Sydney restaurant voted worlds 5th best!!

yep it did indeed drop out. Nevermind...I would like to see what criteria these votes are based on.
Well done Sydney...but does anyone really care?
Opinion poles are far form an exact science.
Most Australian cites have world class resturants so who gives a rats? ... maybe some of the resturants in Chinatown perhaps might serve them but I don't give one.

That list sux! lol The food quality there must be superb but most of those restaurants are poorly located (no views!). E.G. getting to El Bulli isn’t easy. Most people approach it from the direction of Barcelona, which is about 160 kilometres to the south. I don't like Tetsuya too much either but it's good they moved from Rozelle to the City a few years ago...

I prefer skyscraper restaurants - views forever!!

The Top 25 elevated restaurants & bars in the world IMO:

1/ Rainbow Room (& Rainbow Grill!), 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City - the best place to eat in the world, managed by the legendary Cipriani Family, Manhattan views to die for etc.

2/ Alain Ducasse @ St. Regis Club At The Essex House, New York City

3/ Jules Verne, Eiffel Tower, Paris

4/ Felix, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong

5/ Asiate, Mandarin Oriental, New York City

6/ Carnelian Room, Bank of America Tower, San Francisco

7/ Signature Room, John Hancock Tower, Chicago

8/ 41, Chifley Tower, Sydney

9/ 30 St Mary Axe (Swiss Re) Restaurant, London

10/ New York Grill & Bar, Park Hyatt, Tokyo

11/ Skyview Bar, Burj Al Arab, Dubai

12/ Peak Restaurant, Victoria Peak, Hong Kong

13/ Equinox, Swissôtel The Stamford, Singapore

14/ 360 Restaurant, CN Tower, Toronto

15/ Summit, Australia Square, Sydney

16/ Top of the World, Stratosphere Tower, Las Vegas

17/ Cloud 9 Bar, Grand Hyatt, Shanghai

18/ Sydney Tower Restaurants

19/ Sun Dial, Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta

20/ Top of the Mark, Mark Hopkins Intercontinental, San Francisco

21/ Cityscape, San Francisco Hilton & Towers

22/ Top of the Hyatt Bar, Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego

23/ Vertigo & Pier 59, Banyan Tree, Bangkok

24/ Sky City, Space Needle, Seattle

25/ Bangkok Sky, Baiyoke Sky Hotel, Bangkok

Cheers

zach24 said:

tetsuya's was ranked number 1 by the new york post a few years ago!
sydney definately is the food capital of australia - with double the amount of 3 hat restaurants than any other city in this country
go sydney!

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MOST DEFINANTLEY THE FOOD CAPITAL

The Australia and New Zealand panel voting for Penfolds 50 best restaurants 2006 includes:

17 panelists from Sydney
7 panelists from Melbourne
5 panelists from other cities

The chair person is from Sydney and the panel includes the head chefs from Tetsuya and Rockpool but not the head chef from the Flower Drum.

Grollo said:

The Australia and New Zealand panel voting for Penfolds 50 best restaurants 2006 includes:

17 panelists from Sydney
7 panelists from Melbourne
5 panelists from other cities

The chair person is from Sydney and the panel includes the head chefs from Tetsuya and Rockpool but not the head chef from the Flower Drum.

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I just means that most of the food experts must come from Sydney

Silly because the worlds best restaurants are usually barred from copetition.

Example being Alain Fabregues and the Loose Box. He holds the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France: Cuisine Restauration, a title bestowed by the President of France and awarded to only 91 chefs since the 1920s; and he has been twice awarded the French equivalent of a knighthood - Chevalier dans L’Ordre du MériteAgricole and Chevalier dans L’Ordre National du Mérite.

CULWULLA said:

^ i agree, when you eat out, you must have a view! lol makes it taste so much better. you have NO view at tetsuya.just the bill, which ive been told is aprx $200 for 12 course meal. mmmm.

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Yes, $200 is extreme for a meal, but you cannot look at it like that. It's an event and anyone i know who has been there has raved about it. It think everyoine should try it just once with their special other - but i haven't yet - lol.

Most of us don't have a problem spending $150 on Bridge Climb or $100 on paintball skirmish - it's not much more to get the world's best in a meal. And i know people who spend $100 clubbing and boozing on the weekends, yet they whinge about a $200 meal - lol. It's just prioritys. If they didn't go out boozing one week, they could go to to tetsuya's the next.

And i doubt the other restaurants overseas are any cheaper.

Anton said:

And i doubt the other restaurants overseas are any cheaper.

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I think they will actually be substantially more expensive, certainly the European restuarants and NY is renowned for expensive restuarants.

I remember a storey of a city Banker in London that managed to blow 40,000 pounds on a meal after getting his bonus. Mind you he did order 12 bottles of the most vintage wine available.

Grollo said:

The Australia and New Zealand panel voting for Penfolds 50 best restaurants 2006 includes:

17 panelists from Sydney
7 panelists from Melbourne
5 panelists from other cities

The chair person is from Sydney and the panel includes the head chefs from Tetsuya and Rockpool but not the head chef from the Flower Drum.

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MOST DEFINANTLEY THE FOOD CAPITAL....hahahahahaha

James Saito said:

No restaurants in Asia? I think this ranking is biased...

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Why do you say that? Only because 36 out of 50 restaurants are located in Europe? Because of the remaining 12, no less than 7 serve French cuisine? Because the Japanese and Chinese exceptions are to be found... far from China and Japan? Naaaaaaahhh...

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