‘Tis the season to be jolly! No it’s not Christmas but it’s time for Taste of Sydney, the food festival that allows lucky Sydney siders to sample food from the top restaurants around Sydney for a fraction of the price – a build your own degustation. Diners purchase crowns which they can redeem at each restaurant’s stand with 1 crown =$1 and dishes ranging from 8, 10 and 12 crowns with drinks at 6 crowns. The restaurants participating include Aria, Pilu at Freshwater, Guillame at Bennelong Balzac, Longrain, Danks Street Depot, Flying Fish, Assiette, Bird Cow Fish, Berowra Waters Inn, Four In Hand, Buon Ricordo, Jonah’s, Marque and el Toro Loco. There is also the Producer’s Market, the Chef’s table where you can sit and talk to the chefs, the Taste Kitchen and interactive wine sessions.
Chef’s Table (image from the Taste of Sydney website)
Thanks to the lovely people at Taste of Sydney, I am giving away double passes to this fab event! I have the following for some very lucky readers:
1x VIP Double Pass (don’t you just love those three letters?) worth $240. Each VIP double pass includes $60 worth of Crowns, VIP fast-track entry to the event, access to the VIP Lounge, 6 complimentary drinks at the VIP Lounge bar (still and sparkling wine or beer). Still and sparkling water & coffee are complimentary in the VIP lounge throughout the session. There is live music and air conditioned seating areas. Last year I walked past this marquee longingly…
2x standard entry double passes worth $60 per double pass (crowns not included).
Taste of Sydney (image from the Taste of Sydney website)
Just tell me which restaurant’s stand you would like to visit the most. Add your entry via a comment to this story. You can enter once daily as long as your answer is different. This competition is open to Australian residents only. This competition finishes midnight AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) on the 4th of March, 2010.
***The winners of the Taste of Sydney giveaway are:
VIP Pass: Melly L.
Standard entry double pass: Jessica L. and Suzanne J.
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You can also enter a competition to win 1 of 3 double passes at my friend Christie from Fig & Cherry’s blog here!
Lots of love,
Lorraine
xxx
The Taste of Sydney festival will be held at the Brazilian Gardens, off Grand Drive, Centennial Park on the 11th-14th March 2010
Opening times:
Thursday 11th March – 5:30pm-9:30pm
Friday 12th March – 12pm-4pm & 5:30pm-9:30pm
Saturday 13th March – 12pm-4pm & 5:30pm-9:30pm
Sunday 14th March – 12pm-5pm
For more information see the Taste of Sydney website.
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You’re killing me, NQN!!! Good luck to everyone in this, another wonderful give away!
Hey! Whose gorgeous photo did I see in the Drive section of the SMH this week?
As for which restaurant I’d spend my crowns at – Longrain! Having read their cookbook, I’d love to try their food!
Hi Lorraine!
Happy Chinese New Year
I would definitely want to visit Jonah’s stall, after hearing such great reviews about the restaurant, and also it’s the best opportunity to visit as we live in the East and hardly ever travel up to the Northern Beaches!!!! I hope they will be serving their wobbly pannacota on the day!!! =)
I was just looking at this the other day and there are so many great restuarants participating but I think I would love to visit Jonah’s most
id like to visit ARIA because of all the reviews high quality food they produce there
Marque – because I want to see if it really does hit the mark!
Flying Fish would be my choice.
Definitely el Toro Loco, the new addition to Sydney’s dining scene. Recently read a rave review in SMH and would love to try their paella (is it as good as mine??!!!). Don’t get to Manly very often so this would be a good chance to try their food
Pilu at Freshwater.
Re: Taste of Sydney competition.
I think I’d pick Bird Cow Fish for a couple of reasons One: the name always makes me smile. Two: it’s a constant. So many restaurants come and go, but I’m sure Bird Cow Fish has been around for a long time (I’ve lived in Sydney 12 years today and I’m sure it was around then). People always say nice things about it. And sadly I’ve never had the chance to get over there, so I think that would be the first stall I’d head to at The Taste of Sydney event.
This is awesome
Thank you!
Marque
I’d love to visit el Toro Loco at Taste. I just read a review about it and it sounds amazing.
Hi NQN, Tasty! I’ll head straight for Guillaume at Bennelong – been on my “not been but can’t wait” list the longest. Ciao, Ant
I’d love to visit the Pilu stand – I’ve never made it to their restaurant but I am desperate to!
