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Week of Tastes Menus A Week of Tastes Menu will allow your children to discover a new world of tastes and flavours. These special menus will introduce your children to some of the chef's (and their children's) favourite dishes and help your children to develop a curiosity and positive attitude towards experiencing and understanding new cuisines. As part of the Sydney International Food Festival, the following restaurants are offering special set-price Week of Tastes Menus at family-friendly hours. These are designed to be an educational as well as an enjoyable experience for you and your children.  2b Mona Road, Darling Point, 9328 0305Bei Amici is very proud to be associated with the "Week of Tastes“ from the 15th – 25th of October. Our goal is to encourage our customers to bring their children to experience our food and secondly, to provide a level of education as well as pleasure from their dining experience. The children will have their own menu designed by our 7-year-old son Max and his friends. At 7, Max likes his food with one or two flavours clearly defined. He does not like his food to contain chillies or other extreme flavours. Max attends Darlinghurst Public School which has recently started a vegetable garden. This has given Max and other children a great love of raw vegetables. At Bei Amici we feel it is important that children know how to behave and enjoy eating at restaurants. Felix Rutz, owner and head chef of Bei Amici will speak to the children about how everything was cooked and (hopefully) answer all their questions. (see Menu...)  Bird Cow Fish, Shops 4 & 5, 500 Crown Street, Surry Hills, 9380 4090  Fish Fingers are a classic children's dish and we have chosen to adapt this dish to incorporate local, fresh, sustainable & seasonal produce. Local blue eye is in plentiful supply, its firm texture makes it ideal for fish fingers and it's sweet mild flavour is appealing to younger taste buds. Rather than choosing the traditional accompaniment of chips we have looked for a healthy option using fresh seasonal produce that can be prepared in a way that is fun and colourful on the plate. Tomatoes are great at this time of year and a homemade tomato ketchup is a perfect dipping sauce for the fish fingers. Peas are also beautiful in spring and mushy peas are a great way to prepare them for maxium colour. And they are a lot easier for young children to keep on the fork! (see Menu...)  The Burlington Bar and Dining, 6 Burlington Street, Crows Nest, 9439 7888 Matt's inspiration for these menus were his two boys, Thomas and Oliver. In Matt's words, "These are dishes that are both fun and full of flavour. My children love nothing more than a fresh juice concoction, a bit of grown up food and finished off with fresh berries." (see Menu...) Courtney’s Brasserie Courtney's Brasserie will be offering an experience for kids, aimed at ages 6 to 12 years of age, but other ages are still welcome. Chef Paul Kuipers will teach them what goes into thier meal and how it is made. There will be some fun activities and suprises as they learn where the ingredients for thier meal came from. There will be a demonstration of ice cream making and of course a tasting. Along with all this, we hope that your children will go away with a new appreciation for eating out. (see Menu...)  Crown Street School Lunch hosted by Green is a Beautiful Colour The lunch brings together Green is a Beautiful Colour, the Week of Tastes and Jeremy Strode whose restaurant "Bistrode" is nearby. Jeremy has fostered the experience in developing a menu with students which is founded on sourcing local food, simply prepared and shared with the community. Jeremy will also conduct a class that explores food on the menu during the Week of Tastes. The organiser "green is a beautiful colour" hosts food experiences that celebrate the beautiful and simple pleasures of eating fresh, local produce together in community settings. Kristy Moore and Barbara Doran are the people behind the projects, bringing together backgrounds in art direction & sustainability. (see Green is a Beautiful Colour)  Danks Street Depot, 1/2 Danks Street, Waterloo, 9698 2201 It is so important for kids to be involved in food! It's pretty amazing how diverse their palates are and how people so often assume that flavours and textures are “too rich” or “too sophisticated” for children's young tastebuds. I thought of my own kids when I put together my Week of Tastes Menu and how I like to eat with them when I’m away from the restaurant. Like so many young people, they love crunchy textures, creamy flavours and for their taste buds to be absolutely stimulated! What’s often missing from kid's menus is for all of these things to be available to them. Its amazing watching their faces as they experience sweet, sour, salty, bitter, savoury and umami and I’ve tried to provide all of these qualities in my Week of Tastes Menu. The dishes should appeal to little kids and big kids alike! Throughout October, we will be hosting early dinners (6pm), aimed to get families eating, enjoying and discussing food together. (see Menu...)  