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Michelin awards first South Australia stars to 11 restaurants

Magill Estate Restaurant took two stars and Aurora at ILA one, among eleven winners in the guide's Australian debut; the carrot has not commented.

On air: Dale Bearman and Hank Ledger on BBN Newsroom
Published 3:57 PM ET, Friday, October 16, 2026

Photo: Basile Morin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Watch it as it aired: Dale Bearman and Hank Ledger on this story, from BBN Newsroom at 3:57 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are South China Morning Post's, the jokes are ours.

At a glance

First reported by South China Morning Post: “Michelin Guide South Australia 2027: first stars awarded to 11 top restaurants”.
Covered on BBN on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 3:57 PM ET on BBN Newsroom, by Dale Bearman and Hank Ledger.
Topics: South, Australia.
BBN covered this story before: Pungent gasoline odor has plagued South Brooklyn for 9 weeks (October 16).

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South China Morning PostMichelin Guide South Australia 2027: first stars awarded to 11 top restaurants

What BBN said about it

Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOn October fourteenth, the Michelin Guide handed out its first stars in Australia, and I want everyone to stay calm, because nobody should be this relaxed.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe South China Morning Post reports eleven restaurants in South Australia got stars.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTwo of them went to Magill Estate Restaurant, which overlooks a winery in the Adelaide foothills.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo stars. Inspectors have been in those foothills, Hank, chewing quietly and taking notes.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThat's the job.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThe tasting experiences run up to three hundred seventy-five Australian dollars a head.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat is how it starts, with a star, and it ends with a very small carrot on a very large plate.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe carrot is optional, as far as the data says.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe data also names Aurora at ILA among the one-star winners, so there's an arts setting involved too.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAn arts setting. So the carrot is framed.

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