Why this humble hideaway in Tasmania has been named Australia's BEST restaurant

A humble Australian restaurant with its own garden and greenhouse has just been crowned the nation's best. The Agrarian Kitchen, tucked away in Tasmania's Derwent Valley, a 30 minute drive from Hobart, is the recipient of Gourmet Traveller's Restaurant of the year award. Head Chef Stephen Peak draws on the bounty of the The Agrarian's garden, rich with vibrant clay soil, to create stark, elemental meals that fans are calling 'insanely great'. Rodney Dunn has achieved his dream of produce driven food at The Agrarian Kitchen in Tasmania where 90 per cent of the food used in the kitchen comes from the garden and greenhouse - and they've just won Gourmet Traveller's best restaurant in Australia Bresaola made from three year old Dexter X Scottish highland steer from Plenty Provisions is one of the simple and 'amazing' dishes that have visitors to the restaurant calling it the 'most memorable meal' of their lives The Agrarian Kitchen's polenta with buttermilk, goat's milk alpine cheese and black truffle is 'stunning' according to diners The raspberry and tonic, strawberry and rhubarb collins and the blueberry and sake negroni are three of the kitchen's popular, punchy tipples. The cosy and enveloping interiors are a perfect setting for the nation's best dining French breakfast radish and burnt leek, Tokyo turnip and hempseed and puntarelle and celeriac miso is one of the dishes that has set the TAS culinary institution apart The ever changing menu draws from the best produce that the garden and the state has on offer 'This was a transcendental experience, set within a culinary monastery.