Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Canberra from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Canberra
These Canberra venues show where the city’s exceptional wine programs sit, with a bar and two restaurants that take the drinks side seriously.
Bar Rochford in Civic has an exceptional wine program. Its awards include Star Wine List 2026, Australian Bar Awards Small Bar of the Year Finalist 2026, Australian Bar Awards Restaurant Bar of the Year 2026 and Tatler Listed in Best Bars Asia-Pacific 2025.
The Boat House in Barton pairs modern Australian fine dining with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. It works across a la carte and prix fixe formats, with lakeside dining on Lake Burley Griffin and a modern Australian fine-dining room.
Rubicon Restaurant in Griffith combines tasting menus and small plates with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The restaurant sits in Griffith, one of Canberra’s established inner-south suburbs, and offers multi-course degustation menus with wine pairings.
Pilot Restaurant and That Other Place in Ainslie is a modern Australian tasting-menu restaurant, and KOTO Japanese Restaurant in Parkes serves kaiseki-inspired Japanese fine dining in tasting-menu and a la carte formats. Amara Indian Restaurant in Civic serves authentic Indian cooking with South Indian specialties in an a la carte format.
Pilot Restaurant and That Other Place in Ainslie is a modern Australian tasting-menu restaurant. Its playful menus draw on Australian culture and nostalgic dishes, and it operates as a two-concept venue under one roof.
KOTO Japanese Restaurant in Parkes offers kaiseki-inspired Japanese fine dining in tasting-menu and à la carte formats. Award-winning sushi master Shinya Nakano leads the kitchen, and the drinks side includes a wine list, a sake program and an extensive wine list.
Amara Indian Restaurant in Civic serves authentic Indian cooking with South Indian specialties and a la carte service. The kitchen draws on subcontinent sourcing traditions for its regional dishes in Civic.
Civic, Barton and Griffith each have venues in our guide with exceptional wine programs. Canberra has 6 exceptional wine programs in our guide, and Bar Rochford, The Boat House and Rubicon Restaurant are among them.
There are no Michelin-starred restaurants in our Canberra guide. The citywide Michelin-starred restaurant count in our guide is 0, and the citywide Michelin stars total for Canberra in our guide is 0.
Pilot Restaurant and That Other Place in Ainslie, KOTO Japanese Restaurant in Parkes and The Boat House in Barton all offer tasting-menu or prix fixe dining. Rubicon Restaurant in Griffith also lists tasting menus and small plates.
Canberra has one Wine Spectator Award of Excellence in our guide. The citywide total for the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence across the city of Canberra in our guide is one.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Canberra.
Canberra, Australia
Akiba sits on Bunda Street in Canberra's city centre, positioned within a dining corridor that has grown considerably more serious over the past decade. The venue draws from Asian-influenced share-plate formats that have become a defining mode of mid-to-upper casual dining in Australian capital cities, placing it in a competitive bracket where pacing and portion sequencing matter as much as the food itself.
Canberra, Australia
On Northbourne Avenue, Canberra's main civic spine, Amara Indian Restaurant occupies a direct address that belies the seriousness of the kitchen. Indian cooking in the capital has moved beyond the generic curry-house template, and Amara sits within that more considered tier, drawing on subcontinent sourcing traditions that give regional dishes their actual character.
Canberra, Australia
B-Side sits in Canberra’s breakfast-and-lunch lane, a format that depends less on ceremony than on produce rhythm, kitchen discipline and the city’s daytime appetite. With no awards or chef-led mythology shaping the public story, the useful way to read it is as part of Canberra’s quieter café culture: practical, daylight-driven and judged by sourcing, consistency and ease.
Canberra, Australia
Canberra's dining scene has matured well beyond its public-service-town reputation, anchored by producers in the surrounding Limestone Coast and Snowy Mountains region who supply some of Australia's most ingredient-focused kitchens. The city sits at the intersection of cool-climate agriculture and a growing cohort of chefs who treat provenance as the organizing principle of their menus, not a marketing footnote.
