{"id":151,"date":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=151"},"modified":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T04:22:57","slug":"five-hunter-restaurants-achieve-hat-status-in-national-good-food-guide-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/five-hunter-restaurants-achieve-hat-status-in-national-good-food-guide-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE HUNTER RESTAURANTS ACHIEVE HAT STATUS IN NATIONAL GOOD FOOD GUIDE 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The scores are in and the results are official \u2013 The Hunter is home to five of Australia\u2019s top restaurants, with the recently released national Good Food Guide<\/strong> awarding restaurants in Pokolbin, Mount View and Broke with hat-status.
\nPokolbin was a standout, with Muse Restaurant receiving 2 hats, and Muse Kitchen and Restaurant Botanica achieving 1 hat respectively. Mount View\u2019s Bistro Molines and Broke\u2019s Margan Restaurant also received one hat.
\nThe Guide<\/em> of independent, anonymous reviews is written by a panel of trusted restaurant critics and recognises the best Australian restaurants nationally with \u2018hats\u2019, symbolised by a chef\u2019s toque.
\nTo secure a coveted spot in the Guide<\/em>, restaurants in New South Wales and Victoria must score at least 14 out of 20, while all other states must score a minimum of 15.
\nTo achieve a hat is a pinnacle of a chef\u2019s career and a restaurant\u2019s history, and the term \u2018hatted\u2019 has become embedded in the Australian lexicon.
\nMore than 500 restaurants from across the country were reviewed for this year\u2019s Guide, with 264 of these receiving hat status, ranging from one to three.
\nOnly seven restaurants nationally achieved the top accolade of three hats, and they include Attica (VIC), Brae (VIC), Momofuku Seiobo (NSW), Minamishima (VIC), Quay (NSW), Restaurant Orana (SA) and Sixpenny (NSW).
\nThe catalogue of influential Guide<\/em> editors includes founding editors Claude Forell in Melbourne and Leo Schofield in Sydney \u2013 along with Terry Durack, Jill Dupleix and Matthew Evans \u2013 who have charted the growth of the restaurant industry in Australia, and helped to shape it.
\nIt is this rich 39-year tradition that the 2019 Good Food Guide editor Myffy Rigby<\/strong> upholds, ensuring the Guide remains Australia\u2019s pre-eminent restaurant bible.
\n\u201cThe second annual national Good Food Guide is a reflection of the thousands of voices that make Australia one of the most diverse and delicious places to eat in the world. The Guide is a celebration of the industry as a whole. Every one of the restaurants featured is a summation of all those moving parts. We recognise the hard work of all those Australian restaurants and everything they do to enrich the scene.\u201d
\nThe score breakdown for reviews and awarding of hats is:<\/u><\/strong>
\n\u00a0<\/u>
\n14 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Good
\n1 hat<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15 Very good
\n2 hats<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16 Great
\n2 hats<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17 Excellent
\n3 hats<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 18 Outstanding
\n3 hats<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 19 Incredible
\n3 hats<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20 Perfection
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The scores are in and the results are official \u2013 The Hunter is home to five of Australia\u2019s top restaurants, with the recently released national Good Food Guide awarding restaurants in Pokolbin, Mount View and Broke with hat-status. Pokolbin was a standout, with Muse Restaurant receiving 2 hats, and Muse Kitchen and Restaurant Botanica achieving … Continue reading “FIVE HUNTER RESTAURANTS ACHIEVE HAT STATUS IN NATIONAL GOOD FOOD GUIDE 2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}