Red carpet, cocktails and colour from The Age Good Food Guide 2024 Awards
The cream of Victoria’s dining scene gathered at the Plaza Ballroom in Melbourne on October 30 for the glittering 43rd Good Food Guide Awards. Here’s a snapshot (or 100) of the big night.
2 / 12The Age Good Food Guide Awards in full swing at The Plaza Ballroom in MelbourneAshley Ludkin
3 / 12O.My team winners are grinners after scooping the Restaurant of the Year award.Ashley Ludkin
4 / 12The host with the most, Adam LiawAshley Ludkin
5 / 12Congrats to the Kin team for winning New Restaurant of the Year.Ashley Ludkin
6 / 12Etta restaurant’s Hannah Green on her way to collect the Service Excellence Award.Ashley Ludkin
7 / 12The Minamishima team are awarded three hats once again!Ashley Ludkin
8 / 12The Age Good Food Guide editors Ellen Fraser and Emma Breheny.Ashley Ludkin
9 / 12Cheers to Vittoria Coffee for the espresso martinis!Ashley Ludkin
10 / 12Little Picket’s Jo Barrett is announced Chef of the Year. Ashley Ludkin
11 / 12Chefs Tom Sarafian, Zackary Furst (of Bar Liberty and a previous winner of the Young Chef of the Year award), Charley Snadden-Wilson (Clover) and Nagesh Seethiah (Manze).
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12 / 12Chauncy is announced Regional Restaurant of the YearAshley Ludkin
We asked the chefs and guests to have a bit of fun in front of our bright backdrop after the formalities were over. They were only too happy to oblige.
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1 / 10Chayse and Blayne Bertoncello of O.My, who collected the Restaurant of the Year award.Hugh O’Brien
2 / 10Etta owner Hannah Green, winner of the Service Excellence award, with Etta chef Rosheen Kaul.Hugh O’Brien
3 / 10Regional Restaurant of the Year Chauncy owners Louis Naepels and Tess Murray.Hugh O’Brien
4 / 10Shannon Martinez (middle) owner of Smith + Daughters and Lona Misa, with her head chefs Pamella Tomio from Lona Misa and Josh Bosen from Smith + Daughters.Hugh O’Brien
5 / 10Winner of Flinders + Co New Regional Restaurant of the Year, Kin. Chef Jack Cassidy pictured left. Hugh O’Brien
6 / 10Reine & La Rue owner Rebecca Yazbek, and chef Jacqui Challinor, winners of New Restaurant of the Year.Hugh O’Brien
7 / 10Good Food’s Sarah Norris, Ardyn Bernoth and Guide editors Ellen Fraser and Emma Breheny.Hugh O’Brien
8 / 10Is there anything our dapper host Adam Liaw cannot do? We think not. Hugh O’Brien
9 / 10Winner of the Innovator award, Xavier Prime from Chooks at the Rooke.Hugh O’Brien
10 / 10Jason Lui of Flower Drum is officially a legend.Hugh O’Brien
As for the after party? We put our cameras away for that bit. But let’s just say it was a lively and late (or is that an early?) one!
The Age Good Food Guide 2024 magazine is on sale for $14.95 from newsagents, supermarkets and at thestore.com.au. It features more than 450 Victorian venues, from three-hatted destinations to regional wine bars, lively noodle specialists and 30-year-old icons.
