From Farm to Fork

MCEC’s award entries are signed, sealed and been delivered to the Melbourne Showgrounds. Our pastry chef Alessandro Bartesaghi was busy packing eskys (chilly bins or cool boxes if you are outside Australia) full of our house made ice cream flavours for judging in the Royal Melbourne Fine Food Awards. We’re entering a range of our ice creams, sorbets  and labna. [...]

Dishes have been trialled by their creators, Dan Hunter’s pancetta is curing in our kitchen, and our team are ready to welcome Melbourne’s best for the Starlight Five Chefs Dinner on Friday 24 May. This is the second year MCEC have hosted and sponsored the Starlight Children’s Foundation major fundraiser and 2013 is a special [...]

The Royal Mail Hotel’s Dan Hunter is a hard man to tie down so our executive chef Tony Panetta jumped at the invite to visit him, catch up on the upcoming Starlight Five Chefs Dinner, and learn more about the award-winning restaurant’s approach to local produce. Tony was taken on a tour of the one acre organic farm where [...]