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EXP. Restaurant

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EXP. Restaurant

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Delicious small bites make up the menu at EXP Restaurant. — 16/20

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EXP. Restaurant

Precise tasting menu allows a bush-centric sensibility to rule.

EXP. has slowly, suddenly become the most exciting restaurant in the region. — 16/20

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Pokolbin

The Hunter Valley’s newly two-hatted restaurant is the most exciting in the region

Ten years on, chef Frank Fawkner’s EXP. Restaurant is at the centre of what comes next for the wine district.

David Matthews