South Australia is toasting its culinary success after receiving its inaugural Michelin Guide edition, recognising 77 restaurants.
It included the first venues in the country to receive the world famous guide's coveted Michelin Stars - one of international cuisine's highest honours.
Magill Estate Restaurant in the Adelaide Hills was the standout, entering an elite group of venues around the world by receiving a staggering two Michelin Stars.
The most a venue can receive is three but they are rarely awarded.
The SA government paid for the state to be covered by the guide but Michelin's secret inspectors decided which eateries to covertly visit.
SA Premier Peter Malinauskas on Thursday said his government entered the partnership with no guarantees a kitchen would receive a star.
"We took a punt, we took a risk," he said.
"There isn't a restaurateur this morning in Melbourne or Sydney that isn't jealous of the people working in Adelaide."
Michelin Guide South Australia was launched on Wednesday night featuring 10 restaurants with one Michelin Star.
Another 16 earned Bib Gourmand honours for good food at great value and 50 received a Michelin Selection quality recommendation.
Magill Estate Restaurant - led by chef Scott Huggins - is expected to be in high demand after becoming just the 550th eatery in the world to receive two stars.
However restaurants recognised across the guide were benefiting on Thursday, not just those with stars.
Since the ceremony, Michelin Selection Tarantino's has been hammered with 15 bookings every half hour while other venues have had reservations reach more than 100 per cent.
"Bookings are already flooding into the restaurants recognised at last night's Michelin Guide ceremony," SA Tourism Minister Emily Bourke said.
"This international recognition will open so many doors with benefits far beyond the restaurants."
The Michelin Guide said SA's debut had been "very impressive" with inspectors struck by the diversity on display.
"It is a food culture unburdened by rigid tradition – technically refined yet relaxed, generous and unmistakably South Australian in its warmth," the guide's international director Gwendal Poullennec said.
Among the Bib Gourmand recipients was Africola in the heart of Adelaide run by Duncan Welgemoed.
Since first moving to SA in 2010, Mr Welgemoed said he'd seen the state evolve from a place chefs struggled to find work to one that stands "toe-to-toe" with some of the world's legendary food scenes.
"No one actually took South Australia seriously on a food basis," he told AAP.
In 2014, four week food festival Lola's Pergola paved the way for the state's success, sparking a wave of waiters, winemakers, pourers and chefs to open their own businesses.
It drove a burgeoning SA culinary scene, featuring the likes of the late Scottish-born chef Jock Zonfrillo who later became a Masterchef Australia judge.
Mr Welgemoed said the Michelin guide would now put SA on the world stage.
"This is one of the very first times in South Australian history that we've done something like this for our industry, for ourselves."
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