This is both my favourite part of the year and my most hated. The 2011 Gourmet Traveller Restaurant awards have just been announced. I get to see the list that I will hungrily chase for the next year, see just how many restaurants I can cross off the and can cry over how many I’ve already eaten at that didn’t make the cut. Last year I started my count at 14. Despite all the excessive eating I’ve been doing, I can only manage to cross off 17. That’s a measly addition of 3 more top 100 restaurants!! Sadly, quite a few have dropped off the scale. I guess I will just have to do a lot more eating over the next 12 months. Or concentrate on the top 20, surely they’re less likely to be toppled in next years awards? At least this year I can say I’ve eaten at the nations’ best restaurant....a big woo hoo for Cutler and Co.!
On the recipe side of the equation I’ve managed to knock off 15 top 100 recipes, not a bad feat...however I need to pull out my A game if I’m ever going to manage to cross off all 100.
So at the moment I’m only at 17% of my goal. I’ve updated the top 100 list on the left bar.
How many have you eaten at and are there any that have been left out that you really love?
On the recipe side of the equation I’ve managed to knock off 15 top 100 recipes, not a bad feat...however I need to pull out my A game if I’m ever going to manage to cross off all 100.
So at the moment I’m only at 17% of my goal. I’ve updated the top 100 list on the left bar.
How many have you eaten at and are there any that have been left out that you really love?
Hah, I've eaten at five of the restaurants on the list! I obviously need to lift my A game too. ;)
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the eating! I'm sure you'll have heaps of fun doing it! I bought last years Age Good Food Guide aiming to eat at as many as I can as well... Not too successful!
ReplyDeleteMore eating! Yay! I can't imagine anything more fun than eating at the best restaurants in Australia. You've done so well with the recipes too.
ReplyDeleteI think I have done only 10.... just 90 more to go... Good luck in your journey!
ReplyDeletegood luck with your journey!! I'm so excited a victorian could get the top gong this time.
ReplyDeletePoor old WA only managed to get three on there. At least that makes my job pretty easy ;)
ReplyDeleteAlso, my sister and I are determined to get to Cutler & Co in January!
If you combine your cooking and eating scores you're at about 1/3 of the way, which sounds much more impressive. And having a long list of new restaurants to try can't be a bad thing!
ReplyDeletegot my copy of this month's gourmet traveller - hopefully might get few a few of these restaurants too this year :)
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