Red carpet, cocktails and colour from The SMH Good Food Guide 2024 Awards
The cream of NSW and ACT’s dining scenes gathered at Sydney Modern at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on October 23 for the glittering Good Food Guide Awards. Here’s a snapshot of the big night.
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Photographer Edwina Pickles captured some of the hottest looks (and cooks) from the red carpet.
1 / 18Chris Theodosi and Jesse Orleans from Cafe of the Year, Happyfield, in Haberfield. Edwina Pickles
2 / 18Chef and restaurateur Matt Moran.Edwina Pickles
3 / 18Good Food Guide reviewers Jill Dupleix and Terry Durack.Edwina Pickles
4 / 18Stephanie Wells and Michael Portley from Newcastle’s Humbug. Edwina Pickles
5 / 18Merivale executive chefs Jordan Toft and Dan Hong.Edwina Pickles
6 / 18Meng Woon and daughter Wendy, who took home the inaugural Critics’ Pick of the Year award for Malay Chinese.Edwina Pickles
7 / 18Vittoria Coffee Legend Award winner Kylie Kwong.Edwina Pickles
8 / 18Kirk and Nick Mathews-Bowden with chef Ahana Dutt (centre) from Raja in Potts Point.Edwina Pickles
9 / 18Neil and Sam Perry, who took home Vittoria Coffee Restaurant of the Year for Double Bay’s Margaret.Edwina Pickles
10 / 18The Porteno crew.Edwina Pickles
11 / 18Tomoyuki Matsuya, chef at hatted Gordon restaurant Kame House.Edwina Pickles
12 / 18Jarrod Walsh and Dot Lee from hatted Chippendale restaurant Longshore.Edwina Pickles
13 / 18Jake Deluca and Edwardo Molina, from Regional Restaurant of the Year finalist restaurant Flotilla, in Newcastle.Edwina Pickles
14 / 18Former Good Food Guide editor Joanna Savill.Edwina Pickles
15 / 18Canberra restaurant teams, including the crew from New Restaurant of the Year Such and Such.Edwina Pickles
16 / 18Annita Potter and Mark Wotherspoon. Potter, who heads up the kitchen at hatted Wooloomooloo restaurant Viand was Chef of the Year in 2022.Edwina Pickles
17 / 18Alexandra and Nicola Coccia, of hatted restaurant Osteria Il Coccia in Ettalong Beach. Edwina Pickles
18 / 18Chefs Alanna Sapwell-Stone from The Eltham Hotel near Byron Bay, and Lauren Eldridge from Berowra Waters Inn.Edwina Pickles
Photographer Dion Georgopolous captured the guests mingling in the gallery between formalities.
1 / 18Julie Niland, restaurateur behind two-hatted Paddington restaurant Saint Peter, who accepted the Chef of the Year award on behalf of husband Josh. Dion Georgopoulos
2 / 18Sydney’s sushi professionals. Dion Georgopoulos
3 / 18Joanna Savill, Dan Hong, Shannon Blanchard and Sarah Doyle.Dion Georgopoulos
4 / 18Lis Davies, co-owner of Ursula’s, Paddington.Dion Georgopoulos
5 / 18Pat Hester (right) recipient of Oceania Cruises Drinks List of the Year for his Hunter Valley restaurant Yellow Billy. Dion Georgopoulos
6 / 18Dion Georgopoulos
7 / 18Toshihiko Oe from Sushi Oe.Dion Georgopoulos
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9 / 18 Stephanie Wells.Dion Georgopoulos
10 / 18Scott Bolles and Terry Durack.Dion Georgopoulos
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12 / 18Kirk Mathew’s, Ahana Dutt, Nick Bowden from Raja in Potts PointDion Georgopoulos
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15 / 18Ben Groundwater (middle) and Amy Cooper.Dion Georgopoulos
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18 / 18Nomad’s Jacqui Challinor with Muse Restaurant’s Troy Rhodes-Brown. Dion Georgopoulos
We asked the chefs and guests to have a bit of fun in front of our bright backdrop for photographer Hugh O’Brien. They were only too happy to oblige.
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1 / 10Nick and Kirk Mathews-Bowden and Ahana Dutt (centre).Hugh O’Brien
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