About The West Australian Good Food Guide and Top 100

The WA Good Food Guide is the definitive guide to where to eat, drink, and stay around the state while celebrating excellence in the WA producer space. Our guide provides real commercial outcomes for the industry and serves as a food and drink marketing campaign, built by us for the industry and the State of Western Australia.

The entire WA industry and food-loving public are invited to attend this event hosted by some WAGFG's top writing talent -  the formidable Mike Bennie and Oceania Academy Chair of the World's 50 Best, Alexandra Carlton.

….Producers, suppliers, and industry professionals – come one, come all to WA hospitality’s night-of-nights, where we’ll toast the state’s best venues, producers, and hospitality talent. With our list of the State’s top eating and drinking experiences – selected through a rigorous reviewing process – ready to be announced, this is a night to shine a light on everyone who made the final lists, as well as our deserving award winners.

Our Top 100, built over a year of reviewing, is dedicated to restaurants. Within it, you’ll find all kinds of venues, from temples of gastronomy, wineries and noodle shops to bars where the food is even more of a draw than the drinks. As always, every place on this list is here because we recommend it.
- WAGFG Official

The Highlights

The annual Awards Night celebrate excellence in a wide range of fields. Whatever the category, one thing links them: they're the best of the best. Meet the 2025 winners.

Wine of the Year: Deep Woods Estate G2 Single Vineyard, Cabernet Sauvignon 2022

97 points, Erin Larkin, Robert Parker Wine Advocate, November 2024
The 2022 G2 Single Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon hails from a single west-facing site on Gibb Road in Margaret River. Aromatically, the wine is all raspberry and cocoa powder, dried herbs, asphalt and cold tea. In the mouth, the wine blossoms in a plume of chewy tannin. It is floral, medium-bodied, elegant and pliable, with a flow of ductile tannin and red-hued fruit. This is a superb wine that marries site, vintage and maker in one seamless package and is a wine immune to hyperbole.

96 points, James Suckling 2024
The nose is deeply perfumed and enticing with lifted aromas of blackcurrants, wild blackberries, potpourri and cedar. The medium- to full-bodied palate has seamlessly integrated tannins and focused acidity, giving complex notes of blood plums, blueberry bush, iodine and black olives. Very restrained and pretty with an underlying power. Sophisticated.

Sommelier of the Year: Nina Throsby

Winning this award once is no small feat but backing it up a second time is truly elite. But then Nina Throsby, described in 2023 as ‘a quiet achiever’ for her work at The Shorehouse and across the wider Kailis portfolio, is undoubtedly one of the state’s most gifted in this field and a deserved winner for the second time. She’s a sommelier who goes above and beyond and, while Gibney has garnered much praise, she wins this award for the culture she promotes, the example she sets, and the enthusiasm she projects. (WAGFG 2025)

Regional Restaurant of the Year: Voyager Estate

If there is a name that’s synonymous with the best bivalves and our appetite for them, it’s Jerry Fraser, dubbed the King of Oysters. This isn’t mere hyperbole. Now into his fourth decade as an oysterman, Fraser has shucked millions over years spent in venues from London to Perth. And while diners and drinkers are drawn to his residencies at bars and restaurants across the city, it’s his work inside the industry that really shines. Ask those who have worked in his orbit, and they’ll tell you he is passionate about training the next generation and imparting great hospitality knowledge to the teams around him. (WAGFG 2025)

Producer of the Year: Great Southern Groves

There’s more than seven generations of farming experience in the region behind the family owned and operated Great Southern Groves. Hand-picked table olives – Manzanillo, Leccino, Kalamata and Spanish Queen – are sourced from groves in Albany and Mt Barker. One of the success factors here is perhaps that there’s no outsourcing; their product is grown, processed within 24 hours of picking, stored, packaged and delivered by the producers themselves. To ensure quality, oil is stored in stainless steel tanks and the oxygen reserve is replaced with nitrogen. This prevents oxidation, while bottling is done on a needs basis, ensuring freshness and taste are preserved. (WAGFG 2025)

Industry Leader Award: Jerry Fraser

If there is a name that’s synonymous with the best bivalves and our appetite for them, it’s Jerry Fraser, dubbed the King of Oysters. This isn’t mere hyperbole. Now into his fourth decade as an oysterman, Fraser has shucked millions over years spent in venues from London to Perth. And while diners and drinkers are drawn to his residencies at bars and restaurants across the city, it’s his work inside the industry that really shines. Ask those who have worked in his orbit, and they’ll tell you he is passionate about training the next generation and imparting great hospitality knowledge to the teams around him. (WAGFG 2025)

The 2025 Top 100 Restaurants + Star Rating

Our Top 100 is dedicated to restaurants. Within it, you’ll find all kinds of venues, from temples of fine dining, regional wineries and noodle shops to bars where the food is even more of a draw than the drinks. As always, every place on this list is here because we recommend it.

To be in the list is to be the best of the best, but also take note of our star ratings, with one star awarded to those venues with an element of sparkle, and polish, vision and execution that's above average; two stars awarded to venues worth booking ahead and crossing town for, where every time will be a great time; and three stars awarded to those at the pinnacle, representing venues achieving everything they set out to on all counts. Taken together, it’s your ultimate guide to WA restaurants for 2025. Here’s to a year of good eating. (WAGFG 2025)

As a team, Lamont’s Cottesloe would like to share our gratitude to the judges and team at the WA Good Food Guide for taking the time to anonymously dine with us and not only include us in this years exclusive Top 100 Category, but award us with a star rating. We are truly honoured to be recognised and awarded with a star in our first year of featuring in the WA Good Food Guide. To our wonderful, loyal customers and friends, thank you for continuing to share your love of food and wine with us. Here’s to a special year ahead!