We award only 100 star ratings, so some restaurants which have previously held stars may have been edged out by others lifting their game or by newcomers. The three-star rating labels a restaurant as one of Australia’s great restaurants, the equal of the world’s best, and a destination in itself. Two stars makes an establishment a superior dining experience in all respects, worthy of a detour. One star means there is an element of pizzazz as well as professionalism which raises an eatery beyond the everyday.
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**THREE STARS
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY
** Est.
Marque
Quay
Rockpool on George
Sepia
Tetsuya’s
**VICTORIA
MELBOURNE
** Attica
Cutler & Co.
Vue de Monde
**REGIONAL
** Royal Mail Hotel
**TWO STARS
NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY
** Aria
Bentley Restaurant & Bar
The Bridge Room
Buon Ricordo
Claude’s
Flying Fish
Guillaume at Bennelong
Icebergs Dining Room & Bar
Momofuku Seiobo
Otto Ristorante
Porteño
Rockpool Bar & Grill
Sean’s Panaroma
Universal
**REGIONAL
** Bacchus
**QUEENSLAND
BRISBANE
** Aria Brisbane
Esquire
Ortiga
Urbane
**TASMANIA
HOBART
** Garagistes
**VICTORIA
MELBOURNE
** Café Di Stasio
Ezard
Flower Drum
Jacques Reymond
Pei Modern
The Point
Rockpool Bar & Grill
**REGIONAL
** Lake House
Loam
Provenance
Ten Minutes by Tractor
**WESTERN AUSTRALIA
PERTH
** Restaurant Amusé
Rockpool Bar & Grill
**ONE STAR
ACT
** Aubergine
**NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY
** The Apollo
Balla
Billy Kwong
Bistrode CBD
Bodega
Buzo
Catalina
Felix
Fish Face
Four in Hand
Foveaux
Gastro Park
Longrain
Lucio’s
Ormeggio
The Ortolan on Bayswater
Pilu at Freshwater
Popolo
Restaurant Arras
Restaurant Assiette
Sailors Thai
Sixpenny
Spice Temple
Three Blue Ducks
Yoshii
**REGIONAL
** Biota Dining
No 2 Oak Street
Subo
Town
Vulcans
**QUEENSLAND
BRISBANE
** Alchemy
E’cco
1889 Enoteca
The Euro
Montrachet
Restaurant Two
Stokehouse Brisbane
Tank Restaurant & Bar
Tartufo
**REGIONAL
** The Long Apron
Nu Nu
Seaduction
Vanitas
Wasabi
**SOUTH AUSTRALIA
ADELAIDE
** Auge
Celsius
Press Food & Wine
Vincenzo’s Cucina Vera
**REGIONAL
** d’Arry’s Verandah
Fino
The Lane Vineyard
Petaluma’s Bridgewater Mill
**TASMANIA
REGIONAL
** The Stackings
Stillwater
**VICTORIA
MELBOURNE
** The Atlantic
Bacash
Bar Lourinhã
Bistro Vue
Carlton Wine Room
Circa
Coda
Comme Kitchen
Cumulus Inc.
Dandelion
Donovans
Embrasse
Esposito at Toofey’s
Estelle Bar & Kitchen
Gigibaba
Giuseppe, Arnaldo & Sons
Golden Fields
Grossi Florentino
Hare & Grace
The Italian
Izakaya Den
Longrain
Matteo’s
Mister Bianco
Moon Under Water
MoVida
MoVida Aqui
The Press Club
San Telmo
Sarti
Spice Temple
Stokehouse
Union Dining
**REGIONAL
** Annie Smithers
Brown Brothers Epicurean Centre
Eleonore’s
Kazuki’s at the Raglan
Port Phillip Dining
Stefano’s
Sunnybrae
The Tea Rooms of Yarck
**WESTERN AUSTRALIA
PERTH
** Balthazar
Dear Friends
Divido
Greenhouse
Jackson’s
Pata Negra
**REGIONAL
** Cape Lodge
Vasse Felix
