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Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2015
Sepia is the defending champion in this year’s Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2015. Since Sepia opened its doors in 2009, the restaurant has won three restaurant of the year awards (2012, 2014 and 2015).

Other Awards in this year’s Good Food Guide 2015

Brent Savage from Bentley Restaurant & Bar, Monopole, and Yellow has won the Chef of The Year award. Bentley is a two-hat restaurant and the other two are one-hat restaurants.

Vicki Wild (Sepia) won the Service Excellence Award.

Young Chef of the year award was given to Julian Cincotta from Nomad.

New restaurant of the year is Ester.

Award of Innovation went to Pasi Petanen from Cafe Paci.

Sustainability Award was given to Fins Restaurant.

Peter Doyle received the Legend Award.

List of restaurants with hats

Three hats

There are four restaurants awarded with three hats as listed in the Good Food website:
- Rockpool – The group has several restaurants including two two-hat restaurants, Rockpool Bar and grill and Spice Temple. We were very pleased with Rockpool restaurant when we went there for lunch earlier this year.
- Quay – 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2013 restaurant of the year. It has been a while but I always remembered its Snow Egg!
- Sepia – Winner of 2015, 2014 and 2012 Restaurant of the year award.
- Momofuku Seiobo – This restaurant has been a three hat in the Good Food Guide ever since it opened its doors to public!
As listed from the website, the rest of the hats are as follows:

Two hats

ARIA Restaurant, Bentley Restaurant & Bar, Berowra Waters Inn, The Bridge Room, est., Ester, Gastro Park, Icebergs Dining Room & Bar, Lucio’s Italian Restaurant, Marque, Mr. Wong, Ormeggio at the Spit, Pilu at Freshwater, Porteño, Rockpool Bar & Grill, sixpenny, Spice Temple, Tetsuya’s.

One hat

4Fourteen, Aki’s Indian Restaurant, Alpha, The Apollo, Arras, Bar H Dining, The Bathers’ Pavilion, Billy Kwong, Bistro Moncur, Bistrode CBD, BLACK by Ezard, The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay, Bodega, Buon Ricordo, Cafe Paci, Cafe Sopra, Catalina, China Doll, Cho Cho San, Clareville Kiosk, Cottage Point Inn, the devonshire, Farmhouse, Felix, Fish Face, Flying Fish Restaurant & Bar, Four in Hand Dining Room, glass brasserie, Hartsyard, Jonah’s Restaurant, Kepos Street Kitchen, Longrain, Lox Stock & Barrel, Monopole, Moon Park, MoVida, Ms.G’s, Nomad, Oscillate Wildly, Osteria Balla, Osteria di Russo & Russo, Otto Ristorante, The Restaurant Pendolino, Saké Restaurant & Bar, Sean’s Panaroma, Sokyo, sushi e, Three Blue Ducks, Uccello, Ume Restaurant, Vincent, Vini, Yellow.
Sep 2, 2014
2014 Tasty Takeaway Awards | Menulog

Awards for fine dining are great – but most Australians don’t eat at expensive restaurants every day. What about some recognition for the little guys? What about your neighbourhood Indian restaurant, the local pizza place or the Chinese takeaway down the road?

Menulog’s annual Tasty Takeaway Awards aim to share some much-deserved glory with your favourite takeaway restaurants. The awards aren’t decided by an exclusive panel of culinary judges but directly by the customers. The food doesn’t need to be fancy or complicated; just good, comforting and consistently delicious.

Each year a national winner is chosen along with a handful of local favourite selected from a range of cuisines – which make the awards an excellent guide to the best takeaway restaurants all across the country. Here’s a quick dining guide to a handful of last year’s winners across Sydney.

Eastern Suburbs

Chilled Out Thai, Maroubra

Thai food is one of Australia’s most popular takeaway cuisines and this local favourite delivers with excellent and colourful curries, stir fries and noodle dishes.

Inner West

Erskineville Turkish Pide & Kebabs, Erskineville

As well as the must-try range of Turkish pide and kebabs, this main street restaurant also does classic hamburgers and pizza – and don’t miss out on the fantastic baklava.

Sydney City

Saigon Bay Vietnamese Restaurant, Darlinghurst

Healthy, flavourful Vietnamese has taken off in Sydney and this is one of the places leading the charge with fresh rice paper rolls, Vietnamese salads and mouth-watering hotpots.

South

Antonio’s Pizzeria, Caringbah

In a crowded market it takes a pretty amazing pizza joint to rise above the rest. Antonio’s uses quality ingredients to bring life to simple, delicious flavour combinations.

