Penfolds and three MasterChef favourites will set up shop in Adelaide Airport’s expanded terminal
Three MasterChef favourites and a local wine giant will open new hospitality outlets as part of a multimillion-dollar upgrade of Adelaide Airport. SEE THE DESIGNS
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Interstate and international visitors will get a taste of the state’s best known wine and food icons next year, as soon as they arrive inside Adelaide Airport’s newly expanded terminal.
Local MasterChef finalists Callum Hann and Poh Ling Yeoh – as well as celebrity chef and regular MasterChef guest judge Maggie Beer – will each launch their own hospitality ventures inside the airport when it opens the first stage of a $165 million redevelopment.
Penfolds will launch the Penfolds Wine Bar and Kitchen, offering travellers a premium food and wine experience, while the Maggie Beer Kitchen will offer premium dining and takeaway options, featuring her own fresh in-season South Australian produce.
Poh will launch a new Jamface store in the airport’s new look dining precinct, while Hann will introduce The Pantry, sourcing produce from local suppliers and partnering with South Australian regional food artisans.
Other new food options will include Precinct Adelaide Kitchen, modelled on Adelaide’s city laneways and bars, Soul Origin and Boost Juice. Coopers Alehouse will also be refurbished.
Adelaide Airport managing director Mark Young said the first of the new retail and dining outlets would open in the first half of next year.
“We were keen to attract iconic South Australian brands and experiences across food and wine, and we’re excited that names such as Penfolds will have pride of place in the newly expanded terminal,” he said.
Beer said she would create the menus and oversee the retail space, to provide travellers with food “that I know they will love”.
“This offer will give customers from all over the world the ability to experience our beautiful products together with the food and wine experience that we offer people at our renowned Maggie Beer Farmshop in the Barossa Valley,” she said.
“We are very proud to be opening this dining and retail experience in our home state of South Australia, so that we can showcase to the world all of the wonderful things that this state has to offer.”
The $165 million expansion of the airport is on track for completion by the end of 2021, with the first stages set to open in the first half of next year.
It will include a significant upgrade to the international arrivals and departures areas, and will create 80 per cent more retail space for domestic and international travellers.
The new Penfolds bar will “wrap around” escalators at the entrance to international departures, and will be the company’s “first in-airport concept of its kind globally”.
“Complementing the distinctive experiences on offer at our existing cellar doors – Magill Estate and Barossa Valley – this new Wine Bar and Kitchen will allow travellers to experience exceptionally crafted food and wine, even when on the move,” Treasury Wine Estates chief marketing officer Angus Lilley said.
Poh said Jamface would become a “comfy welcome and goodbye nook for those who pass by my beloved home town”, while Hann said The Pantry would provide fresh, local and seasonal food inspired by the best South Australian produce.
“I can’t wait to showcase produce of South Australian local farmers, winemakers, brewers, bakers, chocolate makers and more to the millions of travellers who pass through Adelaide Airport each year,” he said.