Thanks to the Citibank Dining Program, a great supporter of the food and wine industry, including many great foodie events around Australia, for coming on board as the Eat Drink Blog Pop-Up Dinner Venue Sponsor.
We are excited to present to delegates some of Perth’s best food stalls and food trucks.
Marcelita’s Empanadas is the culinary love child of Matt & Marcela O’Donohue Valencia, born from a love a great food and a desire to bring something new to the people of Perth. Matt is a blogger turned cook and Marcela is the love of his life.
Marcelita’s serves traditional Colombian Empanadas, they are little pillows of crunchy deliciousness which are gluten free and use high quality ingredients. Their empanadas are made fresh to order with a team of empanadistas hand rolling and shaping the masa (dough), filled with typical Colombian flavours of shredded beef, cumin, smoked paprika, and coriander, and new inventions like pork and lime. They bring a little love in each bite.
Owner Gabriele Nicotra and partner Stephanie Chapman specialise in Roman style pizza where the base takes pride of place. Old Lira use fresh, hand-stretched sourdough bases and simple combinations of quality ingredients to create delicious light and crisp pizzas.
They started on the market circuit around Perth and now have their own shop on the corner of Guildford Road and Garret Road in Bayswater.
Butty’s is an American style food truck which prides itself in real, not mass produced food, specializing in American style burgers and ribs. Butty’s serves freshly grilled burgers in a soft butter milk buns with Butty’s secret BBQ sauce, Kansas City-style slow-braised beef ribs and cheesy fries.
Chef Tam Nguyen has won medals at several Culinary Olympics run by the World Association of Chefs Societies.
Jumplings will be bringing their new food van to serve their popular Japanese dumplings (aka Jumplings!) in a variety of flavours including duck, chicken and mushrooms with tofu – freshly steamed and then pan-fried to order, served with udon in a light broth and doused in specially made ponzu sauce and mum’s chilli.
Roy is a devoted foodie and took a year to perfect his pasta-like dumpling pastry which uses a mix of five different flours and sources local ingredient for the fillings.
Delish Ice, headed up by Katie Earl (the Pop Girl), is Perth’s premium ice pop experience with vintage vibes, swingin’ tunes, dishy dames and delicious artisan ice pops served in a classic 1950s caravan.
The ice pops are full of fun and flavour, using real fruit and quality ingredients to make every delegates night extra nice with a sweet treat.
Bangkok Jump Street is new on the Perth food scene, bringing traditional Thai street food with true flavours and hidden textures which are less seen in modern Thai restaurants.
Bangkok Jump Street was created from a group of young multicultural friends, who are full senses of unstoppable creativity and experiment, and invite delegates into their local culture of Thai street food eating with their signature dishes, presented in their own way with dishes like prawn pad thai with crispy wonton skin and Jump Street’s Pork crackling salad.
Street food would not be complete without a refreshing drink and our sponsor Jax Coco is launching their pure micro-filtered coconut water in Australia and delegates will be one of the first to taste it.
Jax Coco drinks are full of essential electrolytes, low in calories, low in sugar and with zero fat. Inspired by the crisp coconut water that it champions, Jax Coco provides their coconut water in tasteful minimalistic design that makes it an easy go-to drink.
Eat Drink Blog 4 in Perth coincides with WA Beer week and we are thrilled to have Eagle Bay Brewing as our craft beer sponsors giving delegates a taste of our locally brewed beer.
The journey of Eagle Bay Brewing Co. began thanks to third generation farming siblings Nick, Astrid and Adrian d’Espeissis and their love of great food, wine, freshly brewed beer and growing up by the Indian Ocean.
Eagle Bay Brewing Co. houses a microbrewery and restaurant located on the family farm in Eagle Bay, Western Australia. Rainwater is harvested for their beers which are handcrafted and brewed in small batches, and made with only four quality ingredients; rainwater, malted barley, yeast and hops sourced from around the globe to produce full flavoured and freshly brewed beer.
The weather has been very kind to us and we will be experiencing perfect cider weather for Eat Drink Blog and purveyors of fine Australian beverages Custard & Co are our cider sponsor bringing to delegates their new range (and newly labeled!) ciders for the summer.
Their cider is crafted in Donnybrook, in the beautiful South West using 100% local fruit from their 35 acres of organic orchard. Careful processes are used with everything done by hand to provide the best drink possible with a motto of treating all their products like each other…with a lot of love.
There are minimal preservatives in their ciders with a caustic free brewery, keeping them as natural as possible to give delegates the best tasting cider going around.
