Thanks to Geoff Howe for taking staff photographer Donna Beath aloft on the last friday of the Canowindra Balloon Challenge - here's some of her great images.
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On Friday April
19th taste Canowindra hosted its inaugural wine and food matching challenge. Over 50 guests compared Canowindra wines to some of Australia's national icon brands. The locals held their own in all
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taste will open for extended trading hours during the week of the National Ballon Championships and Canowindra Balloon Challenge
From April 19th - April 28th
April 19th 10am - 11pm (note restaurant 7pm - 11pm degustation booking for this is essential)
April 20th - April 28th &nbs ...More |
Finally we have a local wine draw winner. It seems our wine draw nearly always goes to someone from away often a long way away but this months its right in Canowindra. Its Pauline Carpenter
so Pauline come in and claim your prize. If we don't get to you first! ...More |
Guests for April are Sue & James Daly This the story. "On the westbound train that fateful night, openhearted drifters made their way past graffiti covered walls and torn vinyl seats and sat
on the metal stairway, smiling, nodding their heads and tapping their toes: young mothers danced with radiant toddlers and a young traveller silenced her Sony Walkman and decided to listen to the
guitar ...More |
taste Canowindra
Lunch Menus
Meat of the day on a Turkish roll
Roast Pork seasoned with soy & honey, Roasted beef seasoned with seeded mustard, chicken roasted with soy garlic and honey (all served cold or toasted as required) slow baked tomato &
capsicum, avocado, snow pea spro ...More |
We now have a dedicated bottle shop page which shows more detail click here
In addition to our wonderful range of Canowindra wine (see our wine pages for these) we have a selection of wine from across Australia and prestigeuos wines from overseas, some examples
include:
Overseas Bubblies - Moet - Veuve - Chandon ...More |
Sunday (4-6pm March 24) We're looking forward to having Clare Coleman, Paul Carpenter, Steve Whitehead and Corrine King present the feature act this month. Last month featured The folk club's founder Nerida Cuddy, in
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A SHOW FOR THE FOLK CLUB'S FOUNDER
Folk@canowindra had a great start to the year in January with Hannah Sunderland, some great open mic acts, a great audience and even our first crowd sing-along! We might be seeing some more of
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Folk @ Canowindra kicks off for 2013 at 4pm Sunday January 27th it's a great 2hour session of music ending at 6pm followed by dinner for those that book. There
is great interest for our first folk club of the year ...More |
Specials lunch Jan 7th – Feb 7th
Char grilled Southern Rock lobster
With salad of sorrel, avocado, roasted tomato & blanched sugar snap peas dressed with Dijon mustard, lemon juice & olive oil
$36
Seafood Tapas Plate
Includes: Boutique lettuce with Garlic & Ginger Prawns, natural oysters, rock lobster, Atlantic salmon, Olives, Caper berries, slow roasted To ...More |
taste's trading hours from Christmas eve until January 2nd.
Christmas Eve 24th
Monday
10am - 10pm Bottle shop & wine tasting only
Christmas Day 25th
Tuesday
Closed
Boxing Day 26th
Wednesday
10am-10pm Bookings Only for Dinner
December 27th
Thursday
10am-7pm Bookings Only for Dinner
December 28th
Friday
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taste Canowindra fared well at Cabonne Councils Daroo awards announced Friday night November 2nd at Manildra:
taste won the Darroo award for "Excellence in Marketing, Advertising & Communications". It was also one of 3 finalists in the premiere award for the evening "Best business in ...More |
Guest artists for November - "November Shorn" featuring - Geoff Tonkin - Vocals, Accordions, Harmonica, Whistles, Didgeridoo, Lagerphone and Dance Calling.
Ross Gilbert - Vocals, Guitar, Har ...More |
Food & photography blogger Rachel Jane comments on lunch at taste Canowindra:
Recently, my family and I took a few days from reality to escape to the country, relax, eat and drink to our heart’s content. We visited a few local wineries and tasted the fre ...More |
taste will celebrate the 6th anniversary of its opening 5:30pm Nov. 10th. There'll be free wine tasting & fingerfood if you'd like to join us - RSVP by phone or email by the Thursday previuos.
below is a collection of images of the opening in 2006:
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Tami Jade & The Boogie Men will be guest artists for this months session, from 4pm Sunday October 28th.
