Beer pies, gelato cocktails and flaming truffle pasta have Sydney in a spin

Grab a free Harry’s Cafe de Wheels- Young Henry’s beer pie, sip a Tandem-MaPo gelato cocktail and enjoy the theatre of Madame Truffles-Handpicked Cellar Door’s flaming cheese wheel.

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Smooth and hoppy black beer notes are revving up the flavour in Harry’s Cafe de Wheels- Young Henry’s limited-edition beer pies. Sound good? They are giving away 100 of these beer pies at Newtown on Sunday. And this is just one of three of the must-try food collaborations in Sydney right now.

Young Henrys and Harry’s Cafe de Wheels have joined forces to create a meat pie inspired by Young Henry’s Hoppy Porter Motorcycle Oil beer. Head brewer Jesse Searls was keen to try one before Sunday’s 100 pie giveaway. Picture: Matthew Vasilescu

HARRY’S CAFE DE WHEELS - YOUNG HENRYS, NEWTOWN

Harry’s Cafe de Wheels has produced a limited-edition pie, slowly braised with Young Henrys Motorcycle Oil beer, to help launch the third edition of the cult Newtown brewhouse’s Hoppy Porter, a black beer roughly based on a hopped-up American porter.

To kick off the collaboration they will be giving away free Harry’s Cafe de Wheels beer pies and and Young Henry tinnies to the first 100 punters through the door at 12noon at Young Henry’s Newtown tasting bar on Sunday.

To launch a new Young Henrys and Harry’s Cafe de Wheels collaboration they will be giving away free beer pies to the first 100 punters through the door at Young Henrys Newtown tasing bar on Sunday, July 21.

The beer pie, inspired by the rich and beer happy flavours, will be available at all 11 Harry’s Cafe de Wheels stores across Sydney from Monday until August 31.

The pie is made from Aussie top side beef that has been slowly braised with Young Henrys Motorcycle Oil beer and finished with a hint of mustard.

Expect a beefy happy flavour that will ignite anyone’s taste buds, Young Henrys co-founder Oscar McMahon said.

“Beer and pies, Harry and Henry … we’re pretty bloody stoked to be making a delicious wintry porter pie with the Sydney icon that is Harrys Cafe de Wheels,” he said.

76 Wilford St, Newtown, younghenrys.com/age-gate

Tandem owner Peter Lynn in his new Newtown Copenhagen-inspired cocktail bar. Picture: Raylene Bliss

MAPO GELATO-TANDEM COCKTAIL BAR, NEWTOWN

New kids on Newtown’s King St, MaPo gelato and Tandem cocktail bar, are are running a cocktail gelato collaboration that heroes aquavit, Scandinavia’s answer to gin, until the end of August.

“There were numerous tastings and lots of running between shops as we tried to build something that we were all happy with,” Tandem owner Peter Lynn, who has produced a gelato cocktail called Spilt Milk, from MaPo owner Matteo Pochintesta’s house favourite gelatos.

It incorporates MaPo’s Fior di Latte milk gelato made from Barambah organics milk with earl grey-infused aquavit, ginger, Mac.

While Pochintesta is serving up a gelato inspired by Tandem’s signature Thrift Shop Cocktail that includes aquavit, orange and rosemary in a milk gelato.

127 King St, Newtown, tandemnewtown.com

123 King St, Newtown, maponewtown.com

MADAME TRUFFLE-HANDPICKED CELLAR DOOR, CHIPPENDALE

Love truffles? The Madame Truffles pop-up at Handpicked Cellar Door, Chippendale is offering a truffle pasta mixed in a flaming cheese wheel, topped with fresh shavings of truffle.

The flaming cheese wheel pasta with fresh truffle shavings ($35pp) is designed to be shared between two.

The pasta is cooked in a cheese wheel and flamed with Brandy in front of customers. Fresh truffles are shaved on top, with four different truffles to choose from– I highly recommend truffles from Tasmania with the Tasmanian pinot.

A Madame Truffle and Handpicked Cellar Door pop-up is offering a truffle pasta mixed in a flaming cheese wheel, topped with fresh shavings of truffle. Picture: Nastia Gladushchenko

There is also a truffle wine flight that includes a selection of 4 Pinot wines paired with truffle-topped cheese and charcuterie ($59).

50 Kensington Street, Chippendale, Thursday - Sunday, 11am to 9pm, until September 1, handpickedwines.com.au

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