As co-editors of the 42nd Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide , we would like to apologise to everyone from the Nine Publishing finance team when we log our receipts and mileage for the year next week. The new edition of the NSW and ACT Guide required 14,867 kilometres of travel to put together, from Tenterfield to Pambula to Wagga Wagga; from Bondi to Penrith to Macquarie Park.
That’s a lot of petrol at pump prices that haven’t quite been the lowest on record; a lot of restaurant bills for tasting menus, cultured butter, fancy potato scallops (likely topped with some sort of tartare or fish egg or even smeared with duck-liver parfait), coral trout and small-batch vermouth. Never sparkling or still water, though – that’s a banned Good Food Guide expense. How do you spot an anonymous Herald reviewer? It’s the diner drinking “tap” and typing notes with their thumbs.
While we can’t reveal who is up (or down) in the Good Food Guide hatted restaurant list until Monday evening when the Guide is launched, we can share some of those notes and other observations from the field. (You can follow the live blog of the awards from 3pm via the Herald homepage.)
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The winners of the 42nd Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Awards will be announced on Monday, October 26, presented by Oceania Cruises and T2 Tea. The awards ceremony will be live-blogged via the Herald from 3pm; the Guide reviews will be available on the Good Food app from 8pm. Pick up a free 56-page Good Food Guide liftout in the Herald on Tuesday, October 27.
The home of the Good Food Guide , the app is free for premium subscribers of the SMH and also available as a standalone subscription. You can download the Good Food app here .
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