Taste of Summer festival announces line up
Expect to see a mouth-watering line-up at this year’s Taste of Summer festival, celebrating produce from all parts of the state. See the full list.
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A MOUTH-WATERING line-up of food stalls will be at this year’s Taste of Summer festival, celebrating produce from all parts of the state.
Creative Director Jo Cook said there were some exciting additions to this year’s list including Empiere Eats, Forgotten Island Brewery, La Cantara, Pink Buns, Queen Sheeba Ethiopian, Pure Mist Water, T4 Toast and Siento Fuego.
“A quarter of all the stallholders this year are new businesses,” she said.
“They’re young, they’re multicultural, and they’re really at the cutting edge of good food and drinks.”
Ms Cook said there are trusted favourites returning to the festival as well as producers from regional areas.
“We’re committed to bringing the best produce from right around the state to the Hobart waterfront and this year, more than 30 per cent of the stalls will also be from regional Tasmania,” she said.
“The theme is summer and summer produce so there will be lots of seafood, berries, sparkling wine, and beautiful fruit juice.
“The Smallest Pancakes will be there with their tiny cute pancakes and seasonal fresh berries.
“Tasmanian Gourmet Seafood will be there with lots of southern Rock Lobster so you will be able to have lobster rolls and fried calamari and there will be octopus from the northwest coast.”
Co-owner of Banh Mi N’ Grill, one of the many stalls participating in the event, Ares Nguyen, said it was an “honour” to return to the festival for the second year in a row.
“Last year was a huge success for us and we are looking forward to joining the team this year as well,” he said.
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“We do everything on the charcoal grill, it’s something very unique and authentic to Vietnamese cuisine.
“The Tasmanian community has always been about diversity of people and the diversity in the methods of cooking.
“We want to bring traditional Vietnamese food to the festival and at the same time bring the best out of Tasmanian produce.”
The first Taste of Summer festival was held last year, replacing the Taste of Tasmania, which ran for more than 30 years.
Last year’s event attracted 80 stalls and was hailed a success by organisers.
This year’s festival will run from December 27 until January 2.
Ms Cook said that tickets were selling well, especially for New Year’s Eve and encouraged people to book their tickets now to avoid missing out.
Booking details and a full list of the stalls is available at tasteofsummer.com.au.
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