We are also proud to have Galafrey Wines, a family-owned business from Mount Baker as our wine sponsor. All their wines are dry grown, nurtured and bottled on the estate. Established by Ian Tyrer (1946-2003) in 1977, Galafrey has continued to prosper under the management of mother and daughter team, Linda and Kim Tyrer, who maintain a hands-on role to ensure that the Galafrey philosophy lives on. That is to strive for excellence in producing small parcels of distinctive and consistently exceptional wines through commitment to producing fruit of the highest quality which we believe is the key to great winemaking.
Big thanks to all our Eat Drink Blog Pop-Up Dinner sponsors.
We look forward to eating, drinking and snapping with delegates!
]]>European Foods are also kindly sponsoring the stage at the Perth City Farm so that our speakers can be seen and heard even if the delegates can’t stop eating during a session…
Situated in the heart of Northbridge in the city, European Foods are proudly W.A. family owned and operated – importing, manufacturing and distributing specialty foods, beverages, liquor and catering equipment from Europe and around the world to the retail and hospitality industries in Australia.
They carry thousands of products, which are constantly updated to keep abreast of the food industry’s ever-changing palate.
European Foods opened The Re Store in 1936 which was Perth’s first retailer of continental foods in and is still the go to place in Perth for Italian deli goods and fresh made to order rolls. It has been the centre of Perth’s Italian community for over 60 years and also offers a huge range of imported wines, liqueurs and grappa.
We thank European Foods for feeding delegates and making sure we have a stage, AV, projector and all the bells and whistles to run the stage for the conference at Eat Drink Blog.
Here’s a small selection of some of the amazing work European Foods do at their functions to whet your appetites.
This year we are excited to announce that we will be exhibiting photos from the 12 finalists chosen by the judges at the conference venue – the Exhibition Space at Perth City Farm during Eat Drink Blog 4 in Perth.
These 12 finalists will also be the ones that will go up for the publicly voted Community Award.
Does your photography has what it takes to be blown up, printed and displayed for all to see?
Thanks to Australian Pears for sponsoring the Eat Drink Blog 4 photography exhibition.
Prizes
Thanks to IMPACT Communications for coming on board again this year, KitchenAid and Nestlé as sponsors for prizes for the photography competition.
(1) IMPACT Photography Award – The winner will receive a $1000 Visa gift card sponsored by Impact Communications
(2) IMPACT Communications and KitchenAid Community Award (public voted) – The winner will receive a KitchenAid artisan stand mixer valued at $655 sponsored by KitchenAid.
(3) Nescafé Dolce Gusto Runner Up – Will receive a Nescafé Dolce Gusto coffee machine valued at $149 sponsored by Nestlé.
Judges
Entries will be judged by an esteemed panel consisting of Jessica Shaver (photographer), Seng Mah (photographer) and Kate Olsson (winner of last year’s IMPACT Award).
Entry Conditions
This competition is open to ALL Australian food and drink bloggers, not just conference delegates.
Limit of three (3) photographs per blog with food or food culture a prominent component, if not the main subject of the photograph to Eat Drink Blog’s Flickr Group
Photographs must have been featured in a blog post published between the dates of 1 January 2013 and 29 September 2013.
All entrants must email [email protected] with the entrant’s name, email address, name of blog and website address, social media ID and link to photograph(s) on Flickr to be eligible for entry.
Entries must be submitted by 20.00 (ACST) on Sunday 29th September 2013
Before entering, check the photography competition terms and conditions page to check your eligibility, full terms and conditions, details of prizes and bios of our judging panel.
]]>Delegates will get a choice to participate in one of the activities.
When delegates have their registration confirmed, a separate email will be sent out to select a Sunday activity.
We are excited to reveal that the second activity delegates will get to choose from is a mushroom farm tour and hands on cooking challenge thanks to Australian Mushroom Growers.
Australian Mushroom Growers are hosting a rare opportunity for bloggers to indulge their senses and inspire creative talent with mushrooms.
Have you ever wondered what makes mushrooms so special and how growers produce this fascinating and versatile ingredient all year round?
Here is your chance to discover how it is done. The magic of mushrooms will come alive as you tour Crown Mushrooms in Wanneroo in the morning, followed by a hands on team challenge to prepare a mushroom feast for lunch in the training kitchen facilities in the neighbouring West Coast Institute of Training.
This promises to be a fascinating and delicious culinary adventure.
Thanks to Australian Mushroom Growers for coming on board and sponsoring a Sunday activity for Eat Drink Blog 4!
There is one more Sunday activity to be announced.
We have already announced a Mastering French Pastries with Emmanuel Mollois.
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]]>Delegates will get a choice to participate in one of the activities.
When delegates have their registration confirmed, a separate email will be sent out to select a Sunday activity.
We are excited to reveal that the first activity delegates will get to choose from is a fun, interactive pastry cooking class with celebrated French pâtissier, Emmanuel Mollois.
Emmanuel was born in France’s Loire Valley and grew up in Vendée. At 15 he wanted to become a cartoonist but his father had better ideas and sent him to his uncle (a food caterer), where Emmanuel’s passion for eating became a passion for cooking.
