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After months of anticipation, Australian’s will finally be able to get their first taste of ruby RB1 chocolate!
The first new variety of chocolate to be discovered in 80 years will be available in dessert form from Monday 13th August and only from Callebaut Chocolate Heroes and Callebaut Ambassador Kirsten Tibballs, ahead of its official launch to market this September.
Australian’s will be able to track down the drool worthy ruby RB1 creations at four exclusive location across Sydney & Melbourne, including – Kirsten Tibballs’ Savour Chocolate & Patisserie School in Brunswick, Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio in South Yarra, Josophan’s Fine Chocolates in Leura and Textbook Boulangerie Patisserie in Alexandria (available from 14th August).
Those around Australia who can’t make it in to the venues, can get their hands on Kirsten Tibball’s ruby creations via her online store – http://savourschool.com.au/chocolate/products.aspx.
**Information and Images Courtesy of Callebaut/Supplied by Evil Twin PR
On Saturday 25 August, Western Sydney will light up with two vibrant events showcasing the very best food, music and culture out West. Liverpool street celebration Eat Your Heart Out runs from 2 – 9pm on Railway St, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)’s FREE flagship youth event GENEXT GOES WEST runs from 5 – 8pm at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre.
“After a fantastic inaugural year, Eat Your Heart Out returns to celebrate the best of the Liverpool region and celebrate the rejuvenated city centre. The day is a spectacular opportunity for both locals and wider Sydneysiders alike to come together and enjoy a day of tantalising food and incredible local arts,” said Festival Producer Vi Girgis.
Taking over Liverpool’s Station Street, Eat Your Heart Out returns for a second year of mouth-watering food trucks, music and arts. Catch food truck fare including Dirty Bird’s Japanese fried chicken delights and Berlin Bangers’ array of wondrous wursts, or check out a pop-up shipping container restaurant and bar from Liverpool’s Macquarie Bistro, showcasing its menu by celebrity chef Colin Fassnidge.
“Come evening, young people can hop on a train for GENEXT GOES WEST, programmed by young people, for young people! Parent and teacher-free, teens can catch live music from the hottest emerging musicians and get involved with thought-provoking workshops – all for FREE!” said CPAC Director Craig Donarski.
From 5pm, MCA’s GENEXT GOES WEST will transform Casula Powerhouse into a bustling festival-style event of art, live music and performance. The MCA Youth Committee and CPAC Youth have programmed an event exclusively for young people aged 12-18 years featuring live experimental pop queens Kota Banks and Princi, eclectic producer CLYPSO and electro-soul starlet Clarissa Mei, as well as engaging workshops from local artists including Leila El Rayes.
For tickets and further information visit www.casulapowerhouse.com/booknow
GENEXT GOES WEST tickets, booking required, https://www.mca.com.au/whats-on/genext/goes-west-2018/
Stay up to date through: www.facebook.com/casulapowerhouse
Event Info
What: Eat Your Heart Out Liverpool
When: Saturday 25 August, 2 – 9pm
Where: Railway Street, Liverpool NSW 2170
More info: https://www.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/events/eat-your-heart-out
What: MCA’s GENEXT GOES WEST: Casula Powerhouse
When: Saturday 25 August, 5 – 8pm
Where: Casula Powerhouse, 1 Powerhouse Road, Casula NSW 2170 (don’t forget, Casula has its own train station!)
Booking required: https://www.mca.com.au/whats-on/genext/goes-west-2018/
**Information and Images Courtesy of Eat Your Heart Out/GENEXT GOES WEST/Supplied by Cardinal Spin – Genvin In
Connie Lambeth
The Australia Times News
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Adelaide Fringe 2018’s sold out sensation Matt Tarrant recently took his brand new solo show to Melbourne for the first time! Packed with interactive, engaging magic and mind-blowing mentalism, the show: Matt Tarrant: Honestly Dishonest presented a brand-new hour of impossibilities – all-new tricks from this award-winning, critically acclaimed performer.
Having sold out at the Adelaide Fringe Festival for the last five years and earning awards for the last six, Matt’s been winning over audiences for over a decade and it’s clear he’s not messing around. Matt Tarrant: Honestly Dishonest promised to leave audiences happily bewildered – and he certainly did that – even the biggest sceptics weren’t able to figure out how he does it.
**Matt Tarrant returns to Melbourne for next year’s Melbourne Comedy Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVQ5fymireg
About Matt Tarrant:
Performing magic since the age of eighteen, Matt Tarrant is a passionate and professional magician with an impressive list of accomplishments behind him. Each year Matt challenges himself to produce a brand new show from scratch, and the results have proved it’s a worthwhile challenge. Matt has sold out for four consecutive years at the Adelaide Fringe Festival, earning awards for the last six, and in 2018 became the festival’s highest selling solo act, selling over 10,000 tickets across the festival.
In 2016 Matt competed on Australian Survivor, where he became a fan favourite and finished 5th place in the competition.
Matt shares his thoughts on the show:
“This year, I decided it was finally time to take my show to Melbourne after selling out and winning awards in both Adelaide and Perth over the last several years – it was also time to take the magic to the next level. We want people leaving my show, questioning everything they just witnessed – and that’s a feeling I love.
