The Australian Financial Review Australia’s Top
Restaurants is Australia’s only national, peer voted
restaurant awards program.
The Top 100 Restaurant Awards night is the true
‘Oscars’ of the Australian hospitality industry, with an
unrivalled gathering of Australia’s biggest food stars
coming together to celebrate the very best.
The awards are unique in that they are national and
peer voted, with a panel of esteemed food critics
charged with the task of creating an initial list of the
500 top restaurants across Australia.
The dining program which runs for the month of May
celebrates and recognises the very best of
Australia’s vibrant and internationally renowned
restaurant scene.
We invite you in 2016 to join the Australia’s Top
Restaurants exciting program by hosting an
event to celebrate why your restaurant was
chosen as part of this prestigious awards list.
The centerpiece of the
Australia’s Top Restaurants
program and the ‘Oscars’ of
the Australian hospitality
industry, the Awards are a
rare occasion where all of
Australia’s very best chefs
and restaurateurs are
brought together for one
night. A spectacular event
to celebrate Australia’s
most spectacular
restaurants.
The centerpiece of the
Australia’s Top Restaurants
program and the ‘Oscars’ of
the Australian hospitality
industry. The Top 100
Awards are a rare occasion
where all of Australia’s very
best chefs and
restaurateurs are brought
together for one night. A
spectacular event to
celebrate Australia’s most
spectacular restaurants.
20%
Increase in bookings
for featured
establishments after
the 2015
announcement of the
Top 100 53k Hits
To the winner, Sepia’s
website within 24 hours
of the announcement
JOIN THE
PROGRAM • Fairfax invite you to create an exciting event during May for
Australia’s Top Restaurants program.
• Feature your event alongside the prestigious list of chosen
top restaurants across Australia!
• Event Registrations are FREE!
• Over 86,000 copies will be distributed in The Australian
Financial Review over a five day period and throughout
Qantas lounges around Australia.
• Your events will feature as part of an online listing at
australiastoprestaurants.com
• An $8 million marketing and PR campaign will support
Australia’s Top Restaurants awards and program.
$8M EXPOSURE THROUGH ALL PR
AND MARKETING ACTIVITY
SURROUNDING EVENTS NATIONALLY. HEAVILY
SUPPORTED THROUGH THE FINANCIAL
REVIEW, ALL NATIONAL MASTHEADS AND
FAIRFAX FOOD NETWORK.
2015 MARKETING & PR
Chefs Shane Delia and
Abla Amad joined forces
to create Chick Peace –
an event to raise money
for the Syrian crisis relief.
Chef Martin Benn broke
out his inner samurai
with a ten course
traditional Japanese
banquet with matched
wines.
Chef Joe Pavlovich
turned the tables at Luke
Mangan’s Glass
Brasserie as five
restaurants critics
cooked fivecourses!
Balla’s executive chef
create a completely
gluten-free (Senza
Glutine!), authentic Italian
menu.
Gingerboy revisited eight
years of their much loved
Asian Classics
2015 TOP 500 RESTAURANTS
EVENT CONCEPTS
OTHER EVENT IDEAS • Celebrate your local sourced and seasonal produce and seafood.
• Realise your dream of a collaboration with your favourite chef or restaurant in the
Top 500.
• Invite an interstate or international chef to join you in the kitchen for a very special
one-off event.
• Launch your special brand new winter degustation menu.
• Host a networking lunch or a special business lunch offer throughout May.
• Why not match a four-course menu to your favourite brew or cocktail? Or create a
wine focussed dinner.
• Sit counter-side watching master chefs demonstrate the fine art of sushi or introduce
an omakase style menu for any type of cuisine - not just Japanese!
• Let patrons sample your testing kitchen as chefs introduce new ideas and concepts
they are trialling for the restaurant.
• Take a culinary journey with old chefs and new that have been part of the history of
your restaurant
• Plan an outdoor pop up party or BBQ.
• How about dinner serenaded by a live band, opera or quartet? Or have a special
guest or chef show their skills and tell their stories.
• Organs, entrails and head and tail events are the flavour!
• Sustainability focussed events.
• World feasts
• Perhaps even a breakfast, brunch or long table lunch.
4th
Dining Program registrations open 29th
Dining Program registrations close
FEB 1st Voting of Top 100 closes
People’s Choice Award campaign starts 24th – 28th Dining Program in the AFR over the five day Easter Weekend
28th People’s Choice Award voting closes
2nd Awards Gala 3rd Top 100 announcement in AFR 3rd – 23rd Dining Program campaign 23rd Program concludes
2016 EVENT TIMELINE
MAR APR
MAY
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Asha Xavier
Event Manager
0423 051 104
Lisa Marshall
Event Executive
0421 642 873
CONTACT FOR FURTHER INFORMATION