Australias Top 100 Restaurants 2016

Attica Melbourne – Pears and Maidenii

The Australian Financial Review’s list of Australias Top 100 Restaurants has been revealed with Melbourne’s Attica taking the number one spot.

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.”

Australia’s Top Restaurants presented by Qantas is now in its second year, and remains the only national restaurant awards program of its kind decided solely by peer voting. While the full list of 500 restaurants is compiled by a distinguished Australia-wide panel of Good Food Guide editors, reviewers and industry experts, the Top 100 is decided by the chefs and restaurateurs themselves.

Durack said the 2016 Top 100 reflects the fact that chefs vote for those who have earned their respect rather than over the more fleeting criteria of fashionable suburb or million dollar 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,” says Durack. “These are our most creative, polished, original restaurants, driven by chefs obsessed with quality.”

TOP 100 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
35. Vue de Monde
36. Firedoor
37. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
38. Chin Chin
39. est.
40. Marque
41. The Apollo
42. Lake House
43. Oscillate Wildly
44. Saint Crispin
45. Guillaume, Sydney
46. Fleet, Brunswick Heads
47. Africola
48. Orana
49. Restaurant Amusé
50. Silvereye
51. Pilu at Freshwater
52. Moon Park
53. France-Soir
54. Lee Ho Fook
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
77. Clarke’s of North Beach
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
95. Peel St
96. Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield
97. Lau’s Family Kitchen
98. Fino, Seppeltsfield
99. Epocha
100. Il Bacar

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