Antipodes Flavours Of Greece
19 May – 27 July 2010
Flavours of Greece will offer nine events over ten weeks.
The program themes will emphasise:
· Contemporary Greek food
· Regional Greek food traditions
· Iconic Greek beverages
Over the ten weeks of the Festival the program will feature:
5 x Restaurant dinners
1 x Premium Greek wine tasting
1 x Ouzo tasting event
1 x Greek food trivia night
1 x Food tour of Oakleigh
The five restaurant dinners will be the flagship events for the Festival and will take place on a fortnightly basis.
Two of the restaurant dinners will address contemporary Greek food and three will focus in on a particular regional food tradition (Crete, Messinia and Constantinople).
The restaurants we are working with for Flavours of Greece are:
Hellenic Republic – Contemporary Cypriot cuisine
Kouzina – contemporary Greek mezedes
Philhellene – Traditional Cretan cuisine
Stalactites – Traditional Messinian cuisine
Salona – Traditional cuisine of Constantinople
A ouzo tasting with matched mezedes will also be organised at Alpha Ouzeri.
Event dates
The event dates are as follows:
Wed. May 19: Cretan dinner @ Philhellene, Moonee Ponds
Tues June 1: Ouzo and mezedes @ Alpha Ouzeri, Fitzroy
Sat June 5: Wine tasting @ Europa Cellars, East Melbourne
Sat June 19: The Sweet Greek Hellenic Food Tour
Tues June 15: Mezedes @ Kouzina Doncaster
Tues June 22: Greek food trivia night @ Pan Laconian Hall, Brunswick (venue tbc)
Tues June 29: The food of Constantinople dinner @ Salona, Richmond
Tues July 13: Messinian dinner @ Stalactites, Melbourne
Tues July 27: Contemporary Cypriot dinner @ Hellenic Republic, East Brunswick
Click here to book for The Sweet Greek Hellenic food tour!
For more festival info, check out www.antipodesfestival.com.au/flavours_of_greece
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Comment by Rosemary & Allan Tait — June 20, 2010 @ 12:04 pm
“Thank you both for a very interesting and most enjoyable tour today.
We thoroughly enjoyed all of it. All the best with expanding the business!
Take care.
Rosemary and Alan”