Perfect Plate Awards: Club dining in regional NSW competition fierce
Regional clubs are championing their local towns and this weekend is the last chance for locals to cast their vote for the best dishes in NSW.
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It’s town versus town in the dining stakes with clubs all over NSW vying to take home a prize for their best dish.
And we’re not talking about your average schnitty or burger.
Of the 176 restaurants and cafes taking part in this year’s Perfect Plate Awards, five have lobster on the menu.
Tasting the dishes is celebrity chef Courtney Roulston who said the rivalry, especially in the regions, is palpable.
“There’s a friendly rivalry (between towns),” Roulston said as she was travelling through the central west region this week.
“Usually when we turn up at a club they ask where we have been and what their dish was like. It’s a bit of fun.”
Regional clubs make up more than half of the Perfect Plate entries this year, up nine per cent compared with last year.
Bathurst RSL has won the prize two years running and this year has saltbush and pepper berry frenched Cowra lamb cutlets on offer.
But up the road, Club Dubbo has entered, for the first time, a pan fried salmon with sauteed baby spinach, crispy potatoes and dill caper cream sauce.
It is head chef Anna Hovenden’s first job in the club industry having worked in gastropubs in London.
The Club’s operational manager Linton Wilkins said they had sold more than 350 serves of the dish since it hit the menu.
Meanwhile Club Mudgee is hoping to take out the new dessert category with a baked caramel cheesecake that is cafe manager Colleen Harvey’s own recipe.
“I want to beat them all!,” Harvey said.
But it is the club patrons that have the casting vote and this is the last weekend to have your say and beat a local rival.
For more details go to perfectplate.com.au.
Originally published as Perfect Plate Awards: Club dining in regional NSW competition fierce
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