Valley's dining corridor.
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SK Steak & Oyster, situated within The Calile Hotel on James Street, represents Brisbane's most considered take on the contemporary Australian steakhouse. The kitchen pairs wood-fired Australian beef with oysters and coastal seafood, producing a menu where restraint and produce quality do the work. Simon Gloftis's operation has drawn early recognition as a sharp new entrant to the city's upper dining tier.
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At Portside Wharf in Hamilton, Sono sits within Brisbane's most considered tier of Japanese dining, holding a Star Wine List White Star accreditation and a 3-Star World of Fine Wine accreditation. The river-facing setting frames a meal built on ritual and pacing as much as produce. Sono belongs in the same conversation as Brisbane's most awarded dining rooms.
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Queen Street and the Question of What Brisbane Dining Has Become There is a specific kind of restaurant that a city builds when it is ready to take itself seriously. Not a fine-dining monument with tasting menus and tableside theatre, but...
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+81 Sushi Kappo brings Brisbane into the disciplined world of Japanese kappo, where a meal is shaped less by spectacle than by sequence, restraint and the conversation between counter and kitchen. The appeal sits in the format: seasonal Japanese cooking with sushi-adjacent precision, aimed at diners who understand why pace, proportion and temperature matter as much as luxury signals.
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1889 Enoteca on Logan Road in Woolloongabba has established itself as one of Brisbane's most considered Italian wine bars, where sourcing discipline and a serious cellar do most of the talking. The format sits closer to a Roman enoteca than a suburban trattoria, with a wine list that rewards patience and a kitchen that earns its reputation through restraint rather than ambition.
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Aunty brings Brisbane’s Modern Asian dining thread into focus through produce-led cooking rather than spectacle. With no public chef, awards, price, or booking details attached, the smarter read is category-based: treat it as a city restaurant shaped by Queensland ingredients, Asian technique, and the casual confidence now common across Brisbane’s dining rooms.
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Bar Alto brings Italian kitchen discipline to Brisbane's dining scene, where simplicity of execution carries more weight than complexity of composition. The format sits comfortably in Brisbane's mid-to-upper Italian tier, drawing comparisons with the city's more considered European rooms. For Italian in Queensland's capital, it represents a measured, ingredient-led approach.
Brisbane, Australia
Bar Monte gives Brisbane’s Italian dining map a useful bar-led counterpoint: less about grand regional theatre, more about how Italian food fits into an Australian city that likes flexible evenings. Read it through the lens of regional identity, from Roman directness to Tuscan restraint and southern Italian generosity, rather than as a generic pasta-and-wine stop.
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Belle Époque places Brisbane’s hotel-café culture in a South Bank frame: early service, polished interiors, and a French reference point rather than a chef-led tasting-menu pitch. The interest is less in rarity than in format, a ground-floor room inside Emporium Hotel South Bank that suits breakfast, coffee, pastry, and daytime dining before the neighbourhood shifts toward theatre, riverfront bars, and dinner rooms.
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Black Hide Steak & Seafood by Gambaro sits in Brisbane’s steakhouse-and-seafood lane, a category defined by cut selection, grill discipline, and the city’s appetite for protein-led dining. The point here is not novelty; it is the familiar grammar of ribeye, strip, filet, and seafood handled in a dining room built for a direct, produce-first meal.
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On Montague Road in Brisbane's West End, Kor Dak occupies a stretch of the suburb that has quietly become one of Queensland's more interesting dining corridors. The address sits within walking distance of the inner-south's broader restaurant cluster, placing it in conversation with a neighbourhood that rewards repeat exploration rather than single-visit tick-offs.
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La Belle Vie brings a French dining sensibility to Bardon, one of Brisbane's quieter inner-west suburbs, at a remove from the CBD restaurant cluster. The address positions it as a neighbourhood proposition rather than a destination-dining circuit stop, which shapes everything from the atmosphere to who books a table. For Brisbane diners who follow the city's expanding French-leaning scene, it sits alongside venues like Bar Miette and Bacchus as part of a broader shift toward European classical forms in the Queensland capital.
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Set within The Barracks' heritage precinct on Petrie Terrace, Moda Steak. Tapas. Seasons occupies a distinct position in Brisbane's mid-to-upper dining tier by running three formats under one roof: a steakhouse, a tapas bar, and a seasonally rotating menu. That structural plurality puts it in a different register from Brisbane's single-concept specialists, offering flexibility without sacrificing focus.
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Stilts Dining occupies a particular niche in Brisbane's premium restaurant scene, pairing serious steak cookery with a shellfish-forward seafood program that reflects Queensland's coastal access. The format sits in the modern Australian tradition where surf and turf is treated with the same rigour applied to dedicated specialists in either camp. For Brisbane diners weighing the city's upper-mid dining tier, it reads as a deliberate, appetite-driven choice.
Brisbane, Australia
The Whisky Warren occupies a specific niche in Brisbane's dining scene: a game-focused Australian kitchen where native proteins and whisky pairings define the format rather than accompany it. For a city still consolidating its premium casual identity, that kind of specialist positioning is worth noting before you book.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Brisbane.
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Ranked #34 on the World's 50 Best Hotels list in 2025 and included in Tatler Asia-Pacific's Best Hotels that same year, The Calile occupies a considered position at 48 James Street in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley. With 175 rooms, a resort-scale pool, and three distinct dining venues including Hellenika, the property delivers urban convenience without surrendering the feel of a leisure destination. Rates from $445 per night.
