Every Good Food Guide hatted restaurant to add to your 2024 bucket list

From one hat to three, this is the essential list of every hat-winning restaurant from The Age Good Food Guide 2024.

October 30, 2023

Full list of award winners

Three hats

Amaru
Brae
Minamishima

Dishes from three-hat restaurants (left to right) Amaru, Brae and Minamishima.Anthony Hart; Colin Page; Bonnie Savage

Two hats

City and suburbs

Attica
Chae
The Chef’s Table at Kisume
Cutler & Co.
Di Stasio Citta
Flower Drum
Gimlet at Cavendish House
Greasy Zoes
Grossi Florentino
Ides
Ishizuka
Kazuki’s
Lee Ho Fook
Navi
O.My
Omnia
Reine & La Rue
Warabi
Yugen Omakase

Regional

Chauncy, Heathcote
Igni, Geelong
Kadota, Daylesford
Lake House, Daylesford
Laura, Merricks
Moonah, Connewarre
Provenance, Beechworth
Stefano’s, Mildura
Tedesca Osteria, Red Hill
Ten Minutes by Tractor, Main Ridge
Wickens at Royal Mail Hotel, Dunkeld

One hat

City and suburbs

1800 Lasagne NEW
Alta Trattoria NEW
Aoi Tsuki NEW
Aru
Atlas Dining
Atria
Babaji’s Kerala Kitchen NEW
Bacash
Bar Carolina
Bar Liberty NEW
Bar Lourinha
Benyue Kitchen NEW
Bistro Gitan
Bottarga NEW
Carlton Wine Room
Caterina’s Cucina e Bar
Cecconi’s Flinders Lane
Centonove NEW
Clover NEW
Coda
Cumulus Inc.
Di Stasio Carlton
Donovans
Embla
Enoteca Boccaccio NEW
Etta
The European
Farmer’s Daughters
French Saloon
Gaea NEW
Gray & Gray NEW
Grill Americano
Hazel NEW
The Hellenic House Project NEW
Her Bar
Il Bacaro
The Independent
Izakaya Den NEW
James
Jeow
Julie NEW
Komeyui
La Pinta
Lagoon Dining
Lagotto
Lillian Brasserie
Lona Misa
Maha
Manze
Marble Yakiniku
Marion
Matilda 159 Domain
Matsu NEW
MoVida
MoVida Aqui NEW
Nihao Kitchen NEW
North & Common NEW

Osteria Ilaria
Philippe
Pipis Kiosk
Pretty Little NEW
Prince Dining Room NEW
The Recreation
Robata
Rockpool Bar & Grill NEW
Scopri
Serai
Smith & Daughters
Smith St Bistrot
Society
Stokehouse
Supernormal
Sushi On NEW
Taxi Kitchen
Tipo 00
Tonka
Trattoria Emilia NEW
Tulum
Uminono NEW
Vex Dining
Victor Churchill
Yugen Dining

North & Common restaurant inside what was once Pentridge Prison’s canteen.Joe Armao

Regional

Audrey’s, Sorrento
Bar Merenda, Daylesford NEW
Bar Midland, Castlemaine
Brown Brothers Restaurant, Milawa
Cape, Cape Schanck
Doot Doot Doot, Merricks North
Du Fermier, Trentham
Hogget Kitchen, Warragul
Ipsos, Lorne
Jayden Ong Winery & Cellar Bar, Healesville
Kin, Wahgunyah NEW
Kuzu, Woodend
La Cachette, Geelong
Little Picket, Lorne NEW
Many Little, Red Hill South
Masons of Bendigo, Bendigo
Midnight Starling, Kyneton
Moke, Flinders
Mr Jones, Ballarat
No. 7 Healesville, Healesville
Oakridge, Coldstream
Polperro, Red Hill South
Port Phillip Estate, Red Hill South
Pt. Leo Restaurant, Merricks NEW
Ragazzone, Ballarat
Rare Hare, Merricks North
The Restaurant at Montalto, Red Hill South
Sardine Dining, Paynesville
The Surly Goat, Hepburn Springs
Tansy’s, Kyneton NEW
TarraWarra Estate, Yarra Glen
Totti’s Lorne, Lorne NEW
Underbar, Ballarat NEW
Yardbird, Albury NEW

How we score:
15-15.5 out of 20: One hat
16-17.5 out of 20: Two hats
18-20 out of 20: Three hats

The Age Good Food Guide 2024 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. Venues listed in the Guide are visited anonymously by professional restaurant critics, who review independently. Venues are chosen at our discretion.

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