Two Australian restaurants have been named as among the best in the world, but before you ask, neither of them are the sausage sizzles out the front of Bunnings (criminal!).
The Aussie eateries were named as part of luxury magazine Condé Nast Traveller’s Hot List, which earlier this week published its picks for the 33 best restaurants that have opened or reopened throughout the world in the past year.
Repping Australia on the international stage was Sydney venue Saint Peter, which relocated to Paddington from Oxford Street last year and is owned by restaurateur power couple Josh and Julie Niland.
At the risk of causing your mouth to water, Saint Peter is known for its seafood (drool), including yellowfin tuna (double drool) and something called a bone marrow fudge (you know what? Hell yeah!).
Joining that venue as a fellow Hot List inductee is Supernormal Brisbane, a riverside restaurant located in Brisbane’s CBD and famous for its Asian-influenced menu items.
Supernormal is owned by Lisa Vanderpump-level restauranter Andrew McConnell, the culinary mastermind behind fellow iconic venues like Melbourne’s Apollo Inn and Gimlet.
Before you start feverishly trying to book a table (in this economy?), be reminded that these are the swankiest of hotspots; the kind where you think the waiter has under-poured your wine glass before you realise he’s just offering you a taste test.
Yeah, that kind of fancy.
The banquets offered by Supernormal and Saint Peter are both over $140 per person, but at this rate that’s not too shy off a bottle of olive oil at Woolworths, anyway.
Alongside Brisbane and Sydney, other cities to get a shoutout on the coveted Condé Nast list included restaurants in London, Ho Chi Minh City, Paris and Hong Kong, proving that Australia can rub shoulders, or sausage (sizzles), with the best of ‘em!
It’s enough to make me extremely jealous of the Condé Nast food critics who are tasked with flying off to faraway destinations to feast on ludicrously priced meals.
So jealous, in fact, that I’m compelled to recommend they next visit that Sydney restaurant that served up a dead rat salad last week (not in the Ratatouille kinda way).
Either that, or Coogee Bay Hotel circa 2008.
Lead image: Saint Peter/Instagram and Disney/Pixar
