TICKET TO DINE
Fasten your seatbelts – we’re flying to dinner
Of course culinary voyaging is nothing new. The rich and famous have always been aficionados. Elvis himself took his private jet to Denver to stock up on the ‘Fool’s Gold Loaf’ at The Colorado Mining Company restaurant – a legendary sandwich cemented together with peanut butter, grape jelly and bacon.
Today’s jetsetters will fly from all over the globe to eat at highly revered restaurants like Copenhagen’s Noma and, more recently, Noma’s upstart sibling, 108. Three-star Osteria Francescana in Modena, Italy, also
attracts its share of foodie pilgrims.
Diners jet in especially to eat at the likes of the 10-table Orana restaurant in Adelaide – named 2018 Australia's Restaurant of the Year in the prestigious Good Food Guide awards – to sample bush tucker like kangaroo with sow thistle and oxeye daisy. Then there are the food festivals that draw tens of thousands every year. The Maine Lobster festival attracts some 80,000 – locals and tourists alike – and a quarter of a million hungry punters flock to the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
“Food festivals draw tens of thousands every year”