NSW restaurants, cafes and caterers took the lion's share of awards at Monday night's Savour Australia Restaurant&Catering Australia Awards for Excellence.
And again it was Sydney's Quay restaurant that received top honours. The Circular Quay-based restaurant was named fine dining restaurant of the year, following similar awards from The Sydney Morning Herald and Gourmet Traveller earlier in the year. Says executive chef Peter Gilmore: "The Restaurant & Catering industry award tops off what has been a phenomenal year for us. We are thrilled and very humbled to have been recognised."
Meanwhile, Oscillate Wildly, in Sydney's Newtown, took the gong for best informal dining. The judging panel voted Pilu at Freshwater, near Sydney's Manly Beach, as the country's best Italian restaurant, while the award for best new restaurant also went to a Sydney establishment: Pendolino in the city centre's Strand Arcade.
Other states did get a look-in: Victoria's Lake House in Daylesford took out the best tourism restaurant award; best Indian went to Adelaide's Jasmin Indian Restaurant and best Chinese was awarded to Me Wah Restaurant in Hobart's Sandy Bay. Perth got a gong for best coffee shop-tea room for milkd, in North Perth.
The awards night also featured the launch of the industry's Green Table Australia initiative, aimed at encouraging the nation's more than 37,000 restaurants and caterers to cut their carbon emissions. www.savouraustralia.com.au; www.greentable.com.au.
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