By Hollie Harris
Things on the foodie front are always evolving and there are some new trends emerging in the restaurant market.
With Noosa so full of incredible places to eat out at, will it follow the lead of some of Melbourne’s 2017 food trends of shrinking menus, less to share and healthier options?
Share plates and family style banquets filling up tables has become a main set around town.
Even cafes are serving up platters to pick and choose from.
This fun new trend has been the scene in Melbourne for some time and according to Heston Blumenthal, it’s time to get back to what chefs do best and at his restaurant Dinner visitors can lick their plates clean with their own entree, main and desert – how it used to be.
Good old fish and chips have taken a bit of healthy turn to accommodate people’s increasing interest in their health.
Increasingly innovative takes on the humble fish and chip with a healthier option of sweet potatoes replacing the chip and tempura batters for the ocean catch are popping up on menus across Melbourne.
With an old affordable family favourite now costing up around $50 in some places for a few pieces of fish and a pile of chips to share, will the trend hit the Sunny Coast?
Years ago, you could go to the local corner shop and grab a big and hearty burger for a few bucks or a piece of fish and a handful of chips.
Kids could ride up on the bikes and empty out their coin purses for a burger with the works not too long ago.
These days, corner stores have become a bit of a rarity and a cheap feed has been upgraded.
With a new trend emerging, restaurants increasingly specialise in their offerings as a way to increase quality, minimise costs and focus on the one menu item.
Burger shops are now serving up every flavour under the sun for up to $18.
With innovative combinations and the sweetest of buns and sauce options, the variety of mouth-watering burger joints around the region is impressive.
Where there used to be Italian, Chinese or Mexican restaurants, there are now many specialised pizza, taco or just burger joints popping up around town.
There are now a bevy of incredible pizzas to try as the likes of El Capitano, Zacharies, Pizza Capers and WTF? Pizza take on the Italian challenge to create ‘the one’.
Who’s the freshest, who makes that perfect pizza? Well, it sure is fun trying to find out and with the paddock to plate produce around the region there will be plenty of healthy competition to make taste buds sing.
Trends of more chefs opening their own small venues is set to rise as they keep small teams, limited menus and the highest offerings of food.
Think quality, not quantity.
