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Contemporary Australian Cuisine, Food Worth Getting On a Plane For

Contemporary Australian cuisine is best exemplified in the inventive dishes served in its best restaurants, where in recent decades a unique form of fusion cuisine has emerged, rooted in Australia’s multicultural heritage, global flavours and techniques, and beautiful home-grown produce. It all starts with a sublime sashimi of Corner Inlet rock flathead, Tasmanian trumpeter, salt cured wild oyster cream, … Read more

Best Food Experiences in Australia – The Most Delicious Eating Down Under

Best Food Experiences in Australia – Most Delicious Tastes Down Under. Quay Restaurant, Sydney, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The best food experiences in Australia include everything from feasting on fish and chips by the beach and eating your way through Chinatown in Sydney and Melbourne to dining on multi-course degustation menus at Australia’s finest restaurants and tucking into meat pies with mushy peas at historic pubs. Washed down with great Australian wines and … Read more

Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island with Chef Dan Hunter

A highlight of our time back home in Australia was getting to gourmet foodie weekend Great Barrier Feast at qualia on Hamilton Island for master-classes and meals with Chef Dan Hunter, formerly of The Royal Mail, now running his own restaurant, Brae. Held periodically throughout the year on this tropical Queensland island in the Whitsundays group of 74 … Read more

Monday Memories – Dan Hunter and the Delicious Dunkeld Dish

Eel and bone marrow, eggplant, and pickled vegetables, by Chef Dan Hunter and the Royal Mail Hotel at Dunkeld, Victoria, Australia. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

I’ll let you in on a little secret. Sometimes – not often – when, as a travel and food photographer, I photograph dishes at a restaurant for a magazine story, we have yet to experience the food. Such was the case with this delicious dish of Dan Hunter’s at Dunkeld. Given the nature of our jobs, the … Read more

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2012’s Theatre of Ideas and Chef Jam

Chef René Redzepi, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Melbourne, Victoria. Copyright © 2022 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2012’s Theatre of Ideas and Chef Jam provided an opportunity to hear some of the world’s best chefs speak on everything from their early inspirations to “searching for a special moment on a plate”. It gave us a chance to chat to some of the finest chefs in the world about Australian cuisine. I … Read more