Canberra, Australia
Champi Restaurant at 17 Kennedy St in Kingston brings a focused cultural dining perspective to one of Canberra's most active eating precincts. The kitchen draws on culinary traditions that sit outside the ACT's more familiar modern-Australian mainstream, positioning it alongside a small cohort of restaurants that treat cuisine as a vehicle for cultural specificity rather than broad appeal. Kingston's walkable dining strip makes it an accessible starting point for exploring the city's growing restaurant depth.
Canberra, Australia
Delhi to Canberra Indian Restaurant operates out of Melba, a residential suburb north of the ACT city centre, placing it firmly outside the capital's established dining corridors. The restaurant draws from the subcontinental tradition of slow-cooked, spice-layered cooking that has found a quieter but committed audience in Canberra's outer suburbs. For those willing to travel beyond Civic, it represents a neighbourhood-scale Indian kitchen serving a local residential community.
Canberra, Australia
Flui occupies a ground-floor address on Northbourne Avenue, placing it at the edge of Canberra's civic spine where the city's dining identity continues to sharpen. The restaurant sits within a local scene that increasingly rewards technical ambition alongside neighbourhood accessibility, making it a reference point for how the capital's food culture has shifted in recent years.
Canberra, Australia
Gravy N More sits in Kingston, one of Canberra's most food-active inner suburbs, at 75/71 Giles Street. The name signals comfort-food territory, the kind of cooking built around slow-cooked proteins and sauce-forward technique that has found a committed following in Australia's capital. For Canberra's growing mid-market dining scene, it represents the neighbourhood end of the spectrum rather than the formal dining room.
Canberra, Australia
Set on King George Terrace in Canberra's parliamentary precinct, KOTO Japanese Restaurant brings a focused approach to Japanese dining to one of Australia's most policy-driven neighbourhoods. The address alone signals a certain kind of clientele: embassy staff, government officials, and visitors seeking something precise amid the capital's civic formality. KOTO sits within a Canberra dining scene that has grown considerably more ambitious over the past decade.
Canberra, Australia
The address places it close to the city's political and cultural corridors, where ingredient-focused cooking has increasingly found an audience willing to engage with what's on the plate and where it comes from.
Canberra, Australia
Moowingsteak sits in Braddon, Canberra's most culinarily active inner suburb, where the city's shift toward serious, ingredient-led dining has taken its firmest hold. The restaurant occupies a steak-focused position in a neighbourhood that now reads as a credible reference point for the ACT dining scene, drawing a crowd that expects precision over pageantry.
Canberra, Australia
Pilot Restaurant and That Other Place occupies a quiet corner of Ainslie, one of Canberra's most residential and underexplored suburbs, operating as a two-concept address under one roof. The dual-format model places it in a small tier of Australian capital-city restaurants that have moved beyond the single-dining-room template. For visitors researching where Canberra's serious dining sits, this address belongs in that conversation.
Canberra, Australia
Rama's Fiji Indian Restaurant occupies a quiet corner of Pearce Shopping Centre in Canberra's south, serving a style of Indian cooking shaped by the Fijian-Indian diaspora, a lineage that distinguishes it from the subcontinental mainstream. The kitchen draws a loyal local following in a suburb that rewards regulars over walk-ins. For those willing to seek it out, it sits apart from the city-centre Indian circuit.
Canberra, Australia
Rubicon Restaurant occupies a quiet address in Griffith, one of Canberra's more established inner-south suburbs, and sits within a dining scene that has grown considerably more ambitious over the past decade. The restaurant draws on the collaborative energy between kitchen, floor, and cellar that defines the better end of the Australian capital's contemporary dining offer. Visitors planning ahead will find Griffith accessible from central Canberra by a short drive or taxi.
Canberra, Australia
The Boat House sits on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin in Barton, one of Canberra's most reliably scenic dining addresses. Regulars return for the waterfront setting and the kind of menu that holds its course through seasons rather than chasing trends. For visitors and locals alike, the lakeside location alone justifies the trip across the Commonwealth Avenue corridor.
