Douglas restaurant holds onto prestigious rating

Wednesday July 9 2014, 12:40pm

A Douglas restaurant is celebrating another year of appearing on a prestigious statewide food guide. 

Harrisons Restaurant has kept is its one-hat rating from the Brisbane Times Good Food Guide, a title it has maintained since the venue opened in 2007. 

The guide’s panel of reviewers rate a restaurant’s food, atmosphere, service, wine, consistency and many other factors, giving the venue a final score out of 20. 

Those that score over 15 are awarded a one-hat rating. 

The highest accolade is a three-hat rating, given to venues that score over 18.

Harrisons owners Reina and Spencer Patrick said a lot of hard work had gone into keeping the restaurant at the top of its game. 

“It’s a fantastic result and it’s something that a lot of time and money has gone into achieving,” Reina said. 

“I think it’s also important for the region to have restaurants winning these ratings and appearing in the Good Food Guide, because someone can open it up in Brisbane or Sydney or Melbourne, see it and say ‘wow, it looks like they’ve got a food scene up there in Port Douglas that’s comparable to the capital cities’.”

The Patricks also own Buccini’s Italian on Macrossan Street, which again missed out on a one-hat rating by only half a point.