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.

Buon appetito.

New South Wales

Aria ● A Tavola ● A’Mare ● Automata ● Ester ● Enoteca Ponti ● Icebergs Dining & Bar ● Monopole ● Tetsuya’s ● Yellow ● Buon Ricordo ● Cafe Sydney ● Catalina ● Cho Cho San ● Continental Deli Bar and Bistro ● Felix Bistro ● Fratelli Paradiso ● Glass Brasserie ● Hotel Centennial ● The Restaurant Pendolino ● Rising Sun Workshop ● Rosetta ● Sake Bar & Restaurant ● Sean’s Panorama ● Sokyo ● Sushi e ● Beppi’s Bistro Moncur ● Bodhi ● Chiswick ● China Doll ● China Lane ● China Doll Bondi Beach ● Kingsleys ● L’Amuse Bouche ● Otto Ristorante ● Mantra Restaurant ● Margaret’s Double Bay ● Union Bank Orange ● Ursula’s Paddington ● Riley Street Garage ● Cafe Sydney ● Aqua Dining ● Bloodwood ● Sea Level ● Totti’s Bondi ● Zimzala ● Summer Salt ● Bistro Molines ● Margan ● Restaurant Muse ● Yellow ● Lolli Redini Orange 

Victoria 

Atlas ● Agostino ● Akaiito Restaurant ● Bar Lourinhã ● Bacash ● Bistro Guillaume ● Bistro Thierry ● Cafe e Cucina ● Cumulus Up ● Claypots ● Epocha ● Gaea ● Gimlet at Cavendish House ● Grossi Florentino ● Cutler & Co. ● Di Stasio Citta ● Entrecôte ● Flower Drum ● Rosetta Ristorente ● Cafe Di Stasio ● Carlton Wine Room ● Cecconi’s Flinders Lane ● Cumulus Inc ● Da Noi ● Embla ● Ezard Levantine Hill ● Kisume ● Kenzan Japanese Restaurant ● Ichi Ni ● Il Bacaro ● Noir ● Ombra ● Osteria Ilaria ● Rockpool Bar and Grill ● Scopri ● Coombe Yarra Valley ● Yakimono ● Elenors Restaurant at Chateau Yering ●  The Veggie Bar ● Smiths & Daughter ● Some Yong Green ● Transformer ● The Atlantic ● Thirty Eight Chairs ● Tonka ● Tiamo ● Sake Southbank ● Sake CBD ● Shakahari ● Shinoki ● Spice Temple ● Tipo 00 ● Vue de Monde  

Western Australia

Balthazar ● Garum ● Rockpool Bar & Grill ● Wildflower ● Bistro Guilaume ● Petition Kitchen ● Wines of While

Queensland

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

Tasmania

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

South Australia

Andre’s Cucina & Polenta Bar ● Appellation ● Chianti ● d’Arenberg ● Jasmin ● Parisi’s ● Rigoni’s Bistro ● Shiki ● Soi. 38 ● The Tasting Room ● St. Hugo

Northern Territory

Moorish Cafe ● Stone House Wine Bar

New Zealand:

Auckland

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

Christchurch 

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

Queenstown 

Akarua ● Amisfeld Bistro ● Blu Kanu ● Botswana Butchery ● Rata – Josh Emett ● Tatsumi

Coromandel 

Blue Ginger ● Luke’s Kitchen 

Wellington

Apache ● Atlas ● Boulcott Street Bistro ● Bellamys by Logan Brown ● Charlie Noble ● Hippopotamus ● Logan Brown ● Noble Rot ● Ortega Fish Shack ● Shepard Restaurant ● WBC Wellington Boot Company