After completing a cooking apprenticeship, Emmanuel worked his way up through various restaurants in regional France until he decided to move to Paris. After five years working in highly-rated gourmet restaurants specializing in pastry making, he and partner Gordana decided to travel the world. Melbourne, Australia was their first stop and even though Emmanuel couldn’t speak a word of English, he was soon working at La Brasserie, South Yarra followed by The Willows in St Kilda.
After two years he crossed the Nullarbor to try the Perth lifestyle and has never looked back. As head pastry chef at The Loose Box in Mundaring he won numerous awards. In 2000 he created the award-winning Le Paris Brest Patisserie Francaise in Perth’s hills before deciding to move closer to the ocean. From 2003 until 2012 he owned and ran the Choux Café patisserie in Swanbourne — crowned ‘best in the west’ by Perth’s Sunday Times. In 2012, Emmanuel joined with his long-time friend (and owner of The Loose Box) Alain Fabregues to open Bistro des Artistes, an authentic French bistro in Subiaco.
Emmanuel has been a regular TV guest on Poh’s Kitchen and Ready Steady Cook. Lovers of pastries and desserts can master the art of French baking with Emmanuel !
Thanks to UWA Publishing for coming on board and sponsoring a Sunday activity for Eat Drink Blog 4!
There are two more Sunday activities to be announced.
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]]>- This event is entirely FREE to attend. There are no registration or attendance fees.
- There are 80 seats available.
- Delegates are responsible for their own flights, accommodation, transfers and expenses.
We have put in place some criteria in order to make this process as fair as possible, so here are the rules:
- You are an Australian food blogger, that is, either a food blogger living in Australia or an Australian food blogger living abroad.
- Your blog must be at least twelve (12) months old.
- You must have published a minimum of 25 posts.
- You are not a commercial blogger i.e. those blogging only for money or as part of their job, for example, a chef blogging for a restaurant or staff blogging for a brand.
- We are looking for a cross-section of bloggers covering food, wine, drinks, home cooking, restaurant reviewing, and food discussion.
- Due to space restrictions there is a strict limit of one person attending per blog.
Complete the online registration form to apply for a place at Eat Drink Blog 4. Registrations close on Monday 2 September at Midnight (ACST) so make sure you apply before then.
Please note that filling in this form does not guarantee you a place due to limited seating. All applicants will receive an email confirming the status of their application by Friday 6 September.
In the Event of Over-Subscription
If Eat Drink Blog 2013 becomes over-subscribed – that is, we receive more registrations than we have places to offer, the Eat Drink Blog 2013 Organising Committee will use our discretion to allot conference places to a selection of blogs representative of the current Australia food blogging sphere. Our criteria for this will include:
• Quality and frequency of posts;
• Demonstrated commitment by the blogger to extending and improving their skills; • Ongoing, active engagement in social media; and
• Support and promotion of fellow food bloggers and the wider food blogging community in general.
Unfortunately oversubscription will mean that some applicants are disappointed. While we regret this outcome, the committee’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
]]>Five Senses is a family owned coffee roasting company started in Perth, Western Australia, who are dedicated to sourcing spectacular seasonal coffee from all around the world. They have built up relationships with farmers and cooperatives over the years where they are actively trying to make a difference in the quality of the coffee being grown, and the quality of life of the people growing it.
They have long been at the forefront of the specialty coffee scene in Australia, both in terms of sourcing excellent beans, and also training baristas to excel in their craft. A recent expansion to a roastery and training centre in Melbourne means they’ve got the East and West coast covered with great beans, and great people.
Five Senses will also be presenting an interactive coffee workshop where delegates will get to expand their knowledge of coffee, learning about cutting edge brewing techniques to get the most out of high quality beans.
Thanks to Fives Senses for coming on board and sponsoring coffee for Eat Drink Blog 4 !
We are very excited about hosting Eat Drink Blog 4. Thanks to the organisers of Eat Drink Blog 3 for putting on a fantastic conference last year in Adelaide and giving us the opportunity this year to take the conference West!
The fourth national Australian Food and Drink Bloggers Conference, Eat Drink Blog, will take place over the weekend of 9-10 November 2013 in Perth, Western Australia with Saturday comprising a full day of talks, discussions and seminars; and on Sunday bloggers will participate in different food and drink workshops.
We are thrilled to have the Exhibition Space at Perth City Farm as the conference venue at on Saturday 9 November with the support of Brownes as the venue sponsor.
We are delighted to have award winning Perth bakery Jean Pierre Sancho on board who will be sponsoring the conference breakfast on Saturday and Brownes will be providing a yoghurt bar.
More information on the Sunday food and drink workshops, sponsors and details of the conference program will be announced soon.
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