Definately ARIA. Matt Moran, sexy and an amazing chef!!!!
Hi NQN, I love your site, I have just recently moved to Sydney from London and was recommended to sign-up to your blog for all the excellent restaurant reviews and other foodies titbits. I would love to win these passes as my husband and I really enjoy sampling new food and wine and this would be a great way to find out the best of Sydney and taste the Australian wines that we need to get into. Passes or not, we’ll be heading down and checking out Assiette’s stand. We were recommended to go there by an Australian friend who used to live in that area, but has now swapped cities with me and moved to London unfortunately. So need to go and check it out to report back to him!
I really ejoy your blog, looking forward to next posting!
I would love to visit the Bird Cow Fish stand and (hopefully) try their amazing gnocchi that I’ve heard so much about!
Restaurant Balzac – I’ve been dreaming about Matthew Kemp’s ’spring rolls’ since last year’s Taste Sydney!
I would visit Danks Street Depot because you don’t ever know what you’ll find there. Their menu is based on the slow food movement so they source whatever is fresh and in season. I love a bit of pot luck!
Choosing one is impossible =P
Assiette, Assiette,
No mistake, please just let,
Us enjoy a degustation
Seafood, duck, what creation!
Take beetroot, goats curd, basil jelly
And you’ve wakened up my belly!
Pistachio with duck breast salad
Enough for me to write a ballad!
And to finish, panacotta
Butternut? Now I’ve just gotta!
Assiette, Assiette,
Guarantee: your tastebuds whet!
I’d love to visit the Aria stand, from memory I don’t think they were there last year and I have a soft spot for Matt Moran and Aria. Aria was my first real experience with fine dining and set myself and family on the culinary road of discovery. It’s been a delectable ride and continues to be one of my favourite past-times.
Oh, I nearly forgot to wish you and Mr.NQN a very Happy Valentine’s Day.
It would have to be Aria! Living in Brisbane, we have been lucky enough to have Matt Moran just open Aria Brisbane – but unfortunately it is just not in my budget for hubby and I to go there and experience it properly. So the next best thing – would be to visit during Taste and sneak in a quick visit to Rockpool while we’re in town!
Love to visit The Flying Fish,
To taste Peter Kuruvita’s fresh seafood dish,
Such a wonderful chef I’d LOVE to meet,
Talk about seafood that I often eat!
Oh my goodness! What a fabulous competition!! I am excited about most of the stands however I am extremely keen to check out the Danks Street Depot stand. I love Jared’s philosophies on food – using local, seasonal and organic produce to produce food that is nutritious as well as tasting unbelievable. I can’t wait to see what he creates for this special event. This is the first year I will be able to go to Taste – I have been working every other year. See you all there!
Berowra Waters Inn!
Definitely would have to be the Flying Fish stand! Doesn’t hurt that Peter Kuruvita is easy on the eye! Plus a friendly man – as I’ve had the pleasure of meeting him whilst we both waited for our coffees at Allpress!
Hi Lorraine,
I’ll definitely head to the Restaurant Balzac stand without any further delay. To be completely honest, I still can’t get that image of the succulent Beef Short Rib with Smoked Ox Tongue out of my head since your birthday post back in 2008. I’ve been researching the web as well as talking to friends on that recipe for ages and have tried (without success) on the best way to cook it (sigh… the trials and tribulations of a wannabe cook!). Judging from your unforgettable experience at Balzac, the “great enough to eat” photos on NQN, the attention to detail in the way chef Matthew Kemp prepares his dishes, the colour, texture and presentation (gosh… that Pumpkin pie with pumpkin seed ice cream!!), I have no doubt in my mind that Balzac would be my very first stop (first in first served!!), amongst the other wonderful foodies stands, which will no doubt provide me with a day filled with gastronomy delights and adventure (and hopefully enlighten me on how to solve that “Beef Short Rib with Smoked Ox Tongue” recipe mystery).
Cheers,
Melly
So hard to chose! I am really excited about Taste this year. I want them all but if you are going to make me pick one its Guillame at Bennelong. I doubt that I will ever get a chance to go – so this will be a perfect opportunity!
Hope to see you there!
x
I think Marque would be the one for me.
Happy Chinese New Year Lorraine!
