MFWF FAVOURITES

More Melbourne Food and Wine Festival events to keep on your radar.

Jake Kellie at Sunda

Jake Kellie, from Singapore’s Burnt Ends, teams up with Sunda’s Khanh Nguyen at a one-off dinner where contemporary Southeast Asian and modernAustralian techniques will be fused with indigenous ingredients, all cooked over specialty woods.

All The Chickens

Morgan McGlone from Belles Hot Chicken has put together a night where the only thing on the menu is chicken. Chicken-loving chefs Matt Abergel

(Hong Kong’s Yardbird), Palisa Anderson (Chat Thai), Paul Carmichael (Momofuku Seiobo), Thi Le (Anchovy) and Trisha Greentree (ex-Brae) will be exploring new takes on traditional chicken dishes such as yakitori, jerk chicken and Hainanese chicken rice. McGlone will be eschewing his famed fried birds for a take on the Hawaiian dish, huli-huli chicken.

MFWF The Village Feast

The tiny Gippsland town of Jindivick (population 500) will be transformed into a culinary village for one day. Chef Matt Moran will be cooking lunch at the local Jindi café while Victor Liong (Lee Ho Fook) will run a Chinese restaurant, Shannon Martinez (Smith & Daughters) will set up and run The Green Grocer and Pastuso’s Alejandro Saravia will be behind the counter at The Butcher. There’ll also be The Deli and Smokehouse, The Pub, The Bakery, The Milkbar and The Dispensary, featuring cocktails from Loch Brewery & Distillery and Melbourne’s Bad Frankie.

Filipino Feast at Rice Paper Sister

Jordy Navarra (of Toyo Eatery in Manila), Nicole Ponseca (Maharlika, in New York), and cookbook author Yasmin Newman (7000 Islands) join Rice Paper Sister chef Ross Magnaye in a dinner that will journey through the variety and diversity of Filipino cuisine.

Daniel Puskas at Laura, Pt Leo Estate

Sydney chef Daniel Puskas (Sixpenny) heads to the Mornington Peninsula to join forces with Laura chef Phil Wood in a six-course lunch that will highlight greatest-hit dishes from both restaurants.