admin April 3rd, 2010
Restaurateurs eat out too! 
At Baguette we welcome the Brisbane City Council’s initiative to introduce the Eat Safe system, which will rate restaurants, cafes, takeaways and bakeries’ food hygiene.
Council inspectors already regularly check businesses where food is prepared, but this new system will be more transparent because restaurants etc will be encouraged to display their rating to the public.
I do, however, have some concerns about how the 5 star rating system will be understood by the general public. Continue Reading »
admin March 19th, 2010
This week our head chef, Graham Waddell, put together a 6 course duck dinner for a packed restauran tof 93 people at Baguette — and pulled it off splendidly. He used (every bit) of the excellent duck we get from organic grower Bendele Farm, outside Gympie. The menu:
* Duck liver parfait on apple galette, date confit * Soft boiled duck egg, tarragon brioche & white asparagus soldiers * Duck consomme with asian flavours, artichoke tortollini * Confit duck leg, crisp potato mille-feuille, veloute of wild mushrooms * Pan roasted duck breast with giblet & fig pie, cinnamon sauce * Pear & duck egg clafoutis with brown bread ice-cream
WINES
The food was team with some very interesting wines made in France by a group of Australian and French winemakers … for the Australian market. Fascinating idea and highly successful, if comments on the night are anything to go by. The project put together by Fosters is called Maison de Grand Esprit (loosely “a meeting of the minds”). Ask for them at your independent bottle shop — they go under La Belle Voisine, Les Petites Vignettes and Les Seize Galets labels.
admin October 17th, 2009
In this Weekend’ Australian newspaper, Graeme Blundell writes: ‘…when many of us are tired of poncy, expensive restaurants, the lionisation of self-indulgent food critics and esoteric cooking that has lost its attachment to a living culture. We want satisfying platefuls of good ingredients, cooked well, and value for money.’ Amen to that!