I would have to pick Aria.We ate there 5yrs ago and had wonderful food, but a terrible night. The couple beside us were discussing their divorce in all the grotty details(who was sleeping with the nanny etc.)WHY THERE? anyway we moved tables, but it ruined our night. We havent been able to afford to go back since!
OMG you always have the best prizes! All I have to do one now is win one lol.
It was so hard to pick just one to put on here because I want to visit them all!
Having said that I chose Aria, it is the restraunt I have been dying to go to for what sems like forever.
Longrain! Thanks
OOH what a wonderful foodie’s delight prize!!
I have never eaten at Aria, and would love to fly up from Melbourne and attend this VIP prize – I would bring a good friend who is having a very hard time with her son with a chronic illness in hospital 3 days a week – she is a real foodie and would love the treat
Buon Ricordo, as it’s been on my food to-do list for a long time now, especially since Bill Joel gave a mention to it in his last concert! Looooove Italian food.
Hi NQN, I’ve been a blog lurker for awhile now, enjoying your fascinating reviews and articles. I’ve enjoyed your food porn images and reviews of restaurants I would die to go to. It’s a bit hard for me to go out now that I have a young baby boy to look after so I’ve been dining vicariously through your eyes. I read your experience of Taste last year and would love to go this year to sample all the fab restaurants in one go. So for me it’s like fine dining in fast forward which suits me to a T! I would especially love to try Marque, for his innovation with food and creative plating, plus a lot cheaper to sample! Happy V day!
Definitely Aria, there is no way I could afford to eat at the restaurant, this would be as close as I get!
We just recently had something like that in LA…called LA street Food Festival…but the problem was that it was TOO successful…like over 10, 000 people gathered in a small, tiny space…
ohhhh ohhhh. i’d love to be able to try buon ricordo, balzac, assiette, and marque … all on the ‘wishlist’.
El Toro Loco for sure as I love tasting different paella’s.
Happy valentines day and Happy Chinese New Year to all.
I would be lying if I was to say I would only attend one particular resteraunt’s stand. I will of course, be starving myself before the festival, in preparation for the onslaught of food.
Theres just far too much choice, and not enough time (4 hours? To run around to 14 different stands?) That being said, I would without a doubt, be attending the Marque’s stand.
I’m such a sucker for their Suckling Pig. The skin is gorgeous and the meat is just so *drool*.
And his desserts are both original and divine.
Although, I shan’t be missing guillaume, Berowra Waters Inn and Four in Hand. If not only for the convennience. (Living out West only makes it harder to visit these places).
Bird Cow Fish!
I’d love to hit up the Jonah’s stand, because Whale Beach is kind of out of the way and I doubt I will make it out there, ever (well, unless the stand is really amazing, of course!).
I’d have to go straight to Longrain!
I love Thai food and all the reports of Longrain that I’ve heard rate it at a spectacularly high level of modern fine dining.
I’ve not yet had the chance to go and see for myself,(and certainly won’t until after our wedding later this year since every spare cent is going toward that!), so that’s where I’d head as soon as I had the Crowns in my hot little hands
Hi NQN,
It’s Aria for sure – I have heard and seen so much about Aria in the media that I just have to try it.
Thanks.
So hard to choose, but it would have to be ‘Guillaume at Bennelong’. Whenever Guillaume’s recipes are in the Good Weekend it brightens my day!
Happy CNY!!! I want to try out the food at the Aria stand. It’s been a restaurant that’s been on my “to eat at” list for a long time!
Happy Chinese New Year, Lorraine!
Taste sounds awesome this year. I was too impatient to enter your brilliant competition. I bought a couple of the VIP tickets just now to take my husband along. We’re going on the Sunday.
Can’t wait. 4 weeks to go.
Cheers
Fine dining, and Aria for me, though bird cow fish also sounds inviting
Hi Lorraine,
I’d LOVE to visit all the restaurants if my stomach and my budget would allow me! I’m an apprentice chef because I love food (you could say obsessed actually)and to think that I could try all the amazing dishes from these top restaurants and possibly speak to some of the chefs there makes me feel SO psyched! I can’t wait for this festival!
Thiri
i’d be really interested to visit the Marque stand. have heard so many good things about the food
thanks for the competition! 
For me it would be Aria – especially if there is any reinterpretation of the masterchef chocolate dessert!
