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Best restaurants in Darwin for all occasions


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Darwin’s best restaurants add a healthy dollop of spice and experimentation to cuisines you might have tried before.

Asian markets, hipster cafes and jovial Greek tavernas meet high-end restaurants, perfect for sampling wild ingredients such as banana prawns, crocodiles and kangaroo. Here is our guide to the best places to eat in Darwin.

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Little Miss Korea

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Smith Street Mall
For authentic, budget-friendly Asian delights, make a beeline for the arcades around the Smith Street mall.

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CHOW
Chow is a bolthole of authentic Vietnamese food.

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Hanuman, Darwin
THAI - INDIAN - NONYA

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The Noodle House
Noodle House is notable for its Chinese stir-fry recipes.

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YOTS
Traditional Greek cuisine, fresh seafood, coffee and deserts. Dine in and take away available

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Pee Wee's at the Point
Appealing dishes such as buffalo carpaccio, tempeh bao buns and crocodile wrapped in betel leaf celebrate Territory produce.

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CHAR
An equally charming night out can be had at Char, an upmarket surf-and-turf restaurant in historic Admiralty House.

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Wharf 1
For the best crispy barramundi in Darwin drop in on Wharf 1 at the waterfront.

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Pepperberry
One of the town’s best-rated restaurants can be found in one of Darwin’s top-rated hotels, PepperBerry at The Hilton Darwin.

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Nightcliff Foreshore
The iconic Nightcliff Foreshore features Teardrop Coffee and Cucina Sotto Le Stelle.

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Hot Tamale
For a spicy, funky Mexican feed down on the water, look no further than Hot Tamale.

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Crustaceans on the Wharf
A classic surf and turf restaurant on the Darwin waterfront at Stokes Hill Wharf.

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The Oyster Bar
If you’ve staked money that Darwin is ‘not an oyster kind of palace’, put your cash on one of the waterside tables of the Oyster Bar.

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Darwin Ski Club
For an unencumbered beverage and an open outlook over a classic Top End sunset, many Darwinites will rightfully recommend Darwin Ski Club.

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Deckchair Cinema
The open-air Deckchair Cinema (April to October) screens an intelligent array of films seven nights a week (on the Darwin Waterfront).

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Lola's Pergola
Lola’s Pergola is a cabaret and carnival-themed restaurant and bar in the harbour-side precinct of Cullen Bay.

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Nirvana
If you like to mix spice with music, then head to Nirvana on a Tuesday evening.

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Ella by Minoli
A luxurious take on modern Sri Lankan cuisine.
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