Poached Quince Tarte Tatin with chestnut puff pastry and buttermilk icecream Chestnut Puff Pastry – Makes 1.2kg puff pastry (enough for 8-10 Tartes Tatin) 300g plain flour 200g chestnut flour…
Serves 6 Dacquoise meringue 50g Lindt dark chocolate, chopped finely 100g sultanas, chopped 200g caster sugar 4 free-range egg whites (about 140g) 2 tsp Dutch cocoa powder, sifted…
Just annouced: Tolpuddle have been awarded ‘Gold’ for their fresh goat milk with a score of: 18.33 (Class 100: Milk) at the 2016 Sydney Royal Cheese & Dairy…
with sweet tamarind and prosecco dressing, salted-peanut palm sugar caramel Serves 4 (entrée size, 1 crab per person) Chilli Soft Shell Crab (fried in tempura batter) Tempura Batter ½…
Freshly Shucked Oysters with Prosecco Jelly, gingered honeydew melon, nori salt and fried noodle knots To serve 1 dozen oysters Prosecco Jelly (Makes approximately 550ml) 400ml good prosecco 150ml water 4…
Served with pickled beets and horseradish cream Serves 6 Kholodets 300g pork trotters 300g pork shins Salt 1 tsp black peppercorns 4 bay leaves 2 brown onions, 1…
Throughout the deeper reaches of the Swiss and Austrian alpine valleys, German forests and Russian villages, traditional winter foods, preserving techniques and family recipes are handed down from…
It’s the hottest snow-dining destination in the state. It has appeal so broad that it is attracting a mixed mob that sees pinot-gris-sipping après ski couples sitting next…
Warm light spills from the old brick shop down a quiet laneway in Bright as the sun struggles to punch through the chill mist. The aroma of chocolate…
Who said fine dining was dead? Doesn’t anyone appreciate art? We do! The Mountain View Hotel with its wraparound verandah and creek flowing through the beer garden stands at the…
Reinvigorated and reimagined with style, the King Valley’s own Mountain View Hotel serves up a refreshing new take on fine European culinary arts. Richard Cornish explores a refreshing…
This autumn, Sicilian chef Rosa Mitchell opened her new restaurant, Rosa’s Canteen, in the heart of Melbourne’s legal district. We caught up with her just before she opened…
Over the past three years the Snowline Hotel Harrietville’s head chef Kurt Adam has steered its menu from award-winning ‘parma’ palace to a newly evolving Melbourne gastro pub-deluxe…
There’s a warm apple strudel on the outside table and the aroma of fresh fruit fills the air. It’s mid-morning in the King Valley and Katrina Pizzini is…
Coal-Fired Kettle BBQ Butterfish Fresh butterfish fillets, cut into 10cm lengths Method 1. Using a coal-fired BBQ kettle, burn coals for 40-50 minutes, until coals are covered in…
Down on the Mornington Peninsula, in what was once the homestead to a cattle stud, husband and wife team Rowan and Janine Herrald have opened a dining room…
Taking the headline Hot Plates quite literally we present these two dishes with kick from Melbourne CBD’s Indian hot spot, Tonka. This popular city restaurant serves classic Indian…
Serve 6 2kg brown onions, finely sliced 100g unsalted butter 1 head of roasted garlic 2 stalks of celery, finely chopped 3 tbsp chopped thyme 3l homemade veal…
It was no surprise to the urban chic brigade when the latest SMH Good Food Guide awarded two hats and its coveted ‘Best New Restaurant’ gong to Ester…
Christina Tantsis of Melbourne-based Sisko Chocolate is best known for her elaborate edible chocolate sculptures. We quizzed her on the origins of Sisko and her new retail range.…
In a town that knows and loves food and wine, hospitality-operator virgins Michael and Heather Allan (ex Yeppoon, Queensland) certainly had their work cut out. But within weeks…
FIVE MINUTES WITH ALBURY PÂTISSIER GEOFFREY DIMITROVSKI Tell us about the name: Geoffrey Michael Pâtissier? GM: Geoffrey Michael are my first and middle names. My last name is…
It’s not all big old-world reds at Baileys of Glenrowan. Today a new balance is provided with good food and a marvellous native garden environment to enjoy. Essentials’…
Sorrento’s landmark Continental Hotel has just launched a newly renovated and spacious bar, Balcony. The Conti, as regulars know it, is an institution on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and…