Either Pilu for the pork or Guillaume for the mash, or maybe Bird Cow Fish for gnocchi or Marque for quail’s eggs or even Flying Fish for the curry. It’s way too hard to pick just one….
I’d definitely like to visit Marque
Thanks for running the competition Lorraine. Happy Chinese New Year and Valentine’s Day x
Hi Lorraine
I’d be really interested in going to Assiette. Their degustation has always been a dream to go too but right now I don’t have the funds.
So a stand at the Taste of Sydney would be just as nice for the time being.
P.s Happy Chinese New year!
My fave last year was restaurant balzac- so that will be the first… of many.
I’d love to visit Restaurant Balzac! I really want to go to the actual restaurant but i can never afford it!
Would love to visit Marque. What can Mark Best do in a park??? Can’t wait to find out…!
HAPPY CNY
I’d like to try Pilu at Freshwater because I’m planning on holding my parent’s joint 60th birthday dinner there.
Iv’e been to most from the list of restaurants. My No.1 Marque.
Longgrain, 1) because when i saw masterchef, the egg net was something i was amazed to see, i want to try it!! But getting my friend to eat anywhere fancy with me is a major major task!!
2) the other reason is that this student workmate of mine believes she is a thai food expert, i just want to rub in her face ive eaten food from there!!
Too many to choose from … but maybe ARIA – Matt Moran rocks.
Hi Lorraine,
I would have to head to the Danks Street Depot but really I want to try every single one!
I like the sound of all of them! But I would like to try Assiette because I love french food.
I would love to try the food at Guilame – I have a foodie friend who has recently returned from France and is in raptures over the food – I doubt we’d afford a visit to the restaurant but spending crowns at the stall would be a delight for us both
I’ve got my ticket.. I can’t wait for the event! Mmmmm.. delicious food!
I’ve love to try the wobbly panna cotta from Jonah’s ever since I saw all the photos people took! It looks sounds (and probably tastes too) so unique and out of this world! I can’t wait to go to the Taste of Sydney event with my friends and create our own little taste adventure there.
Guillaume at Bennelong is pulling at my heart strings… and their country style terrine is pulling at my tummy strings…
Would love to visit Balzac…perfect dining, relaxed atmosphere, utmost service.
I know I don’t live in Australia but had to comment anyway!
Great giveaway, Taste is a brilliant event and I thoroughly enjoyed the London one. Already looking forward to the one this year!
Happy Chinese New Year & Happy Valentine’s! x
you know you´re desperate to go when you´re emailing from a preservation in a distant corner of costa rica where there is no electricity so you have to preserve what you have on your phone…
but yes, marque is the one for me
Danks Street Depot as I was really impressed with the description of their specialty dish “Pastrami of Kingfish with Smoked Oysters and Cucumber and Apple Salad” and hope very much I can attend “Taste” and savour some!
I would choose Danks St Depot, love their seasonal menu!
Definitely Guillame at Bennelong.
Their Mashed postatoes are easily worth a couple of crowns!
Jonah’s – the wobble of the panna cotta makes me giggle!
Aria’s stand!! I was taken there at Christmas time and would love to try some more of their food. I would love to try all their food though – it’s unlikely I will make my way to half of these wonderful restaurants
Hi,
ARIA please! I would love to try the famous chocolate dessert. Of course some signature dishes as well. Matt is one of my favourite chef.
Cheers
ST
Hmm, i would have to say :
Berowra Waters Inn -for years i have read good review after good review, however haven’t been fortunate enough to venture down there…i think Taste would provide the perfect opportunity to sample their highly regarded menu.
Hi there … it would be EL TORO LOCO for me thanks …… looks like such a fun and yummy day .
Guillame at Bennelong! I’ve always been fascinated by the chef’s background…
Last year’s event was fantastic, and I can’t wait for this year. And as a VIP? Yes, please!
I think Aria is the one I want to try the most – it would be great to see what they come up with outside of the restaurant kitchen
Guillaume at Bennelong because we celebrated our second wedding anniversary there and I’d love to taste their food again!
Restaurant Balzac!!
hi NQN,
I’ve been an avid reader of your blog for a while, and you’ve finally got me to post!
I had my first two hat and first degustation at Balzac two weeks ago-it was phenomenal. I would love to try more hatted restaurants, but have wallet constrictions!
