Best Date Night Restaurants in Perth 2026

Wildflower plates the Noongar six-season calendar from a glass room on top of the State Buildings — wattleseed, Geraldton wax, marron, Margaret River produce that turns over as the season does. The view runs across the city to the river, and the lighting does the rest.

For a date that needs to land, this is the grand gesture: a degustation, matched Western Australian wines, and a window table booked two to three weeks out.

Perth's most romantic room and its most serious native kitchen — book the degustation three weeks out for the date you want remembered.

David Thompson — the Australian chef who took Bangkok's Nahm to the top of Asia's 50 Best — runs his loudest, most generous kitchen in a State Buildings basement. The chilli is real, the fish-sauce caramel is sharper than anything else in town, and the menu reads like a Bangkok street: jungle curry, grilled-fish larb, son-in-law eggs.

Sharing plates, cold beer and a soundtrack make it the date for a second or third dinner, once you have both admitted you sweat over good food.

The most fun on this list and the best Thai in the city — go for the date where you want to laugh, not whisper.

One floor below Wildflower, Santini does the confident Italian a date can always agree on: hand-rolled tagliolini, wood-fired fish, a long negroni list and marble everywhere. The banquettes are spaced for leaning in rather than overhearing.

It is the safe-in-the-best-sense choice — no wrong order, no awkward menu, and a room good-looking enough to feel like an occasion.

Italian a date will never argue with, in Perth's best-looking hotel dining room — book a banquette for a low-stakes first dinner.

Must has poured one of Australia's deepest by-the-glass lists on Beaufort Street since 2003 — French bistro plates, a charcuterie counter, steak frites, and a downstairs cellar bar built for the slow second half of an evening.

Tight tables, a steady hum and candlelight make it the room for a long, talkative dinner that you are in no hurry to end.

The Beaufort Street wine bar that makes a long, talkative dinner easy — sit downstairs for the date that turns into a late one.

Balthazar has held a dim, low-ceilinged room off The Esplanade since 1999, with a thousand-plus-bin wine list and modern Australian cooking that has never chased a trend. The bar takes walk-ins for the indecisive.

It sits a short walk from Elizabeth Quay, which makes the river loop the natural after-dinner move.

The old-guard CBD room with the city's most serious cellar — book it when the date is really about the wine.