Amisfield executive chef Vaughan Mabee, last November named 44th in the world’s ‘Top 100 Best Chef Awards’, has just won Cuisine Good Food Awards ‘Innovation Award’ for 2024, while Amisfield is one of just five restaurants in the country to make the coveted ‘three-hatted’ list.
The awards were presented in Auckland on Monday.
To get on to the three-hat list, the establishment needs to score 19 out of 20, and is considered to be "extraordinary and approaching perfection" by the 40-strong judging panel, comprising food writers, critics, chefs and hospitality professionals.
Another restaurant on that list also has a Queenstown connection.
Auckland’s Ahi, helmed by chef Ben Bayly, who’s behind Arrowtown’s Aosta and Little Aosta, and The Bathhouse, in Queenstown Bay, moved up from its position on the two-hatted list last year, and was named ‘Restaurant of the Year’.
Former Queenstowner Josh Emett’s Gilt Brasserie, in Auckland, won the ‘Drinks List of the Year’, while Wānaka’s Kika was awarded two hats.
