Mad Hatters

There are 26 fortnights in a calendar year. Similarly, when you add up all of the 2- and 3-hatted restaurants in Victoria, you get 26. I’m sensing a kind of synergy here.

Therefore, I’m going to do something very tricky for a goal-averse person like myself: I’m going to state a goal. And here it is:

My goal for the next year is to dine once at each of these fine establishments.

• • Jacques Reymond* Vue de Monde* Attica* Café de Stasio* Circa, the Prince* Cutler & Co* Donovan’s* Ezard* Flower Drum* Grossi Florentino* Matteo’s* Momo* Movida* Pearl* The Point Albert Park* The Press Club* Rockpool Bar & Grill* Verge* Lake House* Loam* Merrijig Inn* Provenance* Royal Mail Hotel* Stefano’s* Tea Rooms of Yarck

I’ve been to some of them before (Jacques Reymond, Attica, de Stasio, Cutler, Movida, Press Club), and one other that is so different now that it probably ought to have changed names (Circa). But they’ll go again - because even though I’m not goal oriented, I am a completist. Go figure.

I’m especially interested in the country restaurants, and will likely make a weekend of it - no better reason to get out of the big smoke smog, if you ask me.

So I’m making reservations now, and will start eating in a few weeks. I’ll be posting reviews here if you care. Hopefully I’ll remember to tag them so I can find them all later.