Festivale Lunch with Simon Bryant

Join us for the Festivale Lunch with Simon Bryant at Stillwater Restaurant

Simon Bryant’s 25 year career includes cooking in Thai, Indian and award winning fine dining restaurants, as well as a one year stretch as a butcher. From 2003-2010 he was Hilton Adelaide’s Executive Chef.  From 2006 to 2009 he co-hosted 152 episodes of ABC Television’s “The Cook and the Chef” with South Australian food icon Maggie Beer.

He is the author of “Vegies” and the newly released “Vegetables, Grains & Other Good Stuff” published by Penguin Lantern, with both books including a collection of seasonal vegetarian recipes.

In 2014 Simon was appointed as Co-Creative Director for Tasting Australia - Australia’s premium Food and Wine festival. From 2016 the festival will become an annual event and in 2017 Simon will take on the role of festival director for Tasting Australia.

Simon is also a providore of single origin, traceable, non GM, Australian foods with his brand dirt(y); and a semi competent organic home vegie gardener. Simon strongly believes in using his profile to highlight ethical food issues, including paying fair prices to producers for ethically produced food; using local, seasonal, fresh ingredients with minimal environmental impact; the responsible and culturally appropriate use of Australian native foods; and in particular, the ethical treatment of animals in the food chain.

Above all, Simon is an advocate of simple produce driven cooking.

Working in collaboration with Stillwater executive chef, Craig Will and his team, Simon will design and cook a lunch menu showcasing Tasmanian produce. Each course will be matched with a glass of Goaty Hill wine.