Where to Eat in Brisbane, Already Mapped Out

250+ pages of restaurants, cafés, neighbourhoods, maps, itineraries and places actually worth booking.

Curated for travellers who want to eat exceptionally well without spending hours researching where to go.

Digital guide · Instant access · Read on phone, tablet or laptop

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250+ PAGES · 60+ BEST RECOMMENDATIONS · CURATED BY A BRISBANE LOCAL

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Where to Eat in Brisbane: The Brisbane Food Guide

GOOGLE CAN TELL YOU WHAT’S NEARBY.
We’d rather tell you what’s worth going to.

There is no shortage of restaurant recommendations online. The problem is working out which ones are actually worth your time.

The Brisbane Food Guide brings the good stuff together. It does the groundwork before you arrive: the places worth booking, neighbourhoods worth exploring and dishes worth ordering.

Digital guide · Instant access · Read on phone, tablet or laptop

What is inside the Brisbane Food Guide: 244 pages of restaurants, cafes, bars, hidden gems and maps

The Brisbane Food Guide

MORE THAN JUST A BRISBANE RESTAURANT LIST

250+ pages · 60+ restaurants· 21 suburbs · maps + itineraries

✓ Restaurants actually worth the reservation
✓ 60 recommendations from a local.
✓ Cafés, bakeries & breakfast spots
✓ Hidden gems & local favourites
✓ Neighbourhood guides & food maps
✓ Perfect weekend itineraries
✓ Menu & ordering recommendations
✓ Where to splurge
✓ Places worth leaving the CBD for

Top restaurants

Cafés

Maps

Itineraries

Local dishes

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01

Worth the booking

Restaurants with a real reason to go — exceptional food, atmosphere, setting or a dining experience that earns a place in the itinerary.

02

Make every meal count

A finite number of breakfasts, lunches and dinners means every recommendation matters. The guide helps you spend them well.

03

Explore Brisbane, through food

Neighbourhoods, markets, cafés, maps and itineraries help you experience Brisbane beyond the reservation itself.

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Brisbane rewards people who know where to go.

  • Avoid wasting a meal on an average restaurant
  • Know which reservations to make first
  • Plan meals by neighbourhood
  • Find worthwhile places outside the CBD
  • Build a one-day, weekend or longer itinerary
  • Open the guide while travelling and find the answer quickly

Less searching. Better eating. More of Brisbane.

FORTITUDE VALLEY : WEST END : NEW FARM : SOUTH BANK : PADDINGTON : JAMES STREET : CBD : TENERIFFE

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Explore Brisbane by Neighbourhood

There are polished city dining rooms, the restaurants and bars of Fortitude Valley, long lunches at Howard Smith Wharves, laid-back neighbourhood favourites in Paddington and West End, Newstead cafés, South Brisbane dining, and places further north that are worth leaving the CBD for.

  • Fortitude Valley — late-night dining, wine bars and the Valley’s best-kept secrets
  • West End — laneway cafés, natural wine bars and the Boundary Street markets
  • New Farm — leafy brunch spots, Powerhouse markets and riverside dining
  • South Bank — riverside restaurants, rooftop bars and skyline views
  • Paddington — heritage cafés, boutique bakeries and Latrobe Terrace favourites
  • James Street — Brisbane’s most stylish restaurants, bars and boutiques
  • CBD — power lunches, rooftop bars and Brisbane’s fine dining scene
  • Teneriffe — waterfront dining, converted woolstores and destination restaurants

Your Brisbane trip, already researched

250+ pages. 60+ places. One considered guide.

The Brisbane Food Guide, a navy hardcover from Boarding for Dinner

Get the Brisbane places worth knowing before your next booking.

New Brisbane openings, restaurant discoveries and neighbourhood notes, sent occasionally.

Published by Nouvel Édition, an independent publishing house in Paris and Sydney