Mode Kitchen and Bar has launched Celebrate Australia, a new dining series that celebrates Australia’s rich and vibrant produce with a focus on growers and suppliers.
Located within Sydney’s Four Seasons Hotel, Mode Kitchen and Bar‘s collaborative series crowned “Celebrate Australia”launches with a brand new menu that showcases South Australia’s range of produce and wine.
With its diverse micro-climates, multi-faceted landscape and distinct regions, the picturesque state grows and nurtures some of Australia’s finest citrus fruits and berries, premium sustainable seafood like Pacific oysters, mussels and Hiramasa Kingfish, fresh organic vegetables and high-quality meats including salt bush lamb, beef and kangaroos.
Mode Kitchen and Bar’s Executive Chef Francesco Mannelli champions a number of the region’s most prolific producers including Goolwa Pipico, Clean Seas Seafood, Mayura Station wagyu and Woodside Cheese Wrights. Indeed, it is rather fitting that the Italian-born Mannelli is working with these ingredients, given they were produced in the southern States Mediterranean climate, of warm, dry summers and mild winters.
For Mannelli, simplicity is key when working with such incredible produce. He notes that the best way to highlight an ingredient that is already special on its own, is to create a dish with a good balance of flavour, a contrast in texture and respects the produce. Guests dining on the new menu can experience dishes like sautee Coorong Pippies, served with spicy sausages from Calabria, karkalla and grilled focaccia; a grilled hard to source cut in the form of a Mayura Station Wagyu Tri Tip MB 9+ with roasted balsamic onions; Hiramasa kingfish sashimi with sweet and sour sauce, macadamia and pickled onion and a South Australian kangaroo loin, crusted with crushed Tasmanian pepper, warigal greens and beetroot.
The producers were chosen as not only for their passion for quality, consistency and production, but more for the love they put into their job – an ethos that translates to Mannelli’s kitchen.
The Celebrate Australia series will continue at Mode Kitchen & Bar with further menu takeovers and producer showcases to be announced over the coming months.
Take a look at the menu celebrating South Australia here:
Kangaroo Island Wild Gin, Kangaroo Island Mulberry Gin, Lime, Sugar, lemon thyme
Hiramasa kingfish sashimi with sweet and sour sauce, macadamia and pickled onion
Wood fire Coffin Bay octopus, chickpeas, sea succulents and paprika
Grilled Mayura Station Wagyu Tri Tip MB 9+ with roasted balsamic onions
A selection of Woodside Cheese Wrights
Woodside Cheese Wrights Monet
Anthill Green Ant Chevre
Goats cheese and honey
Edith Ashed Goat Cheese
Lemon Myrtle Chevre
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