Praise for Matt Tarrant:
“Honestly Dishonest takes audiences on a journey into the life of this talented magician, and what a journey it is.”
– Scenestr
“All the awards and plaudits are totally deserved. If you’ve seen Matt before, see him again. It just keeps getting better, and better”
– FiveAA
“Above all, Tarrant’s ability to impart pure childlike wonder — irrespective of the audience’s varying ages — is nothing short of miraculous.”
– Isolated Nation
★★★★★ – Aspire Magazine ★★★★★ – NovaFM ★★★★★ – FiveAA ★★★★★ – Radio Adelaide ★★★★★ – Kids in Adelaide ★★★★★ – Weekend Notes ★★★★★ – Glam Adelaide ★★★★1⁄2 – Kryztoff ★★★★ – The West ★★★★ – The Advertiser (Adelaide) ★★★★ – The Times (AU) ★★★★ – Isolated Nation ★★★★ – OUTinPERTH
**Information and Images Courtesy of Matt Tarrant/Helen Reizer HRPR
Connie Lambeth
The Australia Times News
Editor GOURMET – Food/Wine/Events
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On Sunday 12 August, Pure South Dining will host VIN Diemen, an increasingly popular annual event featuring over 100 wines from 26 of Tasmania’s best vintners, matched with the isle’s fresh, high quality produce.
With breathtaking views over the Yarra River, VIN Diemen attendees will experience a roving affair with all the best food and drink from the world’s purest soil, sea and air. **Check out menu /tickets selling fast via the VIN Diemen website.
Pure South’s expansive new dining room will transform into stations covering Tasmania’s most plentiful wine and food regions, from Pipers Brook + Tamar Valley to the Huon, Derwent + Coal Valley, the East Coast and the North West. Winemakers themselves will guide patrons through tastings, with many wines not otherwise available outside Tasmania. Matching the wine by provenance, will be some of the apple isle’s most sought-after produce: all regular suppliers of Pure South Dining, who fly most of their produce in via light plane.
Curated by Pure South’s Michelin star executive chef David Hall, the newly released menu includes St Helens ‘Lease 65’ Oysters, Hardy Family octopus with chorizo, and Robbins Island wagyu brisket pastrami brioche. Robbins Island is a small expanse of land off Tasmania’s North West coast, where the marbled wagyu cattle are enriched by the sea air before being herded at low tide to mainland Tasmania.
“The menu we have crafted for VIN Diemen features some of our favourite artisan producers, all of whom have ethical farming credentials and a real passion for their produce,” says Pure South Dining’s owner Philip Kennedy, who possesses an intimate knowledge of the south’s produce, developed over a 14 year period.
The roving menu also includes Huon ocean trout tacos, Tasmanian Scallop pie from off Tasmania’s East Coast, Scottsdale pork rillette croquettes from the Pipers Brook region, Tongola farm goats curd tarts, Gougeres, Pyengana cheddar custard and more in a Tasmanian feast to end all feasts.
Some of the vintners in attendance include Clover Hill and its NV Cuvée Rosé, awarded Australia’s Best Sparkling Wine (Sydney International Wine Show 2017), the multi award-winning Glaetzer Dixon Family Winemakers, the first Tasmanian producer to win the prestigious Jimmy Watson Trophy for its 2010 Mon Pere Shiraz, and the isle’s oldest winery, Moorilla, which possesses a coveted French inspired white blend. Beyond wine, the event will also feature internationally award winning spirits such as Strait Brands’ Hazelnut Gin and Native Pepperberry Vodka, plus Pagan Cider.
Tickets to VIN Diemen are $125pp, with each ticket including a Plumm wine glass to take home, 100 wine tastings and food served by Pure South Dining for five decadent hours from 12pm-5pm.
Pure South Dining is mainland Australia’s most dedicated destination for rare, fresh and high-quality food and drink from Tasmania, King Island and Flinders Island. Since 2003, the restaurant has fostered close relationships with the ‘pure south’s’ most unique producers, from major players to the smallest passionate farmers, some of whom count Pure South as their only restaurant customer.
Connie Lambeth
The Australia Times News
Editor GOURMET – Food/Wine/Events
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WINE ISLAND MAKES A SPLASH ON SYDNEY HARBOUR FOR A WEEKEND OF WINE TASTING
Back for its fourth consecutive year, Sydney’s favourite wine and food festival, Wine Island will once again give holidaymakers the opportunity to leave the hustle and bustle of the city behind and escape to the tropics of Wine Island.
From Friday November 2nd to Sunday November 4th, Clark Island will play host to an impressive smorgasbord of boutique Australian and international wines, island cocktails, treasure hunts, silent discos and delicious epicurean eats whilst providing postcard views across the world famous harbour.
To get everyone in the holiday spirit, a glass of bubbles will be provided on the journey over by none other than the original makers of the famous peach Bellini cocktail from Venice, Italy. That’s right, the Bellini Boats brought to you by Bellini Cipriani will be the perfect way to settle into your wine adventure.
