Gastronomy · Banksia Boutique
Chef's Table & Private Dining
Eight seats at the kitchen counter, a tasting menu written each week around Top End produce — wild-caught barramundi, buffalo, native citrus and harbour-side herbs.
The Experience
Designed around the detail
The Chef's Table sits at the pass of our signature kitchen. Executive Chef Mara Ellison narrates each course — where the fish was landed, which farm grew the pepperberry, why the pairing works.
Menus run six or nine courses with matched wines from a cellar of 1,500 labels. For larger parties, two private dining rooms seat ten and twenty with menus written to order — birthdays, proposals and boardroom dinners are our regulars.
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What Is Included
Every detail, considered
Weekly Tasting Menu
Written every Tuesday around the season's best — never the same menu twice in a month.
Sommelier Pairings
Classic, discovery or non-alcoholic pairing flights matched course by course.
Wild-Caught Produce
Barramundi, mud crab and prawns landed in the harbour, buffalo from the floodplains.
Private Dining Rooms
The Harbour Room seats ten, the Banksia Room twenty — bespoke menus, own service team.
Plant-Based Menus
Full vegetarian and vegan tastings given the same craft — not an afterthought.
Occasion Service
Proposals, anniversaries and milestones choreographed discreetly with the kitchen.
A tasting menu is a conversation — the kitchen talks, the wine answers, you listen with a fork.
The Banksia Standard
In Detail
A closer look
Mindil Beach · Darwin NT
How It Works
Simple from first enquiry
Reserve the Counter
Eight seats, two seatings nightly — the diary opens 30 days ahead.
Share Preferences
Dietary notes and occasion details shape the menu before you sit down.
Take Your Seat
Arrive to a welcome pour; the kitchen narrates the evening from the pass.
Take the Menu Home
Your evening's menu, signed, with pairing notes from the sommelier.
The Inclusions
What your booking covers
- Six or nine-course tasting menu with kitchen narration
- Welcome pour and sommelier-matched flights optional
- Full dietary adaptation with 48 hours notice
- Signed menu and pairing notes to take home
- Private room hire with dedicated service team
Rates
Six courses at the counter; nine courses AUD 245. Pairings from AUD 110. Private rooms on quotation.
Enquire & Book Reserve on Booking.com
Flexible rates carry free date changes to 72h before arrival.
Guest Words
“Nine courses and not one misstep. The barramundi course alone justifies the flight to Darwin — and the counter theatre is half the fun.”
Daniel K. — Perth, anniversary dinner
Good to Know
Frequently asked
Ready When You Are
The Top End is waiting
Tell our concierge your dates and we will shape the rest — one message, everything arranged.