UK-born expertise Max Crawford has been appointed as head chef at Margan Restaurant within the Hunter Valley’s Broke Fordwich area.
Crawford joins the award-winning restaurant workforce after roles throughout the UK together with at Petersham Nurseries cafe, and right here in Australia at Tasmania’s Havilah Wines in Launceston.
“I’m wanting ahead to working my means by the seasons right here, utilizing the intensive vary of natural produce grown on the property and sourced domestically,” says Crawford.
“I’ve all the time favored to begin with easy and typically humble components and discover fascinating methods to raise and complement them whereas paying respect to the effort and time that went into rising, harvesting, or elevating that produce. I’m wanting ahead to persevering with alongside that path right here at Margan.”
Crawford will work with the Margan Restaurant’s one-hectare kitchen backyard and orchard, plus the property’s olive groves, free-range chickens, lambs, and beehives to additional improve the venue’s, hyper-local agri-dining philosophy.
The Margan Restaurant providing features a Farm to Desk tasting menu ($115pp); small plates menu; and an a la carte menu.
Margan Wines and Restaurant is thought for for its eco-friendly practices and seasonally targeted method working as a completely licensed sustainably farmed apply for the final decade.
The restaurant and property are 100 per cent household and owned and operated by the Margan household, below Managing Director and Hospitality Operations Lisa; Managing Director, Winemaker, and Vigneron Andrew; and son Ollie who’s throughout viticulture and front-of-house operations whereas additionally co-owning Adelaide venues Possibly Mae, Shobosho, Shosho, and Bread + Bone.
Crawford takes on the pinnacle chef function from Joey Ingram who was with the Margan Restaurant workforce for 4 years earlier than not too long ago transferring into a task with the Spicers Group.
Crawford’s debut menu is now out there at Margan Restaurant, 1238 Milbrodale Street, Broke, New South Wales.
