Akiba
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As for the food, it has all you could hope for in trash credibility. They now even have decided to shake up the dining scene with their new project. Peter Harrington said the restaurant has fit-out and Asian-inspired food brought a little bit of New York flair to Canberra. The bright neon lights combine with natural materials and earthy colours to create a vibrant, relaxed atmosphere.
There was no shortage of takers even some patrons queued up for over an hour in the drab and drizzly weather. The menu at night included Japanese fried chicken, dumplings, steamed buns and a selection of raw fish and seafood. Yum Cha-style trolleys make a casual but vibrant dining setting.
Location: 2601, 40 Bunda St, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Temporada
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The menu changes regularly and focuses mainly on organic produce from the local growers and super fresh seafood like oysters, clams, mussels, with plenty of things coming off from a wood grill. They used good quality fresh food, the flavors and the textures were well thought out, and the dishes were like artwork. Sleek, glamorous and darkly lit, Temporada in Canberra hits all the right style notes on the first impression. The menu here isn’t overly complicated, but there’s a decent selection in each category.
Location: 15 Moore St, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Courgette Restaurant
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The meal is superb at this fine dining restaurant, surrounded by a romantic atmosphere both during the day and the. night. This is a great restaurant to celebrate family special events. The decor is delightful, the service is low key, friendly and faultless and the food truly is special both in presentation and flavour. It is not cheap but well worth the expense for a truly memorable experience. Contemporary space overlooking a walled garden, for Modern European dining and fine wines.
Location: 54 Marcus Clarke St, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Bicicletta Restaurant
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From the owners of the successful Surry Hills' restaurants PizzaBirra and MilleVini, Bicicletta is favorite on the Canberra dining scene. The authentic Italian food there is created from a locally sourced, seasonal produce and ingredient. It’s the perfect place to enjoy great coffee, home-made pizzas, pastas and gelatin.
There it’s being played up daily specials, fresh from the marketplace and it also boasts a carefully curated wine list. One will be served by their friendly and professional team, in a unique, stylish and casual setting. It also includes the Library Bar and beautiful outdoor Courtyard.
Location: 1/15 Edinburgh Ave, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Podfood (Pialligo)
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Owner and chef John Levering leads a dynamic kitchen. The quality of food & wine is exceptional along with the service standards that will leave a lasting impression. Continuing with the fresh produce and continuing the modern techniques, menus ensure intrigue and delight. Degustation breakfast, lunches, dinner are its pride.
Podfood also did sold out an event for many leading producers during The Good Food Month, Canberra Truffle Festival, Canberra Beer Week, the Fireside Festival, Christmas Day, Mother's Day and more. With locations in the Canberra's original food bowl with fresh produce is in an abundance and particularly now with their on-site Pialligo produce garden.
Location: 12 Beltana Rd, Pialligo ACT 2609, Canberra, Australia.
Lilotang Japanese (Barton)
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The LiloTang is the restaurant in the Burbury Hotel, across the foyer from sister establishment Malamay. Inside the restaurant there is slick with pale timber walls illuminated by a strip lighting, lemon-yellow splashes of color and touches of the Japanese anime and pop culture references.
Hanging timber panels with funky cutouts creates a series of semi-private dining areas and the restaurant looks out onto a courtyard at the Burbury Hotel. LiloTang's secret weapon is a shiny new Robata grill, which allows chefs to cook food on an extremely high heat using the special binchotan charcoal, which gives off almost no flame.
Location: 1 Burbury Cl, Barton ACT 2600, Caberra, Australia.
Pomegranate
The space is wonderfully designed and makes for a wonderful atmosphere while eating. The Pomegranate restaurant delivers simple, tasty food that is Modern Australian with a Mediterranean influence and is open for a lunch and dinner. Meals are served in relaxed and friendly environment with beautiful surroundings where diners enjoy relaxing atmosphere, quality food and wine with family and friends.
Run by head chef and owner Erkin Esen, with his wife Ziba. Since 2014, Erkin has been at the helm of some of Canberra’s best restaurants. Erkin brings a vision of the contemporary Australian cuisine that hints at his heritage without being overwhelmed by it.
Location: 1 Burbury Cl, Barton ACT 2600, Caberra, Australia.
Les Bistronomes
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The Braddon space is simple, that is it's not a place where money has been lavished on an expensive fit out, but it has a pleasant feel, with floor-to-ceiling windows as one wall, an open wine rack at one end of the room, and decent sized outdoor space. The wine list is simple and regional French, with an emphasis on organics.
