TESTIMONIALS FOR DE GROOTS MEDIA
“Our inaugural Cuisine NOW festival was very successful and we are now planning Cuisine NOW 2011. The Best Restaurants' Newsletter certainly contributed to the success of the festival in terms of generating interest on the website and in ticket sales. On behalf of all the team I would like to thank you for your assistance which was much appreciated. We look forward to working with Best Restaurants again in the future.”
Tony Bilson, Chef Patron
Bilsons Restaurant & Cuisine NOW, Sydney
“Best Restaurants has been a great additional to our marketing activities at ARIA. The site has a strong readership in the corporate market and we have received some really good business referrals via the site.”
Matt Moran and Peter Sullivan
ARIA
Thanks for the support Best Restaurants has given Forty One Restaurant and Berowra Waters Inn over the years. We are very pleased with the results and have received great exposure from Best Restaurants, especially with regard to our new venture, Ad Lib Bistro.
Dietmar Sawyere
Berowra Waters and Ad Lib Bistro, NSW
“I have recently been handed our website statistics for the month of January, and am very pleased to advise that bestrestaurants.com and bestvenues.com are both in our top ten referring domains! This is a great result, and we are starting to see benefits for both our food & beverage and events business' from a greater online investment.”
Lucy Owens, Director of Sales & Marketing
Grand Hyatt, Melbourne
"As a relatively small business, our marketing budget is limited and one that relies heavily on the good reputation we've worked hard to achieve over the years. Thus we rely on the good reputation of those with whom we associate ourselves, how they market themselves and how they market our image. Having been with de Groots Best Restaurants and its affiliates for a number of years has been one of our better investments. As their business has matured and grown, as too has ours. The referrals we receive from the site is fantastic, and the number of new clientele we make thanks to the hundreds gift vouchers purchased through Best Gift Certificates each year is phenomenal.
Tracey Rayner, Manager
e'cco bistro, QLD
”Promoting Taste Festivals through Best Restaurants has become on of our strongest online marketing tools. Taking advantage of the various promotional platforms including e-newsletter features, homepage inclusion and a fantastic video feature from the event, I feel we get extensive marketing coverage to our core target audience.”
Meghan O’Hanlon
Marketing Manager - Taste Festivals Australia
We are delighted with the business that is generated for our restaurants by www.bestrestaurants.com.au.
“Just to let you know we had a very successful Valentine's Day and the response from Best Restaurants was huge! Probably more so that from our ad in the Good Living! So thanks!”
Jill Jones-Evans
The Victoria Room, NSW
"We find that Best Venues to be an excellent provider of lead generation, especially for weddings and functions. The figures speak for itself. Thanks so much and I’m sure this will get even better"
Kun Rahadian, Director of Sales
Sebel Hawkesbury & Spa
“de Groots Best Restaurants has been an invaluable advertising tool for our hotel. We have had an astounding number of enquiries, which have led to several bookings throughout the past 5 or so years. I literally have folders dedicated to De Groots enquiries. When I found out that the new website ‘Best Venues’ was launching, it made my day! Definitely a website to recommend!”
Marika Mothersole, Functions Manager
Harbour View Hotel The Rocks
“I wanted to let you know that the lead you sent through to us last week - 200 pax cocktail party- has booked her event with us. Thank you for promoting our venues, I was really happy to hear once this event was confirmed it is always good to be able to show the sales figures against the marketing/advertising dollars that we spend. “
Natalie Dooland
Dockside Group
“We signed with best venues before we opened and are so happy with the results. We’ve had many functions from weddings to sit down dinners. We’ve been open now for 6 months and the enquiries keep coming. I am looking forward to summer when our function space will increase. I would recommend best venues to any restaurateur to increase their business”
Spencer Kells, Flint Dining Room & Bar, ACT
“Best Venues is a brilliant website and we have had many functions and event enquiries since we posted our venue on your site. We have found it to be the best website across Australia for the corporate market and would highly recommend any business to get involved.”
Matt Buckland, Manager
De Nom
“We’re very happy with Best Restaurants – it attracts local, interstate and overseas visitors to our restaurant. We’re very pleased with the results from the fit vouchers too. Keep up to great work.”