The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Awards 2010

The Chef's Hats 2011

City
Three Hats: Marque, est., Quay
Two Hats: Aria, Assiette, Becasse, Bentley Restaurant & Bar, Berowra Waters Inn, Bilson's, Bistro Ortolan, Buon Ricordo, Claude's, Four in Hand Dining Room, Guillaume at Bennelong, Icebergs Dining Room and Bar, Lucio's, Pilu at Freshwater, Rockpool, Rockpool Bar & Grill, Sepia, Tetsuya's, Universal
One Hat: Ad Lib Bistro, Altitude, Arras, Astral, Billy Kwong, Bird Cow Fish, Bistro Moncur, Bistrode, The Boathouse on Blackwattle Bay, Bodega, buzo trattoria, Cafe Sopra, Catalina, Etch, Fish Face, Flying Fish, Golden Century, Jonah's Whale Beach, Koi, Longrain, Mad Cow, Manly Pavilion, Omerta, Ormeggio at the Spit, Oscillate Wildly, Otto Ristorante, Pendolino, Pier, Restaurant Balzac, Sailors Thai Restaurant, Sake Restaurant & Bar, Sean's Panaroma, Spice Temple, Yoshii.

Regional
Two  Hats: Lochiel House (Kurrajong Heights), Rock (Pokolbin)
One Hat: ashcrofts (Blackheath), Bacchus (Newcastle), Bamboo Restaurant and Bar (Casuarina Beach), bells at killcare (Killcare), Bistro Molines (Mount View), Caveau (Wollongong), dish (Byron Bay), Darley's (Katoomba), Eschalot (Berrima), Fins (Kingscliff), Italian and Sons (Canberra), Lolli Redini (Orange), Muse (Pokolbin), Neila (Cowra), No. 2 Oak Street (Bellingen), Ottoman Cuisine (Canberra), Restaurant Como.
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Good Food Guide Awards 2011

Full winners list

Sydney Morning Herald website September 6, 2010
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/the-sydney-morning-herald-good-food-guide-awards-2011-20100906-14y61.html

Wollongong French Restaurant Caveau awarded 1 hat in 2011 SMH Good Food Guide

 
The premiere dining experience of the Illawarra has to be Caveau in Keira St, Wollongong. The daily degustation menu, cookery school and seasonal events and wine nights have rightfully earned itself Wollongong's ONLY restaurant to be awarded a hat in the 2011 SMH Good Food Guide, now for 6 years in a row. I have been drooling over Caveau's menu since Peter Sheppard opened it with photos below as found on their website.

 

 

I am so pleased to share with you a video created by Alex Sturman of Xander Productions to highlight just why Caveau is regarded so highly.

Learn more about this amazing restaurant at http://www.caveau.com.au

Caveau

www.caveau.com.au

122-124 Keira St
Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia
+61 2 4226 4855
Get directions

Open Tue-Sat 6pm-10pm

Truffle Degustation at Caveau, Wollongong

Truffle Degustation night

Thursday 24th June

$140pp (or $200pp with
accompanying premium wines)  

 
The Western Australian truffle season is just about to begin - the first batch is expected out of the ground in the first week of June. To celebrate Caveau will hold a truffle degustation on Thursday 24th June. To book, please email or telephone the restaurant on 02 4226 4855.

MENU

Egg cocotte with winter truffle

Chicken parfait with truffle butter, brioche and game jelly

Quail boudin with braised ox tongue, truffled quail egg,
sauteed kipflers and truffle emulsion
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Roasted blue eye with leeks, snails, truffles and champagne veloute

Roasted veal fillet with truffle gnocchi, white
asparagus and truffle hollandaise
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Truffled brie with homemade lavosh

Chocolate "truffle"

Caveau Cookery Schools   

Vacancies are available on Sundays 20th June, 12th September and 17th October.  $90pp.  Caveau are also holding an advanced class on Sunday 29th August $180pp. To book please complete the booking form which is available on our website www.caveau.com.au.

