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WA’s best new restaurants main image/GIF. Pictures: Supplied

The top 12: Western Australia’s best new restaurant openings of 2024

From intimate secret restaurants to sprawling regional pubs, 2024’s most impressive newcomers reflect the continued diversification of WA’s food scene.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Imogen Mitchen and Corey Rozario are doing great things with their pop-up at Margaret River skate park.
14.5/20

This freewheeling Margaret River pop-up is blazing a new trail for modern Asian cooking

While BMX bandits practice bar spins and grommets drop-in, an emerging cooking talent is serving game-changing dahl, punchy pickles and other bold Burmese cooking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Miki’s is a specialist tempura restaurant in Margaret River that serves tasting menus that celebrate southwest ingredients through a Japanese lens (and vice-versa).
15/20

East meets South West: This kitchen’s singular, thrilling style of Japanese cooking could only exist in Margaret River

Hiding in plain sight on bustling Bussell Highway, this bijou specialist tempura restaurant is one of regional WA’s most essential dining experiences.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Pre-service in the De’sendent kitchen.
15/20

It’s a hat! New venue brings big-night-out fireworks to Margaret River

The second hat has been awarded to a WA restaurant! This one has a deep focus on local ingredients, a thrilling drinks program – and one of 2024’s most extraordinary desserts.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
Voyager Estate Margaret River. Restaurant review by Rob Broadfield.

Voyager Estate: A Margaret River star with exciting food, a new chef

There’s a sense of pageantry about the experience not found in many restaurants. The food is delightful and memorable.

  • Rob Broadfield
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Rosie’s Deli isn’t haute cuisine - it’s the real deal

Rosie’s Deli is not so much a restaurant as dinner at a mate’s place. And what a dinner it is.

  • Rob Broadfield
Korean chicken is bathed in a glistening glaze of gochujang-based sauce.

Wanna go to the pub? Margaret River Brewhouse is a watering hole of stature

This great new “old school” pub is a melting pot of working men and women with their kids and mates, doing nothing more or less than sharing life.

  • Rob Broadfield
Sashimi, Miki's Open Kitchen, Margaret River.

Miki's Open Kitchen

The art of Japanese frying

The Leeuwin Estate winery restaurant, Margaret River, Western Australia.

Leeuwin Estate Restaurant

The art of fine wine and food

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