MFWF 2012

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

2nd - 21st March 2012

Looking for an indulgent getaway? Dine at award-winning restaurants, visit local producers with Patrizia Simone as your guide, taste wine at the best vineyards, stay in luxurious accommodation.

FoodandTravelCo has designed an incredible weekend away to mark the beginning of the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, bringing city folk to the renowned regional restaurants, wineries and farm gates of Victoria's High Country to share in the joys of fresh, local produce.

The tour has been designed to showcase this incredibly diverse region, including dining at the regional World’s Longest Lunch at Pizzini, Simone's of Bright and Provenance restaurants, meeting local producers at the Myrtleford Butter Factory and Warialda Belted Galloway Beef, sampling handmade cheese at the Milawa Cheese Factory, wine tastings at Sam Miranda, Battely Wines, Giaconda and Savaterre and staying in luxurious accommodation.

Young Restaurateur of the Year award-winner Kim Coronica, and renowned chef Greg Feck, will lead this spectacular experience, beginning and ending at the FoodandTravelCo Cooking School in Hawthorn East. Special guest tour guide and chef Patrizia Simone will also be joining us along the way to show us her favourite food experiences in the High Country.

Everything has been taken care of; including transportation to and from Melbourne, all meals, matched wines with two dining experiences, accommodation and activities; you just need to sit back, relax and enjoy the best this region has to offer.

Simone’s and a Taste of the High Country

Gourmet Food and Wine Tour

2nd - 4th March, 2012

Cook, Bake & Gingerbread Make

Kids Cooking Class

10th March, 2012

Victorian Producers’

Feast

Meet the Makers Dinner

20th March, 2012

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Location

Begins & ends at

FoodandTravelCo Cooking School, Hawthorn East

PRICING

$1375.00 per person, twin share

INCLUDES

Fully escorted by chef and restaurateur guides

All transportation, including to and from Melbourne

2 nights' accommodation

All meals & activities as listed in the full itinerary

BOOKINGS

Phone: 03 9817 4527
Email: bookings@foodandtravelco.com.au

Book Now or Request More Information

Professional chefs Greg Feck and Michael Leidler will guide kids in creating gnocchi, pizza, apple strudel and gingerbread people, plus demonstrating how to cook a delicious ragu at home.

Led by professional chefs, Greg Feck (FoodandTravelCo) and Michael Leidler (Zimt Patisserie), kids will get the opportunity to make gnocchi from scratch, create their dream pizza, decorate gingerbread people and hand-stretch and roll a giant apple strudel. There will also be an interactive demo on how kids can cook a delicious ragu at home for their family.

This class has been designed for kids aged 6 to 12 years old, and ensures that whilst their little hands will be kept busy, in the interest of safety they will have no interaction with knives, ovens, stovetops or electrical equipment.

We ask that each child be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the class, and will ensure you will be well looked after with a glass of bubbles and nibbles in our decked courtyard, and FoodandTravelCo's director, Kim Coronica, on hand to answer questions.

All junior cooks will eat their dream pizza and gingerbread people during the class, and will take home enough hand-rolled gnocchi, ragu and apple strudel to feed a family of four for dinner that night.

This is an interactive, educational class for kids, which will teach them about ingredients and basic techniques, but above all else demonstrate how much fun cooking can be and perhaps even inspire some future chefs in the making.

Location

FoodandTravelCo Cooking School, Hawthorn East

TIME

3:00pm - 5:30pm (2.5 hours)

PRICING

$85.00 per child, including one adult

INCLUDES

Afternoon tea for junior cooks

Take-home dinner and dessert for a family of four

Recipes for all dishes created on the day

A glass of sparkling for mum or dad

BOOKINGS

Phone: 03 9817 4527
Email: bookings@foodandtravelco.com.au

Book Now or Request More Information

For those interested in consuming only the very best produce, experience an enlightening dinner with matched wines showcasing some of Victoria’s finest artisanal producers.

The FoodandTravelCo Cooking School is like no other in Victoria, let alone the Southern Hemisphere. Modelled around provincial French antiques and the Italian countryside, adorned with copper pots, French pantries and a baby blue Lacanche oven, the space has been designed to bring Tuscany and the South of France to Melbourne.

Speciality producers from all over Victoria will transform the Cooking School into an edible forum, where guests will have an exclusive opportunity to learn about how local produce is grown, harvested, churned, raised, pressed and matured.

A four-course dinner with matched wines, created by FoodandTravelCo's chef, Greg Feck, will be crafted to highlight each of the following exquisite producers:

• Warialda Belted Galloway Beef, Clonbinane, with Lizette & Allen Snaith
• Sea Bounty Mussels, Bellarine Peninsula, with Lizzie Franklin
• Mount Zero Olives, Grampians, with Richard Seymour
• That's Amore Cheese, Donnybrook, with Giorgio Linguanti
• Myrtleford Butter Factory, High Country, with Naomi & Bronwyn Ingleton
• Yabby Lake Vineyard, Mornington Peninsula/Heathcote, with Tom Carson

Hosted by FoodandTravelCo's director, Kim Coronica, this is the ideal event for those interested in consuming only the best produce and understanding its journey, from paddock to plate.