Destination Flavour
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna embark on a road trip around Australia and meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes. Every episode features a batch of inspiring recipes, reflecting the seasons, the regions and the diversity of Australia's wonderful food culture.
- 2012-2012
- 1 season
- Reality
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna embark on a road trip around Australia and meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes. Every episode features a batch of inspiring recipes, reflecting the seasons, the regions and the diversity of Australia's wonderful food culture.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2012
Episode 1
Margaret River/Melbourne/Hawkesbury River
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the country. In the first episode, Renee meets legendary winemaker turned sheep farmer David Hohnen from the Margaret River region, Adam learns about the new craze for hot and cold smoking in Melbourne, while Lily catches up with leading providore Simon Johnson on Sydney's beautiful Hawkesbury River.
Episode 2
NSW Southern highlands/Melbourne/Tasmania
26 mins
A food-inspired road trip around Australia with hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna. Tonight, Lily samples a gourmet fig tart and snacks on raw potato in the southern highlands of NSW, while Renee experiences the buzz behind the Latin American food scene in Melbourne, and Adam pairs lobster with superb cool-climate wine in Tasmania.
Episode 3
Central Victoria/Sydney Harbour/Canberra
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna take a culinary road trip around Australia. This week, Adam tries the award-winning Holy Goat cheese and discovers Alla Wolf-Tasker's Russian food heritage in Central Victoria, Renee spends a revealing day with Peter Kuruvita on Sydney Harbour, while Lily is treated to a stunning kaiseki menu as a personal guest of the Japanese ambassador in Canberra.
Episode 4
Tropical QLD/Tasmania/Brisbane
25 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the Australia. This week, Renee finds fusion food and real bush tucker in tropical Queensland, Adam drops in for lunch with gourmet farmer Matthew Evans in Tasmania, and Lily meets Ryan Squires, a top Brisbane chef with a passion for sustainable seafood.
Episode 5
Hobart/WA/Sydney
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the Australia. This week, Adam finds Tasmania's freshest oysters and two of the Hobart's most intriguing cafés, Renee samples truffles and marron in Western Australia, while Lily joins top Sydney caterer Peter McClosky, who is preparing a lavish feast for Opera Australia.
Episode 6
Bellingen/Perth/Kangaroo Island
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna take a culinary road trip around Australia. This week, Lily finds a two-hatted family-run restaurant in Bellingen and then an Italian family who make authentic salami in Byron Bay. Renee gets a taste for real 'nose to tail' eating in Perth, while Adam heads to Kangaroo Island for a remarkable 'lamb ham' made with home-cured lamb leg, flavoured with curry and spices.
Episode 7
Central Western NSW/Brisbane/Somer Sivrioglu
25 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the Australia. This week, Renee finds prime free-range pork and wild fallow deer in central western NSW, Lily has lunch with two of Brisbane's best Spanish chefs, while Adam spends a day with Turkish chef Somer Sivrioglu, whose obsession with authenticity won him first prize in the 2012 'Taste of Sydney' awards.
Episode 8
SA/Port Douglas/Sydney
25 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna take a culinary road trip around Australia. This week Adam finds premium wagyu beef and his first food hero, Cheong Liew, in his home state of South Australia, Renee meets Michelin starred chef Spencer Patrick who's set up shop in Port Douglas, and Lily hangs out with Luke Nguyen at the opening of his new restaurant in Sydney.
Episode 9
Darling Downs/Tasmania/Sydney
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the Australia. This week Lily tracks down the best food in Queensland's Darling Downs, from organic olives to Boer goats; Adam pairs a magnificent duck dish with a classic Tasmanian pinot, and Renee finds Australia's best butter in Sydney.
Episode 10
Melbourne/Tropical QLD
26 mins
Hosts Adam Liaw, Renee Lim and Lily Serna meet passionate growers, celebrated chefs and local food heroes from all over the Australia. In this final episode, Adam meets the chefs behind two of Melbourne's top restaurants, Lily finds out why some of our favourite foods are fermented, and Renee discovers two food pioneers in tropical Queensland growing cocoa and vanilla.