Everyone’s favourite annual tribute to sun, seafood and the world’s preferred form of social lubrication (wine), is back again for 2014. The Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival will celebrate its 20th year in the biz on Sunday 8 June, flooding the iconic street with music, seafood and booze once more. With rocking music from the likes of Wolfmother, flowing wine from Sirromet and seafood galore, the hardest decision you’ll have to make: fresh or fried?In the fresh corner, Caxton Street favourites Caxton Hotel, Mirasoul, Hotel LA and Gambaro are putting on gorgeous seafood platters featuring the best our waters have to offer. Think whole fresh lobsters and crab, Tasmanian oysters and salmon, prawns by the bucket and plenty of seafood sauce to top it all off.
Prefer your seafood hot and crispy? Brewski are putting on a special seafood pizza, karaoke kings Casablanca are doing seared Tasmanian salmon, Caxton St Thai are serving up caramelised prawn skewers and gastropub guys Statler & Waldorf are doing a cracking battered fish burger (don’t mind if we do).
Everyone’s favourite annual tribute to sun, seafood and the world’s preferred form of social lubrication (wine), is back again for 2014. The Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival will celebrate its 20th year in the biz on Sunday 8 June, flooding the iconic street with music, seafood and booze once more. With rocking music from the likes of Wolfmother, flowing wine from Sirromet and seafood galore, the hardest decision you’ll have to make: fresh or fried?In the fresh corner, Caxton Street favourites Caxton Hotel, Mirasoul, Hotel LA and Gambaro are putting on gorgeous seafood platters featuring the best our waters have to offer. Think whole fresh lobsters and crab, Tasmanian oysters and salmon, prawns by the bucket and plenty of seafood sauce to top it all off.
Prefer your seafood hot and crispy? Brewski are putting on a special seafood pizza, karaoke kings Casablanca are doing seared Tasmanian salmon, Caxton St Thai are serving up caramelised prawn skewers and gastropub guys Statler & Waldorf are doing a cracking battered fish burger (don’t mind if we do).
For those not into seafood (you strange, strange folk) Black Hide boast the best steaks in Brisbane and Brat Haus have promised loads of authentic German sausages.
On the musical menu, tunes aplenty from the likes of Wolfmother, Slim Jim Phantom, Ella Hooper and local Triple J sweethearts Sheppard to name a few.
Like what you’re hearing? You can purchase your tickets for the day here. There’s a limited number available so we’d recommend getting in quick sticks.
And because the folk at Caxton Street Seafood & Wine Festival are such lovely, generous folk, the G&G have a Festival Foodie Pack to give away!
The prize, valued at almost $400, includes three wines and two in-house vouchers from Sirromet Wines, two festival tickets, two Palace Barracks Cinema tickets, dinner for two up to the value of $100 from Black Hide Steakhouse and silicone bakeware from the festival’s friends at Beko.
Competition entry ends Sunday June 1.
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