Your Local Club Perfect Plate Awards: Vote for NSW’s best club dish
Everyone loves a meal at the local club — but is your club’s signature dish the best in NSW? Help choose a winner in a new statewide contest.
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They’re best known for a pint, a roast dinner or a chicken schnitty but NSW clubs are upping the ante to compete for a culinary crown.
Local venues across the state will cook up a storm from today for ClubsNSW’s 2021 Your Local Club Perfect Plate Awards, battling it out for the chance to be named as one of NSW’s best club feeds.
Swapping simple crowd favourites for five-star competition dishes, 150 clubs will encourage diners to taste their signature plate and vote by rating it from one to five, before 16 overall winners are announced.
ClubsNSW CEO Josh Landis said the Perfect Plate competition would help drive hungry diners towards humble local venues for a meal out.
“The quality and diversity of club food these days is quite extraordinary and the Your Local Club Perfect Plate Awards will help shine a spotlight on the amazing cuisine on offer in our venues,” Mr Landis said.
One small, medium and large club will be awarded the title of serving the state’s perfect plate, along with 13 top-rated venues from a different NSW region.
Campbelltown Catholic Club in Sydney’s southwest is in with a shot, with four of the club’s seven eateries each whipping up entries including beef and Guinness pie, south coast silver dory fillet and king prawns mojo de ajo.
Tracy Braithwaite, from Glen Alpine, eats regularly at the club with husband Craig and their four sons, and said she hoped Campbelltown scored a winning spot in the Perfect Plate awards.
“The club has a great community environment, there’s really good variety with the food and our boys love it, it’s what you look for in a good club these days,” Ms Braithwaite said.
“All local clubs have suffered in the last year because of restrictions, it’s really good to get back out there and be able to support them ... we hope (Campbelltown) wins for sure.”
Celebrity chefs and competition ambassadors Colin Fassnidge and Manu Feildel encouraged foodies to visit clubs and help decide on a winning dish.
“After the year we’ve had, it’s great just to be able to get back into a club and celebrate great food in a local community,” Mr Fassnidge said.
To vote, purchase and eat your local club’s nominated dish and leave a star review through a special QR code or sheet of paper.
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