Traveller Hall of Fame Legends 2025

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald Traveller Awards have included Brae in their handpicked Hall of Fame inductees for 2025.

"Most country towns support restaurants rather than the other way around. Brae, the serially lauded restaurant in tiny Birregurra, a two-hour drive south-west of Melbourne, is a shining case of how such a business can support a whole town and why nearly every one really needs a great – or, if that can’t be arranged, a good – eatery. Not only do Brae’s founders Dan Hunter and Julianne Bagnato operate a stellar fine diner, they also run an architect-designed boutique hotel and an organic farm, all on the same property, in what amounts to an exemplary tourism business now more than a decade old. There are few places quite like it anywhere in Australia, let alone Victoria itself."