The Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Perth and WA

Western Australia’s fine dining scene is a vibrant landscape of flavours, where world-class chefs transform local produce into unforgettable dishes. 

In Perth, Wildflower delivers a degustation inspired by the Noongar six seasons against sweeping city views. Down by the water in Cottesloe, Gibney pairs coastal serenity with brasserie-inspired classics. 

Venture south and find winery restaurants plating multi-course affairs overlooking rolling hills and estate vineyards—where the view is as refined as the food. 

Here’s your guide to the best fine dining restaurants in Perth and WA, and the unforgettable experiences they deliver.

The Best Fine Dining Restaurants in Perth

Gibney

Set above the pristine shores of Cottesloe, Gibney delivers a refined take on the old-world brasserie, with all the polish you’d expect from a coastal fine diner. Think tableside preparations, WA seafood served on silver trays, an absinthe fountain and crisp linen for days. In the Main Dining Room, scalloped banquettes curve around white-clothed tables, while the open kitchen ensures there’s always a little drama with dinner.

40 Marine Parade, Cottesloe

Twenty Seats 

Let’s get it out of the way, there aren’t exactly 20 seats at Twenty Seats. The name is more of a mission statement: to keep the lens focused, to strive for quality over quantity, and to give each and every diner unbroken attention. Here, veteran chef Todd Stuart (longtime owner-chef of Petite Mort) delivers 10 intricate courses, ranging from snacks to eat with your hands right through to pretty petit fours.

There are composed dishes (a delicate tartlet filled with lightly smoked salmon, beetroot, roe and yuzu cream, say) among more street-style offerings (fried chicken dusted with powdered citrus) to start, while larger plates look to France with a contemporary edge. Think lobster bisque whipped into a foamy sauce for medium-rare salmon with leeks.

301 Lord Street, Highgate

Andly Private Kitchen

There’s a sense of occasion from the moment you step into Chinese fine dining restaurant Andly Private Kitchen. Once you’ve picked your degustation menu and any additions in advance, then wired the money, what awaits is an experience like no other. Co-owner Olivia De Almeida sets the tone with assured, gracious service, while Li ‘Andly’ Yuekua delivers precise hit after hit from the open kitchen. 

A glance at the kitchen might offer a glimpse of Yuekua preparing a flash-fried lobster supplement for tables taking full advantage of the modest BYO corkage fee, but what’s most impressive is the sense of experiencing something entirely new every time you visit. 

Unit 1/50 Oxford Close, West Leederville 

Balthazar

Behind a worn wooden door in the art-deco Lawson Apartments, Balthazar hums with old-world charm. Venetian blinds shield diners from the street; inside, it’s all dark timber, clinking glasses and dishes with a European soul. A shortcrust tart layered with smoked ricotta and seven varieties of mushroom is a standout—earthy, creamy and utterly elegant. The wine list, curated by owners Dan Morris and Emma Ferguson, leans terroir-driven and minimal intervention.

6 The Esplanade, Perth

Nobu

There’s an unmistakable hum at Nobu Perth—an energy fuelled by celebration, cocktails and the promise of something indulgent. While signature dishes like the black cod miso or yellowtail sashimi with jalapeño—which give a deft nod to the crossover of Japanese technique and South American flavours—draw fans from near and far, but the signature omakase is where the kitchen really shines. And while the black cod miso gets a lot of glory, the pepper-crusted Glacier 51 toothfish with balsamic teriyaki could be a crown-stealer.

Crown Perth, Great Eastern Highway, Burswood

Harry’s at Conti

Inside the grand old Conti family home, chef Harry Yakinthou is writing a new chapter at—one rooted in his Cypriot heritage and local WA produce. This is refined, story-driven cooking: cigars and caviar to begin, then dishes like pan-fried snapper with orange and thyme or pork encased in clay and smashed tableside. The room, like the food, blends history with theatre.

529 Wanneroo Rd, Woodvale

Wildflower

At the top of the historic State Buildings, Wildflower delivers a refined and thoughtful tribute to the six seasons of the Noongar calendar. Chef Paul Wilson has a way with vegetables, which shows very clearly in a deeply savoury mushroom and black garlic chawanmushi. He’s no slouch with meat, either, with lamb tartare packing a proper punch with muntries, ice plant and sunrise lime. Emma Farrelly’s wine list ties it all together with graceful precision.

1 Cathedral Avenue, Perth

Fleur at The Royal

Set within the grandeur of The Royal Hotel, the dining room of Fleur marries opulence with modern accents and lavish floral arrangements. By night, moody lighting and cosy banquette seating make this prime territory for occasion dining or that long-awaited catch-up.

