#gfg2020

Big congrats to beautiful @smithjo99 from @restaurantigni picking up the Citi Service award!! #gfg2020 #goodfoodguide2020 (at Restaurant Igni) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3CMNOvF2rJ/?igshid=1xb6xs4av4w2n

Fermented Wattleseed Porridge from @goodfoodau award nominee @restaurantigni. Absolutely gorgeous dish. Good luck guys (not that you need it). . . . . . . #restaurantigni #gfg2020 #goodfoodguide2020 #food #foodporn #canon #canonprofessionalservices #geelong (at Restaurant Igni) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3B3pYGFzCl/?igshid=13n75chvl0d3q

Not heading to the @goodfoodau Guide Awards this year, but i did shoot a few of the nominees, and i’ll share a few of the photos over the next few days. Here’s @braerestaurant’s beautiful little croissants. Here’s @gemimacody’s words. Good luck everyone! . . “Technically, the whole wheat croissant with pumpkin at Birregurra's farm-to-table temple Brae took a year to come to fruition. But even if you don't count the time it took chef-owner Dan Hunter to grow the restaurant's own organic wheat crop and pumpkins, you're still faced with a ridiculous production process.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The wheat is milled in the restaurant daily, then used to make a croissant - a pastry defined by its airy lightness which in this case is complicated, in the most delicious way possible, by that obstinate whole-grain flour. It necessitates making the pastry in tiny batches to be rolled out by hand.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Hunter figures that if you want the world's gold-standard croissant, you go to Lune. If you want a blousy Parisienne classic, you can get that in situ. His grainy version is a true expression of the farm on which his restaurant sits. The bite doesn't end there.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Wakame and olive oil is infused for a week before it is used to gently poach a coin of pumpkin to order. A glistening ripple of nori is layered with turnips and a butter containing koji (the mould used in sake-making) and baked like a gratin, then peeled off to finish the one-bite wonder.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Like all of the Guide nominees' snack-based openers, Brae's croissant is the ultimate expression of the restaurant's ideals condensed to a single bite, and just one of 15 items that might hit your table.⁣⁣” #food #braerestaurant #gfg2020 #goodfood (at Brae Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2-kRJllGGl/?igshid=14wtfmyfi5wvr