So where is Australia’s Top Restaurant for 2015?
The first ever AFR Australia’s Top 100 Restaurant list was unveiled this month. This list is unique because it is the only award which is decided by peer voting.
The full list of 500 venues compiled by the editors and reviewers of the Good Food Guide and industry leaders, from across Australia are voted on by each other to determine the Top 100.
This year’s top spot was taken by last year’s Restaurant of the Year at the SMH Good Food Guide, so continues a very busy year for the Sydney restaurant, Sepia.
Sepia’s Chef Martin Benn was named Australia’s Top Chef, Chef of the Year in the Gourmet Traveller Awards and the Hottest Chef in the Weekend Australian Magazine’s 50 Hot Restaurants in Australia guide.
Food writer, Jill Dupleix, said; “We’re really thrilled that the Top 100 are such a mixed bag, from high to low, big to small, city and regional. It’s also very pleasing that the chefs haven’t just gone for the new and the hip, but really recognised and respected those long-lasting, enduring restaurants that give every city its heart and soul – Café Di Stasio and the Flower Drum in Melbourne.”
SMH reviewer, Terry Durack, said “The chefs and restaurateurs have chosen the Top 100 restaurants because they are the very best at what they do; and because they really deliver in terms of great produce, flavour, skill, seasonality and creativity. And I love that Belle’s Hot Chicken made it into the list, so it’s not just about brilliantly sophisticated dining, but about small but serious places doing one thing well.”
Here is The Top 100 Restaurants for 2015
1. Sepia NSW
2. Attica VIC
3. Quay NSW
4. Brae, Birregurra VIC
5. Cutler & Co VIC
6. Vue de Monde VIC
7. Cumulus Inc. VIC
8. Sixpenny NSW
9. Mr Wong NSW
10. Tetsuya’s NSW
11. Flower Drum VIC
12. Rockpool NSW
13. Bentley Restaurant & Bar NSW
14. Ester NSW
15. MoVida VIC
16. Momofuku Seiōbo NSW
17. Garagistes (closed) TAS
18. The Town Mouse VIC
19. Café Paci NSW
20. Café Di Stasio VIC
21. 10 William St NSW
22. Saint Crispin VIC
23. Porteno NSW
24. Supernormal VIC
25. Est. NSW
26. The Bridge Room NSW
27. Estelle VIC
28. Lee Ho Fook VIC
29. Rockpool Bar & Grill NSW
30. Lake House, Daylesford VIC
31. Biota Dining, Bowral NSW
32. Billy Kwong NSW
33. Marque NSW
34. Franklin TAS
35. Fratelli Paradiso NSW
36. Esquire QLD
37. Golden Century NSW
38. Monopole NSW
39. Sean’s Panaroma NSW
40. France-Soir VIC
41. Chin Chin VIC
42. Rockpool Bar & Grill VIC
43. Coda VIC
44. Magill Estate Restaurant SA
45. Restaurant Amusé WA
46. Bar Lourinhã VIC
47. Orana SA
48. The Apollo NSW
49. Lau’s Family Kitchen VIC
50. Ezard VIC
51. Pilu at Freshwater NSW
52. Icebergs Dining Room & Bar NSW
53. Wasabi Restaurant & Bar QLD
54. Pei Modern VIC
55. Yoshii NSW
56. Moon Park NSW
57. Fish Face (closed) NSW
58. Guillaume NSW
59. LuMi NSW
60. Africola SA
61. Spice Temple NSW
62. Provenance, Beechworth VIC
63. Pendolino NSW
64. Cho Cho San NSW
65. Il Bacaro VIC
66. Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield SA
67. Ormeggio at the Spit NSW
68. Nomad NSW
69. Tonka VIC
70. Grossi Florentino VIC
71. Urbane QLD
72. Oscillate Wildly NSW
73. Sokyo NSW
74. Gerard’s Bistro QLD
75. ARIA Restaurant NSW
76. Gingerboy VIC
77. Vasse Felix Restaurant, Cowaramup WA
78. Luxembourg VIC
79. Belle’s Hot Chicken VIC
80. The European VIC
81. Ms G’s NSW
82. Bodega NSW
83. MoVida NSW
84. Moon Under Water VIC
85. Ethos Eat Drink TAS
86. Izakaya Den VIC
87. Print Hall WA
88. ACME NSW
89. Spice Temple VIC
90. Longrain VIC
91. Epocha VIC
92. Peel St SA
93. El Publico WA
94. Ten Minutes By Tractor, Main Ridge VIC
95. Aubergine ACT
96. Longrain NSW
97. 4Fourteen NSW
98. Buon Ricordo NSW
99. Da Noi VIC
100. Lalla Rookh WA
Rachelle Williams, The Green Food Safety Coach.