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Byron Bay, already mapped out for you.

100+ 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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GOOGLE CAN TELL YOU WHAT’S NEARBY.
We’d rather tell you what’s worth going to in Byron Bay.

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

The Byron Bay 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

244 PAGES · 100+ RECOMMENDATIONS · CURATED BY A BYRON BAY LOCAL

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What is inside the Byron Bay Food Guide: 244 pages of restaurants, cafes, hidden gems, maps and neighbourhoods

More than a Byron Bay restaurant list.

244 pages · 100+ places · 8 precincts · maps + itineraries

✓ Restaurants actually worth the reservation
✓ Cafés, bakeries & breakfast spots
✓ Hidden gems & local favourites
✓ Byron Bay neighbourhood guides
✓ Food maps
✓ Perfect weekend itineraries
✓ What to order
✓ Where to splurge
✓ Reservation tips
✓ Places worth the drive out of town for

Top restaurants

Cafés

Maps

Itineraries

Local dishes

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 Byron Bay, through food

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

The Byron Bay Food Guide open on a tablet, laptop and phone

Byron Bay rewards people who know where to go.

From beachfront breakfasts to hinterland lunches, bakeries, hidden gems and special-occasion restaurants, the Boarding for Dinner Byron Bay Food Guide brings the town’s best food recommendations into one considered, beautifully designed guide.

You’ll find where to eat, what to order, what to book ahead, which neighbourhoods are worth exploring and how to plan your days around the places that matter.

Less searching. Better eating. More of Byron Bay.

BYRON BAY TOWN : SUFFOLK PARK : BANGALOW : LENNOX HEAD : EWINGSDALE : WATEGOS : MULLUMBIMBY : FEDERAL

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Explore Byron Bay by Neighbourhood

There are relaxed beachfront dining rooms, the cafés and bars of the Byron Bay town centre, long lunches in Bangalow, laid-back neighbourhood favourites in Suffolk Park and Lennox Head, Ewingsdale dining, and hinterland places further inland that are worth the drive out of town for.

  • Byron Bay Town — beachfront dining, laid-back bars and the town’s best-kept secrets
  • Suffolk Park — relaxed cafés, natural wine bars and the Sunday community markets
  • Bangalow — heritage main street cafés, the Bangalow Markets and long lunches
  • Lennox Head — beachfront restaurants, relaxed bars and ocean views
  • Ewingsdale — hinterland cafés, farm-gate produce and paddock-to-plate favourites
  • Wategos — Byron Bay’s most stylish beach clubs, bars and boutiques
  • Mullumbimby — wholefood cafés, farmers markets and small-town charm
  • Federal — hinterland hideaways, converted dairies and destination restaurants
The Byron Bay Food Guide, a navy hardcover from Boarding for Dinner
Published by Nouvel Édition, an independent publishing house in Paris and Sydney