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Melbourne’s Attica wins Australia’s Top Restaurant 2016
The Australian Financial Review’s Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants list has been revealed and Melbourne’s Attica has rightfully taken the number one spot.
Another Victoria restaurant, Brae, opened in 2012 by chef Dan Hunter, who also won Chef of the Year, secured second place, with Sepia run by Martin Benn and Vicki Wild, taking this year’s third place and scoring the Top Service Team award.
Co-Director of the Awards Terry Durack congratulated Attica on its win:
“Ben Shewry has built Attica into a unique and personal experience that celebrates all that Australian dining excellence is about. With its passion for just-picked and wild plants, an intuitive use of native produce, and exceptionally warm, sincere service, it deserves every accolade and award it wins – especially this one.”
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Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants presented by Qantas is decided by the chefs and restaurateurs themselves, as opposed to the top 500, which is determined by an Australia-wide panel of Good Food Guide editors.
While the 2016 People’s Award, as voted by the public, has been awarded to Akiba in ACT. The team behind the beloved Sage offers this wonderful fast-paced dining experience highlighting some of the best Asian street food the nation’s capital has to offer. The service, atmosphere and pace of this eatery won it this acclaimed award.
The top 10 list showcases establishments that are redefining fine dining, including the informal, wood-fired Ester in Chippendale at number five, Peter Gilmore’s buzzy Bennelong at number seven, and new-entry Automata at number nine, all in Sydney.
“With restaurants such as Attica, Brae, Quay, Rockpool est 1989, Franklin and Sepia in the top 10 it’s a brilliant moment in time in defining Australian cuisine. The truth is our restaurants are becoming truly and uniquely Australian,” says fellow Co-Director of the Awards Jill Dupleix.
TOP 100 LIST:
Attica
Brae, Birregurra
Sepia
Quay
Ester
Sixpenny
Bennelong
Rockpool est. 1989
Automata
Franklin
Wong
Bentley Restaurant & Bar
The Bridge Room
The Town Mouse
Cumulus Inc.
10 William St
Flower Drum
Cutler & Co
LuMi Bar & Dining
Supernormal
Tipo 00
Tetsuya's
Minamishima
MoVida, Melbourne
Fratelli Paradiso
Billy Kwong
Biota Dining, Bowral
Café Di Stasio
LP's Quality Meats
Momofuku Seiōbo
Porteño
Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sydney
ACME
Embla
Firedoor
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
Chin Chin
est.
The Apollo
Oscillate Wildly
Saint Crispin
Guillaume, Sydney
Fleet, Brunswick Heads
Africola
Restaurant Amusé
Silvereye
Pilu at Freshwater
Moon Park
Bar Lourinhã
Icebergs Dining Room & Bar
Ormeggio at the Spit
Estelle by Scott Pickett
Rockpool Bar & Grill, Melbourne
Golden Century
Spice Temple, Sydney
Sean's Panaroma
Cottage Point Inn
Gerard's Bistro
The European
Monopole
Long Chim Perth
ARIA
Provenance, Beechworth
Coda
Lalla Rookh
Yellow
Luxembourg
Wasabi Restaurant & Bar, Noosa Heads
Master
4Fourteen
Esquire
Muse Restaurant, Pokolbin
Monster Kitchen and Bar
Grossi Florentino Upstairs
Cho Cho San
The Long Apron, Montville
The Press Club
Lucio's
Ethos Eat Drink
Anchovy
Vasse Felix Restaurant, Cowaramup
Lume
Tonka
Mister Jennings
Union Dining
Igni, Geelong
Sokyo
Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield
Fino, Seppeltsfield
Epocha
Il Bacaro
STATE WINNERS:
ACT Monster Kitchen and Bar
NSW Sepia
NT Little Miss Korea
QLD Gerard’s Bistro
SA Africola
TAS Franklin
VIC Attica
WA Restaurant Amusé
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