Restaurant Awards

Celebrating the best and brightest in Australian dining this year.

New Norfolk, Tasmania

The chef-owner behind innovative diner Cafe Paci in Sydney's Newtown

Sydney, New South Wales

Heathcote, Victoria

The head chef and owner of Fitzroy's wildly popular Toddy Shop.

Busselton, Western Australia

Through the power of food and community, the family gently reframes the perception of Afghanistan and encourages a shift in prejudice towards refugees through restaurant Parwana Kitchen.

There couldn't be a more fitting name for this intimate 10-seater.

Daylesford, Victoria

The annual awards are back. Here are the finalists for this year's awards, from Best New Restaurant to Restaurant Personality of the Year.

The annual awards are back. Here are the finalists for the best new restaurants, from an exciting new Asian restaurant in Sydney to a Greek gem in Melbourne.

The annual awards are back. Here are the charismatic finalists for this year's Restaurant Personality of the Year Award.

The annual awards are back. Here are the finalists for this year's Best Destination Dining Award, celebrating the restaurants worth travelling for.

The annual awards are back. Here are the finalists for our Best New Talent Award where we highlight the up-and-coming chefs excelling in Australia's hospitality scene.

The annual awards are back. Here are the top wine bars around Australia that are finalists for our Wine Bar of the Year Award.

After hundreds of submissions, these are the finalists for this year's Icon Award — as chosen by you.

After more than 500 reader submissions, these are the finalists for this year's Icon Award. Now, it's time to vote!

The first female chef to ever win the award.

Sydney, New South Wales.

Marion Bay, Tasmania.

Muni, Adelaide, South Australia.

Dani Valent has been one of Australia’s best food communicators for 20 years, a journalist, food critic, travel writer, cook and cookbook author who has applied her intelligence, wit, knowledge and positivity across a range of mediums, from print, radio, television and web through to in-person cooking classes and charity work (she’s been a FareShare […]

Smith & Daughters, Collingwood, Victoria.

Gold Coast, Qld.

Celebrating the best and brightest in Australian dining this year.

Adelaide, South Australia

The annual awards are back. Here's how to watch the announcement of the winners online, and a full run-down of the award finalists.

We remember the chef, visionary and founder of Sydney's Chat Thai who irrevocably shaped the city's dining scene.

The places and faces to have on your radar...

The annual awards are back. Here's how to watch the announcement of the winners online, and a full run-down of the award finalists.

The hotly anticipated awards are back. And this time, it's Melbourne's turn to host the hospitality industry's night of nights.

It looked very different from our traditional Restaurant Awards, but all the hallmarks of a good GT celebration remained.

Celebrating the individuals and businesses who have done remarkable things in the Year of the Pivot.

We salute those who reached out to the wider community, spearheaded charitable efforts and offered practical support for the industry at large.

Outstanding examples of high-end, standard-setting food delivered with integrity, quality and heart.

From take-home ramen packs to a drive-through pasta shop, these quick and clever pivots set high standards and paved the way for others.

Leaders in transformation, these restaurants and stores supplied baked goods and gourmet groceries at a time when supermarket shelves were empty.

A toast to the clever booze offerings that helped us see our glasses as half full instead of half empty.

Outside of restaurants and bars, we saw friends of the industry rally to offer all manner of support.

Plus, who they hung out with at the 2020 GT Restaurant Awards, and what the winners plan to do with their trophies.

Pull up a seat at the latest and greatest restaurants in the country.

From the red carpet arrivals to the final cocktail, see what went down at the Australian hospitality industry's night of nights. (There were hugs. Lots of hugs.)

The names and places that should be on your radar.

The countdown is on for the restaurant industry night of nights on Wednesday 21 August...

The new Quay is back and better than ever. What impressed our critics so much that they crowned it Australia's Restaurant of the Year for 2019?

From the red carpet to the last digestif, see what went down at the food world's biggest night of the year.

The names and places that should be on your radar.

The best talent in Australian food and wine deserve a party to match – and that's exactly what was delivered at Sydney's Restaurant Hubert as we celebrated a brand new Restaurant Guide and crop of award winners.

Get to know all the finalists in our Restaurant Awards: an annual round-up of the best of the best in dining, service, wine, new restaurants and more.

Our editors take note of dozens of new restaurant openings each year. But it was these three that stood head-and-shoulder above the rest.

If the next generation of Australian cooking talent is anything to go by, the future of food is in safe hands. Meet our finalists for the Best New Talent award.

