Vasse Felix Take Out 'Excellence, Front of House' and Place 2nd in WA Good Food Guide Top 100 Restaurants for 2022

We are thrilled to announce we placed second in the WA Good Food Guide Top 100 Restaurants for 2022. A very well deserved congratulations to the Vasse Felix Restaurant team and to Hospitality Manager, Caleb Dreaver who won the gong for Excellence, Front of House with the WAGFG judges remarking;

"With more than 10 years under his belt at Vasse Felix, Caleb Dreaver is an advertisement for finding your passion and running with it, his presence felt in the astute touches and sheer class coursing through his staff at what remains one of the state’s very finest restaurants. His strength, surely, lies in recognising that success is a team game, made all the easier when it’s fuelled by passion and synthesis between floor and kitchen, with joy at the heart."

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The WA Good Food Guide Top 100 Restaurants list is generated from over 5,000 restaurants in Western Australia. It was a joy to place second in the list for 2022 after taking out Restaurant of the year in 2021, with the full review from the WAGFG judges below.

"The complete package in every sense and probably one of the consistently best vineyard restaurants in Australia."

"Paul Holmes à Court’s Vasse Felix restaurant, like the renowned wine brand behind it, is a case study in refinement. Evolution, not revolution. The virtues of this elegant, relaxed eyrie above the vines and sculpture garden have been recounted so many times, and deservedly so, meaning for Vasse it’s a matter of maintaining standards, and they do. 

Equally, under chef Brendan Pratt’s command, the kitchen keeps stretching itself without necessarily stretching the diner. The menu changes frequently, but the ethos of a simple plate representing craft, thoughtful combinations and maturity, and dishes that work with wine, are the restaurant’s central pillars. We’re thinking dishes like the cured scallop with apple or the mortadella-stuffed char siu glazed quail. Or braised beef rib with oyster emulsion and a black caviar sauce. Distinct and clever flavours and textures in harmony, not contest.

And then there’s the craft of the restaurateur, too, the little things that drive the experience: the hospitality, service, and amenity of an à la carte or tasting menu choice, not the didactic approach of so many in the South West. In short, one of the state’s very best restaurants remains exactly that, an achievement worth celebrating."

A huge congratulations to all of the outstanding venues in the 2022 WA Good Food Guide Top 100. Explore the full list here.