Reviews
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. To see the article from Australia Gourmet Traveller please click here
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Maestro Chef, Peter Gilmore continues to scale new heights. Young, courteous and knowledgeable service is the right match for this culinary artist, now showcasing masterworks in a bold new four course menu with a quartet of choices per course. Simon Thomsen,SMH good Food Guide 2008 smh_review_2008.doc
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"Experience culinary perfection... and I'll be darned if that's not exactly what I did." "I've visited every three-star restaurant in Australia... Peter Gilmore's style of cooking, as is highlighted through Quay's new signature menu, is so wholly formed, so complete in its conception, execution and presentation that to dine at Quay today is to see a gun chef coming to the height of his powers." read more Pat Nourse, Australian Gourmet Traveller, January 2007.
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It takes a brave chef to drop an iconic dish (pork belly and scallops) after five years, but Peter Gilmore is master of his waterfront domain. read more Matthew Evans, SMH Good Food Guide 2006
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Matthew Evans, editor of the Good Food Guide wrote in 2005 after Quay received the Restaurant of the Year Award for the second time “Since he hit the stoves three years ago at Quay, perched atop the Overseas Passenger Terminal in West Circular Quay, the strikingly modest Peter Gilmore has redefined Sydney style”. “Quay is also a reminder of just how blessed this city is. The natural beauty is a given – but Peter Gilmore’s brain and palate make the sum of its parts so much greater”. Matthew Evans, 2005
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The winner of The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2003 Restaurant of the Year is....(drum roll here)....Quay! read more
Matthew Evans, Good Living, 2003
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