The best restaurants on the Sunshine Coast right now

The Sunshine Coast's dining scene is anchored by Noosa's Hastings Street — one of Australia's most concentrated precincts of quality restaurants — but extends through the hinterland towns and the Maroochydore waterfront in a way that makes the region one of the most rewarding Queensland destinations for serious food travel.

Wasabi

The Japanese restaurant on Quamby Place in Noosa Heads is the most accomplished restaurant on the Sunshine Coast — Nao Ogawa's contemporary Japanese cooking, the private sake collection, and the setting overlooking the Noosa River channel combine to create an experience that consistently rates among Queensland's best dining rooms. The tasting menu is the right way to experience it.

Locale Noosa

The Italian-Australian restaurant on Hastings Street delivers the kind of pasta and produce-driven cooking that Noosa visitors have been demanding for a decade — the house-made pasta, the Mooloolaba seafood, and the Italian wine list that covers the peninsula and the islands create a coherent and satisfying evening.

Spirit House

The Southeast Asian restaurant in its rainforest garden setting at Yandina is one of Australia's most original restaurants — the cooking draws authentically on Thai and Vietnamese culinary traditions, the tropical garden setting creates an environment unlike any other restaurant in the country, and the cooking school attached to it has taught Sunshine Coast residents the techniques for 25 years.

Bistro C

The Noosa Beach-facing restaurant at the Noosa Beach House hotel delivers the best water-view dining on the Sunshine Coast — the Australian seafood, the wood-fired cooking, and the terrace that overlooks the Noosa surf break from the Hastings Street side make it the obvious booking for visiting family groups.

The Long Apron, Spicers Clovelly Estate

The restaurant at Spicers Clovelly Estate in the hinterland at Montville is one of Queensland's most accomplished fine dining rooms outside Brisbane — the multi-course tasting menu showcases Sunshine Coast hinterland and Noosa produce with the technique and care that the setting — a beautifully restored country estate — deserves.

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