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Winter Holiday Closure

Caveau will be closed for a short break from Sunday 4th July and will reopen on Thursday 15th July. Thank you for your custom and support. Peter and Nicola, Caveau

  

http://www.caveau.com.au/

Event: Staete Landt Wine dinner at Caveau

I just received the following email from Caveau, Wollongong's only hatted restaurant, located in Keira St.
This sounds like a wonderful event and I wish that I could afford to go

Staete Landt Wine dinner at Caveau
Tuesday 11th May, 6.30pm for 7pm entree, $100pp including three courses and six wines

Join us on Tuesday 11th May to try the wines from Staete Landt Vineyard, Marlborough New Zealand. Staete Landt is a boutique family owned winery producing unique wines with characters true to the Rapaura appellation of Marlborough. These wines are rated amongst the best of Marlborough by the international wine press and are not always easy to find. Dorien Vermaas, founder and co-owner of the winery will be here with us for the evening to introduce her wines. You will have the opportunity to purchase wines on the night if you wish but there will be no obligation or pressure to buy.

Menu
Canapes & 2008 Sauvignon Blanc on arrival

Entree
Smoked salmon terrine with mudcrab salad and lemon oil
Staete Landt Pinot Gris & Staete Landt Viognier

Main
Rolled saddle of rabbit with potato fondant, pumpkin puree and hazelnut emulsion
Staete Landt Chardonnay & Staete Landt Pinot Noir

Cheese with fresh fruit and home made lavosh
Staete Landt Syrah

To purchase tickets please email or fax us your credit card number (with the number of tickets and any special dietary requirements noted) or telephone Caveau on 4226 4855.

Hope you can make it!
Peter & Nicola Sheppard

PS - Peter has been named one of 6 NSW finalists in Country Style Magazine's search for the best Regional chef in Australia. Stay tuned!

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CAVEAU RESTAURANT
Ph: 4226 4855
fax: 4228 3941

Image Credit: Menulog
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[Illawarra Food Reviews] Event: Staete Landt Wine dinner at Caveau

I just received the following email from Caveau, Wollongong's only hatted restaurant, located in Keira St.
This sounds like a wonderful event and I wish that I could afford to go

Staete Landt Wine dinner at Caveau
Tuesday 11th May, 6.30pm for 7pm entree, $100pp including three courses and six wines

Join us on Tuesday 11th May to try the wines from Staete Landt Vineyard, Marlborough New Zealand. Staete Landt is a boutique family owned winery producing unique wines with characters true to the Rapaura appellation of Marlborough. These wines are rated amongst the best of Marlborough by the international wine press and are not always easy to find. Dorien Vermaas, founder and co-owner of the winery will be here with us for the evening to introduce her wines. You will have the opportunity to purchase wines on the night if you wish but there will be no obligation or pressure to buy.

Menu
Canapes & 2008 Sauvignon Blanc on arrival

Entree
Smoked salmon terrine with mudcrab salad and lemon oil
Staete Landt Pinot Gris & Staete Landt Viognier

Main
Rolled saddle of rabbit with potato fondant, pumpkin puree and hazelnut emulsion
Staete Landt Chardonnay & Staete Landt Pinot Noir

Cheese with fresh fruit and home made lavosh
Staete Landt Syrah

To purchase tickets please email or fax us your credit card number (with the number of tickets and any special dietary requirements noted) or telephone Caveau on 4226 4855.

Hope you can make it!
Peter & Nicola Sheppard

PS - Peter has been named one of 6 NSW finalists in Country Style Magazine's search for the best Regional chef in Australia. Stay tuned!

We do not wish to send unsolicited mail. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list for any reason please just send us an email with unsubscribe in the subject field.

CAVEAU RESTAURANT
Ph: 4226 4855
fax: 4228 3941

Image Credit: Menulog
http://www.menulog.com.au/caveau

Caveau in Wollongong takes part in three fantastic October events for Sydney International Food Festival

You don't have to go to Sydney to be part of the Sydney International Food Festival. 

