Since 1984, The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide has provided expert advice on the plethora of options for eating out in Sydney, from cheap and cheerful locals to fine dining, keeping residents and visitors in touch with the best, most interesting, and most innovative places to dine in the city and suburbs, and further afield in regional New South Wales.
For the twenty-fifth anniverary edition, food connoisseurs Simon Thomsen, Joanna Savill and their team have visited over 400 restaurants, and numerous bars and cafes, reviewing them with the honesty, insight and razor-sharp wit for which the guide has become known.
Featuring reviews of restaurants, bars and cafes to suit every taste, and this year with an expanded index and guides to the ten best breakfasts, green eateries, sushi, yum cha and 'guilty pleasures', The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2010 is your definitive guide to dining out in Sydney and beyond.
Simon Thomsen (Editor)
Simon was restaurant critic for The Sydney Morning Herald for four years. He was co-editor of The SMH Good Food Guide for six years, is a former regional editor and spent 14 years as a Guide reviewer. An award-winning food and travel writer, Simon contributes to numerous publications, including Travel + Leisure Australia. He worked as a chef and waiter before deciding he wields a pen better than a knife. While friends panic when inviting him over for dinner, Simon's perfect meal is pork and fennel sausages with mash and a radicchio salad.
Joanna Savill (Author)
Joanna has been writing about food and restaurants for . . . a few years now. Maybe about 20, but who's counting? She's also a bit of a food nerd. As a journalist, linguist and formerly, TV presenter/reporter (notably for SBS TV's The Food Lover's Guide To Australia), she has eaten her way around several continents, including ours. These days she is festival director of the Sydney International Food Festival as well as co-editor of the SMH Good Food Guide (since 2007). She's an accredited cheese and olive oil judge but really wants to perfect her chocolate assessing skills.
The following is an extract from the SMH Good Food Guide:
How we review
Every scored restaurant in the Good Food Guide has been visited anonymously in the past 12 months by at least one reviewer. We pay for our meal in full and sample at least four dishes, if not five or six. Each three-hat candidate is visited numerous times, likewise many of the two-hatters. We visit many more restaurants than will fit into this book. If we wouldn't feel comfortable recommending a restaurant to a friend, we won't include it. In total we visit more than 500 restaurants throughout New South Wales to publish more than 420 reviews.
Feedback
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