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3 July, 2018

Fairfax’s AFR Unveils Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants

Now in its fourth year, the annual Australia’s Top Restaurant Awards presented by The Australian Financial Review were held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales last night.

And the big winner for the night was Brae (main photo) in the regional town of Birregurra, some 130 kilometres south-west of Melbourne. The eatery won best restaurant, best Victorian restaurant and top service team. The full list of winners are a the bottom of this article.

Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants are chosen by Australia’s top chefs and restaurateurs from an overall list of 500 restaurants compiled by The Financial Review’s top critics and editors.

This year, one in five restaurants are new to the top 100 list. There has been a real resurgence from Adelaide and South Australia’s wine-growing regions, and more from Tasmania than ever before, going from two to five in a confirmation of ‘the MONA effect’. Notable restaurants new to the top 100 list include some young-gun chefs such as Cormac Bradley at Gauge in Brisbane, Oskar Rossi at Fico in Tasmania, Nick Stanton at Ramblr and Ben Sears and Eun Hee An at Paper Bird in Sydney.

In other categories, Josh Niland from Sydney’s Saint Peter was named Australia’s top chef. Best newcomer went to Agrarian Kitchen Eatery in Tasmania and Sydney’s Firedoor won the The Rare Medium Award presented by Meat & Livestock Australia for setting new standards of excellence in red meat cookery.

Australia’s top 100 restaurants:

1 Brae, Birregurra VIC

2 Ester NSW

3 Saint Peter NSW

4 Attica VIC

5 Africola SA

6 Momofuku Seiobo NSW

7 Sixpenny NSW

8 Embla VIC

9 Sepia NSW

10 Fleet, Brunswick Heads NSW

11 Firedoor NSW

12 Igni, Geelong VIC

13 LuMi Bar & Dining NSW

14 Franklin TAS

15 Fred’s NSW

16 Restaurant Hubert NSW

17 Mr Wong NSW

18 Flower Drum VIC

19 Tipo 00 VIC

20 Anchovy VIC

21 Bennelong NSW

22 Fratelli Paradiso NSW

23 Orana SA

24 Quay NSW

25 Automata NSW

26 Billy Kwong NSW

27 The Bridge Room NSW

28 10 William St NSW

29 Tetsuya’s NSW

30 The Apollo NSW

31 Cirrus Dining NSW

32 Agrarian Kitchen Eatery TAS

33 Supernormal VIC

34 LP’s Quality Meats NSW

35 Minamishima VIC

36 Sean’s Panaroma NSW

37 Cutler & Co VIC

38 Golden Century NSW

39 Cumulus Inc. VIC

40 Gerard’s Bistro QLD

41 Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield SA

42 Lee Ho Fook VIC

43 Paper Bird NSW

44 Ramblr VIC

45 Templo TAS

46 Biota Dining, Bowral NSW

47 Gauge QLD

48 The Summertown Aristologist, Summertown SA

49 Amaru VIC

50 Bar Lourinhã VIC

51 Wasabi Restaurant and Bar, Noosa Heads QLD

52 est. NSW

53 Icebergs Dining Room and Bar NSW

54 Marion VIC

55 Oakridge Restaurant, Coldstream VIC

56 Oscillate Wildly NSW

57 Paper Daisy, Cabarita Beach NSW

58 Aubergine ACT

59 Bentley Restaurant & Bar NSW

60 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal VIC

61 France-Soir VIC

62 Kisume VIC

63 Lulu La Delizia WA

64 Magill Estate Restaurant SA

65 Ezard VIC

66 French Saloon VIC

67 Ides VIC

68 Osteria Oggi SA

69 Pt. Leo Estate, Merricks VIC

70 Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sydney NSW

71 Stanbuli NSW

72 Cafe Di Stasio VIC

73 Chin Chin, Sydney NSW

74 Cho Cho San NSW

75 Estelle by Scott Pickett VIC

76 Fico TAS

77 Fino at Seppeltsfield, Seppeltsfield SA

78 MoVida, Melbourne VIC

79 nel. NSW

80 Ormeggio at the Spit NSW

81 Porteño NSW

82 Botanic Gardens Restaurant SA

83 Millbrook Winery Restaurant, Jarrahdale WA

84 Monster Kitchen and Bar ACT

85 Peel St SA

86 Pilu at Freshwater NSW

87 The Pot by Emma McCaskill SA

88 The Salopian Inn, McLaren Vale SA

89 Aloft TAS

90 Chin Chin, Melbourne VIC

91 Provenance, Beechworth VIC

92 Shōbōsho SA

93 Vue de Monde VIC

94 Yarri Restaurant + Bar, Dunsborough WA

95 ARIA, Sydney NSW

96 Long Chim, Perth WA

97 Sokyo NSW

98 Rick Shores, Burleigh Heads QLD

99 Lûmé VIC

100 FermentAsian, Tanunda SA

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