Am dying to try Longrain’s stand at Taste after drooling at their website (the closest I can get for a while!).
i’d keep going back to longrain. i my boy says he loves spicy and i’d get him to eat as much as he can before he gives up…which may be a while, he’s a little stubborn
It is Jonah’s for me. Culinary delights from George Francisco & a view to die for. It doesn’t get much better than that.
Would love to say all of them but at the top of the list would be Pilu – have heard so many great things about this place and am dying to try!!!!!
I would loooove some lip smacking suckling pig from Giovanni Pilu please
OH MY GOD!!! NQN
What a wonderful competition. I would just love to visit the ARIA stand. Matt Moran, so I’ve heard, is the best (but out of my price range). I took my daughter to Becasse for her 21st birthday for a degustation meal and it was “out of this world” and I’ve heard Aria is even better.
A quick stop at Dank Street Depot wouldn’t hurt.
Thank you for the opportunity.
Fingers Crossed.
Was it Jonah’s that had that wobbly pannacotta? That thing was crazy- if they have anything that awesome this year- then that’s where you will find me.
Mmmm…. I think I would love to try something from Aria. I’ve never been but heard how delicious everything is – especially their infamous chocolate dessert.
I’m pretty sure I’d be visiting the Dansk St Depot stall. I’ve heard great things about them but never had the chance to visit them yet. I came close last time I went out to the airport and would have visited them there if they hadn’t of shut down!
OHHHH! This is such a fab competition.
I would definitely try Berowra Waters Inn- Like you, i haven’t quite got there in the driving department- so scared of Sydney traffic!- and my partner doesn’t have a car in Sydney, so this would be the perfect opportunity to finally see how sensational the food there really is!!!
I also walk past bird, cow, fish every day for work and have food envy of all the people indulging in corporate lunches there! I would love love love to try their food without the big pricetag!
Jonah’s.
Last year, I went to the event and fell in love with Jonah’s I had always wanted to go, but with no car, the Northern Beaches is a distant journey for an East-sider. Just when I thought it wasn’t possible to love zucchini flowers any more than I did, something on their menu caught my eye:
As I ate their Tempura zucchini flowers filled with ricotta, pinenuts and honey I was completely oblivious of my company and surroundings. I had entered “Food trance”. After sampling a few more things at the event, once again I ended up back at Jonah’s. The Vanilla panna cotta with fresh pomegranate and lavender honey
looked like the perfect end to the evening – did they have a secret list of all my favourite things? My friend Sat me down to eat my Panna Cotta and headed off to get a drink. It was so good, it should be illegal. She returned to an empty plate and me frozen, staring into space. I was in the magical post food experience paralysis. i.e. Heaven on earth.
This year, I plan to go the Jonah’s stand again – but this time, with more crowns, more time and an extremely empty belly.
I think it’s very cruel having to choose one but probably Jonah’s since it’s the most exotic sounding but the Dank St Depot is always consistently excellent.
Wow! another great comp! Becasse, definitely love to try that delicate french food
Hi, Love your blog!
I would love nothing more than to celebrate my 27th birthday at the taste of Sydney Festival, particularly Marque!! As my partner and I have just purchased our first home, money is a bit too tight to indulge in the culinary delights on offer in the amazing restaurants participating. Pretty please pick me! xx
it would have to be longrain!! went twice after work and twice!!! i didnt manage to get a seat! pft! and my friends have been telling me about the egg net for such a long time!
plsplspls miss almostnigella!
plus my birthday is this week! pleeeaase?
and i guess bennalong too.. the last time i went there and had the duck, didnt know it came in two parts, stuffed myself with the bread and didn’t get to try the second part of the duck!
Buon Ricardo…I still haven’t made it to their restaurant so this could be a good start!
I would love to visit Pilu at Freshwater. I’ve lived literally minutes away for so long and have never had the chance (or the budget) to go, despite reading excellent reviews and hearing raves from friends. I’m dying to check it out!
I would love to visit Aria! I don’t think I could ever go there, but the Taste of Sydney is an unbelievable opportunity to experience the wonderful food that I’ve longed to try!I’ve attempted the dessert that was made on the Master chef series and have so much respet for the restaurant! I would love to go there with my fiancee!!!!
Berowra Waters Inn because I have been hearing all about it for the last 3 years from my best friend who works there, but haven’t been able to go because she forbids me from attending whilst she is serving there.
