Attica named Australia’s top restaurant
Ben Shewry, Attica
Attica has taken out the number one spot in the Australian Financial Review’s Top 100 restaurants list.
Another Victorian restaurant, Brae, located on Cape Otway Rd in Birregurra and opened in 2012 by chef Dan Hunter, came in second.
The Top 100 restaurants awards are different because they’re decided by chefs and restaurateurs from 500 venues across the nation
The list of 500 was whittled down to 100 at a gala dinner at Sydney's The Star on Monday.
Attica chef Ben Shewry was absolutely pumped.
"I've never tried to be better than anyone else, I've always just tried to be a better version of myself," Shewry told the AFR.
"It's not about the building, it's about the group of humans running the business.
"When you receive an award you take a moment – one day – to think about it, then you work to reach another level. I judge success on being better than what I was 10 months ago.
"When you come to Attica you come for an experience, you don't come for dinner and go to a show afterwards.”
Award co-director Jill Dupleix said the dining experience at Attica was interactive, engaging, and very Melburnian. She also paid tribute to Shewry.
"Ben Shewry risked all in 2015 by buying out his long-term partners at Attica and making it his own, so this is a great reward for taking that risk," Ms Dupleix said.
TOP 100 LIST:
1. Attica
2. Brae, Birregurra
3. Sepia
4. Quay
5. Ester
6. Sixpenny
7. Bennelong
8. Rockpool est. 1989
9. Automata
10. Franklin
11. Wong
12. Bentley Restaurant & Bar
13. The Bridge Room
14. The Town Mouse
15. Cumulus Inc.
16. 10 William St
17. Flower Drum
18. Cutler & Co
19. LuMi Bar & Dining
20. Supernormal
21. Tipo 00
22. Tetsuya's
23. Minamishima
24. MoVida, Melbourne
25. Fratelli Paradiso
26. Billy Kwong
27. Biota Dining, Bowral
28. Café Di Stasio
29. LP's Quality Meats
30. Momofuku Seiōbo
31. Porteño
32. Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sydney
33. ACME
34. Embla
36. Firedoor
37. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal
38. Chin Chin
39. est.
41. The Apollo
43. Oscillate Wildly
44. Saint Crispin
45. Guillaume, Sydney
46. Fleet, Brunswick Heads
47. Africola
49. Restaurant Amusé
50. Silvereye
51. Pilu at Freshwater
52. Moon Park
55. Bar Lourinhã
56. Icebergs Dining Room & Bar
57. Ormeggio at the Spit
58. Estelle by Scott Pickett
59. Rockpool Bar & Grill, Melbourne
60. Golden Century
61. Spice Temple, Sydney
62. Sean's Panaroma
63. Cottage Point Inn
64. Gerard's Bistro
65. The European
66. Monopole
67. Long Chim Perth
68. ARIA
69. Provenance, Beechworth
70. Coda
71. Lalla Rookh
72. Yellow
73. Luxembourg
74. Wasabi Restaurant & Bar, Noosa Heads
75. Master
76. 4Fourteen
78. Esquire
79. Muse Restaurant, Pokolbin
80. Monster Kitchen and Bar
81. Grossi Florentino Upstairs
82. Cho Cho San
83. The Long Apron, Montville
84. The Press Club
85. Lucio's
86. Ethos Eat Drink
87. Anchovy
88. Vasse Felix Restaurant, Cowaramup
89. Lume
90. Tonka
91. Mister Jennings
92. Union Dining
93. Igni, Geelong
94. Sokyo
96. Hentley Farm, Seppeltsfield
98. Fino, Seppeltsfield
99. Epocha
100. Il Bacaro
STATE WINNERS:
ACT Monster Kitchen and Bar
NSW Sepia
NT Little Miss Korea
QLD Gerard’s Bistro
SA Africola
TAS Franklin
VIC Attica
WA Restaurant Amusé
by Leon Gettler, 3rd May 2016
