Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Byron Bay from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Byron Bay
These are the places where the wine program is part of the draw, alongside menus built for a longer meal.
Beach Byron Bay in Clarkes Beach is a seafood-focused restaurant with an extensive wine list. It holds Star Wine List recognition for 2026 and serves seasonal seafood a la carte.
Azure Bar and Grill in Byron Bay is a resort restaurant at Elements of Byron with an exceptional wine program, plus craft cocktails and a beer program. The kitchen works with seasonal contemporary Australian cooking and native and local produce. The dining room overlooks a lagoon pool. Azure Bar and Grill has an award-winning wine and cocktail program.
Elements of Byron in Byron Bay is a beachfront resort with nature-inspired private villas. The hotel holds Michelin Selected recognition for 2025 and a La Liste Top Hotels score of 94.5 points for 2026. Its restaurant, Azure Bar and Grill in Byron Bay, has an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, craft cocktails and a beer program.
Byron Bay’s coastal restaurants lean on seafood, seasonal produce, and settings close to the beach strip.
Beach Byron Bay in Clarkes Beach holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List. The menus are hyper-seasonal and seafood-focused. Ocean views from the beachfront dining take in Clarkes Beach and The Pass.
Azure Bar and Grill in Byron Bay serves a hyper-local contemporary Australian menu with strong dietary inclusivity and a coastal service rhythm. The resort restaurant at Elements of Byron draws on subtropical produce.
Raes on Wategos in Wategos is an intimate beachfront retreat with acclaimed dining and a spa in a secluded setting. The hotel holds a La Liste Top Hotels score of 92.5 points for 2026 and sits on Byron Bay’s most sheltered beach.
Azure Bar and Grill is in Byron Bay and Beach Byron Bay is in Clarkes Beach. Azure Bar and Grill has an exceptional wine program, an extensive wine list, craft cocktails, and a beer program. Beach Byron Bay has an extensive wine list, and Star Wine List recognition for 2026.
Byron Bay has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Azure Bar and Grill in Byron Bay has an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. Beach Byron Bay in Clarkes Beach holds Star Wine List recognition for 2026.
Five venues in our guide have exceptional wine programs citywide. Azure Bar and Grill is one of them, and Beach Byron Bay stands out for its extensive wine list and Star Wine List recognition.
Beach Byron Bay in Clarkes Beach serves seasonal seafood with beachfront views over Clarkes Beach and The Pass. The restaurant has an a la carte menu, an extensive wine list, and Star Wine List recognition for 2026.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Beach Byron Bay holds a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, signalling a wine program that punches above the casual coastal norm. Positioned on Massinger Street steps from Byron's main beach strip, it operates in a town where produce credentials matter as much as the view. For wine-led dining in the Northern Rivers region, it earns serious consideration.
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Feu is a fire-focused restaurant in South Wales operating at the sharper edge of the region's emerging fine dining scene. With a name rooted in the French word for fire, it signals a cooking approach built around heat, char, and technique rather than ceremony. South Wales is producing a more ambitious restaurant tier than its reputation suggests, and Feu is part of that shift.
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Azure Bar and Grill sits in Byron Bay’s resort-side dining orbit, where the appeal depends less on culinary theatre than on how a kitchen reads the Northern Rivers pantry. The useful lens here is sourcing: seafood, subtropical produce, and a coastal service rhythm matter more than formality, awards language, or chef mythology.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Byron Bay.
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A 32-room property at the centre of Byron Bay, Basq House trades coastal clichés for warm tones, sculpted interiors, and a Moroccan riad-inspired courtyard pool. Priced from $325 per night, it occupies a quieter register than Byron's larger resort footprints, with a self-serve lounge bar, light-filled rooms, and a check-in approach built around ease rather than ceremony.
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Awarded 95.5 points by La Liste Top Hotels 2026, 28 Degrees Byron Bay sits on Marvell Street in one of Australia's most design-conscious coastal towns. The property belongs to a tier of Byron accommodation that competes on spatial integrity and physical setting rather than scale, placing it alongside the town's most considered small-footprint stays.
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A Michelin Selected property on Marvell Lane in Byron Bay's quieter northern pocket, Bask & Stow sits in the mid-tier of the town's accommodation market where design-conscious stays and a low-key coastal atmosphere define the offer.
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Crystalbrook Byron holds a MICHELIN Selected designation for 2025, placing it among a small tier of Byron Bay properties recognised for quality across accommodation and experience. Located at 77-97 Broken Head Road, the property sits south of the town centre, with a design approach that speaks to the region's natural setting rather than against it. For travellers who want structure and credential in a region better known for loose, surf-town informality, it earns its place.
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Elements of Byron sits on 45 acres of coastal hinterland at 144 Bayshore Dr, earning 94.5 points in the La Liste Top Hotels 2026 ranking. The property operates at the quieter, land-heavy end of Byron Bay's accommodation spectrum, where space and considered service replace density and spectacle.
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Few Australian coastal hotels hold a La Liste Top Hotels score of 92.5 points, and fewer still do it from a position this exposed to the Pacific. Raes on Wategos sits at Marine Parade on Byron Bay's most sheltered beach, where the address alone separates it from the broader Northern Rivers accommodation field.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Byron Bay.
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