Capital Country Truffle Festival
If two dogs are twice as good, here's two festivals!

Two great truffle festivals in 2010

Capital Country and Central Ranges

Given the success of the Capital Country (that's Canberra and Highlands region) festival in 2009, we're doing it again in 2010. However, the growers in the Orange and Bathurst area felt a little left out, so they've asked us to assemble the same kind of event for them. So the Central Ranges Truffle Festival will be launched in 2010. There's the same kind of events but with it's own 'out West' flavour.

We'll start both Festivals with events on the weekend closest to the Winter solstice (you can add that to your permanent event calendar) and this year that's on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 June 2010. And again the Festival will continue until the season finishes and there are no more truffles. As we explained, these festivals are about promoting the local truffles, a living produce that depend on seasonal conditions for how long they grow. You can't always find them and they need frost to ripen (2009 was a warmer winter and we waited anxiously for those cold days). We harvested the first really good ones just before the Festival started (Phew!) and they continued until early August.


We'll be completely updating the website but please have a look around our old one. It was a great Festival. And we've now got lots of bits of video, photos and recipes to show you soon. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or comments for this year. It's going to be even bigger!

 

We'll keep some of these website items for a while so you get a feel of what a great time we've had. Here's a dish that chef Jan Gundlach from Senso said was his Festival favourite. (We can give you an exclusive advance notice that there will be a Truffle Long Brunch at Senso on Sunday 20 June.)




Shave more truffle


Capital Region Chefs shaving truffle on everything
Everyone was doing it, at least where we were eating (but I admit we're regionally biased). Not only was there truffle in the dishes, a lot of truffle was going on the dishes to add that certain something. We thought you'd like to see what our sponsor restaurants and cafés had on the menu. These are single PDF pages that you can print or download.

Anise Truffle Degustation
Cello Cuisine at Shaws Vineyard.
Crisps Lane Café at Yass Wines
Grazing at Gundaroo
Lark Hill Truffle Lunch
Lambert Vineyards Restaurant
Le Très Bon Cooking class
Pulp-Kitchen Truffle Night
Kitchen Cabinet/Cafe in the House
Fancy a Wig & Pen truffled ale with that?
Manuka Fine Foods


And there's some pictures of our other events at
e.u café cooking class and truffle dinner
Senso Culinary Studio Master Classes
Senso Culinary Studio Chefs information day
Lerida Estate lectures
Yarrh Wines Winter Solstice Bonfire
Capital Region Farmers Market and the Truffle Hunts
Truffle Science? And Native Truffles talk
Growers Forum ( and sniffing panel)
Great Highland Truffle Hunt - Centennial Vineyards Bowral

and some images of our lovely special guest Dominique Rizzo

There's more pictures coming.

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Don't stop, the truffle season continues!



The next degustation lunch that's not to be missed is at Lark Hill Vineyard Restaurant in the hills above Bungendore. Chef Jamie McGahey and winemakers Dave, Sue & Chris Carpenter invite you to a Truffle Celebration Lunch on Saturday July 18  - 12pm. See the menu (think truffles with lots of fresh bio-dynamic ingredients in the Lark Hill style). See their website for more. 

Eat your brie


Chef Christian Hauberg is holding the last of his Wednesday night degustation dinners on 15 July.
We went to dinner last week and boy, do you know you've had truffle. You'll see his menu here, but the image at left is the Brique d'Argental cheese with lots of the black stuff grated on top and left overnight to infuse. Aaah!


Where to taste truffles
See the where to eat list and we recommend that you book or at least ring ahead. Please.

 

 

The first weekend.

We did a press release with some pictures about the events of our first weekend. Have a look.

 

    

The story of Truffles

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    Some of our Events


    There were truffle dishes at

    Cello Cuisine at Shaws Vineyard.
    Crisps Lane Cafe at Yass Wines
    Grazing at Gundaroo
    Lamberts Vineyards
    Senso Truffle Lunch
    Anise
    Le Très Bon
    e.u cafe

    Cafe in the House