Brunswick Heads Fleet has been awarded the title of top regional restaurant in NSW. The scores are in and the results are official – the Byron Shire is home to two of Australia’s top restaurants, with the recently released national Good Food Guide awarding both Brunswick Heads Fleet and Byron Bay’s The Byron at Byron Resort hat status.

The Byron at Byron Resort received one hat, while Fleet received two hats and was the highest scoring restaurant in regional NSW with 17.5/20

The Guide of independent, anonymous reviews is written by a panel of trusted restaurant critics and recognises the best Australian restaurants nationally with ‘hats’, symbolised by a chef’s toque.  To secure a coveted spot in the Guide, restaurants in New South Wales and Victoria must score at least 14 out of 20, while all other states must score a minimum of 15.

Neil Perry says his best meal in 2018 was at Brunswick Heads Fleet restaurant which now has two hats.

To achieve a hat is a pinnacle of a chef’s career and a restaurant’s history, with the term ‘hatted’ becoming embedded in the Australian lexicon. More than 500 restaurants from across the country were reviewed for this year’s Guide, with 264 of these receiving hat status, ranging from one to three.

Only seven restaurants nationally achieved the top accolade of three hats, and they include Attica (VIC), Brae (VIC), Momofuku Seiobo (NSW), Minamishima (VIC), Quay (NSW), Restaurant Orana (SA) and Sixpenny (NSW).

The catalogue of influential Guide editors includes founding editors Claude Forell in Melbourne and Leo Schofield in Sydney – along with Terry Durack, Jill Dupleix and Matthew Evans – all of whom have helped shape and chart the growth of the restaurant industry in Australia.

Dessert from the Byron at Byron restaurant.

It is this rich 39-year tradition that the 2019 Good Food Guide editor Myffy Rigby upholds, ensuring the Guide remains Australia’s pre-eminent restaurant bible.

“The Good Food Guide is a reflection of the thousands of voices that make Australia one of the most diverse and delicious places to eat in the world,” says Rigby. “The Guide is a celebration of the industry as a whole. Every one of the restaurants featured is a summation of all those moving parts. We recognise the hard work of all those Australian restaurants and everything they do to enrich the scene.”

Some examples of the delicious meals that have earned Fleet two hats.

The Good Food Guide is the perfect Christmas present for those that love to travel and eat!

The national Good Food Guide 2019 is out now and retailing for $29.99.in newsagents and online at: www.thestore.com.au/goodfood

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Capture some macadamia inspired photos from Sample Food Festival 2018 (presented this year by Gold Coast Airport) for your chance to win $1,000 cash and enjoy a weekend out ‘sampling’ some great local produce at one of the Northern Rivers most popular festivals.

From the Le Cordon Bleu Australia workshops to the sold out Sample Festival Lunch by Shannon Bennett & the Vue de Monde Team and Fab Ladies Wine Soiree…and of course the main festival itself at the Bangalow Showgrounds. The opportunities for great images are endless.

Entry is simple, just capture some amazing macadamia inspired photos and share them on your public social media account with the hashtag #AusMacadamias for your chance to win! Entries open: 6.00am Thursday 30 August 2018 Entries close: 11.59pm Sunday 2 September 2018.

You can also join Australian Macadamias for the third annual #AusMacadamias Instameet: 10am Saturday 1st September 2018 in the Centre Ring at Sample Food Festival, Bangalow Showgrounds.

The Australian Macadamias Instameet is a free meeting for any person attending Sample Food Festival 2018 who has a public Instagram account. Meet guest chef Shannon Bennett plus other local and visiting Instagrammers and sample some delicious fresh macadamias amongst new friends. The Instameet will run for approximately one hour and you can pre-register to attend the Instameet and secure a macadamia goodie bag.

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Writes Sam: “The Byron Shire is a delicious food bowl brimming with an abundance of fresh, locally grown produce and talented cooks aplenty. While the front gate of the region are the Farmers’ Markets, the front door is the bounty of good places to meet, drink and eat.  Do try something unusual while you’re here and be mindful of public holiday and Sunday surcharges when planning your dining adventures.”

