By Laura Rancie.
Established in 1977, the Australian Good Food and Travel Guide has remained an icon amongst the Australian culinary scene, now going strong for 46 years. What few people know is that our full name, the Australian Good Food AND TRAVEL Guide is about to take this show back on the road!
We are so excited to continue to deliver curated guides across Australia’s best restaurants, as we are the home of Hatted restaurants! But we also invite you along for a thrilling adventure across Australia as we return to bringing destination dining back to the forefront.
We have an exciting week ahead as we travel across regional towns, outback wonders and bustling metropolitan cities in search of the best food, dishes, ingredients and dining experiences from an off-the-grid lodge off the coast of Tasmania in King Island to the urban landscape of cities like Brisbane and Sydney.
We celebrate small regional towns throughout Australia which have just one hatted restaurant in the entire area including:
Blackheath in the Blue Mountains.
Port Macquarie on NSW’s North coast.
Albury on the Murray River.
Townsville in Northern Queensland.
Auburn in South Australia’s Clare Valley,
Dunkeld in the Grampians.
Mildura in Victoria.
Rutherglen in the High Country.
Alongside these eight champion destination hatted restaurants, we acknowledge the thriving food scene in Sydney with its 117 hatted restaurants, Melbourne’s 90, Canberra’s 14, Brisbane’s 27, Adelaide’s 13, Tassie’s 20, Perth’s 21 and so on with everything in between rugged regional towns with local ingredients and the cities' abundance of well-sourced produce.
We open it up to you and ask, what great Australian destination have you visited and eaten so well at? Hatted or not, we’d love to hear your food journey and stories across our great Aussie landscape from coast to coast, desert to hinterland. #agfgrecommended