Efendy, 79 Elliott Street, Balmain, 9810 5466 Efendy is part of the inaugural Week of Tastes program serving kids a half price, half portion regular dinner menu with complimentary dessert through the program to introduce different flavours to a younger audience. Special menus will have fun facts about Turkey and our cuisine. All children visiting from 15 to 25 October are invited to a complimentary Turkish Karagoz shadow puppet show by Alec Morgan held at lunchtime on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th. (see Menu...)  Etch by Becasse, 62 Bridge Street, Sydney, 9247 4777 Join Head Chef James Metcalfe in this new initiative for 2009. Bring the family along for the Week of Tastes at Etch. Enjoy a 2 or 3 course menu consisting of interactive components for your children to taste, smell and learn. Kids will learn how to roll pastry, make pineapple sorbet and pineapple jelly and be taught the art of painting a plate with caramel. (see Menu...) Hugos Bar Pizza, 33 Bayswater Road, Kings Cross, 9332 1227 Hugos Bar Pizza will run a Week of Tastes Menu aimed at encouraging young families who ordinarily may not visit our venue, to come and enjoy our special Kids Menu. The menus will be presented on a place mat which has colouring in activities and educational facts about the food. Pete's inspiration for the Week of Tastes menu is his 2 beautiful girls Chilli age 4 and Indie age 3.  Jaspers, 54 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill, 9879 3200 Our daughter goes to the local Hunters Hill school in year 4 and loves coming to the restaurant to enjoy the fine dining experience. Her favourite dish is the lime crème brulee and so that is an obvious choice for the Week of Tastes Menu. She is looking forward to Jaspers' chef Martin Stacey coming to her school for a cooking and tasting demonstration during the Week of Tastes. This will also include the crème brulee. (see Menu...)   Kazbah on Darling, 379 Darling Street, Balmain, 9555 7067Engaging the senses of the younger generation and their families! Zahi Azzi and our Head Chef Aaron Callander will make a presentation before service on the origins, tasting notes and nutritional value of each dish. Kazbah originals will be mixed in with newer dishes that have evolved over the years with a cross cultural influence. Come along and marvel in the delights from Morroco to the Middle East. (see Menu...)  Otto Ristorante, Area 8, 6 Cowper Wharf Road, Woolloomooloo, 9368 7488 Otto Ristorante is proud to be a part of the "Week of Tastes" which is all about educating children on different "tastes." (see Menu...)  Perama, 88 Audley Street, Petersham, 9569 7534 From Homer to Tselementes to Calombaris, this will be a feast of greek cuisine through the ages with an emphasis on food and its role - not only greek history but its influences outside of its borders. The banquet will be a journey from ancient to modern time. It will be served with a souvenir menu which will have historic and trivial facts
for the kids. And each child will receive a chefs cap to take home! Available Tuesday to Thursday throughout the whole of October. (see Menu...)  Pilu at Freshwater, End of Moore Road, Freshwater, 9938 3331 Bring the kids along to share a family meal whilst also gaining knowledge about produce and cooking techniques. (see Menu...)  Restaurant Arras, 24 Hickson Road, Walsh Bay, 9252 6285 Our Week of Tastes Menu helps kids to start eating properly, and understanding their food and its origins. Food is the most historical thing on earth and at Restaurant Arras we draw on this history to tell a story through our food. We have created a menu to enlighten young people's tastes and appreciation of food, a menu of "Old Hat" classics and childhood favourites. The menu spans dishes Adam and Lovaine ate as kids but with a modern twist. There will also be newer dishes that draw inspirations from food, ingredients and producers in the British countryside. (see Menu...)  Restaurant Balzac, 141 Belmore Road, Randwick, 9399 9660 Matt's inspiration for these menus were his two boys, Thomas and Oliver. In Matt's words "These are dishes that are both fun and full of flavour. My children love nothing more than a fresh juice concoction, a bit of grown up food and finished off with fresh berries".(see Menu...)
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