Good Food Guide 2013 | The Age

Melbourne is fortunate to enjoy absolutely fabulous restaurants as well as The Age Good Food Guide to rate them. The annual Age Good Food Guide rates the top Melbourne dining establishments with 1, 2 and 3 hats (chef hats of course), Restaurant of the Year, New, Country and Chef of the Year. SEVENTY-five restaurants have picked up one or more hats in this year's Age Good Food Guide. Seven are newcomers and six are established restaurants earning new hats. Attica | best restaurant Attica was last night crowned best restaurant in Victoria at The Age Good Food Guide awards, but its visionary chef Ben Shewry wasn't there to hear the news - he was in Copenhagen, at a food conference dedicated to such esoteric pleasures as eating ants from the Amazon (they taste a bit like lemongrass, apparently). Good Food Guide 2013 Three hats Attica, Jacques Reymond, Vue de Monde Royal Mail Hotel. Two hats Cafe Di Stasio, Cutler &Co, Ezard, Flower Drum, Matteo's , MoVida, The Press Club, Rockpool Bar & Grill, Stokehouse, Lake House, Loam, Provenance, Stefano's , Tea Rooms of Yarck, Ten Minutes by Tractor. One hat Albert St Food & Wine, Bacash, Becco, Bistro Guillaume, Bistro Vue, Cecconi's Cantina, Church St Enoteca, Circa, Coda, Cumulus Inc, Dandelion, Donovans, Easy Tiger, Embrasse, Estelle Bar & Kitchen, European, Gills Diner, Golden Fields, The Grand, Grossi Florentino, Il Bacaro, The Italian, Kenzan, Koots Sallea Manger, Longrain, Maha, Mercer's , Moon Under Water, MoVida Aqui, Paladarr, Pei Modern, PM24, The Point Albert Park, Sarti, Shoya, Spice Temple, Steer Bar & Grill, Tempura Hajime, Town Hall Hotel, Yu-U , A la Grecque, Annie Smithers' Bistrot, Bella Vedere, Chris's Restaurant, Eleonore's , Gladioli, La Petanque, The Long Table, Montalto, Neilsons, The River Grill, Scorched, Sunnybrae, Teller, Terminus at Flinders Hotel, Villa Gusto. More hats One to two: Ten Minutes by Tractor None to one: Easy Tiger, European, Kenzan, Steer Bar & Grill, A la Grecque, The River Grill. Fewer hats Two to one: Grossi Florentino, The Point Albert Park. One to none: Abla's , The Atlantic, Centonove, Cicciolina, Comme, Livingroom , Sapore, Oscar W's , Port Phillip Estate, Simone's Restaurant, Whirrakee Restaurant. New restaurants with a hat Albert St Food & Wine, Estelle Bar & Kitchen, Moon Under Water, Pei Modern, Gladioli, Teller, Terminus at Flinders Hotel. Goodbye for now The Argo, Archies on the Creek Dining Room, Balzari, Bruin, Chester White, Duck Duck Goose, The Grange Beaumaris, The Kitchen Cat, MoMo, Pandora's Box, Pearl, Star Anise, St Jude's , Verge, Wardens.