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National News> April 2008
FISH & GAME NZ WILD GAME BIRD FOOD FESTIVAL 2008
Saturday 3rd to Saturday 31st MAY
Go to here to read each restaurant’s menu in this year’s festival.
The unique Fish & Game NZ Wild Game Bird Food Festival has brought phrases such as duck prosciutto, whole foie gras, pheasant confit and semiboneless quail into New Zealand’s cuisine vocabulary.
This year the festival will further extend New Zealanders’ taste buds with several new restaurants entering the festival’s exclusive regional lineup - continuing its celebration of wild game birds as a new element of the country’s expanding cuisine and wine reputation.
Each of the 17 restaurants participating - one for each regional city throughout the country – creates a special wild game bird menu, based on several of the game birds on the hunting list and selects wine matches for the different dishes.
The game birds on this year’s hunting list are: Canada Goose, Grey Duck, Mallard Duck, Paradise Shelduck, Californian Quail, Cock Pheasant, Black swan, Chukar and Pukeko. The restaurant may select only one or several of these gamebirds for their 'special menu.'
Hunters bring their bagged wild game birds – dressed to the restaurant’s specifications - to their chosen restaurant a minimum of 24 hours before their dinner booking for the dish selected from its menu.
It is illegal for restaurants to sell wild game birds, but they can charge for the service involved in cooking them, and so each restaurant will take 15% (on average) off the price of each dish for the provision of the wild game bird meat.
Last year game bird hunters ‘flocked’ to the restaurants, bringing friends, family and colleagues to experience a wonderful cuisine occasion in which they could also celebrate their hunting prowess.
At the festival’s conclusion each restaurant offers a dinner prize for two is offered with these drawn by Fish & Game NZ from the game bird licences bought in each region.
The game bird hunting season starts the first weekend of May each year, and this year the festival will run from Sunday 7 May to Sunday 27 May.
The game birds on this year’s hunting list are: Canada Goose, Grey Duck, Mallard Duck, Paradise Shelduck, Californian Quail, Cock Pheasant, Black swan, Chukar and Pukeko.
Fish & Game NZ Public Awareness Advisor Shonagh Lindsay says the festival has become a traditional event, welcomed as a great start to the winter season and a unique opportunity for New Zealanders to taste and appreciate wild game birds prepared in a variety of exclusive dishes by the country’s top chefs.
à Deco
Whangarei
70 Kamo Rd
Kensington, Whangarei
Chef/owner Brenton Low
PH 021 2699 444
a_deco@xtra.co.nz
Canvas
Waikato Art Museum
1 Grantham St
Hamilton
Chef/owners David & Lisa Kerr
WK PH 07 839 2535
dave@canvas.net.nz
Cazador
854 Dominion Rd,
Mt Eden, Auckland
Owners/chef: Tony & Daruish Lolaiy
PH 09 620 8730
dlolaiy@gmail.com
Bistro 1284
1284 Eruera St
Rotorua
Owner: Gillian Webber
PH 07 346 1284
bistro1284@xtra.co.nz
www.bistro1284.co.nz
Mortons Winery Restaurant
2389 State Highway 2, RD2 Katikati, New Zealand
restaurant@mortonestatewines.co.nz
Akld office 09 300 5053
Marketing Manager Fiona McDiamond
027 4934 017 fionam@wineportfolio.co.nz
Craggy Range Winery’s Terróir Restaurant
253 Waimarama Rd, Havelock North
Hawkes Bay
Executive Chef: Stephen Tindall
PH 06 873 7126 or 027 607 7822
stephen.tindall@craggyrange.com
www.craggyrange.com
Nero’s Cafe/ Bar
Owners/chefs Scott & Yvette Kennedey
36 Amesbury Street
Palmerston North
PH 06 354 0312
www.cafenero.co.nz
Matinee Café & Tapas Bar/ Restuarant
Owner Sashil Dayal Chef Chris Welham
67 Devon St West
New Plymouth Central
06-759 2099
matinee@xtra.co.nz
Gusto Bar/ Restaurant
Owner Rowan Cambie Chef Jaimee McMannaway
Ocean View Parade
New Plymouth Central
PH 06 759 8133
gustotaranaki@xtra.co.nz
Hope Bros & Restaurant & Bar
Cnr Dixon & Eva Streets
Wellington
Head chef Sarah Kymbrekos
PH 04 801 7126
info@hopebros.co.nz
Le Monde Restaurant
64 The Bay Hill
Timaru
Owner/Chef Lindsay Bennett
Ph 03 6888 550
Bennetts4@xtra.co.nz
Bacchus
3 Main St
Blenheim
Owner/Chef Marcel Rood
PH 03 578 8099
021 188 4173
High Tide Restaurant
29 Kitchener St
Dunedin
Owner/Chef Mark Lane
marklane@es.co.nz
03 477 9784
Saltwater Café & Bar
272 Wakefield Quay
Nelson
Owner: Vivian Fox Chef: Manfred Dax
PH 03 548 3361
saltwatercafe@xtra.co.nz
Cook’n with Gas
Christchurch
23 Worcester Boulevard
Christchurch
Owner: Bruce Griffith Head Chef: Courtenary Rotherham
PH 03-377 9166
Fax: 03-377 9106
cookin.christchurch@gmail.com
Café de Paris
Hokitika
19 Tancred St, Hokitika
Owners: Pierre & Joy Esquilat Head chef: Terry Essen
PH: 03-755 8933
cafe-de-paris@xtra.co.nz
Louie’s Café & Tapas Bar
Invercargill
142 Dee St
Owner: Manu Head Chef: Terry Goldsmith
PH 03 214 2913
Terry_kiwi@xtra.co.nz
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Shonagh Lindsay
Public Awareness Advisor
Fish & Game NZ
PH + 64 9 849 3994
Fax + 64 9 849 3996
Mb 027 273 0939
slindsay@fishandgame.org.nz
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