Kristina Náray x Tahanan Studio pop-up dinner

Name: Kristina Náray x Tahanan Studio pop-up dinner
Start: 2025-07-26T18:30:00+1000
End: 2025-07-26T22:00:00+1000
Location: Tahanan Studio

Sat, 26 Jul, 6:30pm - 10pm AEST

Tahanan Studio

Maidstone VIC, Australia

Kristina Náray

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Event description

Join us for a special dining experience at Tahanan Studio in Naarm, inspired by the flavours, stories, and community of Kristina’s maternal roots across Zamboanga Del Norte, Mindanao (Southern Philippines).

This intimate meal features 10 home-style dishes, drawing from Kristina’s family and cultural traditions, with some adaptations to utilise local seasonal produce. With a focus on reducing waste and embracing the resourceful cooking practices passed down through generations, each dish tells a story of heritage and home.

We offer the option to add three house-made beverages to complement the menu when booking.

Please note: Due to the nature of the shared menu, we are unfortunately unable to accommodate dietary restrictions or allergies.

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Kristina Náray

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Kristina grew up in Darug (Western Sydney) and on a grape and citrus farm in Millewa-Mallee region (VIC), and has lived in Naarm since she was 15. She completed a Bachelor of Health Sciences majoring in Nutrition and Health Promotion, working as a nutritionist, cooking teacher, cook, and within the public health sector for over 13 years.

Kristina loves sharing the food and stories from both her cultural backgrounds, as a way to continue and preserve the family recipes, knowledge, and practices with the community, and to connect like minded people who want to experience these special moments together. Her work strives to encourage a shift towards a greater appreciation for sustainable living through permaculture, focusing on buying direct from farmers and artisan producers, and decolonising the way we approach food and life.

Kristina’s mum is from Zamboanga Del Norte in Western Mindanao, with lineage on her Lolo’s side to the Subanen tribe indigenous to the region, and a historical ancestral lineage to the island of Bohol in Central Visayas from both her Lola and Lolo. Her family have a long history of living resourcefully off the land in Mindanao, farming coconut, rice, corn, and market vegetables, while living in the rich nature, culture, and community life in the mountainous probinsya.

Kristina’s father is ethnic Hungarian from former Yugoslavia (now Serbia + Croatia) also with a farming background, living in the countryside next to the Duna river, where his family farmed grapes, sugarbeet, and seasonal produce, migrating to Australia as a refugee with his family as a child.

Kristina hosts pop-up lunches and dinners, teaches cooking workshops, and takes private bookings for events and gatherings across Naarm - Melbourne.

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Sat, 26 Jul, 6:30pm - 10pm AEST

Tahanan Studio

Maidstone VIC, Australia

Hosted by Kristina Náray