I was looking for restaurants in Brisbane for Carla and I to try out when I stumbled upon a site that listed the top 10 as named by Gourmet Traveller. This was a little exciting and a little naughty. Dare we visit all of Brisbane's top 10 restaurants? Is that not a little bit of an overreach? Will we be initially impressed but gradually, as we make our way through the list, start to compare every nuance of our experience against the sum of what we have already done? Could I be massively over thinking this?
One thing I do know, we will spend our time whispering under our breath talking about the ambiance, service and of course, the balance of flavours. If Masterchef has taught us nothing (and there is a strong chance it has), it is we are all experts in the kitchen and we are required to spew our judgement over everything whilst making unnatural facial expressions.
So the great Wednesday night adventure begins with a new restaurant from the top 10 every fortnight. We have decided to start at the bottom of the list and work up. Based on the actual rankings on Gourmet Traveller's site, the first is Alchemy, which is listed as 9th (for some reason Gourmet Traveller can only count to nine in Brisbane and Moda appeared on the OurBrisbane.com site in the middle to make ten).
After hours of committee meetings setting up the rules (we are both accountants so what is a fun, frivolous pastime without rules?), we ended up deciding to do Montrachet first. I know this is out of order but it was Carla's birthday and she has been wanting to go there ever since she remembers so to hell with the rules.
Let the fun begin . . .
Edit: Since posting this, the website we were using that listed the top 10 restaurants has shut down. We are now using the source which is http://gourmettraveller.com.au/top_10_restaurants_by_region.htm
Unfortunately it only lists 9 of the 10 but we are including Moda, which is left off the list.
The list is:
QLD - BRISBANE
- Ortiga
- Aria Brisbane
- Urbane
- The Buffalo Club
- Moda
- E'cco
- Restaurant Two
- 1889 Enoteca
- Alchemy
- Montrachet
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