Regional Flavours' Online Directory Is Your Handy New Way to Support Local Culinary Businesses
With this year's festival cancelled due to wet weather, the event has set up an online directory so you can shop at and support the businesses and talent who were meant to take part.
"It's been raining for so long" isn't just a lyric from an 80s hit by Australian-New Zealand rockers Dragon. It's also how Brisbanites feel about 2022 so far. And, just last weekend, that wet weather spelled the end for this year's Regional Flavours festival — but the event still wants you to show some love to all the local culinary folks who were set to take part.
While Regional Flavours' hefty lineup of food and drink businesses — and star chefs and other figures in the industry — weren't able to converge upon South Bank between Friday, May 13–Sunday, May 15, they are all being thrust into the spotlight via the fest's new online directory. Available via the event's website, it's designed to help you shop at and support the stores, stalls, eateries and talent you would've been enjoying if things hadn't gotten soggy, cancelling the fest at the last minute.
In total, 62 vendors who'd prepared for the event are featured, as well as 25 chefs and musicians who were slated to perform or present. The site links you through to their online stores or websites, acting as a handy portal to a heap of Brisbane talent.
Here, you'll find musicians selling merch; links through to chefs such as Ben Williamson from Agnes, Phil Marchant from Essa, Louis Tikaram from Stanley and Katrina Ryan from Golden Pig Restaurant and Cooking School; and plenty of food and booze options.
Hankering for brews, gin, Portuguese custard tarts, pastries, cheese, gnocchi and vino? Thanks to listings for everywhere from Easy Times Brewing Co, Winston Quinn Gin and Lisboa Caffe to German Bakehouse, Bunya Cheese, Gnocchi Gnocchi Brothers and Sirromet Winery, you have choices.
It's been a rough few years for the hospitality and entertainment industries in Queensland, not only due to 2022's chaotic weather but also the pandemic, so helping local producers and musos out is a particularly worthy cause.
To check out the Regional Flavours directory, head to the event's website.
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