Josh Niland uses about ninety per cent of every fish, and he invented most of the butchery that lets him do it. In 2024 he moved Saint Peter into the long-empty Grand National Hotel in Paddington: a fish-led omakase across several floors, built on Australian species almost nobody was using. Three hats in the 2026 guide.
WHY IT’S WORTH IT
1Ninety per cent of each fish. The normal figure is thirty or forty.
2Three hats in the 2026 Good Food Guide, which in Australia is what Michelin is elsewhere.
3It reopened a landmark hotel that had been empty for years.