Smoked Trout Salad - Giant Steps Winery AUD19

buxton farm smoked trout salad with witlof, red radish, pickled cucumber

 

The smoked trout was very moist, yet firm. I liked the licorice flavour of the Thai basil and the cooling cucumber. The red radish was very finely julienne to the point of losing textural integrity, but the bitter tones from it and the witlof was a nice contrast to the mild rice vinegar sweetened possibly with palm sugar.

 

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Giant Steps / Innocent Bystander Winery

336 Maroondah Highway, Healesville 3777

(03) 5962 6111

Modern regional

www.giant-steps.com.au/winery

  

Reviews:

- Bargain hunter-gatherers, by Nina Rousseau, The Age Cheap Eats 2007 editor, Epicure, The Age, February 27, 2007

Antipasto plate, $15

Giant Steps/Innocent Bystander, 336 Maroondah Highway, Healesville

Antipasto is hardly groundbreaking but this "gourmet Bunnings" with a cafe-restaurant, cheese room, bakery, pizzeria, cellar door and coffee roaster makes most of its produce in-house or sources it locally. Choose a selection of goodies for your plate: organic sourdough grissini, house-cured Buxton salmon, mushroom arancini, thinly sliced zucchini wrapped around ricotta on pickled beetroot or some mammoth green olives.

- Giant Steps/Innocent Bystander - Mietta's

- Seeking sanctuary, by Mark Hawthorne, Travel, The Age, November 17, 2007

- Weigh up your options, by Michael Harden, Food and Wine, Travel - The Age, September 16, 2006

- Vintage valley comes of age, by Winsor Dobbin, Travel, The Age November 4, 2007

- Good food, good wine, by Jane Faulkner, Travel, The Age November 3, 2007

 

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