Press

Tue, 06/08/2010
by: Peter Switzer
Regional restaurant success How did a Mooloolaba chef beat out the best of the best from the US, South Africa, Austria and Vietnam? The recipe for success, apparently, involves plenty of salsa verde and red onion jam, baby spinach and a smoked salmon fillet on a dill and parmesan-infused pizza base. This smoked salmon pizza was recently judged the best in the world, and created by the aptly-named...
Wed, 05/19/2010
by: Sunshine Coast Daily article
Lashings of salsa verde and red onion jam, crispy baby spinach and a smoked salmon fillet atop a dill and parmesan-infused pizza base, a dill and lemon aioli and Huon salmon caviar as the final garnish. This was the tasty combination judged the best pizza in the world, the hot smoked salmon pizza. And it is from the Sunshine Coast. Simon Best, the co-owner of Mooloolaba pizza institution Augello’...
Tue, 05/18/2010
by: Isobel Drake
Simon Best of Augello’s in Mooloolaba, Queensland is the inaugural winner and Grand Champion of the Fonterra Foodservices Global Pizza Challenge. Competing against chefs from South Africa, USA, Italy, Vietnam and Austria, Simon won the judges over with his hot smoked salmon pizza with salmon pearls, Perfect Italiano mozzarella and Riverina Fresh natural yoghurt. Glenn Austin, Head Judge of the...
Mon, 05/17/2010
by: Rosemary Ryan
He’s best by name and best by nature when it comes to making pizzas. Queensland restaurateur and chef Simon Best has beaten a field of international pizza makers to take out the top prize in the Fonterra Foodservices Global Pizza Challenge, an international pizza competition held in Melbourne over the weekend. More than 400 people gathered to watch Best, who owns Augello’s restaurant in...