Tami has been singing since 2009 and has matured into a talented young vocalist, as well as a skilled guitarist, bass and mandolin player. She recently graduated from Tamworth’s CMAA’s Academy of
Country Music and has taken out numerous Talent Quest awards around the s ...More |
Hidden Gardens of Canowindra Canowindra Saturday 20 October 2012
Enjoy six 'Small But Perfectly Formed' gardens on a delightful garden walk around the heritage-listed main street of historic Canowindra.
Each garden has its own charm and distinctive style. Flanking the old bank building, ...More |
taste will be open for lunch 7days right through September & October. Unless private functions have been booked, the restaurant is open for bookings on any night of week but you must
book.There are theatre restaurant evenings on Saturday Sept. 29th. and Friday October 19th. (see events). The lucky winner of a case of wine in the spring wine draw is Karl
McPhee of Doubl ...More |
Folk @ Canowindra & open mike from 4pm September 23rd. will feature Jo Wythes & Rob Pearce as featured artists. This session of Folk @ Canowindra is being held a week earlier to avoid the
clash with the holiday long weekend. No-one will forget their ...More |
The band "Battler's Ballad" will be guest artists for folk@Canowindra for August. The band’s enthusiasm for playing under-sung Australian traditional and contemporary music is clear in their
striking arrangements; the sound is open, fresh, vibrant and inventive. Featuring strong lead vocals, guitar, mandolin, mandola and bouzouki with creative drums and percussion, you can expect a new
lo ...More |
taste will be closed weekdays from Monday August 6th - until Friday August 24th but will open weekends from 10am - 4pm. During that period the restaurant is booked for private functions on the
Friday & Saturday nights (10th & 11th August & Saturday August 25th) and the restuarant will not open for evening bookings again until Friday August 31st. Saturday September 1st. is a
musical ...More |
Brand new range of beautiful ceramics featuring Australian birds & wild flowers by wonderful Ceramicist Sue James Dishes, plates and brooches.
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On Friday & Saturday nights through July the menu will feature a different multi cultural entree, main and dessert each week. The menu for Friday 6th & Saturday 7th will include a
French inspired entree, main & dessert.
French inspired Options:
Entree: Boston Bay mussels with garlic, leeks and cream
Main: Herb de Provence chicken (seasone ...More |
Come along and experience it for yourself - Taste Canowindra, Ferguson St, Canowindra: Sunday, July 29 2012, 4-6pm, free entry (optional donation for the feature act), all welcome. Feature act for
July will be Richard Wilkinson.
To quote Richard "Crossing the gap between Australia and its beloved 6th state (New Zealand) in 1995, I entered this beautiful country at the age of 7 as ...More |
Favourite local performers Julie & Bonni Wythes favourites at Womindra 2011 will be guest artists this months.Jules and Bonny Wythes
Two Cargo farm gals, mother and daughter, performing together for the first time. Their music covers a range of different genres of music with their “homegrown” numbers inspired by the late
Johnny Wythes – local singer/songwriter an ...More |
Go the events pages for details on this great event ...More |
Mothers day offerings will include:
All mum's will receive a free glass of wine, soft drink or coffee
Backstrap of lamb marinated in lemon juice, rosemary, balsamic vinegar, onion and olive oil - served with sorrel dressed in Dijon mustard le ...More |
Special guests for Folk@Canowindra on May 27th from 4pm are James & Sue Daley. "As the ghosts of John Fahey and Mississippi John Hurt hound James Daley, he plays Guitar and Banjo to the point of obsession: which works
out well for Sue Daley. Sue knows some storie ...More |
Guest artist for april is Clare Coleman. Clare started singing with the Adelaide children's choir whilst still in primary school and went on to learn guitar.
