Prahran Market: Taste Prahran Market
Disclosure: I attended courtesy of Prahran Market.
Several weeks ago I wandered Prahran Market with a voucher booklet and a food paddle collecting food when I was invited to attend the Taste of Prahran Market event, part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival.
This event sells out extremely quickly each year, and now that I’ve done it, I can see why.
I met up with Taz, Haz and Gaz, and after having a drink (there were two vouchers in the book for a glass of wine, beer or cider) we strategised a plan of attack.
Cleo’s Deli – mini charcuterie plate
Okay, there wasn’t that much planning involved, we flicked through our booklet of vouchers and decided we’d group them together – first we headed to the deli, where we picked up cheese, charcuterie and antipasto.
Chaso’s Deli – mini antipasto plate
Cheese Shop Deli – mini cheese board
We took seats in the market square and proceeded to – well – eat everything.
In hindsight, we should’ve paced ourselves.
Prahran Seafoods – scallops and prawns with tartare sauce
Theo and Sons – 2 freshly shucked oysters with lemon
Next up were the seafood stalls – we had some delicious freshly shucked oysters with lemon and Siracha and scallops and prawns. Both items were fantastic.
El Alamo – Empanada with chimichurri sauce (beef or spinach and mushroom)
At this point, we realised that eating everything in the book was going to be impossible. Still, we did eat a freshly cooked empanada before heading back inside.
Neil’s Meats – pulled pork with a Kook’s Kitchen salad
We returned to the main market area to sit down and have another drink. Of course we picked up more food – this time focussing on the meats.
Gary’s Quality Meats – free range Berksire ham with onion jam on a slice of Noisette baguette
J & L Quality Meats – beef shaslik
Ian’s Quality Meats – lamb kofta with tzatziki
Fun fact – I queued for the lamb kofta twice and gave up (eventually Taz and Gaz lined up and successfully got them). They had the world’s slowest BBQ but I won’t hold it against them because the kofta was delicious. 🙂
We finished the afternoon with a little cup of raspberry rumble gelato from Fritz Gelato.
There were also vouchers for the following items, which we either didn’t eat, or took home:
Naheda’s Choice – Naheda’s hand made date and pistachio ball served with Brie
Sweet Greek – Dolmade and Keftethe with tzatziki
Cioccolato Lombardo – handmade artisan chocolate
Abla’s Patisserie – traditional Lebanese baklawa
It was a really fun event and a great way to explore the market. All the vendors we visited, particularly in the deli section, were really cheerful – so I have a feeling that the secret to happiness is plenty of good quality cheese and charcuterie. Makes total sense to me.
Prahran Market
163-185 Commercial Road
Prahran
Phone: 03 8290 8220
Web: prahranmarket.com.au
Opening hours: Tues, Thur & Sat 7am-5pm, Fri 7am-6pm, Sun 10am-3pm
Annette
May 3, 2015 @ 7:14 pm
Now that does look like a good day well spent!! And I can go along with happiness being a good cheese!!!