Eating Out

Australia’s dining scene is vibrant and diverse, blending world-class restaurants with laidback coastal cafes and multicultural street food. From laneway dining in Melbourne to paddock-to-plate experiences across regional towns, it celebrates local produce and global flavours.

Highlights

Darwin

Restaurant review: Hanuman, Darwin, NT

Where do you eat when you’re only in town for a few hours? Go where the recommendations point you, and you won’t be disappointed.

Katherine

Fancy an outback, bush tucker dining experience?

A Top End dining experience takes the unknown out of native bush foods and comes to life with campfire tales.

Australia

50 greatest Aussie country pubs you have to visit

Embark on the mother of all pub crawls to explore 45 of Australia’s best boozers.

Gold Coast

Review: Baskk, Coolangatta

Craig Tansley discovers one of the Gold Coast's newest restaurants, Baskk at Coolangatta, that’s as much about dining out as it is about its (great) menu. Read his secret review now.

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Australia

Etiquette 101: How to be a better diner

Because there’s no customer equivalent of TripAdvisor, Leanne Clancey turns the tables to let hospitality pros dish the dirt on bad diners, and they have three things to say: communicate; be kind; and for crying out loud, put your phone away.

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Australia

Explore Australia’s hidden restaurant gems

While Australian cities have a wealth of great places to dine, nothing quite beats taking to the open road on a food adventure. These far-flung foodie spots will leave you sated, wowed and glad you took the road less travelled.

Australia

The outback floods with hipster coffee

It’s official: hell hath frozen over and the outback ‘mud’ is beginning to dry up. Yes, that’s right, you can get a good big-city-quality coffee in Australia’s regions now. You just really, really have to know where to look, and it’s often in places you might not expect, finds Steve Madgwick.

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hotel bars worth staying in for

While hotels are forever falling over themselves to impress with infinity pools, pillow menus, refurbs and celeb chef collabs, sometimes all you really want is a good bar where nobody knows your name.