Canberra, Australia
The East Kitchen serves authentic Cantonese and Hong Kong Chinese in Dickson, with Kung Pao Chicken and satay sticks on the menu for lunch or dinner.
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Canberra, Australia
The Park Hyatt Canberra carries Michelin Selected status and an address on Commonwealth Avenue that places it directly opposite Parliament House, in a precinct most Canberra hotels cannot access. The Art Deco building dates to 1924 and operates at a different register to the city's design-led and boutique competitors, offering the kind of institutional polish that suits diplomatic and government travel as much as leisure stays.
Canberra, Australia
Jamala Wildlife Lodge sits within Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium, placing guests in direct proximity to the animals after the public departs. Recognised by La Liste's Top Hotels ranking with a score of 95.5 points in 2026, it represents a category of experiential accommodation that few Australian properties attempt at this scale. Dining, accommodation, and wildlife access are packaged as a single, contained programme.
Canberra, Australia
Michelin Selected for 2025, Little National Hotel sits in Barton's embassy precinct, a short distance from Parliament House. The property belongs to a compact-room format that trades square footage for considered design and attentive service, positioning it as a sharp option for Canberra's government and diplomatic visitor set, and increasingly for travellers who want more than a standard business hotel.
Canberra, Australia
Ovolo Nishi occupies a sculptural mixed-use building in Canberra's New Acton precinct, carrying a 2025 Michelin Selected distinction that places it among a small cohort of design-led boutique hotels in the Australian capital. The property's food and beverage programming sits at the centre of its identity, connecting it to the broader New Acton creative precinct rather than operating as a self-contained hotel experience.
Canberra, Australia
Peppers Gallery Hotel sits on Edinburgh Avenue in central Canberra, earning Michelin Selected status in 2025 as part of the hotel guide's first Australian entries. The property belongs to a design-led hospitality tier that treats art as structural to the guest experience rather than decorative, placing it in a distinct bracket among Canberra's accommodation options.
Canberra, Australia
QT Canberra occupies a converted heritage building on London Circuit, positioning itself as the design-forward option in a city where most hotels default to corporate convention. A Michelin Selected property in the 2025 guide, it sits in the tier of Canberra accommodations where aesthetic identity is the primary differentiator. The address places it within walking distance of the main cultural and government precinct.
Canberra, Australia
Punthill Narrabundah sits in one of Canberra's quieter residential precincts, offering apartment-style accommodation that positions it differently from the city's central hotel corridor. The property suits extended-stay travellers and those who prefer a suburb-level base over a CBD address, with self-contained formats common to the Punthill brand across Australia.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Canberra.
Canberra, Australia
Bar Rochford occupies the first floor of a heritage-listed building on London Circuit, where Art Deco arches frame a drinks program that takes both wine and cocktails seriously. Named to Tatler Asia-Pacific's Best Bars list for 2025 and recognised by Star Wine List, it represents the more considered end of Canberra's drinking scene, sitting closer in ambition to Australia's leading cocktail bars than anything the capital has historically produced.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Canberra.
Canberra, Australia
Clonakilla sits in the Murrumbateman sub-region north of Canberra, producing wines that have defined the Canberra District's reputation for cool-climate Shiraz Viognier.
Canberra, Australia
The winery sits within the broader Canberra District wine region, where cool-climate viticulture shapes a distinctly different Australian style. It represents one of the more focused expressions of the region's commitment to cool-climate Shiraz and Riesling.
Canberra, Australia
Operating from Kambah in the ACT's south, the distillery represents the capital region's growing identity as a serious producer of premium spirits beyond its established wine corridor. A focused operation with credentials that position it well above the category average.
Canberra, Australia
Mount Majura Vineyard reads Canberra through soil and slope rather than cellar-door theatre. First planted in 1988, the small estate works red volcanic soils over limestone into Riesling, Shiraz, Tempranillo and a wider set of cool-climate varieties, with sustainability practices that give the visit more substance than a simple tasting stop.
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