Berowra Waters Inn – have been meaning to go here for about 18 months but new house and wedding to plan means I can’t afford to
Happy New Year Lorraine!
I would love to visit the Bird Cow Fish stand because I love my Bird, I love my Cow and I love my Fish and this way, I’ll be able to try all three in one hit and still have room for more!
Hi NQN:)
I want to visit Buon Ricordo for sure….last year his truffled sausage was pretty much our food highlight of the year!!
Pilu at Freshwater would be my pick.
Goodness you are a popular blogger now! i can’t believe you have so many entries!
What an amazing prize as well.
Now for me, after reviewing the list i was a bit stumped, to be honest, any mention of food excites me!
However, after much thought i managed to decide Buon ricordo. Italian, food of plenty and a restaurant on my list that for some reason or another I have not yet got the pleasure of going to. As the restaurant is 22 years young they are clearly doing everything right, you would have thought i would have found the time by now…
Their famed truffled egg pasta dish is on my list of “meals to dream about”…
I think I’d love to visit Buon Ricordo’s stand. I’ve always wanted to go there but everytime I ask my parents they say no on the basis that they’d rather not spend their life’s savings on one meal
hard to choose just one! but if I have to, I will go for Danks Street Depot!
Hmmm, a tough one but Aria I think. Moran always strikes me as incredibly aloof and obnoxious yet the critics never have a bad word to say about him. The food must really be fantastic then!
It’s gotta be Jonah’s for that boob panna cotta dessert!
Oh wow, this is something worth visiting.
I’d like to go to Becasse the most. As it’s first on the list, and i’d plan on eating at all of them.
I’d definitely also visit the Marque stand. I’ve read so many rave reviews about it and this would be the best chance to try out their food.
Ooh… it’s a hard choice to pick but would have to say Guillame at Bennelong. Just loved watching the ‘French’ episodes on Food Safari where Guillame Brahimi showed off his exisite French cooking (and lavish use of butter – lots and lots of it).
i went last year and it was so good! all this good food in one area =]
i’d love to visit guillame at bennelong!
no question Assiette! After experiencing their pannacotta, citrus jelly and miniature donut at the recent Centennial park charity dinner I am DYING to try more!! It was absolute perfection!
Hi NQN,
Would definately visit Berowra Waters Inn as my partner gets sea sick easily. Don’t think he will sit well on the ferry ride over.
Assiette as fine dining is combined with a menu that features various cuisines that are kind on the pocket!
ARIA – MasterChef chocolate dessert is enough of an incentive!
Assiette as I’m still drooling over the Confit of Chicken Leg on Creamy Polenta and Field Mushrooms that you had when you visited there for Friday lunch.
ABSOLUTELY SCRUMDIDDLYUMPTIOUS
Hi Lorraine, I’ll definitely spend all my crown @Marque… I saw how they prepare the food in master chef and also they won chef of the year in SMH good food guide 2009 … they must be reaalyy good and worth all the crowns right
Pilu – because I live two hundred metres away but have never had enough spare change for a meal there!
Oh and El Toro Loco’s paella is indeed delicious (as are the salt cod croquettes), definitely worth a trip over the bridge for all you eastern suburbanites. And if the food isn’t enough to lure you, perhaps the kitchen chock-full of young Spaniards is?
My entry is to be sung to the tune of “Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast. Thanks!
Bird Cow Fish! Bird Cow Fish!
Let them grant your culinary wish!
Tie your napkin ’round your neck, cherie
Their menu is delish.
Shaw River hors d’oeuvres,
Or pandoro with passionfruit curd
Howie and Alex only live to serve
Pan fried kingfish
It’s delicious
Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes
The gnocchi’s tasty, it beats the rest
After all, it’s Sydney’s best
And I must sample it at the Taste fest!
Please, let me try their plates
I’ll close my eyes and I’ll think, “Great!
Bird Cow Fish!
Oui, Bird Cow Fish
Bird Cow Fish!”
Flying Fish as I’ve been dreaming of eating Peter Kuruvita’s food after flipping through his gorgeous cook book, Serendip: My Sri Lankan Journey.
ooh, ooh, Flying Fish please!
I would love to visit Buon Ricordo as I remember you cooked a mouth-watering baked figs with Gorgonzola sauce. Hope he will cook that baked figs or something similar
Dank St Depot!!!!! I love their food!
