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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