An impressive business lunch location and a foodie haunt by night, 127 Bar and Bistro is an exciting recent entrant to the flourishing food scene in Brisbane’s CBD. Head Chef Travis Crane will be serving up our delegates a delicious canape selection all evening, followed by the absolute highlight of the night that will have us lining up with spoons ready – a four metre long, flaming mega-dessert buffet!
UPDATE!!! Here is a SNEAK PEEK of the canapes that will be served up:
- Wagyu fat scone, bresaola, horseradish cultured butter
- Redclaw yabby, avocado, wasabi, rice wafer
- Masterstock hen egg, kimchi
- Spiced chickpea fondant
We are very excited, and thank 127 Bar & Bistro for being involved as our Eat Drink Blog dinner sponsor!
In liquid news, our delegates will be served a welcome drink from Sofi! Sofi Spritz is a traditional style mediterranean white wine spritzer made here in Australia. A riesling grape base and tart blood orange apertif delicately balance sugar, spice, and everything nice. Sofi is light, bubbly and refreshing!
Wines of the evening will be supplied by our wine sponsor De Bortoli Wines. De Bortoli Wines is a third generation family wine company established by Vittorio and Giuseppina De Bortoli in 1928. The couple emigrated to Australia from Northern Italy, from mountain villages at the foothills of the Italian Alps, near the historic town of Asolo. Italian family values passed down from Vittorio remain core values, there is a culture of hard work, generosity of spirit and of sharing good food, good wine and good times with family and friends. De Bortoli have vineyards located in the NSW Riverina and Hunter Valley regions, and the Yarra Valley in Victoria.
We thank all of our Eat Drink Blog 5 Conference dinner sponsors, and we look forward to eating, drinking and being merry with our delegates!
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We are so pleased to finally be able to announce our third Sunday activity option to be held in James Street, Fortitude Valley in conjunction with Bee One Third Neighbourhood Honey, James St and Gerard’s Bar.
Join neighbourhood honey pioneer, Jack Wilson Stone of Bee One Third on an urban rooftop hive tour of the James Street apiary followed by a honey-infused morning tea and honey tasting at Gerard’s Bar.
Delegates will be taken on an exciting expedition to the roof-top of James Street to tour Brisbane’s first legitimate rooftop apiary and journey through the fascinating ‘secret life of bees.’
You will then be treated by the awarding winning Gerard’s team with a morning tea created using the deliciously sweet harvest of the James Street hives.
Check out more on Bee One Third and Gerard’s Bar at their respective websites.
Delegates will be emailed shortly regarding their preferences for Sunday activities!
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We are continuing on with the tradition of the Eat Drink Blog Writing Competition this year in Brisbane, and have some great prizes lined up!
This competition is only open to Australian food and drink bloggers that meet the criteria.
This year entrants can submit an original piece of published blog writing that must be no more than 1000 words on any food related subject. It could be on a food travelling experience, a restaurant review, the headnote for a recipe, a story or article on an aspect of food that is interesting or exciting to you!
Note: If the entry features a recipe, the story supporting the recipe will be judged, not the recipe itself so the ingredients and methodology are not included in the word count.
Entries for the competition will be based on blog posts published within the last six months, up to and including the closing date, between 3 February 2014 – 15 August 2014.
All entries must be submitted via email to: [email protected] with the full name of the author, name of the blog, email address, social media ID, a link to blog post and attach a PDF copy of the text only, no images.
Please check the full set of terms and conditions before entering.
Entries must be submitted by 5pm AEST on Friday 15 August 2014.
Extended Until 5pm AEST Monday 25th August 2014!
Prizes
First Prize
Nescafe Dolce Gusto coffee machine (RRP $229) and prizes worth $200 (Scizza; 12” Clongs; Garject; Chobs; Mini Supoon; Chopula; Supoon; Smood and Jots) courtesy of Dreamfarm.
Second Prize
Prizes worth $150 (Mini Supoon; Supoon; Garject; Chopula; Smood; 12” Clongs and a Tapi) courtesy of Dreamfarm.
Third Prize
Prizes worth $100 (Teafu; Supoon; Garject Lite; Chobs and Smood) courtesy of Dreamfarm.
About our sponsors
NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® was the first capsule system available in Australia to make a range of hot and cold beverages. Made by Nestlé and DéLonghi – the MINI ME, PICCOLINI, GENIO, MELODY and CIRCOLO Red machines are equipped with a high pressure pump, delivering up to 15 bars which is similar to the pressure used in cafés.
Beverages in the capsule range include Americano, Cappuccino, Skinny Cappuccino, Latte Macchiato, Café Au Lait, Espresso Ristretto, Espresso Decaf, Espresso Intenso, Hot Chocolate, Caramel Latte Macchiato, Chai Tea Latte, NESTEA Ice Peach Tea and Cappuccino Ice, and Mocha.
The stylish CIRCOLO comes with the Play & Select wheel. This means simply turning the selection wheel to your desired setting. With the push of a button the magic begins and in a few seconds the flow stops automatically leaving you with a perfect café-style drink.