Pilu would be my pick. My partner and I have been meaning to get to Pilu to taste their awesome Sardinian food since last festival – but it’s still on the wish list atm
Dank St Depot and Flying Fish
ARIA for sure! Matt Moran is always on Master Chef, can’t wait to try out his dishes!
I would definitely pick Longrain. 2 years ago, my partner booked my birthday dinner there as a surprise. Unfortunately I did not know this, and went to the Sass and Bide warehouse sale instead. Haha. Because the lines to pay at sass and bide sales are ridiculously long, I could not make it back in time for the dinner reservation. =(
Also, seeing Martin Boetz on Masterchef making that gorgeous eggnet recipe definitely reignited my desire to dine at Longrain!
Dank Street Depot – just to meet the tall and lanky Jared Ingersoll!
Guillame at Bennelong.
I cant afford to eat at the restaurant but I can try the divine insiprational food at the festival, plus I can listen to that gorgeous French accent, aaahhhhh(long sigh).
I’d love to visit the “Flying Fish” stand as I have read so many positive things about the service and quality of the food.
Hi Lorraine, I’d nominate Berowra Waters Inn if I have only one vote as I have never been there before although I have sampled Dietmar’s cooking at 41. Thank you
Becasse – for Justin North’s decadent wagyu burger.
I’d go for Becasse.. I have Justin North’s cookbook (French Lessons)and I think he’s great chef
I’m excited to try out his dishes at the festival!
Berowra Waters Inn would be my choice
Really want to go to the Producer’s Market. These guys are always so passionate and enthusiastic about their products, it’s contagious and rightly so.
Berowra Waters Inn please!
Longrain – a highlight from MasterChef!
Oh my! What a great prize!
It would have to be Aria for me – one of those places I’ve been desperate to try but never have the funds for!
Balzac hands down, Mr Kemp is a genius, his menu choices are to die for and his wife is really nice, too
Definitely Becasse – the wagyu burgers at Plan B are to die for, so imagine the dishes at Becasse!
Pilu at Freshwater as I would very much like to introduce my husband to the tasty morsels from their Sardinian Tasting Menu.
Hi NQN. Apart from the world class food, I’d like to visit Longrain for one simple reason – I need someone with credibility to convince my husband that you don’t put potato in sweet and sour stir fries. God bless him, he tries so hard!!
I would like to visit Pilu at Freshwater. My last year’s visit to Taste of Sydney was a raining day. I was under the roof of Pilu at Freshwater’s tent when it is raining hard and harder. Several people who were there getting wet as it was windy then Giovanni Pilu stepped out with other chefs and pulling a cover. OMG, he was soaking wet with others too and I was mesmerised seeing chefs get soaked. I want to take pic but then thinking it better not embarassed chefs or these meals will come out bad :p
Bird Cow Fish would be great to try. I am getting more and more into the idea of this now!
I’m looking forward to visiting El Toro Loco to try their already famous paella!
ARIA!!
Berowra Waters Inn – I would love to have a weekend away there.
Ohmylordy I would die and go to food heaven if I ever get to go to Taste of Sydney… let alone VIP! And yes, gotta love those three special letters! Anyway, to answer the magical question… the highlight for me would be Marque. I want to know how Marque food tastes like. I want to meet and greet Mark Best and congratulate him for his 2009 best chef accolade. I want to leave the festival and say “I’ve tasted Marque, I’ve met Mark, I had the Marque experience”. It’ll be awesome!
el Toro Loco – the only restaurant on the list I haven’t heard of!
Aria because I’ve always heard about the restaurant and about Matt so I want to know if all the hype is true about the food. I can’t afford to go to Aria it’s too expensive .
Bird Cow Fish
Bird Cow Fish – Sydney needs more restaurants that have pre-theatre/show menus.
Hi Lorraine,
I would love to visit Assiette, has heard lovely things about them. Good Luck to everyone
I am very eager to try some tapas at el Toro Loco especially since the last restaurant I worked in was a small tapas bar.
WOW! Either ARIA OR MARQUE…..
Ooo, definitely want to try Berowra Waters Inn stand!
flying fish!
Four in Hand – Terry Durack scored it the same as ARIA.
Would have to be Four in Hand. Go there for trivia on Mondays and always wonder what the food in the darkened dining room (closed Mondays) is like.
Etch!
