The Bucket List Seafood Festival at Bondi Beach

As part of Good Food Month, we joined The Bucket List to celebrate local sustainable seafood over the weekend. Featuring a beautiful Bondi Beach backdrop, The Bucket List Seafood Fest showcased fantastic producers, $10 seafood plates, live music, face painting and seafood masterclasses.

Collaborating with numerous seafood producers like Cloudy Bay Clams, Yarra Valley Salmon Roe and Kinkawooka Mussels (you can read more about these guys at our seafood pop up night with Mindy Woods), the festival had plenty of seafood dishes on offer, including a gigantic pan of seafood paella.

Our organic artisan sourdough bread was available for tasting, slathered with Pepe Saya’s wonderful cultured butter. Also at the tasting table was Merna from Dessertmakers, who gave people a taste of her beautiful buttermilk iced cream.

In the afternoon I popped into the masterclass run by The Bucket List’s head chef Tom Walton and Fishtales’ John Susman. They outlined the difference between hot-smoking and cold-smoking methods. They also demonstrated how to hot-smoke salmon. The audience was then able to enjoy the delicious end result with a glass of wine.

It was a joy to see The Bucket List bringing together a relaxing, sun-soaked beach atmosphere with summery cocktails and some of the best seafood Australia has to offer.