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Best BYO Restaurants

in Brisbane

Out and about and looking to bring your own drinks to a restaurant? Check out this list, from a chic suburban French bistro to no-frills local secrets - it has got you covered with 25+ of Brisbane's best dining venues that are BYO. 

Kent Road Bistro
Kent Road Bistro, Wooloowin
Kent Road Bistro offers an affordable fine dining experience with Mod Oz cuisine influenced by French and Italian fare
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KatsuCo Japanese Restaurant
Katsuco Sherwood
This Japanese restaurant specialises in katsu - panko-crumbed, deep fried, premium cuts of meat and seafood
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Phat Pho
Phat Pho Newstead
Phat Pho is a bustling Vietnamese street food eatery that inhabits a landmark 1920s shop on the border of Newstead and Teneriffe
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Ichiban Sushi
Ichiban Sushi, West Village
One of a kind, Ichiban Sushi is a cool Japanese eatery with a huge variety of meals and drinks, that is also BYO friendly
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Sing's Asian Kitchen
Sing’s Asian Kitchen at Rosalie is one of the inner west’s long-lasting gems
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Ciro's Italian Restaurant
Ciro’s Italian Restaurant Auchenflower
Ciro’s Italian Restaurant is a tiny hidden gem of an Italian trattoria found in an Auchenflower side street
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Kathmandu Newa Chhe'n
Kathmandu Newa Chhe'n
This colourful flag-trimmed cottage in Paddington provides authentic Nepalese cuisine
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Mu'ooz
Mu'ooz West End
Mu’ooz, the long-time fave Eritrean restaurant of Moorooka, has upped roots and moved into a quaint Queenslander in West End.
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Ruean Phae Thai Restaurant
Ruean Phae Thai Restaurant is a tiny authentic piece of Thailand found in a quaint old garage workshop
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Caravanserai
Caravanserai West End
This hilltop cottage lit by colourful Turkish lights and candles is an enduring Brisbane favourite
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Arhibu Ethiopian Restaurant
Arhibu Ethiopian Restaurant Moorooka
An authentic Ethiopian/Eritrean restaurant found in an arcade in the heart of Brisbane's Little Africa
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Sichuan Bang Bang
Plate of spicy chicken inside Sichuan Bang Bang Restaurant
Those in search of some authentic spicy Sichuan cuisine in a funky oriental setting should make a beeline for this little gem
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Ethiopian Village
Ethiopian Village Moorooka
Ethiopian Village is a traditional Ethiopian eatery tucked away in the rear of a retro shopping arcade in multicultural Moorooka
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Sunny Doll Japanese Restaurant
Sunny Doll Japanese Restaurant, Hamilton
This hidden gem of a Japanese restaurant in Hamilton offers diners an exquisite range of Japanese cuisine
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Asian Kitchen
Asian Kitchen Tingalpa
Asian Kitchen is an exotic, modern Asian fusion restaurant located in the quiet eastern suburb of Tingalpa.
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Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant
Bamiyan Afghan Restaurant Coorparoo
Traditional Afghan restaurant Bamiyan is an unexpected find in a little strip of shops and eateries in suburban Coorparoo
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Sendok Garpu
Sendok Garpu Indooroopilly
Sendok Garpu is an authentic slice of Indonesia nestled in the corner of an Indooroopilly shopping strip
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Latin Manna
Latin Manna West End
This quirky colourful Colombian restaurant is located in an old West End cottage
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Little Hoi An Vietnamese Restaurant
Little Hoi An Vietnamese Cafe brings all the fresh flavors of Vietnam to an unassuming venue
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Taste of Saffron
Taste of Saffron
Taste of Saffron is a Persian and Mediterranean restaurant serving authentic cuisine in Stones Corner
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Vizzetto Woodfire Pizza
Vizzeto Moorooka
Vizzeto is a pocket-sized pizzeria in Moorooka offering a fusion of Brazilian, Italian and Australian mouth-watering, woodfired pizza
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Yeshi Buna Ethio-African Restaurant
Plate of traditional Ethiopian food on plate inside Yeshi Buna Ethiopian restaurant in Brisbane's Moorooka
Yeshi Buna is a charming little palm-filled Ethiopian restaurant
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Trang
diners sitting outside Trang's restaurant in West End in what used to be the old entrance to the rialto Theatre with the Rialto red neon sign still flashing
Trang Restaurant, housed in the mint green shell of the 1920’s Rialto Theatre is most popular for Vietnamese and Chinese cuisine.
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Dami Japanese Restaurant
Japanese croquettes with sauce
You've probably driven past it many times and never noticed it; the unassuming Japanese restaurant on Logan Road surrounded by car yards
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Pho Inn
Pho Inn Camp Hill's bowl of pho on table
Tucked in the corner of Camp Hill’s Samuel Village, Pho Inn is where the locals go to get their fill of authentic Vietnamese cuisine
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Two Lads Pizzeria
Two Lads Bardon
This cute colonial shop is a coffee nook by day and a pizza bar by night
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