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W Brisbane occupies a prominent position on North Quay, where the city's lifestyle hotel tier has consolidated around properties that trade in design energy and programmed social spaces as much as room counts. Recognised as Australia's Leading Lifestyle Hotel at the 2025 World Travel Awards and rated 91 points by La Liste's 2026 Top Hotels index, it sits at the upper end of Brisbane's non-conservative accommodation bracket.
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Art Series - The Johnson sits on Boundary Street in Brisbane's Spring Hill, earning Michelin Selected recognition in 2025 as part of the Art Series Hotels collection. The property frames its identity around Australian contemporary art, placing original works throughout guest spaces in a format that positions it alongside Brisbane's design-conscious hotel tier rather than its convention-circuit properties.
Brisbane, Australia
Australia’s Crystalbrook line of luxury boutique hotels and resorts cut a distinctive figure, they’re luxe and sustainable, but never stodgy. Crystalbrook Vincent, in Brisbane, is a fine example of the brand’s vision: colorful, lively, and full of art, in this case no fewer than 500 prints by the Melbourne-based portrait artist Vincent Fantauzzo. The rooms and suites are stylish and comfortable, and the hotel’s two dining and drinking venues, the upscale Roman-style Polpetta and the Los Angeles tribute that is the Fiume rooftop pool bar, are worthy additions to the Howard Smith Wharves nightlife and entertainment district.
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Emporium Hotel South Bank positions itself at the design-conscious end of Brisbane's boutique hotel tier, occupying a prominent address on Grey Street in the city's cultural precinct. The property centres its offer around rooftop amenity, multi-outlet dining, and event capability, making it a credible option for travellers who want proximity to South Bank's gallery and performance venues without surrendering hotel infrastructure.
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Carrying a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, Hotel X Brisbane Fortitude Valley sits at 458 Brunswick Street in one of Brisbane's most energetically evolving neighbourhoods. The address places guests inside Fortitude Valley's arts and dining corridor rather than in the CBD, with the hotel's design ambitions matching the suburb's shift toward considered, architecture-led hospitality.
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Hyatt Regency Brisbane holds dual recognition as Regional Winner for Luxury City Business Hotel and Continent Winner for Luxury Business Hotel, placing it at the sharper end of Brisbane's corporate accommodation tier. Located on Burnett Lane in the CBD, it sits within easy reach of the city's dining and cultural infrastructure, and competes directly with properties like W Brisbane and The Calile for the high-end business traveller.
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Ovolo The Valley sits at 1000 Ann Street in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane's most restless creative district, and carries a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction that places it in a defined tier of recognised independent hospitality. The property occupies the design-led, personality-forward end of Brisbane's hotel market, where attitude and service culture carry as much weight as thread count and room size.
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A Michelin Selected boutique hotel on Balfour Street in New Farm, one of Brisbane's most walkable inner-city neighbourhoods. Spicers Balfour occupies a heritage Queensland character home and sits in a distinct tier of small-scale, design-attentive accommodation that separates it from the city's larger hotel inventory. The property's dining programme and residential scale make it a considered option for travellers who prefer neighbourhood immersion over central-district convenience.
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Holding a 2025 Michelin Selected designation and positioned directly on North Quay, voco Brisbane City Centre places guests within walking distance of the CBD, South Bank, and the riverfront precincts that define the city's current cultural momentum. The address works as genuine infrastructure for a Brisbane stay, not merely a backdrop.
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Dorsett Brisbane is best read through Brisbane’s current hotel shift: a city moving from business-stopover practicality toward design-conscious stays tied to dining, arts and entertainment precincts. With as a context-led choice rather than a ratings-led one, useful for travellers comparing Brisbane’s newer hotel energy with the city’s established boutique and South Bank addresses.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Brisbane.
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A Fortitude Valley fixture ranked among the leading 500 Bars globally in 2025, Savile Row at 667 Ann Street operates as one of Brisbane's more credentialed neighbourhood drinking spots. The bar sits within a precinct that has matured well beyond its late-night reputation, drawing a crowd that comes for considered cocktails rather than spectacle. It holds its place in the Valley's bar scene the way a good tailor holds a fitting room, quietly, consistently, without needing to announce itself.
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Bowery Bar earned a place at #29 on the World's 50 Best Bars list in 2009, a credential that still frames its position in Brisbane's drinking scene.
Brisbane, Australia
Cru Bar & Cellar on James Street in Fortitude Valley holds a Star Wine List award for 2026, placing it among a small tier of Australian bars recognised specifically for wine program depth. The address puts it at the centre of Brisbane's most concentrated hospitality precinct, making it a natural reference point for serious wine drinking in the city.
Brisbane, Australia
La Lune Wine Co on Melbourne Street has earned Star Wine List recognition for 2026, placing it among Brisbane's more seriously curated drinking addresses. Located in South Brisbane, the wine bar occupies a tier where list depth and atmosphere do more of the work than spectacle or scale. It's a reference point for the city's growing natural and small-producer wine scene.
Brisbane, Australia
Mirrorball Ministries occupies a particular corner of Brisbane's bar scene where craft and atmosphere converge without apology. Sitting alongside a tightening cohort of serious drink programs in the city, it draws comparison with venues that treat the bar as a discipline rather than a backdrop. For those tracking Brisbane's evolving cocktail culture, it belongs on the list.
Brisbane, Australia
Stan's Lounge occupies a particular niche in Brisbane's bar scene: Cantonese-inflected snacks paired with a considered cocktail program, in a format that rewards those who treat drinking and eating as inseparable. It sits within a cohort of bars across the city that have moved beyond the food-as-afterthought model, positioning snack quality and drink precision at equal weight.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Brisbane.
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