Arnold
Lara MFeastability Food Festival Newtown
September 26th 2006 06:46
I decided to approach this festival with an open mind, despite Cibby’s comment that last year’s effort was poor. ( http://www.foodherald.com/feastability-and-brazilian-food-festival/ ) It was a warm summery day, with a hot, blustery wind and the venue, Newtown Performing Arts High school was decorated colourfully. When I arrived I decided to pace myself and sample a range of what the stall holders had to offer.
To my disappointment there were very few samples of anything anyway, it mostly just vendors selling whole plates of food. There was some delicious bread and muffin samples from Common Ground and some nougat from the place next door. However one place that was selling some healthy Himalayan vitamin drink was actually selling samples that you could try before you then bought the actually bottle.
Of the food stalls there was not a great deal of variety and we spent a very long time wandering around trying to decide what was worth eating- something you should not really be doing at a food festival. The Union Hotel’s stall looked like the pick of the bunch with a few delectable looking gourmet dishes. However much to our dismay they actually sold out of everything but pavlova just as we got there and so we had to continue on.
There were few other places that looked ok, but the majority of them were over priced and there were so few decent places that the lines for them were horrible. Eventually I settled on the “spinach cooked in peanut butter, onions, olive oil, fresh coriander, garlic and tomatoes” from African Feeling which came with rice for $7.50 and was a bit bland. My friend lined up for ages to pay way too much for a small number of prawns, some plain olives and breadroll. I also had some grass jelly from Rice Paper which looked like frogs eggs and was actually quite refreshing.
The was also a range of local and national wines available by the glass and this made up a strong component of the festival. I’m not a big wine connoisseur but my friend had at least two glasses of red and a glass of sangria and she wasn’t that impressed with these either.
So all in all it was a bit mediocre I’m afraid! Cibby was right!
Of the food stalls there was not a great deal of variety and we spent a very long time wandering around trying to decide what was worth eating- something you should not really be doing at a food festival. The Union Hotel’s stall looked like the pick of the bunch with a few delectable looking gourmet dishes. However much to our dismay they actually sold out of everything but pavlova just as we got there and so we had to continue on.
There were few other places that looked ok, but the majority of them were over priced and there were so few decent places that the lines for them were horrible. Eventually I settled on the “spinach cooked in peanut butter, onions, olive oil, fresh coriander, garlic and tomatoes” from African Feeling which came with rice for $7.50 and was a bit bland. My friend lined up for ages to pay way too much for a small number of prawns, some plain olives and breadroll. I also had some grass jelly from Rice Paper which looked like frogs eggs and was actually quite refreshing.
The was also a range of local and national wines available by the glass and this made up a strong component of the festival. I’m not a big wine connoisseur but my friend had at least two glasses of red and a glass of sangria and she wasn’t that impressed with these either.
So all in all it was a bit mediocre I’m afraid! Cibby was right!
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