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Everything you need to know from The Age Good Food Guide 2026 Awards

Catch up on all the action, hats, finalists and winners from The Age Good Food Guide Awards, presented by T2 Tea and Oceania Cruises, at The Timber Yard in Port Melbourne on Monday, October 27.

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Gilbert Lau AM, legendary restaurateur/host (now retired), executive chef Anthony Lui (Jason’s father and one of the restaurant’s founding chefs) and current Flower Drum general manager Jason Lui.

Victoria’s dining finest celebrated at Good Food Guide Awards with a difference

  • Dani Valent
Light, bright, elegant dining at Chauncy in Heathcote.

The full list of hats

Who’s up and who’s down in 2026?

Hats on, hats off: Which restaurants gained (and lost) hats?

  • Tomas Telegramma
Owner-chef Tom Sarafian at his debut restaurant, Zareh.

The complete list of winners

The restaurant’s interior, and plush carpet, is instantly recognisable.

From Mick Jagger to a secret menu: 50 years of Victoria’s Restaurant of the Year

  • Ardyn Bernoth
Late-night Greek hangout Kafeneion is one of several more casual hatted restaurants.

Less French, more informal: What a Good Food Guide hatted restaurant looks like

  • Emma Breheny and Frank Sweet
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From left: Alex Casey; Georgia Limacher; Justin Howe; Simone Watts; Viveik Vinohanaran.

Videos: Get to know the winners at The Age Good Food Guide Awards

  • Dion Georgopoulos
The Age Good Food Guide Awards 2026.

The Good Food Guide Awards ceremony as it happened

  • Annabel Smith
The 2026 Age Good Food Guide.

This year’s Good Food Guide is your dining to-do list of what’s eating well in Victoria

  • Emma Breheny and Frank Sweet
Tansy Good at her restaurant, Tansy’s, in Kyneton, before she retired.

Tansy Good named Age Good Food Guide Legend

  • Dani Valent and Sarah Norris
Thi Le with an early batch of her house-made fish sauce in October 2023.

Chef of the Year a fierce voice for those who feel caught between two cultures

  • Dani Valent
Marie Grasset, Hayley Morris, Simone Watts and Laura Skvor of Barragunda.

Inaugural Trailblazer winner is a monumental addition to the Mornington Peninsula

  • Tomas Telegramma
The visionaries in The Age Good Food Guide 2026.

The visionaries: Meet the people making Victoria such a vital place to eat and drink

  • Emma Breheny and Frank Sweet
Katrina Meynink’s pistachio morning buns nod to the cinnamon bun and pistachio craze of 2025.

Cook the trends of 2025: How to make the must-try dishes seen on every cool menu

  • Katrina Meynink
The Good Food app.

The Good Food app is the home of all 500 Good Food Guide reviews

  • Good Food
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Greasy Zoes’ chawanmushi (savoury custard) with lion’s mane mushroom schnitzels (back) and mushroom dashi (in jug).

Revealed: The finalists for the three biggest awards at the Good Food Guide Awards

  • Frank Sweet, Emma Breheny and Good Food Guide reviewers
Strawberry and almond cake at Malin.

The finalists announced for Good Food Guide’s New Restaurant of the Year

  • Emma Breheny and Frank Sweet
Hummus topped with Fraser Isle spanner crab and Mooloolaba prawns at Tom Sarafian’s debut restaurant, Zareh.

Lygon Street to London: Where restaurant service young guns dine off the clock

  • Emily Holgate
From left to right: Asela Uduwara Arachchi, Viveik Vinoharan, Angela Prajogo, Jack Huxtable, Laura Skvor.

Meet five of Victoria’s best young chefs you’ve never heard of – yet

  • Emily Holgate
Lunch at Tedesca Osteria is leisurely and generous.

Five top regional restaurants worth planning a road trip around

  • Frank Sweet and Good Food Guide reviewers
The Age Good Food Guide Awards

The ultimate guide to the Good Food Guide

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