Editor’s 3 top picks for week two of The Age Good Food Month
With so much choice over the month of November, you almost need someone with the right amount of foodie inside knowledge to tell you where to go, right? Thankfully we have enlisted the help our VIC Good Food Month Creative Director, Gemima Cody to give us the skinny on what’s happening now until November 30 across the state.
The lunch program kicks off this week, just in time for Spring Racing carnival. Throughout November, restaurants like Port Melbourne’s Komeyui, Gazi, Casa Ciuccio, Fatto Bar and Cantina, Hellenic Republic and Maha will be offering lunch sets with a glass of Yalumba wine, Coopers beer or Thatchers cider for $38. For the full list see goodfoodmonth.com
A Sunday Spring Social with Fergus Henderson presented by Pimm’s
Expect pork pies, seed cakes and other signature British dishes by all celebrity chefs, plus the chance to meet Henderson at a relaxed Sunday session to close the festival. It’s the ultimate Sunday session to close an epic November of amazing Good Food Month events. Sunday, Nov 27; Noon – 4pm, 80-384 Little Bourke Street. Buy tickets here.
Gerard’s Bistro head chef Ben Williamson. Photo: Michelle Smith
In this hands on experience learn how to make sausages with Uncle’s head smallgoods maker, take home your sausage creation, smell the smoke during a factory tour and feast on a smallgoods degustation. Walk away with a deli voucher and gift bag of goods. Thu Nov 3; 6pm, 123 Thomas Street, Dandenong, goodfoodmonth.com.