Orana coming to Sydney for a month to showcase Indigenous ingredients
Sydney diners will soon get the opportunity to dine at Australia’s best restaurant when Adelaide fine diner Orana comes to town for a month-long residency.
Named Restaurant of the Year in The Good Food Guide 2019, Orana is headed by chef Jock Zonfrillo, who will be showcase its three-hatted cooking at the former Longrain site in Surry Hills from August 16 until September 15.
The Orana team will deliver a 22-course menu at $350 before drinks using produce sourced from Indigenous communities across Australia, with a percentage of profits donated to Zonfrillo's not-for-profit Orana Foundation, which fosters the preservation of Indigenous food culture.
"Our work in the Orana Foundation has been funded by people who ate in Restaurant Orana and realised there has been a blindspot when it comes to acknowledging and preserving Indigenous foods and culture," Zonfrillo told Good Food. "That's why we're bringing Orana to Sydney.
"We know this will help give Indigenous foods and culture more awareness and recognition, and shift the mindset around the acknowledgement of just how special the oldest surviving culture in the world is, and it's right here on our doorstep."
More than 50 ingredients will be showcased in the degustation menu.
"We're talking seeds, fruits, nuts, trees, shoots, shellfish, honey, ants, seafood – all the flavours and textures that represent this beautiful country we live in," said Zonfrillo.
"We'll be using a lot of amazing ingredients from NSW including Dorrigo pepper, macadamia nuts, and Moreton Bay fig shoots."
Sheridan Randall, 5th July 2019
