GREAT FOOD TO TASTE AND BUY WHILE YOU ARE HERE
Sandalyn Estate
Olive Oil Tasting
Experience the wonderful world of olives. At Sandalyn Estate 7days a week.
A local olive expert is on hand to answer all your questions every Saturday & Sunday.
Taste the difference between different local and regional olive oils and olive products.
Enjoy quality red wine vinegars, caramelised balsamic vinegars and Australian ver-juice.
Pasta Making Classes
Learn to make fresh pasta the traditional way. Every weekend at Sandalyn Estate,
one of the Hunter Valley's most beautiful boutique wineries,
you can enjoy a three-hour Tuscan-style cooking class teaching you the traditional art of pasta making.
You’ll learn the magic of turning flour and free range eggs, sticky fingers and laughter
into mouth-watering pasta - the way it’s been done for generations. The class concludes with
a leisurely two-course alfresco lunch where the star attraction is you and the pasta you’ve just made.
Lovedale Smokehouse and Gourmet Pantry
Open Thursday to Monday 11am-4pm.
64 Major's Lane, Lovedale
The smokehouse was initially built to supply premium quality smoked goods for Major's Lane restaurant
however due to the enormous demand from customers for "take home" smoked goods , the owners decided to open a "Gourmet Pantry" which carries a full range of hand made produce and smoked goods. The raw produce is sourced from some of Australia's finest graziers and fishing regions and then cured and smoked by the dedicated team of chefs from Majors Lane Restaurant and packaged for your convenience. All goods are smoked on-site using grapevine clippings from the vineyard on which they are located.
The product range includes:
- Smoked trout & pate
- Smoked and air dried beef
- Smoked sausages
- Terrines including veal, chicken, rabbit and quail
- Smoked olive tappenade made from estate grown olives
- Wagyu beef pastrami, bacon rashers, speck, prosciutto, pancetta, smoked olives
Binnorie Dairy
Open: Tues- Sun
Corner of Hermitage Rd. and Mistletoe Lane
Binnorie Dairy produces a range of cheeses with distinctive characters unavailable outside the region, achieved by using only locally sourced milk. The flagship cheese is the delicious Marinated Fetta, but we also love the Labna, Duetto and ....really all of them!
The Hunter Valley Smelly Cheese Shop
Open daily
188 Broke Rd
Enjoy a friendly and relaxed atmosphere where food lovers can be excited by a fabulous selection of local and imported cheese, and a select range of delicacies from providores such as Simon Johnson and Maggie Beer. Their staff are foodies with considerable experience in the hospitality/5-star food industries. Stock includes olive oils, wine vinegars and verjuice, preserved, pastes, pasta, Morpeth sourdough, Pokolbin Valley Honey, caramelised balsamic vinegars, local olives.