NESCAFÉ® Dolce Gusto® capsules can be purchased from major retailers and online at www.dolce-gusto.com.au.
Meet Dreamfarm:
Our Judge:
Nina Stacey is a passionate cook and when not in the kitchen can be found rummaging around providores in Brisbane. Nina’s favourite literary genre is cookbooks and she recently launched The Cookbook Club, a book club focused on reading cookbooks and novels with a food theme. She works for Brisbane Writers Festival.
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A while back, we announced that we were on the unfortunate hunt for a new venue. We are happy to be hunting no more, and can announce our new Saturday conference venue is Wandering Cooks!
Wandering Cooks is located in South Brisbane, very close to Brisbane’s CBD and the South Bank area. It is easily accessible via public transport.
Wandering Cooks is a multi-purpose venue providing resources such as a commercial kitchen and storage space to local foodie entrepreneurs, and a venue for events, trade shows, and pop up restaurants.
It is also the location of our second Sunday activity – a Food Styling Workshop with Brisbane food photographer/stylist Sarah of Emotive Light Photography.
Huge thanks to Wandering Cooks for providing us with our venue. Please head to their Facebook page to give it a “Like”, and check out their website.
We hope to announce our third Sunday Activity option soon, and provide a full program shortly. Stay tuned!
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Damien Condon is the managing director and director of strategy of Brisbane-based communications and digital content agency, Lucid Media. Damien has over twelve years experience in journalism, marketing, public relations and branded content both nationally and internationally.
He has worked with a number of different industries, particularly hospitality in Brisbane, and currently looks after some of Brisbane’s most exciting venues including Alfred & Constance and Kwan Brothers.
We are very pleased to have Damien on board for Eat Drink Blog 5.
Claire Davie has been writing her blog Melbourne Gastronome since 2007, and spoke at the first Eat Drink Blog conference in 2010 in Melbourne. While she doesn’t update Melbourne Gastronome these days as often as she would like, the blog has had nearly 2 million visitors since its inception.
She works full time in the legal profession and dabbles in occasional freelance food and travel writing and reviewing, for publishers that include the Guardian, Hardie Grant’s Cooked website, the Deck of Secrets and Fairfax.
As a blogger and lawyer with consumer law expertise, she is passionate and opinionated about the legalities and ethics that surround blogging.
Her heritage is Anglo and Italian, and she absolutely despises pineapple on pizza.
A great big thanks to Claire for speaking at Eat Drink Blog 5!
A full program will be announced very shortly…. follow us on Facebook and Twitter
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Responsible for introducing Queensland to its first espresso machine in the 1950s, and for changing Brisbane’s sidewalk dining laws in 1993, Merlo has been at the forefront of the country’s coffee revolution and is the perfect partner to represent the dynamic Australian coffee scene. Voted Australia’s favourite coffee again in 2014 at the I Love Food Awards, this coffee brand is true to the very essence of coffee and its origins.
In February Merlo marked another major milestone in what is already a history indelibly intertwined in Queensland’s culinary coming of age – the Merlo team welcomed their newest arrivals in a brand new Brambati Roaster direct from Italy, and a custom-designed Cupping Room, dedicated to sampling single-origin beans. It’s one of the only of its types in the city and a room designed to appreciate coffee.
Coffee is in the Merlo family DNA. Grandfather Luigi Merlo operated a trattoria next to a bocce court in his home town of Tirano in Italy. His son Gino was a budding adventurer and when he migrated to Australia in the 1950s, he bought with him Queensland’s first Italian espresso machine – in doing so he started Queensland’s coffee revolution.
Today Merlo Coffee has five Torrefaziones, 10 BarMerlos and can be found in over 1000 distinguished cafes and restaurants across Australia.
For more on Merlo, check out their website.
Merlo will be keeping our delegates caffeinated all day! Thanks to Merlo for coming on board as the Eat Drink Blog 5 coffee sponsor.
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Aaron Nathanael Ho, who is known affectionately as Nat to the culinary world, spent his childhood in the kitchen with his grandmother, rolling tangyuan between palms for winter solstice, deep-frying nian gao, baking kueh baulu over charcoal stove, and curling love-letters for Chinese New Year.
When he studied a PhD in English literature at New York, he was exposed to a whole new world of food. He now adjuncts at two universities in Singapore to pay for his food.
The name of his food-and-travel blog – Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow, is transliterated from a colloquial dictum when mothers tell children not to be picky with food. Once in a while, the blog has contributions from his close friends as he believes his blog is a book of memories, eating with people he loves.
Rubbish Eat Rubbish Grow is featured in New York Post and Suria(a Singapore TV channel); and has been nominated for “Asia’s Best Food Blog” by Asia Rooms (2013), and “Best Singapore Food Blog” by Hotel Club (2013), and by Singapore Blog Awards (2012 & 2013).
Please extend a big welcome to Nat!
Massive thanks to Scoot Airlines for their support in bringing Nat to Australia for Eat Drink Blog 5.
Christina is well known to many Australian food and drink bloggers, having been an organiser of Eat Drink Blog 3 in 2012 which was held in her hometown of Adelaide.
