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Owners Leon and John Fink together with Head Chef Peter Gilmore have emerged victorious in a field of over 400 establishments reviewed in the Australian Gourmet Traveller 2009 Restaurant Awards as Restaurant of the Year - 2009.
In the past seven years, Quay's reputation has grown. The restaurant has garnered attention, both locally and internationally, as a place of repute. The restaurant now supports a farm in the Blue Mountains, where crops of chinese artichokes, tiny purple onions, native violets, white carrots and white borage are grown and managed for Quay's kitchen.
Gilmore hopes people will come to the restaurant with an open mind. "I really want them to experience things they can't experience anywhere else" he says. "We're sitting on one of the most beautiful harbours in the world, and Quay is in a very fortunate position because it showcases it like no other restaurant can, so the nature on the plate is a really beautiful marraige with the setting of Sydney Harbour."
It's the union of contemporary technology and thinking with cool and unusual fruits of the natural world that puts Quay up there with the world's best. It certainly gets our vote.
Pat Nourse, Australian Gourmet Traveller, September 2009.