This week’s highlights in the Shoalhaven Food Network’s fifth annual festival brings $7 tacos to Mollymook, Mexican feasts to Huskisson, and candlelit dining to Woollamia. Enjoy an oyster tour at Greenwell Point and be a guest at this week’s centrepiece: a vivid Indian cultural celebration in Nowra that offers a true, sensory taste of the sub-continent.
Mid-week Dining Events – so much better than cooking
The Autumn Celebration of Food will keep you out of the kitchen this season with affordable and exciting weekly options Tuesday through Thursday. These light, bright flavours and sharable dishes will stave off the winter blues for many weeks to come.
Taco Tuesdays: tasty $7 tacos and $15 margaritas at The Rooftop Bar & Grill at Bannisters down at Mollymook Beach, every Tuesday till the end of May.
Wings & Whiskey Wednesdays: bold bites and smooth sips at the The Rooftop Bar & Grill, baskets of delicious wings from $20, curated whisky flights from $22 plus comforting cocktails, every Wednesday from 13/05 till 10/06
Mexican Thursdays: Huskisson’s Sandbar Restaurant is spicing up Thursday nights during the Autumn Celebration of Food with small plates (from $8), mains (from $24) and res leche cake accompanied by micheladas & margaritas.
Chef’s Table Thursdays: new chef Elliot Platz is dreaming up a weekly chef’s choice shared table for $75, in the candlelit treetops of The Gunyah at Paperbark Camp in Woollamia. Only minutes from Huskisson, it feels like miles from anywhere.
Oysters! Feast! Cheese!
The World’s Your Oyster Friday 15 May, Greenwell Point and Pyree11am $123
One of the most highly anticipated events of the season for oyster lovers!
The true spirit of the Autumn Celebration of Food is in the theatre, the sharing and the showcasing of our region’s best fare.
Pyree Hall will have it all from 11am next Friday when Sally McLean – daughter of Jim Wild of Jim Wild’s Oysters – and Jack Dinnie – one of Australia’s most highly- awarded caterers from Bumpy Road – put on a delicious show.
The day starts at the rustic oyster farm out at Greenwell Point, where Sally will give an insider’s tour of the working aquaculture facility, before she demonstrates exactly how to shuck without doing yourself an injury.
The feast features a dozen oysters per person with a variety of toppings available – all shucked for you, of course – and Bumpy Road’s signature Share-a-Fare dining experience followed by a spread from Unicorn Cheeses.
Travel Across India Right Here in Nowra
Passage to India Cultural Celebration
Saturday 16 May, Nowra 5.30pm $90
One of Nowra’s best-kept secrets is Two Brown Men, a surprising taste of authenticity tucked away unassumingly under the Quest Hotel on Kinghorne Street.
If you haven’t yet experienced the awakening of your tastebuds dining at this restaurant, then ‘A Passage to India’ by Two Brown Men will refract all your senses into a full-blown rainbow.
The complex flavours of signature dishes from across the sub-continent will taste even better wrapped in an event that echoes the colourful and cheerful celebrations that India is renowned for, including traditional dress, dance and keepsakes for diners that will feel more like holiday souvenirs from an incredible journey.
This is more than dining, it’s an opportunity to share in a rich cultural experience offered from the hearts of hospitality’s finest hosts. Visit the event page to see the full menu.
