Harvest has taken its Wild Harvest nights, which usually happen on a Wednesday, to now run seven nights a week. The ‘wild’ nights were so popular that head chef Alastair Waddell and Harvest’s in-house forager and wild-food researcher Peter Hardwick will now be developing and creating the rare, creative and adventurous dinner menu for diners to experience every night. The dinner menu will be imagined and reimagined weekly – Alastair and Peter will embark on a foraging adventure each Wednesday to discover under-utilised native ingredients to work with, and will launch the menu that night, which will run for the entire week. Then on next Wednesday, they do it all again.
The dishes will be inventive, exciting and totally spontaneous – a true expression of the region in that moment. While the offering will change weekly, you can expect creations like potato skins with chive and paperbark-smoked creme fraiche, fresh salmon sashimi with native ginger, finger lime, sesame, kelp and miso, and crispy lamb belly with pickled shiitake mushroom, radish and coastal tea tree. The rare and wild dinner menu is offered in either five or seven courses (a la carte is still available) and will be revealed every Wednesday. For bookings and information, head to the Harvest website.