A six-course, seasonal tasting delivers a generous stretch of the menu, though the ability to pick and mix from the à la carte is welcome. The wine list is appropriately deep with a marriage of contemporary, Western Australian producers and canons of fine, imported wine. 

531 Wellington St, Perth

Hearth Restaurant & Bar

Tables with river views are coveted at Hearth, but sliding into a booth is no consolation prize. Chef Brian Cole proudly uses produce grown the length and breadth of Western Australia. Linley Valley Pork, kangaroo, wagyu beef and octopus are celebrated with equal enthusiasm as native ingredients like salt bush, desert lime and rosella.

While the menu changes seasonally, standouts might include triple-cheese ravioli or a tender slab of slow-cooked pork topped with rhubarb. And whether you’re local or not, maybe book a night (you’re at the Ritz-Carlton after all), for a short journey home, more of those Swan River views, and breakfast back at Hearth in the morning.

1 Barrack Street, Perth

The Best Fine Dining Restaurants in the South West

Wills Domain 

At Wills Domain, the painterly views, precise cooking and genial atmosphere make for a reliably excellent winery lunch. First, that view: 60 hectares of vines and meadow, dappled with every colour in nature’s paintbox and best enjoyed—if weather permits—from the al fresco terrace.

Then there’s the food. Served as a five- or eight-course tasting journey (or a la carte if you prefer to keep your own hands on the wheel), each dish is built with understated finesse. Add any of the estate’s wines—their sparkling is exceptional—and you’ve ticked every box required for a very good time.

17 Brash Road, Yallingup

De’sendent

WAGFG Regional Restaurant of the Year, De’sendent is one of Margaret River’s few fine-diners not connected to a top-flight winery. Inside, Chef Evan Hayter, who built his reputation at Arimia, is serving an hours long degustation in a sleek room where a wide kitchen counter is the focal point. From his vantage point behind that counter, Hayter meticulously plates intricate dishes, most of them showcasing just-landed seafood he’s procured from local fisherfolk. 

Shark Bay scallops come nestled in a parcel with black garlic and cauliflower puree, while marron salad makes its appearance as a tiny tartlet made from charcoal brioche, alongside a carrot tartare atop an airy crisp made from golden kelp. The wine chat here is approachable, and there is none of the pomp and self-seriousness you sometimes expect in these kinds of settings. 

3/152 Bussell Highway, Margaret River

Leeuwin Estate

It would be easy to pigeonhole Leeuwin Estate as merely a classic winery restaurant, but there’s so much else going on here. Under chef Dan Gedge, there’s a vibrancy that comes by way of seasonal, local produce. Sit outside on the verandah if weather permits and take in the view of the Karri trees and estate grounds, all while sipping the Art Series Chardonnay (their flagship wine).

The seafood game is particularly strong here. Gedge’s early career was spent at The Seafood Restaurant, Rick Stein’s Cornish mothership, and he can undoubtedly handle the best of the West Australian catch. A pan-Asian dish of Augusta-landed dhufish atop cabbage, with XO sauce and notes of dashi, is inventive yet restrained and, importantly, showcases perfectly cooked fish. 

Stevens Road, Witchcliffe

Voyager Estate 

The menu at WAGFG Regional Restaurant of the Year, Voyager Estate, is based on the season in the vineyard–finely pitched for those here to experience wine and food—perhaps in that order. On the plate you might find house-baked bread with Voyager-mite butter and powdered burnt leek, or bite-size Fremantle Octopus with strawberry gum glaze and fermented zucchini.

And while this is one of the more formal expressions of fine dining in the region (running to around three hours in their grand Dutch colonial surrounds), there are moments of levity: the offer of a chunk of bread to mop up a koji cream served with beef, and the server gleefully sharing their most-loved dishes. 

41 Stevens Road, Margaret River

Vasse Felix

There’s not much in the simple menu descriptions at Vasse Felix to hint at the creativity you’re about to experience. You might expect truffles and caviar here, but not the decidedly modern riot of flavours Cameron Jones (WAGFG Regional Chef of the Year) is delivering.

A dish described as ‘kangaroo, ssamjang, rice’ turns out to be a bam-pop-pow of flavours and textures, the raw meat supple and layered with sweet fermented bean and chilli paste, and dusted with tangy bush tomato. The ubiquitous raw kingfish entree is made new again, bathed in rhubarb, ginger and pink peppercorn, the quality of the fish reminiscent of that you’d find in Tokyo’s best sushi bars.

The room, too, gives off classic winery vibes, with soaring timber ceilings and windows overlooking the vast vineyard holding–a reason for a long lunch in itself. 

Cnr Caves Road and Tom Cullity Drive, Cowaramup