Gourmet Traveller’s team of 60 reviewers has eaten its way from one end of the country to the other to produce the 2013 Gourmet Traveller Australian Restaurant Guide. To launch the new book in style, and to announce our annual Restaurant Guide Awards, we gathered together the nation’s finest restaurant talent to celebrate at Sydney’s hot new modern Chinese blockbuster, Mr Wong. Welcome inside…
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Gourmet Traveller senior food editor Lisa Featherby and chef Shannon Bennett.
Gourmet Traveller editor Anthea Loucas with Peter Gilmore and John Fink from Quay, Australia’s new Restaurant of the Year.
Georgina Garrity, Sales and Marketing Director of guide partner Wedgwood.
Adrian Hondros, Executive General Manager of guide partner Commonwealth Private.
ACP CEO Matthew Stanton.
Event host Leila McKinnon.
Maître d’ of the Year Ainslie Lubbock from Pei Modern and Mark Best.
Gourmet Traveller food & style director Emma Knowles and Est. chef Peter Doyle.
Outstanding Contribution to Hospitality award winner Janni Kyritsis and chef Kylie Kwong.
Chef Ben Shewry and Sommelier of the Year finalist Greg Plowes, of Tetsuya’s.
Scallop siu mai and prawn har gau.
Mr Wong’s drunken chicken.
Sitting down to dinner at Mr Wong.
The Palmer & Co after-party: Manhattans, anyone?
John and Merivale Hemmes.
Restaurateurs John Fink (Quay) and Maurice Terzini (Icebergs Dining Room & Bar).
Regional Restaurant of the Year winners Aaron and Astrid Turner from Loam.
Carlton Wine Room’s Jay Bessell, winner of Wine List of the Year, and Urbane’s Alejandro Cancino, winner of Best New Talent.
Sommelier of the Year nominee Richard Hargreave, of Momofuku Seiobo, Chef of the Year Ben Shewry, from Attica, and Restaurant of the Year winner Peter Gilmore from Quay.
Best New Talent nominees Shannon Debreceny, Mark LaBrooy & Darren Robertson from Three Blue Ducks, Sydney, with Attica’s Banjo Harris Plane, our new Sommelier of the Year.
Rockpool chef Neil Perry and Vue de Monde’s Shannon Bennett.
Chef Matt Moran and Estée Lauder’s Alice Hampton.
Chef Mark Best, winner of last year’s Restaurant of the Year award, ACP’s Deborah Thomas and Merivale Hemmes.
Waiters armed with glasses of Laurent Perrier.