She was born in Australia to Chinese parents who both had a great love of both cooking and eating out, which certainly was passed along to Christina. She has also travelled extensively and spent time working overseas in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Christina has a marketing, PR and writing background, and began The Hungry Australian in 2011 upon her return to Adelaide. Her food blog has since led her to many opportunities in writing, recipe development, consulting and photography.
All her blogging efforts have recently culminated in The Hungry Australian being judged both Overall Winner and Best Food Blog at the Best Australian Blogs 2014 competition organised by the Australian Writers’ Centre. The Hungry Australian was also one of five Lifestyle Finalists in the Best Australian Blogs 2013 competition and won the Outstanding Use of Photography Award that same year.
A big welcome aboard to Christina!
Further speakers will be announced soon, as well as sponsors, conference program and Sunday activities so stay tuned….
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Australian food bloggers who are keen to attend the 2014 Eat Drink Blog Conference will be extremely pleased to hear that registrations are now officially open!
This years Australian Food Blogger’s Conference is to be held in Brisbane, on the weekend of 20th -21st September at our venue Studio Thirtyfour in the suburb of Newstead.
- Eat Drink Blog 5, as in previous years, is FREE for all delegates to attend.
- Delegates are responsible for their own flights, accommodation, transfers and expenses.
- There are currently 60 places available.
Food blogging has evolved in recent times and as such, we are looking for a wider variety of bloggers this year. As usual, bloggers who cover food, wine, drinks, coffee, home cooking, restaurant reviewing and food discussion may apply.
We will also be looking for a certain number of applicants who are microbloggers and use other platforms or means of blogging (such as Instagram). You must specify how and where you blog or microblog at the time of application.
- Due to limited places, we must specify that only one person per blog may attend EDB.
Complete the Online Registration Form to apply for a place at Eat Drink Blog 5. Applications close strictly on 20th June 2014, at Midnight, AEST.
Applicants MUST agree to the Eat Drink Blog 2014 Terms and Conditions.
Merely applying to attend Eat Drink Blog 5 does not guarantee you a place. Applications will be reviewed and an email will be sent to all applicants regarding their status by 30th June 2014.
In the event of oversubscription (there are more applications than places being offered), the Eat Drink Blog 2014 Committee will use their discretion to allocate places to a selection which are representative of a variety of blogs and blogging platforms.
This means regretfully some applicants may be disappointed. The committee’s decision regarding applications will be final, and no correspondance will be entered into.
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Hello from the 2014 Eat Drink Blog committee!
We are extremely pleased to announce that the fifth Australian Eat Drink Blog Conference will take place over the weekend of 20th-21st September 2014 in Brisbane, Queensland.
New Venue announced! info here
More information on the program, sponsors, speakers, registration dates and Sunday activities will be announced soon. Stay tuned and make sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest conference updates.
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(photo by Robert Makol Photography)
The Eat Drink Blog 4 (EDB4) organising committee is delighted to announce that the fifth Australian Food and Drinks Bloggers Conference — Eat Drink Blog 5 — will be held in Brisbane, Queensland.
Brisbane has not hosted the conference yet, so we are thrilled to hand over the torch to them and look forward to seeing what they come up with for Eat Drink Blog this year!
At this stage, Eat Drink Blog 5 will be held in September 2014, which is earlier than the previous three years as the international G20 Summit will occur in Brisbane in November.
Eat Drink Blog 5 follows Eat Drink Blog conferences held in Perth (EDB4 in 2013), Adelaide (EDB3 in 2012), Sydney (EDB2 in 2011) and Melbourne (EDB1 in 2010).
The organising committee for Eat Drink Blog 5 is comprised of bloggers from a range of backgrounds and fields of expertise, and will be chaired by Aga from A Matter of Taste. Other confirmed committee members are Anthony from Food Me Up Scotty, Corrie from Brisbane Devoured, Heather from The Love of Food and May King from MayKing Tea.
The organising committee will also have a support team comprising of Fiona from TIFFIN bite sized food adventures, Jess from Brisbane Belly Blogger, Kelly from Eating My Way Through Life, Melissa from Melissa Loh and Jessalyn from Feed Me Now.
“Brisbane is the capital city of Queensland, the Sunshine State. But Brisbane is more than pineapples and sunscreen! It’s a River City, sitting in a bend of the mighty Brisbane River. Flanked by South Bank and Fortitude Valley, Brisbane has a thriving food scene. Farmers Markets, hatted restaurants, bars and clubs as well as food and cultural festivals, subtropical Brisbane has a lot to offer the visiting bon vivant.” says Aga.
Each year Eat Drink Blog is managed by a different organising committee from the host state. Last year’s conference was organised by Ai-Ling from Food Endeavours of the Blue Apocalypse (Chair), Matt from Abstract Gourmet, Bri from Eatmeetswest, David from Food Blarg and Chris from Bon Viveur.
The Eat Drink Blog 4 Committee will be handing over to the new Eat Drink Blog 5 committee over the next couple of weeks.
Any inquiries regarding Eat Drink Blog can be made via email to [email protected]
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