Once you arrive on its idyllic shore, you can head on over to the popular masterclasses by the crew at Wine Selectors. They’ve got a fluid line up of entertaining classes coming your way including the music and wine matching phenomenon that is the Wine Island Silent Disco, topped off with the sweet-as Dessert Island thanks to Ashley Smith, Head Pastry Chef at 12 Micron.
Wine not your thing? (Said no one ever) 2018 will see the biggest line up of alternative bevvies – start with a visit to the Gage Roads Brewing Co. Beer Garden who will be pouring their award-winning ales from Freo, WA, pop over to the Archie Rose Gin bar where you can indulge in a curated menu of premium gin cocktails including the Island Spritz or visit the Pimms Garden bar to indulge in a refreshing Pimms Cocktail.
A short saunter up to the highest point of the island will bring you to the ‘Unwined with Cellarmasters’ chill-out zone. Vibing with all the festival feels, this is a special place to relax and soak in the island’s best views while enjoying award-winning wines.
Serving up satiable sustenance for our stranded islanders, the delicious menu is jam packed with juicy burgers, loaded fries, Mediterranean pitas, fluffy boa buns by Chur Burger Food Truck along with cheese platters and oysters galore!
So, whether you want a picnic with your friends on the hilltop, or a first-class experience aboard the island Superyacht, visitors can create their ideal itinerary from the three ticket packages; 5 Star, 7 Star and 10 Star.
Packages to paradise begin at $99 for the 5 Star experience and includes 5 wine tastings, a Wine Island tumbler, ferry transfers and a glass of Bellini Cipriani for the journey across to wine lovers paradise.
For $199, the 7 Star experience includes unlimited wine tastings, ferry transfers and a glass of Bellini Cipriani on board the ferry to the island, Wine Island tumbler and bag, exclusive access to the 7 Star Bar with premium vantage point and VIP masterclasses, and a meal voucher to choose from one of the bespoke island menus.
The 10 Star luxury Superyacht experience will transfer the top end of town to Wine Island where the yacht will form an exclusive base for the day. From $399 per head, guests will enjoy all that comes with living an indulgent life from Grant Burge’s premium wines along with delicious food from your private chef, to wine tastings on the island. Limited tickets are available.
ON SALE DATES:
All tickets to be purchased via: https://wineisland.com.au/
Group Bookings (10+) – Friday 3 August at 9am
Pre sale to members* – Friday 10 August at Midday
General on sale – Monday 13 August at 9am
*Become a member at www.wineisland.com.au by Thursday 9 August to receive the exclusive link to access pre-sale tickets.
For more information on ticket inclusions, please refer to the Wine Island website.
**Information and Images Courtesy of Wine Island/The Modern Society Agency – Katie Philips
Connie Lambeth
The Australia Times News
Editor GOURMET – Food/Wine/Events
connie.lambeth@theaustraliatimes.com.au
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AN EVENING OF WINE AND SPICE AT
Pairing a beautiful wine with dinner has been made easy and fuss-free at Mekong on Kensington Street.The award winning Indochine restaurant has teamed up with another Kensington Street favourite, Handpicked Wines, to curate a decadent night of Wine + Spice on Wednesday 15 August, 2018. The one-off dinner event is not to be missed! Mekong’s Chef Tiw has created a masterful menu of canapés, entrées, mains, and a dessert, infused with brilliant spices, that complements a selection of Handpicked wines, offering up an experience that explores how different wines pair with different spices in new and unexpected ways. More than just a fabulous evening of food and drink, Wine + Spice is an educational event designed to give diners an appreciation of how wine can elevate the dining experience. The careful curation of Handpicked wine varieties has been specifically chosen to highlight the Indochine spices used in each of Chef Tiw’s dishes. The evening begins at 6:30pm at Handpicked Cellar Door, with a beautiful 2012 Riesling from the Clare Valley. Its firm acidity and crisp finish will be paired with Grilled Tumeric Catfish and Roasted Chili & Lime on a Betel Leaf. Diners will then amble the short distance down Kensington Street to Mekong where awaiting them will be an entrée, consisting of Roasted Cauliflower with Five Spice and Mint Yoghurt, paired with a vibrant and fruity 2017 Rosé from the Yarra Valley. Moving onto the main, Chef Tiw has planned some signature shared dishes, including: Beef Cheek Curry, paired with a spicy and dark berry 2013Cabernet Sauvignon from Coonawarra in South Australia; Tooth Fish paired with a charming 2016 Pinot Grigio from Venezie Giulia in Italy; and finally Pork Hock, paired with a supple and deliciously dark 2015 Shiraz from the Barossa Valley in South Australia. The evening will close with a Lychee Mousse with Mango and Black Pepper paired with a special blind tasting. Inspired by the countries along the Mekong River – Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam –Mekong is a travelling feast on a river cruise through the Mekong, sampling all the flavours on offer along the way. Packing a punch, Mekong’s electric menu is a favourite to diners across Sydney and this special evening offers up the ultimate dining experience. Early-bird Tickets are on sale now at $95. Book your ticket online before they sell-out: https://bit.ly/2uNNE4l What: Wine + Spice at Mekong **Information and Images Courtesy of Mekong/Cardinal Spin – Matt Fraser |
