Learnings from Taste of Sydney

(also known as ‘The Royal Easter Show for grown-ups’)

• Always go to this festival.
• Never drive.
• Don’t eat breakfast.
• Before committing to a first dish, do a lap of the place to collect all the free samples. Do not feel even remotely bad about this.
• If you love a dish, don’t be shy about returning to buy it twice. It’s usually a worthy trade off between a taste sensation and gastronomical real-estate.
• Don’t bother buying a drink - you will be so bombarded with free shots and cocktail tasters that you will barely be standing by the end.
• Non-tasty filler carbs are not your friend.
• Slow cooked meats are.
• Little known players have the most to gain and will work harder for your attention.
• Be nice to everyone, no matter what.
• You don’t actually want to buy a retro, rainbow coloured fridge. Or Aga. No, really, you don’t.
• Once you go for ice-cream, your experience is over. Do not collect $200 on your way out.
• And finally - a sandwich from Aria, even if it’s handed to you by Matt Moran himself, is still only a fucking sandwich.

See you next year Taste.