What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?
Canberra’s newest food and wine destination, NewActon, in turning on quite a treat at one of the hottest restaurants in town. To ring in 2014, A. Baker is holding a ticketed event this New Year’s Eve, celebrating food and wine from the Canberra region.
From 7.00pm-1.00am, A. Baker will be offering a 10 course grazing menu matched with local wines and Australian spirit based cocktails. Guests will be free to roam the whole venue, ordering what they want when they want it, with live music in both courtyards and our basement bar.
There is no theme and no fancy dress – it’s all about the food.
Tickets at $160 per person are limited. Bookings can be made via [email protected], or in store at A. Baker.
Sample menu items
Rabbit rillette, beetroot, rye crumbs.
Pickled Eden Mackerel, brioche, mojama.
Green asparagus, goats curd, hazelnuts, pistou & parsley root.
Local mushrooms, 63* egg, Grandvewe pecorino, polenta & pangratatto.
Spaghettini, cured & smoked lambs liver, free range egg yolk, silverbeet, parmesan.
Peach, white chocolate & pistachio parfait caramel brittle, rose petals.
Black forest – kirsch pannacotta, cherries & chocolate sponge.
Sample cocktails
Whiskey Sour: Melbourne Starward Whiskey, lemon, sugar, egg white, mulled cherry.
Dark Peach Daiquiri: Ord River Rum, Peach schnapps, poached peach, lime, sugar.
French 75: Margaret River Westwinds Sabre gin, lemon, sugar, Gallagher Blanc de Blanc, peach sphere.
Harpoon: Tasmanian 666 Vodka, Pear Schnapps, lime, cranberry.
Vodka Maiden: Tasmanian 666 Butter Vodka, Madienii sweet vermouth, peach, lemon, sugar.
While their New Year’s Eve event will certainly be a highlight of the season, an ongoing event that has attracted attention over the last few weeks is the way A. Baker makes use of the vast courtyards of NewActon.
On Fridays, after-work revellers flood out into the East Courtyard to welcome the weekend with drinks from the bar from 5.00pm until 8.00pm. Between 1.00pm and 6.00pm on Sundays, the mood is decidedly relaxed, as Sunday Sippers brings a great bunch of Canberrans to relax on the lawns of the East Courtyard with deckchairs, live music and the warming sun.
These events really take advantage of the fine food and wine of A. Baker, and make the most of the landscaped gardens of the NewActon Precinct. It’s been a great year for this revitalised part of Canberra. A. Baker is ready to ring in 2014 – and they’re ready for an even bigger year ahead.