North Shore

Bay Tandoori, Waverton

Beautiful curries and vegetable dishes make Bay Tandoori a winner. The food is wonderfully spiced and hearty – as good Indian should be.

2014 Tasty Takeaway Awards

The full list of winners from the 2013 Tasty Takeaway Awards can be found here. If you want to see your favourite restaurant on the list this year – and have a chance to win $10,000 – voting for the 2014 Awards is now open.

Jun 2, 2014
The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014

The award season is here! It is the world’s 50 best restaurants 2014. To be named in this site as the world’s 50 best restaurants is probably the highest accomplishment a chef can get.

The World’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014

Despite a different winner, there were no surprises in the Top 3 list this year. Noma reclaimed the top spot as the best restaurant in the world. This Danish restaurant came up second last year but winner of the previous three. El Celler De Can Roca from Spain was knocked back to number two. Osteria Francescana from Italy is the third best for the last two years.

Australia’s best restaurants in 2014

Despite falling 11 places to number 32, Attica from Melbourne is still the best restaurant in Australia. Attica is also the only Australian restaurant in this 50 best restaurants list. This year, they even won the Acqua Panna Best Restaurant in Australasia.

Quay, the only restaurant that all about food blog has reviewed, fell 12 spots to number 60.

Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2014

As a spin-off to the list, they also produced the 50 best restaurants list for Asian region.

This year’s top Asia 50 best restaurants is Nahm from Bangkok, Thailand. Last year’s winner, Narisawa, got the runner up position. Interestingly, Nahm became the top restaurant in Thailand after being the first (and only?) Thai restaurant in London to receive a Michelin star.

Indonesia’s best restaurant in 2014

As an Indonesian descent, I am happy to know that one Indonesian restaurant in on the list! Sarong Restaurant Bali was listed at number 47 in the Asia’s 50 best restaurants 2014. Founder chef, Will Meyrick, was known to be an apprentice for Gordon Ramsay. He used to own Longrain restaurant in Sydney. Looking briefly at the menu, it looked like a mishmash of Asian food.

… and here is the list of 50 Best Restaurants 2014:

1. Noma, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. El Celler de Can Roca, Girona, Spain
3. Osteria Francescana, Modena, Italy
4. Eleven Madison Park, New York, USA
5. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London, UK
6. Mugaritz, San Sebastián, Spain
7. D.O.M, Sao Paulo, Brazil
8. Arzak, San Sebastian, Spain
9. Alinea, Chicago, USA
10. The Ledbury, London, UK
11. Mirazur, Menton, France
12. Vendôme, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
13. Nahm, Bangkok, Thailand
14. Narisawa, Tokyo, Japan
15. Central, Lima, Peru
16. Steirereck, Vienna, Austria
17. Gaggan, Bangkok, Thailand
18. Astrid y Gastón, Lima, Peru
19. Fäviken Järpen, Sweden
20. Pujol, Mexico City, Mexico
21. Le Bernardin, New York, USA
22. Vila Joya, Albufeira, Portugal
23. Restaurant Frantzén, Stockholm, Sweden
24. Amber, Hong Kong, China
25. L’Arpège, Paris, France
26. Azurmendi, Larrabetzu, Spain
27. Le Chateaubriand, Paris, France
28. Aqua, Wolfsburg, Germany
29. De Librije, Zwolle, Netherlands
30. Per Se, New York, USA
31. L’Atelier Saint-Germain de Joël Robuchon, Paris, France
32. Attica, Melbourne, Australia
33. Nihonryori RyuGin, Tokyo, Japan
34. Asador Etxebarri, Atxondo, Spain
35. Martin Berasategui, San Sebastian, Spain
36. Mani, Sao Paolo, Brazil
37. Restaurant Andre, Singapore
38. L’Astrance, Paris, France
39. Piazza Duomo, Alba, Italy
40. Daniel, New York, USA
41. Quique Dacosta, Denia, Spain
42. Geranium, Copenhagen, Denmark
43. Schloss Schauenstein, Furstenau, Switzerland
44. The French Laundry, Yountville, USA
45. Hof Van Cleve, Kruishoutem, Belgium
46. Le Calandre, Rubano, Italy
47. The Fat Duck, Bray, UK
48. The Test Kitchen, Cape Town, South Africa
49. Coi, San Francisco, USA
50. Waku Ghin, Singapore

May 5, 2014
Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2014
Sepia is once again the top restaurant for this year’s Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2014. The restaurant won this award in 2012 and was a three hat last year.

Other Awards in this year’s Good Food Guide 2014

Ross Lusted from The Bridge Room has won the Chef of The Year award. The Bridge Room is a two-hat restaurant.

