If you’re on the hunt for one of the best restaurants on the Gold Coast, you’ve found it. Or, nab a spot at the 15-seat sushi bar where you can interact with the chefs and devour plate after plate of omakase (chef’s selection of market fresh sushi and sashimi).
Behind the expansive bar, you can peer into the glass-enclosed kushiage station the beating heart of the izakaya where smells and smoke wafts as chefs work over robata grills and binchotan charcoal. QT Gold Coast’s signature restaurant, Yamagen is a funky izakaya with one of Queensland's largest Japanese whisky collections and some of the most innovative Japanese cuisine you'll ever taste. Yamagen 7 Staghorn Ave, Surfers Paradise, QLD 4217 Narrowing down the city’s culinary champions was no easy task-from north to south, from fine dining institutions to newly established eateries, here are 24 of the absolute best Gold Coast/Yugambeh language region restaurants right now. But finding the right restaurant to suit that special night out isn’t always an easy task, so the Urban List team is here to help.
There’s no denying the Gold Coast of 2023 is a foodie’s paradise.