The Best Restaurants in Perth Right Now

Perth's restaurant scene benefits from extraordinary local produce — the Margaret River region's wine, the Shark Bay seafood (blue swimmer crab, scallops), the Abrolhos Islands' lobster and fish, and the Swan Valley's small-scale agriculture — and a chef community that has grown in confidence and ambition with the city's economic expansion. The isolation that once held Perth's dining back has inverted into a fierce localism and creativity that now characterises the best rooms in the city.

Wildflower — the Como The Treasury Hotel's Wildflower restaurant on the rooftop above the heritage State Buildings provides what is arguably Australia's most ambitious commitment to Western Australian native ingredients, with a tasting menu that follows the six Noongar seasons and uses saltbush, quandong, wattle seed, and bush tomato alongside the premium WA produce. The room and the heritage view make Wildflower Perth's most complete fine dining destination.

Petition Kitchen — in the State Buildings' ground floor, Petition Kitchen and its adjoining wine bar represent Perth's best all-day dining, with a menu of genuine ambition that works across breakfast, lunch, and dinner in an architecturally exceptional heritage space.

Bib and Tucker — the North Fremantle restaurant on the Stirling Highway with views of the Swan River provides some of Perth's finest contemporary Australian cooking in a room with the warmth and character of a neighbourhood restaurant that has earned its reputation. The WA seafood and the wine list's WA focus are the signatures.

Must Winebar — Highgate's Must is Perth's longest-running wine-focused restaurant and one of the most consistently excellent, with a French brasserie menu and the wine list that has set the standard for Perth's wine programme excellence across 25 years. The fromage trolley remains a Must institution.

Boatshed — the Cottesloe location and the Indian Ocean view make Boatshed the most celebrated of Perth's beach-adjacent dining rooms, with a seafood-focused menu that uses the proximity to the ocean as both setting and provenance.

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