Louis Tamayo (Claude’s) won the Service Excellence Award.

Young Chef of the year award was given to Louis Tikaram from Longrain.

New restaurant of the year is Mr Wong.

Award of Innovation went to Kylie Kwong.

Guillaume Brahimi received the Legend Award.

List of restaurants with hats

Three hats

There are five restaurants awarded with three hats as listed in the Good Food website:
- Sepia – Winner of 2014 and 2012 Restaurant of the year award.
- Guillaume at Bennelong – This iconic restaurant will close its doors permanently at the end of the year.
- Momofuku Seiobo – This restaurant has been a three hat ever since it opened its doors to public!
- Quay – 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2013 restaurant of the year. Quay is the only restaurant in this year’s list that I’ve been to.
- Rockpool – The group has several restaurants including two two-hat restaurants, Rockpool Bar and grill and Spice Temple.
As listed from the website, the rest of the hats are as follows:

Two hats

Aria, The Bridge Room, Buon Ricordo, Claude’s, est., Four in Hand Dining Room, Gastro Park, Icebergs Dining Room & Bar, Longrain, Lucio’s Italian Restaurant, Marque, MoVida, Mr Wong, Ormeggio at The Spit, Pilu at Freshwater, Rockpool Bar & Grill, Spice Temple, Tetsuya’s.

One hat

Aki’s Indian Restaurant, Ananas Bar & Brasserie, The Apollo, Arras, Balla, The Bathers’ Pavilion, Berowra Waters Inn, Billy Kwong, Bistro Moncur, Bistrode CBD, The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay, Bodega, buzo trattoria, Cafe Sopra, Catalina, China Doll, Clareville Kiosk, The Devonshire, Flying Fish Restaurant & Bar, Foveaux Restaurant & Bar, Glass Brasserie, Gowings Bar & Grill, Hartsyard, Jonah’s Restaurant, Kepos Street Kitchen, Monopole, Ms.G’s, Oscillate Wildly, Popolo, Porteño, The Restaurant Pendolino, Saké Restaurant & Bar, Sean’s Panaroma, Sixpenny, Sokyo, Three Blue Ducks, Tomislav, Uccello, Ume Restaurant, Xanthi.
Sep 3, 2013
50 best restaurants in the world 2013

50 best restaurants in the world 2013 has a new winner in 2013.

El Celler De Can Roca of Spain has dethroned the top restaurant for the last three years, Noma of Denmark. Originally from Girona, Spain, El Celler De Can Roca is not an anonymous name. Spearheaded by chef Joan Roca (with his two brothers), they’ve been a runner up to Noma for the last two years. They have also been in the list for the last eight years and steadily climbing up the ladder. According to theworlds50best.com, eating at El Celler is truly uplifting, with the warmth of the family dynamic all-pervasive.

I am actually more suprised by Attica‘s rise to prominence. Attica is Australia’s Top restaurant in 2013 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria. They are the highest new entry for the year at number 21. In 2012, Attica was only sitting at number 63, well below Quay at 29 and Marque at 61. This year Quay is still on the list at number 48, while Marque and Tetsuya are out of top 100. Sydney’s top restaurant according Good Food Guide, Momofuku Seiobo, is the only other Australian restaurant in top 100 at number 89.

50 best restaurants in the world 2013 in Asia

Asia’s top restaurant is Narisawa from Tokyo, Japan. Named after its head chef, Yoshihiro Narisawa, this restaurant has a French technique with Japanese ingredients. Tetsuya’s other restaurant, Waku Ghin of Singapore, is sitting at number 11 on the list.

Surprisingly, my home country has ONE restaurant in the top 50 Asian restaurants called Mozaic in Bali. It is located in Jl. Raya Sanggingan, Ubud, Gianyar – Bali 80571. The restaurant is described as Franco-Indonesian, a fusion of French and Indonesian cuisines. Its current signature dishes are suckling pork with pig’s trotter ravioli and babi guling emulsion.

This is one restaurant I will definitely go to test! 🙂

Apr 30, 2013
2012 Sydney International Food Festival

2012 Sydney International Food Festival, also known as Crave Sydney, is an annual event that is held throughout the month of October.

In 2012, the list of participants and sponsors is already a mile long. If you go to their website, you can search the festival program for any events that you might fancy.

There are six main or feature events for the 2012 Sydney International Food Festival

1. World Chef Showcase

2. Showcase Dinners

3. Breakfast on Bondi

4. Barbecue Madness

5. Night Noodle Markets

6. Shoot the Chef

Website:

http://www.goodfoodmonth.com/

Oct 15, 2012