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April

Farmer Mark Foletta, left, and chef Stephen Nairn pictured amid Alpine gums on Foletta’s farm.

What happens when farmers and chefs partner in R&D

Mark Foletta and Stephen Nairn met over a box of foraged mushrooms in 2011. Thus began their endeavours to surprise and delight your tastebuds.

  • Paul Best

February

Bennelong Presents Sunday Jazz features artists playing every Sunday at the Sydney restaurant.

How to crash one of Sydney’s hottest restaurant events

Fine-dining restaurant Bennelong jazzes up Sydney afternoons, and it’s often full, but there’s a hack to getting in if you haven’t booked ahead.

  • Mary-Ellen Hepworth

December 2022

Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebrations typically draw more than one million spectators to the harbour.

Got $20k? These are the most exclusive NYE tickets still available

Making last-minute plans for New Year’s Eve? The top picks left in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane include a luxury hotel with unbeatable fireworks views.

  • Gus McCubbing

June 2019

Paperbark mushrooms, macadamia. Paperbark, a vegan restaurant in Waterloo's Casba

6 dishes that define Australia at its most inventive

From regional roots to weeds and sea pests, these dishes from "off the beaten track" restaurants represent the best of Australia's food scene in 2019.

  • Jill Dupleix

April 2019

Chef and Blood Sugar author Michael Moore believes that hemp based products could one day be available on supermarket shelves.

Chef plants ideas for hemp-based food's potential

Health nut and cook book author Michael Moore believes that hemp-based food products have a big future.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
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November 2018

Chris Lucas, founder and CEO of Lucas Restaurants, is taking his Kisume and Chin Chin brands to London and New York.

In a Brexit world, restaurants take 'Think global. Act local' more seriously

"Think global. Act local." It worked for the environmental movement, and now it's working for a different, equally dynamic kind of business: the progressive restaurant group.

  • Necia Wilden

July 2018

Members of Australia's top 10 restaurants at the awards presented by The Australian Financial Review at the Art Gallery of NSW.

Australia's top chefs are innovators and disrupters

The Financial Review's Australia's 100 Restaurants awards again have underlined a modern home-grown foodie culture unimaginable 40 years ago.

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Sheep's curd and spring harvest honey grilled with squash blossom over juniper is one of the treats served up at Brae.

Australia's top restaurants by state for 2018

Welcome to Australia's top restaurants by state as voted by Australia's top chefs and restaurateurs.

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Australia's Top Restaurants 2018

Here are Australia's Top Restaurants Awards for 2018 as decided by Australia's top chefs.

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Firedoor chef Lennox Hastie is the inaugural winner of the Rare Medium award for meat cookery, sponsored by Meat & Livestock Australia.

Firedoor wins Australia's Top Restaurants' award for red meat cookery

Lennox Hastie's Firedoor has been rewarded for a creative and firey approach to meat with the inaugural Rare Medium award for red meat cookery.

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  • Necia Wilden
Dan Hunter, chef-owner at Brae, voted Australia's Top Restaurant by industry peers.

Brae named 2018 Australia's Top Restaurant, Josh Niland top chef

Dan Hunter's rural Victorian fine diner Brae has topped the Financial Review's Australia's Top 100 Restaurants awards for the second year running in a triumphant night for regional dining.

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  • Natasha Boddy
"As a chef you can tear your hair out going through those things [online reviews] ... I'd rather spend my time working with the guests within the restaurant," Firedoor chef Lennox Hastie says.

Can a negative online review ruin a top restaurant?

Can a disaffected diner's drunken Facebook rant or one-star review ruin a restaurant? Or is it still the critics and best restaurant rankings that count?

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  • Clare Colley
The Australian Financial Review analysed the Instagram accounts of Australia's Top 100 Restaurants from 2017 over the past year and Ester had the best engagement.

How top restaurants are winning on Instagram

Just as businesses are realising the importance of a successful social media presence restaurants, too, are taking the medium more seriously.

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  • Clare Colley

June 2017

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Australia's Top 100 Restaurants 2017

Explore the full list of Australia's most exciting restaurants.

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May 2016

Jill Dupleix, Tetsuya Wakuda and Terry Durack talk about the future of the industry at the Australian Financial Review Top Restaurants the Business of Food Forum.

Business deals should only take 4 minutes, man behind top restaurant says

The who's-who of the hospitality industry flock to the Australian Financial Review Top Restaurants, presented by Qantas, the Business of Food forum.

  • Lucille Keen
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April 2016

Gerard's Bistro head chef Ben Williamson says forums allow chefs to improve the standard of Australian food.

Talk fests give chefs something to feast on

Australia's top chefs are getting together to discuss what they can do in this "food-obsessed" nation.

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  • Lucille Keen
Kensington Street Social executive chef Rob Daniels said counter dining allows guests to be a part of the action.

Restaurant dining on a higher plane

Love it or hate it, eating on stools – even when you're sitting at a table – is trending up.

  • Lucille Keen

May 2015

Golden Egg at Sepia in Sussex Street, Sydney.

Australia's top 100 restaurants (2015) - the full list

The nation's top chefs and restaurateurs have voted on Australia's best restaurants. This is their top 100.

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