Berowra Waters Inn. I am hanging out to go there one day for the degustation. Yum!
Etch for sure! <3
Becasse is definitely on my list because of the genius of Chef Justin North. He ‘lives’ good food in every detail.
Pilu at Freshwater, because I actually haven’t heard of this restaurant.
Guillaume at Bennelong – have to do until I make a booking!
I just looked up Danks Street Depot and I love their philosophy of slow food. I wish I was able to afford to eat more seasonal produce from local producers.
Assiette – I wish the restaurant was closer to work for their Friday lunch!
How is it that I have never heard about Four In Hand? Pub, bar, restaurant. Sounds like my kind of place!
Will try Longgrain!!
Having an Asian background makes me a bit picky and fussy on Asian food especially fusion. Can’t wait to try them.
I’m definitely going straight to Balzac – anything they create is sure to be delicious!
I’m definitely going straight to Balzac – anything they create is sure to be delicious!
Buon Ricordo – Italian is my favourite cuisine.
I would love to visit Flying Fish. I hope they have a fish curry or prawn curry.
I’ll definitely check out Berowra Waters Inn at the ToS. Much easier than hiring a seaplane.
Flying Fish!
I love the décor at Etch!
Does wanting to go to the Chef’s table count?
Pilu at Freshwater!
Guillame at Bennelong as I have long wanted to try some of his meals but alas have never had the funds to do so.
Oooh Bird Cow Fish please yum yum yum
for my tum tum tum
Aria..
..just because I’m sure Matt Moran would offer something SSTHUUPER SPECIAL to overcome the relative drop in quality by serving for so many in a temporary marquee. ^^
“el Toro Loco” for me- Having never heard of it before, the prospect of broadening my palate’s horizons is exciting!
Marque!
Definitely Etch!
Hi NQN,
I would definitely go straight to Berowra Waters Inn. My husband & I were quite lucky 2 yrs ago to be given a gift voucher [from work] to go there & the food was amazing. I would love to go back there one day. The food, location, everything was great! Dietmar is a genius!
I will be heading STRAIGHT to Alex Herberts Bird Cow Fish stall. I will be doing this because last year after perusing the different menus at Taste to see what delicious morsels were on offer I chose 4 different items to try. I decided to [ much like a child ] save the most delicious sounding dish, Alex’s beef cheek pie,till last. As I worked my way through the other 3 dishes [ all were good ] I was humming with anticipation for the crowning glory of the beef cheek pie… I made my way, pushing through the crowds, eagerly grasping my crowns in my hot little hand… AND THEN…there it was, the dreadful writing across the board… those mocking hurtful words… SOLD OUT. Beef Cheek Pie FAIL. So, as I said earlier… straight to Bird Cow Fish.
Will have to try Aria. Much ado about the man, time to check out his food for (I know, shame on me) the first time.
I really wanna try Flying Fish!
I would love to eat at Buon Ricordo. His food looks amazing and I just love Italian cuisine.
The Australian Gourmet Travellers Chef’s Table. How faaaabulous!!!!
we have tried to get to becasse in the last two years, but still have not gotten there. So it will have to be Becasse for me!
This is the apprentice chef girl again from comment # 51. And once again, there is no particular restaurant that I would like to visit. I would like to visit all of them and hopefully speak to the chefs, although I might get too nervous to do that. I get nervous in the presence of persons that I am in awe of… And one more thing, is anyone else going on the opening night? None of my friends wants to go and it looks like I might be going there alone
I would like to visit GUILLIAME AT BENNALONG for his Wagyu Beef Daube with Paris Mash and follow it with his Pistachio Macaroon. Why bother trying to resist
Just saw the menu for becasse, etch and plan B. I want it NOW~!
Berowra Waters Inn
I also think i’ll check out a longrain cocktail this time round.
Marque
This restaurant is on my “to eat” list
Bird Cow Fish because the sound of that beef cheek and glazed onion pie is really making my mouth water
buon ricordo as well for those little sausages!
All of them!
I find it hard to choose from so many wonderful restaurants and fortunately I have a large stomach
Too many to choose from! A top pick would have to be Bon Ricordo. Fantastic Italian is hard to top and just can’t resist a good fig dish. Plus a cook who encourages Sydneysiders to cook – definitely gets my vote!
Aria =]
BUON RICORDO!!!!!!!!
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