Sydney's Quay Officially Ranked in World's 100 Best Restaurants
It's the only Australian restaurant to place in the World's 50 Best Restaurants 51-100 list.
By now, you're probably very familiar with the World's 50 Best Restaurants. Perhaps because of Chef's Table, or because Melbourne is set to host the revered awards next week. But before the world's best chefs arrive in Australia to host a series of talks (in both Melbourne and Sydney) and attend a ceremony whereby the top 50 are dramatically announced, the governing food body's second 50 best restaurants is revealed — that is, restaurants number 51 through 100.
Ranking in this list — which, while not the main event, is certainly nothing to be scoffed at — is Sydney's Quay, which came in at number 95. It's the harbourside restaurant's ninth consecutive year in the top 100, and sees it move up three spots from number 98 last year. The highest ranking it achieved was number 26 back in 2011.
Apart from that, no other Australian restaurants were named in the 51-100 slot, which leads up to predict that we could have two placing in the top 50. Melbourne's Attica is bound to get a place (last year it was number 33) and it looks like Brae, which is located in regional Victoria, might too (last year it was number 65). Other honourable mentions include New York's Momofuku Ko, which has risen to number 58, and Slovenia's Hiša Franko — chef Ana Roš was the subject of a season two Chef's Table episode and has also been named Best Female Chef for 2017.
The main ceremony will take place on Wednesday, April 5 at Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building. It's only the second time the awards will be held outside of London — and that's just the start of it. The ceremony will be just one part of a seven-day program of events, which will bring some of the world's best chefs, restaurateurs, sommeliers and other people of food influence to Melbourne. Running from April 1-7, the program will coincide with 2017's Melbourne Food and Wine Festival and include a series of masterclasses, the Chef's Feast (just for chefs though, sorry) and a smattering of satellite events.
We'll let you know who places in the top 50 once the ceremony has taken place.
Image: Nikki To.
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