The preferences of 500 Australian chefs and restaurant owners have formed the inaugural The Australian Financial Review Top 100 Restaurant Awards, with Sydney’s Sepia nabbing the top spot. Directed by noted Fairfax food critics Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack, the awards traversed Australia to find places worth eating as farflung as Victoria’s Beechworth (Provenance), South Australia’s Seppeltsfield (Hentley Farm) and Western Australia’s Cowaramup (Vasse Felix Restaurant).
As well as the awards held in Melbourne on Monday night, The Australian Financial Review’s Top Restaurant Awards is running a two-week program of special events at high-end restaurants across the country.
The Top 10 restaurants were:
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 Seiobo NSW
17. Garagistes (closed April 2015) TA
18. The Town Mouse VIC
19. Cafe Paci NSW
20. Cafe 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 (Sydney) 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 (Melbourne) VIC
43. Coda VIC
44. Magill Estate Restaurant SA
45. Restaurant Amus WA
46. Bar Lourinha 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 Moder (Melbourne) VIC
55. Yoshii NSW
56. Moon Park NSW
57. Fish Face NSW
58. Guillaume NSW
59. LuMi NSW
60. Africola SA
61. Spice Temple (Sydney) 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 Bar & Dining Room WA
88. ACME NSW
89. Spice Temple (Melbourne) VIC
90. Longrain (Melbourne) 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 (Sydney) NSW
97. 4Fourteen NSW
98. Buon Ricordo NSW
99. Da Noi VIC
100. Lalla Rookh WA
Photo: Sepia’s Martin Benn, Fairfax food critics Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack