Striking gold at Meet the Buyer™

Published: 21 August 2024
By: Buy West Eat Best
Article link: https://www.buywesteatbest.org.au/featured/striking-gold-at-meet-the-buyer/

Some might say a restaurant is only as good as its chef, but Blair Allen knows that the pursuit of culinary excellence starts with the right ingredients. It’s one of the reasons the owner-chef at Amelia Park Restaurant, which he has run with wife Renee in the stunning South West for the past seven years, was keen to see what he might find at Meet the Buyer™.

The annual trade show, now in its fourth year, brings together buyers, chefs, educators, importers, sommeliers and distributors under one roof for one fabulous day of discovery. This year’s Meet the Buyer™ is at Crown Perth on Tuesday, 22 October.

“I just wanted to see if there was any producers that I could use here that hadn’t been on my radar,” Blair says. “I’m a creature of habit, I kind of get stuck using the same suppliers, which are great, but I do get the blinkers on so I like to pop my head up and see what’s new out there.”

Blair came away with more than he expected. “I met the guys from Futari wagyu and ended up using a few of their products as specials – they didn’t have all the….. To read more visit: the full article here