The eating outside our capital cities just keeps getting better. Consider these three restaurants the crème de la crème of regional dining in Australia today.

From high-concept watering holes to bars with heart and soul, these are the spots you wish were in your neighbourhood (even better if they already are).

What does it take to be a finalist for our Wine List of the Year award? Plenty of choice, charming delivery and a dash of personality help - and these three restaurants have got the mix just right.

It takes more than a smile to win over our team of reviewers. And at these three establishments, every element of the front-of-house formula has been perfected. Meet our finalists for Maître d' of the Year.

Enthusiasm. Deep wells of knowledge. An innate ability to read diners' needs. Our Sommelier of the Year finalists in the 2019 Restaurant Awards have all these qualities, and more.

For the first time in almost 20 years, an Adelaide restaurant has won the top honour at the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards. So, what's Orana all about?

We take you behind-the-scenes of putting together our 2018 Restaurant Guide, from reviewing 409 restaurants to choosing the best one in the country.

The food world’s biggest night of the year was held at Chin Chin Sydney on 23 August 2017, and brought with it plenty to celebrate.

Raise a glass to the winners of Gourmet Traveller's 2018 Restaurant Guide Awards.

The food world’s biggest night of the year brings plenty to celebrate: from a brand new Restaurant Guide and magazine redesign to an exclusive first taste of Chin Chin Sydney.

Three hot-to-trot new restaurants - and all of them in Sydney, where diners have been spoiled with openings in the last year. Among the city's many newcomers, you'd be wise to take note of these three names.

The prodigies, the trailblazers, the ones to watch: the award for Best New Talent is one of the most exciting categories in the GT Restaurant Awards, partly because we know there's plenty more tricks we're yet to see from these talented chefs.

Whether it's a late-night spot playing hip-hop at full volume, a throwback to the glamour of yesteryear or a bar-restaurant that slips the collar of definition, these three Bar of the Year finalists have all nailed one essential detail: good times.

These three restaurants - Fleet, Brae and Igni - might not be in capital cities, but the journey there is part of the unforgettable experience they offer.

The maître d' is your first introduction to a restaurant - they do as much to create a sense of ambience as lighting, tableware and music. And these three professionals are top of the class.

Three sommeliers, three different personalities, all first-rate guides to the lists at their establishments. We present the finalists for the award of Sommelier of the Year in our 2018 Restaurant Awards.

This year's finalists are pursuing vastly different wine programs, but all are at the top of their game. We present Hardy's Verandah Restaurant, Cirrus Dining and Kisumé.

On Wednesday 17 August, we announced the winners of GT's Restaurant Guide Awards with a night of fine food and company at Long Chim Sydney.

David Thompson opened his new restaurant early last night to cater for GT's annual night of nights. And what a party it was.

Raise a glass to the winners of this year's annual Restaurant Guide Awards.

Elite Australian dining and Italian dancing collided in the tastiest of ways at the Gourmet Traveller restaurant awards.

This is the cream of dining in Australia right now, and it tastes great.

Presenting the nominees for this year’s Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards, our tribute to the nation’s finest talents in the kitchen, on the pour and on the floor.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional New South Wales? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

As featured in our 2015 Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional Queensland? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in Adelaide? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional South Australia? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in Tasmania? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in Melbourne? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional Victoria? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in Perth? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional Western Australia? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Looking for the best restaurants in Canberra? Here are our favourites from our 2015 Australian Restaurant Guide, compiled in 2014. Come back soon for our 2016 lists.

Take a look behind-the-scenes at the 2015 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Awards event, held in August 2014.

2014 has been an exciting year in food, making for a particularly interesting crop of winners in the 2015 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Awards. Hungry for talent? Read on.

Presenting the nominees for the 2015 Gourmet Traveller restaurant awards, our tribute to the nation's top talents in the kitchen, on the pour and on the floor.

Presenting the finalists for Best New Talent in the 2015 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Awards.

Looking for the best restaurants in Perth? Here are our favourites from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional Western Australia? Here are our favourites from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in Adelaide? Here's our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in Tasmania? Here are our favourites from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in regional Queensland? Here's our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in Canberra? Here's our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

Looking for the best restaurants in Melbourne? Here's our top ten from our 2014 Australian Restaurant Guide.

We've eaten our way across the country in search of the best new restaurants of 2013. Here's our top 20.

Behind the scenes at Gourmet Traveller's 2014 Restaurant Guide Awards.

The reviews are in, the guide is out, the forks are down and now it’s time to raise our glasses: presenting the winners of the 2014 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Guide Restaurant Awards.