Service, too, comes with an accent and a youthful, fresh feel. And sharing works well not only in the mains, but also on desserts, where you can order an entire tarot tuition, and bring six extra stomachs to help you eat it. Overall, Les Bistronomes hits so many right notes that it has now become a firm favourite and a regular haunt, and we count it among the top handful in Canberra restaurants.
Location: Braddon 2612 ACT, Elouera Street, Canberra, Australia.
Ottoman Cuisine
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Gourmet Turkish news and mains in swanky art Deco pavilion with views of Islamic-style gardens. With its baroque decor with Middle Eastern flavours, Ottoman Cuisine will take one on a magic carpet ride to old Istanbul. Almost hidden in the leafy suburb of Barton, this restaurant achieved a well-deserved reputation among the movers and shakers of Capital Hill for modern, classy take on familiar Turkish dishes. There's a touch of hands across the Bosphorus, East-meets-West thinks in the likes of confit duck with green lentils, and chargrilled spot-check in lemon and spices.
Location: 9 Broughton St, Barton ACT 2600, Caberra, Australia.
Black Fire
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In the restaurant one will eat the food in all of its authenticity. Black Fire opened in only the latter half of the year, but it's got a flair and sureness of touch that brings it into the top 20 for 2014. Paolo Milanesi used to run Bicicletta in the former Diamond Hotel and the Locanda Italian Steakhouse in the old Rydges nearly.
His touch is a sure despite the dozens of items on the menu – age topside with a bone marrow and a mustard seed mash is meaty, earthy and full of old-fashioned punch. There is an extensive menu that runs the whole gamut of Spanish and Italian dishes, including the roasted vegetables and slow-roasted meats cooked on the big wood-fired grill in pride of place at the back of the restaurant.
Location: 45/38 Mott St, Braddon ACT 2612, Canberra, Australia.
The Cupping Room
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Together with a great vibe and fun atmosphere, The Cupping Room is a mandatory experience for all coffee devotees. Mr Sasa Sestic set up ONA Coffee in Fyshwick the former Olympic handball athlete has grown the business to include the Manuka shop and a popular Cupping Room in Civic.
He also founded Project Origin which works with producers and co-ops. One can taste things in the coffee there which one would never expect; one can taste raspberries and blueberries being rich in flavour without being bitter. Hip, airy joint with outdoor seats and exposed rafters, serving up boutique coffee and cafe staples.
Location: 1/1-13 University Ave, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
Turkish Halal Pide House
It has an extensive menu of dishes inspired by Turkish cuisine, but bids are in the speciality that offer a choice of over ten delicious toppings. It offers a professional catering service and one can choose from a selection of the menu items that are presented in a snack-sized portions for ease of serving and eating.
Delivery to 15km is free, and a small fee of $25 applies outside the area. It offers a wide range of delicious dishes, which can be ordered online hassle-free. The Turkish Pide House pride it selves on supplying a very best of Turkish cuisine in Canberra in the restaurant or as a takeaway for one to enjoy at home or elsewhere.
Location: 47 Novar St, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Canberra, Australia.
Olive at Mawson
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Settling into a capital of Australia John went on to own and run some of Canberra's finest diners. After some very stressful challenges with hard work from all involved, Olive at Mawson was born.This boutique restaurant specialises in the Mediterranean cuisine. It’s a popular local restaurant that is worth seeking out within the concrete wasteland of Southlands.
One gets greeted as a family, treated like customers, are the only ones there, and fed like being famished. The decor is a pedestrian, but the friendly service with tasty food is all one can see through all around. Its all an award winning upscale eatery and wine bar, dishing up with hearty stone-baked pizza, steaks and seafood.
Location: Southlands Shopping Centre, Mawson Dr, Canberra, ACT 2607, Australia.
Sage Restaurant
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A hum of efficient industry pervades two smartly decorated rooms, and diners which look ready to enjoy a good meal. The Harrington brothers, who owns the place, are an ambitious pair, with their garden supplying much of the produce. The menu has the two six-course degustation options ($95 or $145 with matching wines), one ‘‘herbivore’’ which technically meaning eating only plants, but detecting some dairy too and ''omnivore'' meaning eating everything.
