Berowra Waters Inn is a

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, owned and run by Head Chef Brian Geraghty, located at

Berowra Waters Berowra Waters is an outer suburb of Northern Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Berowra is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Hornsby Shire. Berowra Waters is nor ...

along

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(a tributary of the

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), near

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, 50 minutes from downtown

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. It is unique due to its being accessed only by private ferry or airplane, as well as being one of

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winning Australian architect

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'sThomsen, Simon (2007) "Berowra Waters Inn"
/ref> only venues regularly open to the public. For many years Berowra Waters Inn represented the cutting edge of both Australian design and cuisine. The menu changed frequently but was a 'mix of classic French and Modern Australian'.Official Website
/ref> Originally, Berowra Waters Inn was a guest house dating to the 1930s CE. In 1975, the Inn was purchased by

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and Gay Bilson. The Edwardian-style teahouse had major engineering flaws however and a decision was made to close and redesign the venue. Between 1976 and 1983, the architect

redesigned the property using a "distinctive Australian vernacular style: corrugated tin roof over glass louvre windows, on a Sydney sandstone base, set among eucalypts and angophoras". During excavating work for the rebuild,

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(Aboriginal)

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remains on the property boundary were discovered. These were

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dated and found to date back nearly 10,000 years, indicating a long term human association with the location. Tony Bilson left day-to-day operation of the restaurant in 1983 to Gay, who with chef Janni Kyritsis continued its operation until Gay retired in 1995.

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