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There are restaurants that champion nearby producers, and there’s Hey Rosey. This cheerful bar on Orange’s main strip offers wines from the region, plus share plates built on ingredients sourced from suppliers that co-owner Leigh Oliver refers to by first name.

Take Farmer John. His leeks feature alongside a buttery comte tart. His tomatoes are dressed with locally fermented shio koji, macadamia cream and a vibrant spring onion oil. The al dente cavatelli with pork and fennel sausage includes his broccoli too, with pangrattato providing crunch.

You wonder how chef Hugh Piper is able to crank out snacky plate after plate from a tiny set-up just behind the bar, but he pulls it off across the board, from bigs all the way to a cute oeuf mayonnaise, an oozy, rich number topped with salmon roe that goes perfectly with a glass of Hey Rosé by rising-star winemaker Tristan Clark.