date published
15.03.2010

100 Greatest Australian Gourmet Experiences

The best of the best foodie experiences from around the country, as determined by Australian Traveller Magazine's panel of experts.

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Click the links below to check out each of the 100 Gourmet Experiences:


Experience 1-50	Experience 51-100
001 The Agrarian Kitchen TAS 002 Victor Churchill NSW 003 Quay Restaurant NSW 004 Fish ’n’ Chips on the Beach NATIONAL 005 Holy Goat Cheese VIC 006 Daylesford Organics VIC 007 Tetsuya’s NSW 008 Vue de Monde VIC 009 Pyengana Dairy Company TAS 010 Sunnybrae Restaurant & Cooking School VIC 011 Collingwood College Kitchen Garden VIC 012 Istra Smallgoods VIC 013 Flower Drum VIC 014 Aria Sydney NSW 015 Berowra Waters Inn NSW 016 Jacques Reymond Cuisine du Temps VIC 017 Appellation at The Louise SA 018 Pick Your Own Picnic NATIONAL 019 Central Markets Adelaide SA 020 Chef’s Table Dining NATIONAL 021 Sounds of Silence Dinner Uluru NT 022 Jan Power’s New Farm Markets QLD 023 Queen Victoria Markets VIC 024 Rockpool Bar and Grill NSW 025 Bilson’s Restaurant NSW 026 McLaren Vale Cellar Door & Tasting Room SA 027 Simon Johnson Quality Foods NSW, VIC, QLD, WA 028 Herbie’s Spices NSW 029 Li-Sun Exotic Mushrooms NSW 030 Longrain Sydney NSW 031 Orange F.O.O.D Week NSW 032 Vulcan’s Blackheath NSW 033 Mindil Beach Markets NT 034 Berry Woodfired Sourdough Bakery NSW 035 Spice Temple NSW 036 The European VIC 037 Maggie Beer’s Farm Shop SA 038 The Great Aussie BBQ NATIONAL 039 Lake House VIC 040 Indigenous Bush Tucker NATIONAL 041 Linke’s Central Meat Store SA 042 Rockpool Sydney NSW 043 The Gunshop Cafe QLD 044 Kimberley Cooking School WA 045 Cumulus Inc VIC 046 Annie Smithers’ Bistrot and Produce VIC 047 Coffin Bay Explorer SA 048 Redgate Farm Jurassic Quail NSW 049 Bruny Island Cheese Company TAS 050 MoVida VIC	051 Taste of Tasmania TAS 052 Adriano Zumbo Patisserie NSW 053 Guillaume at Bennelong NSW 054 Provenance VIC 055 Ottoman Cuisine Canberra ACT 056 Stefano’s in Mildura VIC 057 Vegemite on Toast NATIONAL 058 Sydney Seafood School NSW 059 e’cco bistro QLD 060 Barossa Farmers Markets SA 061 Universal NSW 062 Pastificio Fellini QLD 063 ANZAC Biscuits NATIONAL 064 The Royal Mail VIC 065 Vietnamese in Cabramatta NSW 066 Grazing NSW 067 Bells at Killcare NSW 068 Tonic NSW 069 Star Anise NSW 070 Pretty Beach House NSW 071 The Wine and Truffle Company WA 072 Kayak and Crayfish Hobart TAS 073 Campos Coffee Sydney NSW 074 Woodside Cheese Wrights SA 075 MoMo VIC 076 Haigh’s Chocolates SA 077 Milawa Cheese Company VIC 078 Margaret River Providore WA 079 Outback Encounters Flying Food Safari SA 080 Red Lantern NSW 081 Cullen Wines Restaurant WA 082 Daniel Alps at Strathlynn TAS 083 Simone’s of Bright VIC 084 Taste of Melbourne VIC 085 Billy Kwong NSW 086 Jonah’s NSW 087 Feral Grill at The Prairie Hotel SA 088 Seven Seeds VIC 089 Arkaba Station SA 090 Lamingtons NATIONAL 091 The Little General Olive Oil NSW 092 Mandagery Creek Farmed Venison NSW 093 Merritts Mountain House NSW 094 Old Bakery Stone Hut SA 095 Pedal to Produce VIC 096 Gunyah Restaurant Paperbark Camp NSW 097 Freycinet Marine Farm TAS 098 Eumundi Markets QLD 099 Flames of the Forest QLD 100 Harry’s Café de Wheels Sydney NSW

About the 100 Greatest Australian Gourmet Experiences

100 Greatest Australian Gourmet Experiences What an audacious project. To judge and rank the Greatest Australian Gourmet Experiences has never before been attempted. Restaurants are ranked almost every other day. Producers and providores ditto. But experiences that encompass restaurants, producers and anything remotely connected to food, all ranked together in the one list? Not on your life. Until now.

Why this has never before been attempted is pretty obvious. It’s close to impossible (because Australians can’t agree on daylight savings let alone gourmet experiences), and extremely dangerous (because chefs have very sharp knives). So we called in the big guns – a panel of experts so universally applauded and respected in Australia that their consensus opinion would outweigh the most passionate of singular arguments. Their brief was to help decide how great an experience was on the basis of their own opinion or how strongly they would advise a close friend to seek out the experience.

That was the easy part. To arrive at the 100 we scoured the continent for potential experiences that emphasised food + location + sense of occasion, and after many weeks had gathered more than 900. The panel received a shortlisted version of these, which they then judged, opting out with an N/A if they had no opinion or were personally involved in any way. We averaged out the scores for each of the experiences to arrive at our list.

And what a list. Some movers and shakers bubbled to the surface while other well-known names fell from contention. Whichever way you look at it, finally there’s a guide for Australians that stretches the length and breadth of the country and the spectrum of gourmet experiences.

We’re sure you’re going to immediately think of half a dozen you’d include. And that’s great. Log in and share them with others, as we’ve established a page where the staff picks that didn’t make the list have been posted. We’d love to hear yours.

The Australian Traveller Team

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This article appeared
in Issue 32
of Australian Traveller.

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Wow this issue was amazing. I was given it for my birthday in April and I am inspired to try all 100 experiences. I'm so excited, i'm going to create a log of all the places I go to and collect souvenirs from each place! Thanks for the wonderful collection, hope that Queensland will catch up to NSW and Victoria in the future to offer a greater range of excellent places, or perhaps more research needed for the next list!!

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