Westfield Cooking Show – 24 – 27 June

COOKING SHOW The Westfield Cooking Show will teach you how to pick and cook the best seasonal and fresh produce from our great range of fresh food retailers. Professional chefs will demonstrate quick and tasty meals with recipe cards available so you can try the dishes at home! Plus don’t miss your chance to meet…

Dining Out in Shellharbour: Relish on Addison

One of the many restaurants a stone’s throw from Shellharbour Beach to rave about is Relish on Addison.Recently I found out that they offer  Gluten-Free options with their meals. It may pay to make a booking and specify your dietary requirements. I’m really excited about their Chef Menu for June. Note: All ingredients may not…

Local Food Heroes: Italian Cuisine – Pasta Fina

Growing up in Wollongong  with Italian uncles Rocco Annechini and Carlo Dressino, I spent a lot of time being surrounded by European food including Lasagne, Canneloni and Spaghetti Marinara from Pasta Fina in Wollongong. You can now buy Pasta Fina products in many delicatessens and supermarkets throughout the Illawarra but if you can do so I…

Tonitto Continental Cakes

Tonitto Continental Cakes are a local family operated business of Port Kembla, Wollongong specialising in the production, presentation and sale of quality cakes, biscuits, pastries, pies, continental tortes, special occasion cakes and wedding cakes for over 30 years. I commissioned Tonitto Continental Cakes to make my wedding cake back in 1996. I’ve never been fond of…

We Love The Gong – part 4

The fourth segment of my article ‘A Taste for the Gong’ has been published on Tourism Wollongong’s site, We Love the Gong.  This entry is about ‘Travelling the world within the Gong’ and references some of my favourite foodie locations, shopping and restaurants Port Kembla Tonitto’s Continental Cakes (formerly Tonitto’s Patisserie)Email: info@tonittocakes.com.auhttp://www.tonittocakes.com.au                          169 Wentworth St…

Truffle Degustation at Caveau, Wollongong

Truffle Degustation night Thursday 24th June $140pp (or $200pp with accompanying premium wines)     The Western Australian truffle season is just about to begin – the first batch is expected out of the ground in the first week of June. To celebrate Caveau will hold a truffle degustation on Thursday 24th June. To book, please email…

Local Food Tours of the Illawarra

Please register your interest in a food tour around the Illawarra. o Cheese making in Razorback , Nowra and Bowral and Reidsdale o bread makingo cookery classeso European delicatessenso Asian Supermarkets and Butcherso Gluten-Free supplieso Fresh Produce Markets and their supplierso Slow Food Illawarra Illawarra Food and Restaurant Reviews http://illawarrafoodreviews.blogspot.com