A food festival that doesn’t stop there, Taste is a world of eats, sips and skills, so you can take a trick or two home as well. Coming in to town next weekend 10-13th November, it’s best you nab tickets sooner rather than later, if you want to attend. Oh and be sure to forgo the weekly grocery shop in favour of a local produce try fest.
Eats
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Bringing hatted dishes to to a portable plate makes for a very delicious food fest. Expect concoctions and food wizardry by these masters all delivered to you with a biodegradable fork.
Gazi – Soft Shell Souvlaki
A festival fave, Gazi’s finessed greek fare fuses no fuss with expert technique. The result? A street food menu item that will blow your mind. Lightly battered crab is wrapped in souvlaki cover for prime portability and sublime taste.
Om Nom – Endless Summer
When you think of summer do you think of coconut sorbet, sesame soil, coconut Malibu foam, pickled pineapple, lime tapioca, coriander jelly, pineapple and ginger granita? The dish we didn’t know we needed for balmy sun spilled evenings.
Cumulus Inc – Zucchini Flower
Zucchini flowers sure did have a moment of late, but is your dainty vegetable coming to fruition filled with prawn. Didn’t think so. Cumulus’ take on the trendy flower is a solid one up.
Fancy Hanks – Baloney Open Sandwich
All american flavour meets Fancy Hank’s truck, you can smell it a mile away. An although we couldn’t find a picture of the baloney sandwich, you can be sure it will be supremely delicious. And fun to say in a New York drawl, so you know there’s that.
Sips
What’s a meal without a bev or too, to match it? No matter what you’re tasting the sips on offer will be a taste experience on their own. Double park even triple park, just make sure you try the brews on offer.
Sailors Grave – Whimsical Tinnies
Charming tinnies and a conscious attitude make the Sailors Grave Brews more than just beer. The flavour profiles are just as informed, notes of stonefruit, seaweed even caramel biscuit, the result marvellous. It’s stocked at a bunch of local haunts around Fitzroy and beyond in case you grow attached.
Solerno – Blood Orange Liqueur
With flavour squeezed from the ripe Sicilian fruit, the resulting taste is a mouthful of bold aromas. Like an Italian man speaks, the notes are not subtle, they instead speak with grand gestures of bittersweet almost spiced flavour. A cocktail base to rival your favourite spirit, a bottle you need to have on hand.
Freixenet – Freixenet Ice
The longer in the bottle the better, say the experts at Freixenet, but we can’t promise their bubbles once home will stay in the bottle too long. Enjoy a pour of Freixenet Ice, the summer offering from the French purveyors of fine bubbles. Bottoms up.
Rosso Roasting Co – Beans
If you know what’s good for you, and your morning ritual, a trip to Rosso Roasting is a solid investment. For the at home barista or the particular palate, the knowledgeable staff will point you in the right direction. Columbian single origin with notes of malt and mandarin or their speciality blend with a hint of spice sweet dark chocolate. Pour us a double.
Mr Black – Cold Pressed Coffee Liquer
Popping up at Taste will be the fine producers of the ultimate combination, coffee and liqueur. Not your average tipple, this liquid black gold is cold pressed to perfection, stringing familiar bitterness into every cup. Boozy coffee, what’s not to love?
Shop
Takeaway anyone? If you’ve stuffed yourself til you can no longer be stuffed, fear not. The shopping at Taste is a literal smorgasbord. Your uber home will be filled with more treats than feet.
Pana Chocolate – Organic Sweets
Raw, organic and delicious. Pana Chocolate is an indulgent alternative to your everyday supermarket garb. Your obliged to take a pack or two home for later.
IYC POP – Alcohol Infused Popsicles
With the fervour that surrounded news of a prosecco icy pole, the alcoholic icy treat is a summer must. IYCPOP have stepped up the flavour game, offering a cocktail frozen into each package. Summer Pear Mojito, Watermelon Martini or Black Cherry Amaretto Sour, we can’t decide, so good luck trying. Just pray the weather holds out long enough to enjoy it in the right conditions.
Palate – Breakfast Pots
The most important meal of the day always pulls the short straw when it comes to hurried mornings. Enter, Palate, a delectable option for breakfast in transit without neglecting your tastebuds. Tram trips just got a little better.
Little Brixton – Marinades and Sauces
Hailing from, you guessed it the UK, the owners and crafters of Little Brixton sauce enliven British flavour. No it isn’t Sunday roast accompaniment, instead its a vibrant infusion of different cultural tastes in an oozy offering. An evening trip to a Melbourne supermarket for jerk marinade and leaving empty handed spawned the tasty idea. Jamaica in a jar, every spice, beat and soulful ingredient included.
Image source: Onya Magazine, Urban List, Timeout, The Weekly Review, Ardiana Lee, Emily Nee Kapp, Melbourne Food Baby,
