A one-minute guide to elevated dining in Braddon
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Looking to ramp up dinner with something a little fancier? This one-minute guide has you covered with five options in Braddon that are sure to tickle your tastebuds.
BLACK FIRE
‘Fuego Nero’ ensures the meats, seafood, and vegetables of this popular restaurant are rustically cooked on an open fire roast, a wood fire oven charcoal grill. You can smell the deliciousness emanating from within as you walk down the street. While carnivores are obviously a big section of the clientele, there really is no better way to eat seafood or vegetables than straight off the grill.
BRADDON MERCHANT
Staking out a prime corner underneath Midnight Hotel on Mort Street, here is a bustling place which is part restaurant, part deli, part grocer. The focus is on locally sourced seafood and meat which is cooked and presented at the fine-dining end of the spectrum. The faro and buckwheat risotto with local mushrooms, truffled Pecorino and burnt sage butter gets a special mention.
CORELLA
Fine dining with a decidedly Australian bent—where else would you go for a starter of sourdough and butter mixed with a hint of Vegemite? Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it. The native and bush flavours are incorporated right through to desserts and work beautifully in a small space (just 30 seats) with interiors which echo the bush palette. This place is a little gem. Impressive cocktail and wine list too.
EIGHTYSIX
The restaurant that signalled Braddon’s reinvention into a dining hotspot, eightysix’s Caramel Popcorn Sundae graced the cover of Gourmet Traveller in 2016and is still a firm favourite. Order from the blackboard wall before the dish you want runs out, or put yourselves in the hands of the chefs with their tasting menu. Our picki s the black chicken with buttermilk coleslaw. Always.
ITALIAN AND SONS
Canberra was built by migrants and has proud Italian heritage, and Pasquale Trimboli has sett he bar sky high at this iconic eatery. Italian and Sons puts a touch of finesse on rustic Italian fare and is so popular you’ll need to book early. If you don’t leave room for the tiramisu then you have no one to blame but yourself. We love ending the meal with a digestif at Bacaro, the gorgeous little bar out the back.
Feature image: Corella. Photography by @ohboicreative