She suggests that if you’re on a budget, grab a troupe of cooked prawns and a bed of oysters from Freckle at the Byron Bay Seafood Market and head to the beach. Scroll down to acheter du cialis en ligne the bottom of her site for a checklist of popular and often very busy places to visit.

She’s also posted a few of her favourites and like us is a fan of all of the new Vietnamese style street food arriving, we can’t wait for DUK –  a Chinese BBQ soon to open in Bay Lane.  Stay tuned to the latest eateries by subscribing to Samantha’s occasional newsletter here for updates.

Go here for more info: foodhealthwealth.com

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Twenty-six of the region’s best restaurants and caterers will produce $5 and $10 tasting plates inspired by their signature dishes – a fraction of the cost of dining in their well known establishments.

Award-winning Sean Connolly (The Balcony Bar, Byron Bay), will have a signature plate on offer while TV’s Paul West (Foxtel Food Channel’s River Cottage Australia) and original Ready Steady Cook chef Matt Golinski will battle it out in the Olsson Salt Celebrity cook off.

Being held in the picturesque village of Bangalow, 10 kilometres from Byron Bay, the Festival will also play host to more than 100 lifestyle exhibitors including local growers, artisans and boutique distilleries.

Punters ‘sampling’ delights at last year’s festival.

Renowned brewery Stone & Wood will offer a range of beers with Cape Byron’s Brookies Gin and the Tweed Valley’s Ink Gin joining the line up.

Festival founder Remy Tancred said the Festival is designed to celebrate the region’s vast array of top quality farmers, producers, chefs and artisans. “There will be cheese-makers, macadamia farmers, spice artisans, Asian street food specialists, fruit growers and dozens more delicious opportunities to try our region’s amazing fresh produce,” said Remy. “We have live music, baby animals for the little ones, cooking demonstrations, gifts and home wares as well as the chance to try to best food from our amazing region.”

Le Cordon Bleu’s Blue Ribbon and logo would be known to almost anyone with an interest in food and beverages.  Now in its fifth year, the Le Cordon Bleu Master of Gastronomic Tourism is the only post-graduate degree of its kind available in Australia. Talking to festival goers about the Masters of Gastronomic Tourism is the key motivation for Le Cordon Bleu’s involvement in Sample 2017.

The ‘MGT’ is designed so that students can explore the ‘gastronomic tourism experience’ from business studies and academic perspectives, add their own creative input and create graduate opportunities for work or further study.

With the exception of our MGT Residential, now an annual three-day series of gastronomic adventures hosted by Le Cordon Bleu and current students (often working professionals), the degree is delivered entirely online. Graduates of the program typically work in food and wine business, media and tourism. Le Cordon Bleu Australia’s Senior Brand Manager Sophie Davies will be a member of our expert panel for our networking event ‘Ahead Of The Curve’.

The first event in the 2017 SampleFoodFest program, Ahead Of The Curve combines food, business and networking.  An expert panel including Sophie Davies of Le Cordon Bleu Australia will be hosted by MC Kerry O’Brien will meet at the Bangalow Hotel, Wednesday 30th August.  The panel will discuss their own unique entrepreneurial paths and what’s working in food and business right now.  To book tickets to this unique event go to: Ahead of the Curve

Local chefs Kartrina Kanetani (Town), Bret Cameron (Harvest), Monique Guterres (Hungry Like The Wolf) will join visiting chefs Matt Golinski, Luca Ciano, Ben Williamson and Clayton Donovan to complete the 2017 line up.

WHEN : Saturday September 2, 8am – 4pm

WHERE: Bangalow Showground

TICKETS AT THE GATE: $5 per adult, children free

www.samplefoodevents.com

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Sample.  It’s a

perfect word for the perfect festival.  Every year we get to eat so many delicious goodies that dieting is a must for several days afterwards.  Do we care?  Not a jot.  Take a look at all the great events on offer:

The Cellar Group Masterclass
Bookings are limited and only available on the day at
The Cellar Group Marquee – Site 39
Midday – Cloudy Bay
1pm – Chandon
2pm – Moet

Lismore Come To The Heart entertainment arena

10.15am  The Olssons Salt TAFE cooking challenge with
James Viles & Jody Vassalo

10:30am – Adriano Zumbo book signing

11am –  Mullumbimby High School students
12 – Heartworn Highway
1pm – Lucas Zorzo Trio
2pm– Jesse Morris Band
3pm – Darren Middleton

Kids fun! (opposite site 55)
9:30am & 11am – Macadamia Castle animal shows.
11:30am NBN Big Dog
Circus Arts Byron Bay
Balloon Magic
This Old Duck Kids Fun

The Northern Rivers Food Cooking Stage has a full program of cooking demonstrations from 8.15am right through until 3.30pm.

