NRF 10+ Year Anniversary Dinner

NRF is pleased to invite members and friends to join us for a very special evening to celebrate our 10+ year anniversary!

You may recall we organised this dinner last year (in our actual anniversary year) and had to cancel due to COVID shutdowns. We're back for our 10 (plus) year anniversary celebrations this year...with bells on!!

NRF is proud to be the first independently funded regional food industry body in Australia. NRF became incorporated in early December 2011 and is now funded by its members with support from sponsors and partners. We would like to celebrate this auspicious occasion with our wonderful NRF members and invite you to attend our upcoming dinner at Frida’s Field, Nashua.

Ten 'courses' for ten years!

To celebrate this ten-year milestone, Chef Ally from Frida’s Field is elevating our event with a 10 ‘course’ feast, which will count down a decade of local food trends in our region and honour our amazing local producers (see menu below).

We will have a special presentation with a nod to our past, our founding members and look to what the future may hold for our region’s local food & beverage industry.

OUR MENU: Celebrating a decade of local food trends!

You will be greeted with a complimentary welcome drink on arrival and then all other drinks will need to be purchased from the bar.

Chef Ally has put together a special 10 ‘course’ menu*, counting down ten years of food trends in our region and honouring our local Northern Rivers food producer legends.

It will be a very celebratory menu, starting with canapes, moving to shared platters and finishing with main course and fruit and cheese platter. Vegetarian options will be available and we will attempt to cater for all dietary requirements.

Note: please email us at info@northernriversfood.org least a week before to let us know if you require vegetarian options or have special dietary requirements.

Canapes

2011 food trend: Nut milks.
Australian Macadamia nut cheese and brown rice arancini

2012 food trend: Peruvian food.
Local fish ceviche, Peruvian popcorn

Tasting Plates (shared)

2013 food trend: pulled pork.
Smoked pulled Bangalow Sweet Pork, rye flatbread

2014 food trend: turmeric.
Quinoa, chia and feta, grilled kale, turmeric vinaigrette

2015 food trend: fermented food.
Fermented cucumber, pickled honeydew and olive

2016 food trend: Australian native foods.
Seared kangaroo loin, bush fruits, native pepper

2017 food trend: Smashed avos.
Avocado on toast, brush cherries, coastal succulents, kelp vinaigrette

2018 & 2019 food trends: cauli-mania & plant-based food.
Cauliflower rice risotto, Wakame and Gwen Tempeh chickpea red rice

Main

2020 & 2021 food trend: Home Cooking & regenerative agriculture.
Frida’s Field Beef, Frida’s greens.

Dessert

2022 food trend: forging the 'new normal'
Deb Allard's bluey, roasted pear

*Note, this menu may change slightly, subject to availability of ingredients. Vegetarian options will be available and we will aim to meet special dietary requirements (please contact NRF at info@northernriversfood.org to confirm dietary requirements).

Get on the bus!

Thanks to the generosity of our bus partner Kiff & Culture we are able to offer a free luxury mini bus service* for people north of Nashua. We will have limited bus pick-ups and drop offs at key locations including: Bangalow, Ewingsdale, Pottsville and Cabarita for NRF members. If this is of interest to you, please contact Anne Briggs at info@northernriversfood.org.

*Update - As of 16/5/2022, WE HAVE NO MORE VACANCIES FOR THE BUS! It has been booked out!

Thanks to our amazing sponsors & partners!

NRF would like to acknowledge our amazing sponsors for this event including:

Gold Sponsors: Australian Macadamia Society & Casino Food Co-op
Silver Sponsors: Bangalow Sweet Pork, Shoobridge Transport & Hemp Foods Australia
Partnership: Destination NSW
Kiff & Culture bus partners