She sang at weddings with her brother all through high school. She joined a band once but broke up with the bass player who owned the PA! ...More |
Entrees
Atlantic Salmon wrapped in proscuitto seared baked for 4 minutes. Served with baby Spinach, oven roasted tomatoes, blanched snow peas dressed with Dijon mustard, lemon juice and olive oil with
cubes of avocado and blanched asparagus.
Jerusalem artichoke baked in double cream, lime, thyme and parmesan. Served with baby Spinach, oven roasted tomatoes, blanched ...More |
Evening Menu Easter 2012
Entrée platter with wine tasting: $14 per head
Tomato, olive, basil and Spanish onion Bruschetta on toast
Chicken, goats cheese, pine nuts & blue berry terrine on toast
Garlic ginger & sweet chilli prawns
Atlantic salmon wrapped in prosciutto sealed & baked
Meat balls with special roast tomato sauce
Mains All $27
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Walk - around Entrees (choose any 4 for your walk-around platters)
accompanied by free winetasting:
Chargrilled baby squid marinated in lemon juice olive oil & cracked pepper
Garlic ginger & sweet chilli prawns
Chorizo cups with balls of goats cheese
Bruschetta with tomato, basil and olive pesto
Jahbootes (spicy meatballs) wi ...More |
The restaurant will be open for bookings every Saturday night in January for dinner from 7pm.
Entree platters for 2 or more
Garlic ginger & sweet chilli prawns, Chorizo cups with balls of goats cheese, Bruschetta with tomato, basil and olive pesto, Natural oysters with lime & basil sorbet
Mains
Eye fillet of Beef seasoned with rosemary ...More |
taste will be open from 10am - 4pm for wine tasting all days except Good Friday.
Bookings are advise for lunch on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Bookings are strongly advised for Sunday as we are unlikely to be open to walk ups.
Bookings are essential for dinner on Saturday, Sunday or Monday.
Phone 02 6344 2332 to book ...More |
Change of hours and discontinuing Breakfast
Because we have decided to open until 5pm on Saturday & Sunday. We will no longer do breakfast on weekends this will be the case until further notice.
The new trading hours are:
10am - 4pm Monday - Friday
10am - 5pm Saturday & Sunday ...More |
Next Folk @ Canowindra & open mike for March (4pm March 25th) will be Rob and Olya Willis. They have been colls are housed in the Oral History and Folklore S
Come along and experience it for yourself - Taste Canowindra, Ferguson St, Canowindra: Sunday, March ...More |
Lucy Lehmann will be guest artist this month. Lucy has been performing her songs since 2005. By day she is a novelist (The Showgirl and the Brumby was published 2002; a new one is coming
soon), so naturally her songs tell stories; often confessional love-stories that veer between the gutter and Cloud-Nine. Country music has been her travelling companion since she was a child.
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Hi there everyone,
Folk@Canowindra goes into recess over Christmas and returns in 2012 next session 4pm Sunday Jan. 29th with the Open
mike.
November 27 was the last gathering for 2011 for folk@canowindra! It ...More |
Seats available at the table for dinner Saturday 10th December.
Bookings Essential Ph 02 6344 2332
There are still some great opportunities for Christmas functions from now til Christmas let us know if you'd like to book a date.
Available dates:
Dec Tues. 13, Wed. 14, Thurs. 15, Fri. 16, Sat. 17, Tues. 20,
Thurs. 21, Thurs. 22 ...More |
taste will only be open 10am - 4pm on Sat. & Sundays from Feb 13th - March 1st. The one exception will be on Feb. 26th when it will remain
open til 6pm to accommodate folk @ Canowindra. Bookings will be accepted for other times only if staff are available - as Bob & Marg are off to other parts, they are having a break - (whether
they ...More |
Hours for trading for Wine tasting, Restaurant & Bottle shop over the Easter break:
All facilities will be closed on Good Friday
Wine tasting & Bottle shop will be open 10am - 10pm: Thursday, Saturday & Sunday ----- 10am - 7pm: Monday
The restaurant will be closed on Saturday Night
The Evening restaurant will be open f ...More |
