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QUAY RATED THE 27TH BEST RESTAURANT IN THE WORLD
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 27 April 2009
Last night in London, Quay was voted in at Number 27 on the coveted S Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. The restaurant first broke onto the list in 2009, joining such hallowed establishments as Noma, El Bulli, Fat Duck and The French Laundry, with a ranking of 46th. This year, it jumped 19 places to score in the top 30 restaurants in the world and to become one of only two Australian restaurants on the list (along with Tetsuya’s) and the highest ranked Australian restaurant in the world.
Quay’s amazing performance on the S Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants tops an incredible twelve months for the restaurant. Last October, Quay rewrote restaurant award history in Australia by scoring a “double double” win, having been named Restaurant of The Year for the second consecutive year in the industry’s two top awards, the Australian Gourmet Traveller Restaurant Awards 2010 and The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010.
The S Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list is compiled by the World's 50 Best Academy, a group of prominent food writers, critics, publishers and commentators, who each represent a different global region and chair a carefully selected voting panel for that region. A total of 4,030 votes were cast by over 800 restaurant experts around the world in order to assemble the list.
Peter Gilmore, Executive Chef at Quay for the last nine years and the quiet genius behind its stellar rise through the ranks, said of the win: “We are absolutely thrilled. To be honest, we are still getting used to the news. I just can’t wait to get back to Australia to celebrate with the team.” John Fink, General Manager of the Fink Group who own Quay and Otto restaurants, added: “This is great for Quay, but it’s also great for the restaurant industry. Sydney has some of the best restaurants in the world, and now hopefully, the world will pay us a visit to enjoy them.”
For further information on Quay restaurant and the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants, please contact:
Brooke Tabberer or Nicole Craig
BLACK Communications
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brooke@blackcommunications.com.au
Reviews
"Peter Gilmore delivers exciting, enticing, sensual and cutting edge Australian cooking in a landmark setting that makes Quay worthy of the title of Australia's best restaurant."
"Enter Heaven - each dish is a work in progress, testament to the chef's willingness to suprise and entertain. At first, great restaurants transform your life for just a few hours. Then subtly, they are with you for the rest of your life. They're a place of adventure and discovery, a combination of dazzling theatre, kitchen alchemy and unexpected magic - in a fantasy world where you're the centre of attention. Quay is all those things and more which is why Quay has been named SMH Good Food Guide - Restaurant of the Year 2009."
Simon Thomsen,
SMH Good Living, September 2008.
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Another great win for owners Leon and John Fink together with the master himself Head Chef Peter Gilmore taking out the award for the 2009 Restaurant of the Year - SMH Good Food Guide Awards. Quay's continuing drive for excellence sees it score the top award for the third time.
Simon Thomsen,
SMH Good Living, September 2008.
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Owners Leon and John Fink together with Head Chef Peter Gilmore have emerged victorious in a field of over 400 establishments reviewed in the Australian Gourmet Traveller 2009 Restaurant Awards as Restaurant of the Year - 2009. In the past seven years, Quay's reputation has grown.
It's the union of contemporary technology and thinking with cool and unusual fruits of the natural world that puts Quay up there with the world's best. It certainly gets our vote.
Pat Nourse,
Australian Gourmet Traveller, September 2008.
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Maestro Chef, Peter Gilmore continues to scale new heights. Young, courteous and knowledgeable service is the right match for this culinary artist, now showcasing masterworks in a bold new four course menu with a quartet of choices per course.
Simon Thomsen,
SMH Good Food Guide 2008.
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"Experience culinary perfection... and I'll be darned if that's not exactly what I did." "I've visited every three-star restaurant in Australia... Peter Gilmore's style of cooking, as is highlighted through Quay's new signature menu, is so wholly formed, so complete in its conception, execution and presentation that to dine at Quay today is to see a gun chef coming to the height of his powers."
Pat Nourse,
Australian Gourmet Traveller, January 2007.
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It takes a brave chef to drop an iconic dish (pork belly and scallops) after five years, but Peter Gilmore is master of his waterfront domain.
Matthew Evans,
SMH Good Food Guide 2006.
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Matthew Evans, editor of the Good Food Guide wrote in 2005 after Quay received the Restaurant of the Year Award for the second time “Since he hit the stoves three years ago at Quay, perched atop the Overseas Passenger Terminal in West Circular Quay, the strikingly modest Peter Gilmore has redefined Sydney style”. “Quay is also a reminder of just how blessed this city is. The natural beauty is a given – but Peter Gilmore’s brain and palate make the sum of its parts so much greater”.
Matthew Evans, 2005
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The winner of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2003 Restaurant of the Year is....(drum roll here)....Quay!
Matthew Evans,
Good Living, 2003