This brings joy to the hearts of vegetarians. The menu and wine list mark Sage out, and the service reinforces that lovely impression. Staff is clearly very keen on what they do and ooze confidence and competence, to make Sage a very pleasant place to eat.
Location: Gorman House Arts Center, Batman St, Braddon ACT 2612, Canberra, Australia
Lanterne Rooms, Campbell
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It has an Asian warehouse look with Vietnamese-style lanterns in the main dining room and louvered doors creating four semi-private rooms. French-trained Malaysian chef Jeffrey Shim presents mostly the European style dishes with Asian influences. Lantern Rooms are brought to you from the team with being behind The Chairman and Yip.
It's rated one hat in the 2013 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. The service is crisp and friendly, not overbearing, but a very competent. The decor is very tasteful, with as many blends of the different parts of Asia as in the menu, but works well. Tables nicely spaced so one can’t feel crowded there.
Location: 3 Blamey Pl, Campbell ACT 2612, Caberra, Australia.
Aubergine Restaurant, Griffith
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Aubergine serves modern European food in a refined though welcoming atmosphere. The interior design of the restaurant being simple but sophisticated with high ceilings, cedar window frames and white suede highlights. Owner and chef Ben Willis made his mark on the menu, with offerings such as the leek, gruyere and dauphinoise pithivier, fresh dates and Amontillado sherry jus.
Equal care is taken with the dessert menu. Aubergine’s cuisine is a contemporary Australian, much like the contemporaries. It mostly operates on a locavore basis that is sourced locally wherever possible, and defers to what the supplier thinks is the best produce of the day. This means Aubergine menu changes on a daily basis.
Location: 18 Barker St, Griffith ACT 2603, Caberra, Australia.
C Dine Bar, Kingston
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The location affords the views of the lake and canal that runs through the small harbour. The interior light is combined with plush embroidered chairs, crisp napery and immaculate table settings to give a sense of occasion. From kitchen, best, local produce utilised by chef and co-owner Dan Keogh, with seafood sourced from the south coast and meats from the nearby Riverina.
Merimbula oysters shucked to order a classic Kilpatrick, Rockefeller natural of course. Starters as salmon, mussels, and jalapeno. For mains it comes the king prawns, dipping salt, red wine jus and béarnaise; and a seafood pie floater with clams, mussels, prawns, and fish with mushy peas.
Location: 17/19 Eastlake Parade, Kingston ACT 2604, Canberra, Australia.
Wild Duck Fine Asian Cuisine, Kingston
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While you could order from a standard menu, the banquets are of the gold standard and to be selected for two, four or more diners. The lamb shank in golden sand or the Bi Feng tang ocean trout wildmushrooms, duck breast with Asian vegetables. Asian restaurants not usually noted for their desserts, but Wild Duck brings the best of both worlds.
One can try the unusual banana split that being said comes with a twist, it boasts bitter is served with raspberry sorbet. Best dish is a pork, bell in lotus leaf, cooked in three kinds of soy sauce with rock sugar and mixed spices wrapped in Lotus leaves and served with sticky rice.
Location: 77-78/71 Giles St, Kingston ACT 2604, Canberra, Australia.
Pulp Kitchen, Ainslie
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In Pulp Kitchen, main focus is to source quality ingredients and to prepare them in a simple European bistro style and setting that provides an and honest eating experience. Pulp Kitchen is an inner north eatery with an infused atmosphere. Slightly distressed café chairs, tables, polished concrete floors with muted browns create a landscape in which unpretentious waiting staff navigate the room being always friendly yet not intrusive.
Pulp Kitchen owner and Maitre ‘D Daniel Giordani insists on creating a place that delivers honest, traditional style bistro food in casual and comfortable environment. Flavours do not deviate far from an expected French or Italian palates.
Location: 1 Wakefield Garden, Ainslie, ACT 2602, Canberra, Australia.
Ellacure Restaurant and Bar, Bruce
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Service is a strong point here, familiar but super-friendly and helpful, accommodating whatever one is after. The wine is accessible in some good options by the glass at good prices, succinct, nicely chosen and with a proper nod to the locals. The Ellacure is in a rather unlikely location, in the base of an apartment building in Australian Institute of Sport precinct near Bruce Stadium, but again, it’s a testament to service, set-up and the just-right pitching of this place which is always busy. Overall an inventive Modern European dining in an upscale space with an open kitchen and outdoor tables.
Location: 2/21 Battye St, Bruce ACT 2617, Canberra Australia.