Australia’s finest diner is a suburban gem
Attica has has been named Australia's best restaurant by Gourmet Traveller.
Melbourne is not only rated as the world’s most liveable city but the nosh is also good with Attica named Australia’s No.1 restaurant.
The Melbourne eatery has taken out this year’s annual Gourmet Traveller award at the Sydney Opera House.
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Attica may be deep in the Melbourne suburb of Ripponlea, but it’s Australia’s culinary standard-bearer on the world stage, said Gourmet Traveller chief restaurant critic Pat Nourse.
Attica has has been named Australia’s best restaurant by Gourmet Traveller.
At Attica, diners are taken on a voyage of deliciousness, said Mr Nourse.
Overall Victoria did well at the awards.
Brae, a restaurant in Birregurra, southwest of Melbourne, was named both New Restaurant of the Year and Regional Restaurant of the Year, while Alla Wolf-Tasker, of Daylesford’s Lake House has been acknowledged with an award for her Outstanding Contribution to Hospitality.
The peer-voted Chef of the Year award went to Martin Benn of Sepia in Sydney.
Brisbane’s Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall took out Bar of the Year.
In Adelaide, the husband-and-wife team Scott Huggins and Emma McCaskill of Magill Estate won Best New Talent.
Dan Hunter’s new restaurant Brae has received rave reviews.
Perth scores in the Wine List of the Year with a win for Print Hall.
Melbourne was named the world’s most liveable city on Tuesday for the fourth year running, beating 139 other cities to top the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index.
Food may have to be added to that, too.
AUSTRALIAN GOURMET TRAVELLER RESTAURANT AWARDS WINNERS:
RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Attica, Melbourne
Perth’s Print Hall.
CHEF OF THE YEAR
Martin Benn, Sepia, Sydney
NEW RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Brae, Birregurra, Vic
WINE LIST OF THE YEAR
Print Hall, Perth
SOMMELIER OF THE YEAR
Nick Hildebrandt, Bentley, Sydney
Attica’s Ben Shewry at work.
MAITRE D’ OF THE YEAR
Christian McCabe, The Town Mouse, Melbourne
BEST NEW TALENT
Scott Huggins and Emma McCaskill, Magill Estate, Adelaide
REGIONAL RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR
Brae, Birregurra, Vic
BAR OF THE YEAR
Lefty’s Old Time Music Hall, Brisbane
THREE-STAR WINNERS
The Town Mouse.
Vue de Monde, Melbourne
Marque, Sydney
Cutler & Co, Melbourne
Sepia, Sydney
Brae, Birregurra
Quay, Sydney
Momofuku Seiobo, Sydney
Rockpool, Sydney
Attica, Melbourne
-AAP