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W**E > Decades, Pinot Noir, 2024, Coal River Tasmania (18/20)September 5, 2026 There are new labels that feel engineered...
05/09/2026

W**E > Decades, Pinot Noir, 2024, Coal River Tasmania (18/20)
September 5, 2026

There are new labels that feel engineered for the market, and then there are those that arrive with the conviction of a long-held idea finally finding its vineyard. Decades is firmly the latter. The 2024 Pinot Noir is a remarkably assured second release from Steve Flamsteed and Brad Rogers: fragrant, sinewy and distinctly Tasmanian, with the Coal River Valley’s cool precision carried through in every detail. Over the last couple of years the Giant Steps Apple Jack Pinot Noir from the Yarra Valley has become the benchmark for Australian Pinot, developed by the then chief w**emaker Steve Flamsteed, the w**e

EAT > AEGLI, South Melbourne (16/20)September 3, 2026 Behind a modest terrace facade on Coventry Street, in the space th...
03/09/2026

EAT > AEGLI, South Melbourne (16/20)
September 3, 2026

Behind a modest terrace facade on Coventry Street, in the space that once housed the experimental fine-diner Lume, Aegli has quietly become one of the most convincing Greek tables in Melbourne, a chef’s love letter to the villages and islands of home, plated with genuine restraint. Modern Hellenic cooking, done with real conviction. AMBIENCE > Aegli does not announce itself with baroque Aegean kitsch, no whitewashed walls or fishing nets. Instead the room plays it cool and contemporary: warm timber tones, low lighting, a pared-back palette that lets the tableware and the open pass do the talking. It sits deceptively

STAY > Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Victoria (17/20)Perched on the limestone cliffs above Port Phillip Bay, Hotel Sorrento i...
02/09/2026

STAY > Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Victoria (17/20)
Perched on the limestone cliffs above Port Phillip Bay, Hotel Sorrento is the Mornington Peninsula's oldest hotel and its most enduring symbol of coastal glamour — a family-owned 1872 landmark that has just closed out a multi-year redevelopment without losing the salt-worn soul that made it famous in the first place. a place to stay and play with the beautiful people and the locals AMBIENCE > Approaching along Hotham Road (and just up from the Sorrento Queenscliff Ferry), the two-storey limestone-and-brick building with its distinctive tower still reads as unmistakably Victorian, a Late Victorian Italianate structure designed by Hennessy &
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STAY > Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Victoria (17/20)September 2, 2026 Perched on the limestone cliffs above Port Phillip Bay...
02/09/2026

STAY > Hotel Sorrento, Sorrento Victoria (17/20)
September 2, 2026

Perched on the limestone cliffs above Port Phillip Bay, Hotel Sorrento is the Mornington Peninsula's oldest hotel and its most enduring symbol of coastal glamour — a family-owned 1872 landmark that has just closed out a multi-year redevelopment without losing the salt-worn soul that made it famous in the first place. a place to stay and play with the beautiful people and the locals AMBIENCE > Approaching along Hotham Road (and just up from the Sorrento Queenscliff Ferry), the two-storey limestone-and-brick building with its distinctive tower still reads as unmistakably Victorian, a Late Victorian Italianate structure designed by Hennessy &

EAT > BOMMIE, Hamilton Island QLD (17/20)Perched inside the Hamilton Island Yacht Club with Dent Passage unfurling benea...
23/08/2026

EAT > BOMMIE, Hamilton Island QLD (17/20)
Perched inside the Hamilton Island Yacht Club with Dent Passage unfurling beneath its floor-to-ceiling glass, Bommie is the Whitsundays' most credentialed fine-diner. A place to see and be seen. Fine dining above Hamilton Island Marina There's a particular kind of restaurant that only works on an island: it has to serve the yacht crowd walking off their boats at 6pm and the couple who've flown three hours for a wedding anniversary, all in the same sitting. Bommie manages this with a degustation-led menu built around native ingredients and peak-season regional produce, under executive chef Ryan Locke, and it has been
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EAT > BOMMIE, Hamilton Island QLD (17/20)August 23, 2026 Perched inside the Hamilton Island Yacht Club with Dent Passage...
23/08/2026

EAT > BOMMIE, Hamilton Island QLD (17/20)
August 23, 2026

Perched inside the Hamilton Island Yacht Club with Dent Passage unfurling beneath its floor-to-ceiling glass, Bommie is the Whitsundays' most credentialed fine-diner. A place to see and be seen. Fine dining above Hamilton Island Marina There's a particular kind of restaurant that only works on an island: it has to serve the yacht crowd walking off their boats at 6pm and the couple who've flown three hours for a wedding anniversary, all in the same sitting. Bommie manages this with a degustation-led menu built around native ingredients and peak-season regional produce, under executive chef Ryan Locke, and it has been

EAT > Restaurant 226, Melbourne (14/20)August 22, 2026 Beneath the heritage bones of Invicta House on Flinders Lane, Res...
22/08/2026

EAT > Restaurant 226, Melbourne (14/20)
August 22, 2026

Beneath the heritage bones of Invicta House on Flinders Lane, Restaurant 226 (styled II.II.VI) has turned a basement into a subterranean altar to fire, and in doing so has given Melbourne a theatrical new steakhouse. There’s a particular thrill in restaurants that commit fully to a single idea rather than chasing trend after trend, and 226 has committed hard to fire. Everything here — the custom parrilla grill, the robata, the charcoal oven — exists to answer one question: what happens when you cook almost exclusively through flame and smoke rather than around it. The result is ambitious, a little

EAT > Pebble Beach, Qualia Hamilton Island QLD (18/20)July 25, 2026 Set right on the sand at the northern tip of Hamilto...
25/07/2026

EAT > Pebble Beach, Qualia Hamilton Island QLD (18/20)
July 25, 2026

Set right on the sand at the northern tip of Hamilton Island, Pebble Beach is qualia’s beachfront dining room, and it remains the most relaxed serious meal in the Whitsundays. In our opinion, Pebble Beach is the best lunch (and probably the best meal) on Hamilton Island, full stop. There’s a specific pleasure in eating well with your feet practically in the sand, and Pebble Beach understands the assignment: between the infinity pool and the sea, it does relaxed lunch by day and pivots to a more considered fine-dining service by night. The kitchen sits under qualia’s Executive Chef Joshua

EAT > Vue de Monde, Melbourne (19/20)July 19, 2026 Twenty-five years On and 55 floors above the C*D, Vue de Monde remain...
19/07/2026

EAT > Vue de Monde, Melbourne (19/20)
July 19, 2026

Twenty-five years On and 55 floors above the C*D, Vue de Monde remains the benchmark by which Melbourne fine dining measures itself: theatrical, meticulous, unapologetically expensive, and still capable of genuine surprise. In our opinion Vue de Monde is the most complete fine-dining experience in Melbourne, and arguably in the country. There is a particular kind of restaurant that survives its own mythology — that keeps evolving long after the chef whose name built it has walked away — and Vue de Monde is the clearest local example. What began as a quirky French terrace bistro in Carlton in 2000

Qualia on Hamilton Island remains the benchmark for barefoot Australian luxury, adults-only, 60-pavilion resort on the G...
12/07/2026

Qualia on Hamilton Island remains the benchmark for barefoot Australian luxury, adults-only, 60-pavilion resort on the Great Barrier Reef where privacy, understated design and genuine sense of place outweigh any single showpiece amenity. 

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