For more information go to samplensw.com

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien

 According to Art Piece gallery owner Nadine Abensur, who is creating the Baroque dinner for the concert, the Byron Music Society has set the standard for classical music performance in the region since its foundation by Margo Dodds over 20 years ago.

Byron Music Society is pleased to announce Nicholas Routley as its new President. Nicholas is an acclaimed pianist, conductor and composer who moved to the Northern Rivers region in 2009 after retiring from his post as Associate Professor in Music at the University of Sydney. He was founder director of the Sydney Chamber Choir for thirty years.

Routley will be steering the Society towards a vibrant future – his plans  include broadening the geographical base to include other neighbouring shires, involving the local community at all levels, and, perhaps most enticingly, to increase the occasions on which classical music is matched with wonderful food.

Nicholas Routley, the new President of the Byron Music Society.

Says Abensur, the author The Cranks Bible and a half dozen other cookery books: “These amazing dinners after several of the concerts during the year will only be available to concert patrons. And you won’t get a better dinner in this region!”

Visitors to the website –  byronmusicsociety will see that the number of concerts presented over the course of 2016 has been expanded to eight, and the venues extended to include Lismore. In the concert series they will be  highlighting many of the professional musicians and singers resident in our region, all of whom have performed internationally. Our wonderful performers this year, with one exception, all live in an area between Brisbane and the Northern Rivers.

The single exception is the conductor Richard Gill. Gill has been at the forefront of new classical music in Australia, of youth participation in music, and of choral music for several decades. He comes to the Society at the end of the year to conduct a People’s Messiah, in which any singer or choir form the region will be invited to participate.

Now that’s something to consider!

For more information on the Beyond Baroque Alchemy Vox Caldera dinner and concert feauring the music of Monteverdi, Schutz and Mozart go to: byronmusicsociety

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Lismore’s CBD is vibrant and unique and offers a diverse range of food, retail and arts experiences. This one day Festival is a showcase of our outstanding local produce, writes the Lismore Business Panel.

Event Scope

The opportunity to attract new customers into Lismore and the CBD is our focus, and to invite our Lismore community to a fun, free, family event in the CBD. Participating existing retail businesses will promote a single special offer or a Festival ‘storewide discount’. Trade is also allowed on the footpath, by having a table directly outside your business. Participating existing Magellan and Carrington Street restaurants and cafés will trade from their premises as per normal and will also offer one $5 or one $10 ‘street food sample plate’ based on their product type. For example, an Indian cafe might choose a traditional ‘butter chicken dish’, outside of their regular menu. Similar for Mexican, Thai and so on.

The Streets

Magellan Street will be transformed into a ‘street themed strip’ with the road blocked to traffic. Market stall marquees will be arranged in Magellan and Carrington Streets and the Back Alley Gallery, alongside a beer garden and extra food stalls if required.

A music stage will run throughout the event, plus a cooking stage with a celebrity guest chef live cooking demonstrations. A children’s entertainment area is also included.

For more information go to: visitlismore.com.au

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For anybody who has been lucky enough to experience a meal at Ronit Robbaz-Franco’s property in the hills behind Byron Bay, the idea of eating in Open Table’s custom-designed deck overlooking the lake and partaking of a sumptuous Valentine’s Day feast is certainly seductive.

“We are super delighted to host this lunch,” says Ronit. “We’ll be starting with some canapés and bubbles followed by a sharing feast on long tables, with lush garden and great company. All types of food will be catered for i.e. including vegetarian, vegan, gluten free. Food will be sourced close by and from our huge thriving garden.”

Booking is essential and if you would like to know the full menu please contact [email protected]

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Valentines Day Pop-up Lunch at Opentable
Sunday 14th February at 12.30pm

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