Canberra is bubbling forth with restaurants and bars opening here, there and look just behind Smiths, there’s another one over there! Some of these tend toward the fancy and especially delicious. Bring on the Charcuterie, cured meats and salty things to go with it, paired charmingly with the right wine, food made for tasting and for savouring.
Molly
Unsurprisingly Canberra’s the legendary Molly has some delectable boards of meat and other savouries. This fantastic little speakeasy serves four boards with flavours from around the world. The French plate has cheese, French- style meat and apple, refreshing and bitey. Or perhaps try the Italian, with its Sopressa salami, grapes, quince paste and a long list of ingredients including fresh sour dough bread. Molly also have a Greek Spanish board, both with special Charcuterie station, giving you four more reasons to hunt out this treasure.
The Parlour Wine Room
The Parlour Wine Room is an excellent place for tapas, including a sneaky plate of cured meat, including four different kinds of slices, curled and rippled over the plate. Lamb Prosciutto and some very fancy sounding things that it’s are easier to write than to say. Morcon, or which is pork and paprika, Cecina, or beef that has been both smoked and then air dried, and Salchichon, which is or an infused pork and pepper sausage. Paired with a lovely wine, of which the Parlour Wine Room has plenty, this plate is great for a snack or part of a larger meal.
Benchmark Wine Bar
Cured meats and aged cheeses go so well with wine, following this logic the best place to find them is canoodling together at the Benchmark Wine Bar. Build your own bespoke board by choosing Duck Rillettes, pickles made in house, sausages; Toulouse and Lyonnaise and cured meats, chestnut fed beef and Salami with a very long name. You might find yourself drooling while reading the menu, but that’s okay, its normal.
Poachers Pantry
Poachers Pantry are experts at all things food and drink when it comes to all things culinary. Hidden away off the beaten track between Canberra and Murrumbateman, they have the space to grow and produce some extremely truly delicious food things. Grown, made, cured and served all in the one scenic spot, Poachers Pantry is a place you’ll want to stay for the meats, the view and for all they have to eat and drink.
Canberra is getting fancy and there is no reason not to join in. For that extra flavour and for things that just go well together, so well that speech becomes unnecessary, cured meats, full bodied wine and excellent cheeses are a good place to start.
