Dinner Dates

Amanda Valentina is a multi-award-winning dinner-date escort who is well known for broadcasting her fine-dining adventures and home-cooking creations across her various social-media accounts. Amanda adores food and photography, and her culinary blogging is a much loved and ongoing passion project. Amanda has a dedicated Instagram page that showcases the many cafes, restaurants and wineries she has enjoyed visiting over the years, both in Australia and overseas.

Amanda enjoys contemporary, traditional and international cuisines; however she maintains a vegetarian/pescetarian only diet. Amanda enthusiastically researches new cafes, restaurants and/or wineries for all dinner, lunch and social-date bookings, and welcomes the opportunity to coordinate a culinary adventure suitable to your budget and/or celebratory requirements. Should you wish to indulge in a gastronomy date with Amanda, the following restaurants are those Amanda has dined at, and recommends.

Sydney, New South Wales

Alibi ● Aria ● Automata ● A Tavola ● A’Mare ● Aqua Dining ● Bennelong ● Beppi’s ● Buon Ricordo ● Bistro Moncur ● Brasserie 1930 ● Bloodwood ● Bodhi ● Cafe Sydney ● Chiswick ● China Doll ● China Lane ● China Doll Bondi Beach ● Catalina ● Cho Cho San ● Continental Deli Bar and Bistro ● Enoteca Ponti ● Ester ● Felix Bistro & Bar ● Grain ● Fratelli Paradiso ● Franca ●Glass Brasserie ● Hotel Centennial ● L’Amuse Bouche ● Mantra Restaurant ● Mode Kitchen & Bar ● Margaret’s Double Bay ● Nel ● Otto Ristorante ● Ormeggio at The Spit ● Pendolino ● Rising Sun Workshop ● Rosetta ● Riley Street Garage Sake ● Bar & Restaurant ● Sean’s Panorama ● Sokyo ● Sushi e ● Kingsleys ● Riley Street Garage ● Sea Level ● Summer Salt ● Icebergs Dining & Bar ● Monopole ● Quay ● Ursula’s Paddington ● 10 William Street ● Tetsuya’s ● Totti’s Bondi ● Yellow ● Zimzala

Coastal, Regional & Southern Highlands, New South Wales

Bar Heather ● Bistro Molines ● Margan ● Restaurant Muse ● Union Bank Orange ● Lolli Redini ● Mount Ashby Estate ● Paste Mittagong 

Melbourne, Victoria 

Atlas ● Agostino ● Akaiito Restaurant ● Attica ● Bacash ● Bar Lourinhã ● Bistro Guillaume ● Bistro Thierry ● Cafe e Cucina ● Cumulus Up ● Claypots Evening Star ● Claypots Saint Kilda ● Claypots South Melbourne ● Cutler & Co ● Cafe Di Stasio ● Carlton Wine Room ● Cecconi’s Flinders Lane ● Cecconi’s Melbourne CBD ● Da Noi ● Di Stasio Citta ● Epocha ● Freya James ● Flower Drum ● Ezard Levantine Hill ● Embla ● Entrecôte ● Gaea ● Gimlet at Cavendish House ● George ● Grossi Florentino ● Hawker Hall ● Il Bacaro ● Ichi Ni ● James ● Koko ● Kisume ● Kenzan Japanese Restaurant ● Lilian Brasserie ● Lona Lisa ● Maha ● Movida ● Mr. Miyagi ● Noir ● Nobu ● Ombra ● Osteria Ilaria ● Rockpool Bar and Grill ● Rosetta Ristorente ● Rubira’s Seafood ● Sake Southbank ● Sake CBD ● Scopri ● Shakahari ● Shinoki ● Spice Temple ● Supernormal ● Society Melbourne CBD ● Scopri ● The Veggie Bar ● Smiths & Daughter ● Transformer ● The Atlantic ● Thirty Eight Chairs ● Tonka ● Tiamo ● Tipo 00 ● The Atlantic ● Vue de Monde ● Yakimono 

Coastal & Regional Victoria 

Coombe Yarra Valley ● Doot Doot Doot ● Elenor’s Restaurant at Chateau Yerring ● Ezard at Levantine Hill ● Rare Hare 

Perth, Western Australia

Balthazar ● Bistro Guilaume ● Garum ● Lulu La Delizia ● Old Young’s Kitchen ● Petition Kitchen ● Rockpool Bar & Grill ● Wines of While ● Wildflower

Brisbane, Queensland

Aria ● 1889 Enoteca ● Gauge ● Gerard’s Bistro ● Piloni ● Salon de Co. ● Vintaged Bar & Grill ● 

Hobart, Tasmania

Aloft ● Bar Wa Izakaya ● Blue Eye ● Dier Makr ● Fico ● Franklin ● Landscape Restaurant & Grill ● Malik ● Molto ●Ogee ● Peacock & Jones ● Peppina Restaurant ● Sonny ● Templo ● The Source

Adelaide, South Australia

Andre’s Cucina & Polenta Bar ● Appellation ● Chianti ● Jasmin ● Parisi’s ● Rigoni’s Bistro ● Shiki ● Soi. 38 ● Osteria Oggi 

Regional South Australia

● d’Arenberg ● St Hugo ● The Tasting Room 

Northern Territory

Moorish Cafe ● Stone House Wine Bar

New Zealand:

Auckland

Amano ● Azabu ● Depot Eatery ● Ebisu ● The Grove Restaurant ● Paris Butter ● Prego ● Ortolana ● Harbourside ● Ocean Bar Grill ● Mudbrick Winery ● Mudbrick Winery ● Vivaci 

Christchurch

Amazonita ● Chilingworth Road ● Fiddle Sticks ● Francesca’s Italian Kitchen ● Hali Restaurant ● Inati ● Twenty Seven Steps

Queenstown

Avarua ● Amisfeld Bistro ● Blu Kanu ● Botswana Butchery ● Sherwood Restaurant & Bar ● Rata – Josh Emett ● Tatsumi

Coromandel 

Blue Ginger ● Luke’s Kitchen 

Hawkes Bay

Black Barn Vineyards ● Craggy Range ● Teresa Cocktail Bar 

Wellington

Apache ● Atlas ● Bellamy’s by Logan Brown ● Boulcott Street Bistro ● Capitol Restaurant ● Charlie Noble ● The Library ● Hippopotamus ● Logan Brown ● Mr Go’s ● Noble Rot ● Ombra ● Ortega Fish Shack ● Shepard Restaurant ● WBC Wellington Boot Comp