Attica gains first place in Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants List
Finally The Australian Financial Review’s Top 100 Restaurants in Australia is here. Revealed on Monday night at The Star, acclaimed restaurant Attica in Ripponlea, Melbourne took out the top spot.
Brae, in rural Melbourne suburb Birregurra, came in second, pushing 2015’s number one Sepia to third place this year.
Presented by Qantas, the list is a fun mix of high-end dining, rustic regional kitchens, trendy inner-urban bistros, and late night wine and cocktail bars.
Terry Durack, co-director of the awards, said the Top 100 for 2016 reflects the fact that chefs vote for those that have earned their respect in all aspects, rather than just for the location of the restaurant or expensive fit-out.
“You can see by those who made it onto the Top 100, the importance the industry places on pure skill, quality, and consistency,” Durack said. “These are our most creative, polished, original restaurants, driven by chefs obsessed with quality.”
The award for exceptional service was won by Sydney’s Sepia, along with Dan Hunter of Brae winning Top Chef for 2016 out of 500 others.
Chosen from 500 restaurant’s by Good Food Guide editors, reviewers and industry experts, the Top 100 are narrowed down by chefs and restaurateurs based on restaurant quality. Focus on showing off Australia’s incredible dining experiences and the local and seasonal produce on offer, cooking techniques among chef’s are growing and evolving, becoming uniquely Australian.
Other awards, People’s Choice, was won by Akiba in Victoria, and State by State winners were:
ACT – Monster Kitchen and Bar
VIC – Attica
SA – Africola
NSW – Sepia
NT – Little Miss Korea
WA – Restaurant Amusé
TAS – Franklin
QLD – Gerard’s Bistro
Fellow c0-director of the awards, Jill Dupleix commented, “the new Top 100 shows that restaurant business models are changing, and the way people dine out is changing”.
Top 100 Restaurants Full List:
1 Attica
2 Brae, Birregurra
3 Sepia
4 Quay
5 Ester
6 Sixpenny
7 Bennelong
8 Rockpool est. 1989
9 Automata
10 Franklin
11 Mr Wong
12 Bentley Restaurant & Bar
13 The Bridge Room
14 The Town Mouse
15 Cumulus Inc.
16 10 William St
17 Flower Drum
18 Cutler & Co
19 LuMi Bar & Dining
20 Supernormal
21 Tipo 00
22 Tetsuya’s
23 Minamishima
24 MoVida, Melbourne
25 Fratelli Paradiso
26 Billy Kwong
27 Biota Dining, Bowral
28 Café Di Stasio
29 LP’s Quality Meats
30 Momofuku Seiōbo
31 Porteño
32 Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sydney
33 ACME
34 Embla
36 Firedoor
37 Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
38 Chin Chin
39 est.
41 The Apollo
43 Oscillate Wildly
44 Saint Crispin
45 Guillaume, Sydney
46 Fleet, Brunswick Heads
47 Africola
49 Restaurant Amusé
50 Silvereye
51 Pilu at Freshwater
52 Moon Park
55 Bar Lourinhã
56 Icebergs Dining Room & Bar
57 Ormeggio at the Spit
58 Estelle by Scott Pickett
59 Rockpool Bar & Grill, Melbourne
60 Golden Century
61 Spice Temple, Sydney
62 Sean’s Panaroma
63 Cottage Point Inn
64 Gerard’s Bistro
65 The European
66 Monopole
67 Long Chim Perth
68 ARIA
69 Provenance, Beechworth
70 Coda
71 Lalla Rookh
72 Yellow
73 Luxembourg
74 Wasabi Restaurant & Bar, Noosa Heads
75 Master
76 4Fourteen
78 Esquire
79 Muse Restaurant, Pokolbin
80 Monster Kitchen and Bar
81 Grossi Florentino Upstairs
82 Cho Cho San
83 The Long Apron, Montville
84 The Press Club
85 Lucio’s
86 Ethos Eat Drink
87 Anchovy
88 Vasse Felix Restaurant, Cowaramup
89 Lume
90 Tonka
91 Mister Jennings
92 Union Dining
93 Igni, Geelong
94 Sokyo
96 Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield
98 Fino, Seppeltsfield
99 Epocha
100 Il Bacaro
Featured image from Ester