Sydney Good Food Month 2015: week four festival director's picks
Each week NSW Good Food Month Creative Director Myffy Rigby brings you a highlight reel of our favourite upcoming events.
Greek: an evening with George Calombaris
Celebrate all things Hellenic with the release of George Calombaris's new cookbook Greek. Enjoy a menu inspired by the Masterchef star's dishes at CBD restaurant Alpha including the likes of taramasalata flavoured popcorn, whipped feta and heirloom carrot salad and kataifi prawns. You'll also get to take home a signed copy of the book, not to mention a chance to meet the man himself.
Alpha Restaurant, 238 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, October 26, 6.30pm, $175 includes beverages and a copy of the cookbook Greek (RRP $59.99)
Food and music at Bennelong
Peter Gilmore from Bennelong and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra have worked together to design a show-stopping menu inspired by music. Each course is accompanied by an intimate performance in the newly opened Bennelong restaurant.
Sydney Opera House, Bennelong Point, Sydney, October 22 12-3pm, $195 includes food, performance and wine
Icebergs Dining Room meets Caffé è Cucina 1994
Caffé e Cucina has been a Melbourne institution since 1988. For one night only, experience some of Cucina's most memorable plates over a five course tasting menu, as reinterpreted by Iceberg's Monty Koludrovic. Features an assembled Cucina cast of special guests.
Icebergs, Level 3/1 Notts Avenue, Bondi Beach, October 23, 6.30 - 10.30pm, $120
Night Noodle Markets
With all the colour, sounds and smells of an Asian hawker market plus the buzz, hype and vibe of a huge outdoor festival, the Night Noodle Markets are back for 2015 with a record 50 food stalls across Hyde Park. All your old favourites return, and we are thrilled to welcome some new kids on the block.
Hyde Park, Sydney CBD, until October 25, 5-11pm, free entry
How I Eat
Join us for a very special event with some of the brightest minds in the food biz. "How I Eat" will be a conversation about eaters and eating between Chris Ying (editor in chief, Lucky Peach), Jonathan Gold (LA Times critic and Pulitzer Prize winner) and Terry Durack (The Sydney Morning Herald chief critic) moderated by Myffy Rigby (Good Food Guides editor, Good Food Month creative director). Afterward, we will host the Sydney premiere screening of Jonathan Gold's documentary, City of Gold.
Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, Sydney, October 25, 10am-5pm, $35
Vegan and the vine with Yalumba
Family vignerons Yalumba host a three-course vegan feast prepared by Bentley Restaurant & Bar's Brent Savage, with all dishes paired with their vegan wines. Hear from the winemaker and chef as they explain sustainable winemaking and cooking.
Corner Pitt & Hunter Streets, Sydney, October 27, 6.30-10pm, $120
Fire, smoke and culture
Here is a three-course menu that brings together fire, smoke and culture. Expect dishes such as maple and miso-glazed wild king salmon, 'birthday' seaweed, avocado and pickled lemon, spring lamb ribs slow-cooked with pomegranate and wild thyme, carrots and assorted field greens. Includes a special dessert cooked over fire.
Lox, Stock and Barrel, 140 Glenayr Avenue, Bondi, October 21-24 and 28-31, 6-10pm, $35