As the NSW South Coast's ONLY hat-awarded restaurant, Caveau has been invited to host Sydney International Food Festival (SIFF) events. The newly renovated Caveau has chosen two events: Hats Off and Sunday Family Lunch. Please find details of these, plus the Eldridge Estate Wine Maker's Dinner below. 

Hats Off is on Tuesday 6th October and this year's theme is: Very Nearly Vegetarian.

Menu ($160pp)

The price is set by the SIFF but it does give us the opportunity to use premium ingredients such as real caviar, chanterelles, cepes, truffle

Warm salad of new season potatoes
with sea urchin butter and superior oscietra sturgeon caviar

Heirloom tomato and aubergine terrine with pea mousseline
and sauteed yabbie tails

Tarago triple cream souffle

Jerusalem Artichoke pithivier with asparagus
and suckling pig

Fricasse of chanterelles, leeks and potatoes
with rabbit and calf sweetbread

Gratin of fresh cepes with sauteed white asparagus, potato gnocchi, truffle hollandaise
and beef fillet

Cheese with accompaniment

A show of fruit and berries

(vegetarians & vegans catered for with advance notice)

What is Sunday Family Lunch?
Set price $50 adults, $25 children under 15.

This is an opportunity to bring the whole family (yes even small children) to Caveau on Sunday 25th October.  Adults will choose from a choice of two entrees, followed by the roast lunch.  Desserts will be available to order from our a'la carte menu. Children under 15 will be served an entree of soup & bread, followed by a traditional Sunday Roast.  For children under 5 icecream for dessert is included.

In order to cater for whole families, we are holding two sittings: 12-1.30 and 2pm. People with young children are encouraged to choose the earlier sitting.

Menu

Fresh QLD prawns with pea mousseline, new potato salad and crisp pancetta OR
Duck terrine with celeriac remoulade, pomegranate and walnuts

Roast rack of pork with traditional trimmings
(Roast beef available by prior arrangement)

Eldridge Estate Wine Maker's Dinner
We are privileged to welcome David Lloyd from Eldridge Estate to Caveau on Monday 19th October.  The dinner will feature canapes and five courses matched to tastings of ten wines. It starts at 6.30 for 7pm and costs $140.

Menu

Canapes
Pf Sparkling 2007 (a blend of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, disgorged in August 2009)

Fresh QLD prawns with pea mousseline, new potato salad, crisp pancetta and chardonnay vinaigrette
2007 Chardonnay and a special wine from 2008, Clone 96 Chardonnay

Quail boudin with sauteed kipflers, quail egg and sauce perigeux
Gamay from different vintages, 2008 and 2006

Roasted Barramundi with braised ox cheek and celeriac puree
Pinot Noir: The new releases of 2007 (a blend of 5 clones and a blend of 2 clones)

Fillet of beef with potato puree and sauce bordelaise
Euroa Creeks RESERVE Shiraz 2006 and 2005

Creme brulee with macerated prunes
Fortified Shiraz

Eldridge Estate is located 90 minutes south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula and James Halliday lists it as a Five Star winery.  Delicious Magazine rates Eldridge Estate Gamay as "probably Australia's finest", and among a region of outstanding Pinots, Huon Hooke thinks that the Eldridge Pinot is one of Mornington's best. Come and see for yourself!

Attend all three events...
and to thank you for your support we will send you a bottle of Chandon Vintage Blanc de Blanc. 

More information on the Sydney International Food Festival, presented by Citi, can be found at www.siff.com.au.

We don't wish to send unsolicited mail. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list please send us an email with unsubscribe in the subject field.

Caveau

www.caveau.com.au

122-124 Keira St
Wollongong NSW 2500, Australia
+61 2 4226 4855
Get directions

Open Tue-Sat 6pm-10pm