This Week-Long Food Festival Is Worth The Road Trip
Eat, drink, road trip
By Kiri Johnston | 20th October 2025Just over the border, about an hour and a half from Brisbane, a different kind of food festival is about to begin. Paddocks, orchards and riverfront lawns become dining rooms. Chefs step out of their kitchens and into the landscape. Plates arrive still warm from open flames. The air smells like citrus, woodsmoke and sea salt.
Savour the Tweed unfolds from 22–28 October — a week-long celebration of food, land and community where the region sets the rhythm. There are no barriers or big stages here, just long tables beneath macadamias, cocktails poured at dusk, bread passed down linen-draped tables as the hills turn pastel behind Wollumbin. Mornings unfold slowly: coffee on the stove, oysters being shucked from the morning’s catch.
Some of Australia’s most respected names from Mindy Woods, Martin Boetz of Shortgrain, Frank Camorra of Movida and Christine Manfield will be cooking one-off menus built around produce grown metres from your seat. And if you haven’t booked yet, a handful of intimate experiences still have places available:
Cheese, Clay & CultureA collaboration between cheesemaker Kat Harvey, Leia Sherblom of Grit Ceramics and brewer Nick Loeve of Caldera Brewing pair handcrafted cheese and beer with live pottery throwing and conversations around craft.
Walking TogetherHosted by Mindy Woods and Christine Manfield, this dinner blends First Nations and Indian food cultures with native ingredients, storytelling and song, a shared table and a call to connection.
Rum ParlourStep inside Husk House for an intimate dinner of rum cocktails and a three-course menu by Jason Saxby of Raes at Wategos, alongside Husk’s culinary team led by head chef Pepsi — fine dining, distillery spirit.
Cane Country Taste Makers in CondongA deep dive into Australia’s sugar-to-rum story with Birds of Isle Rum founders Sally Carter and Chanel Melani. Taste your way through the process, from cane to cask, with native botanicals, local history and a pioneering female-founded distillery.
Fire & Forage: Tropical Fruit WorldExpect a transformation with an open-air fire feast in a macadamia orchard serving game and seafood cooked over flame, with foraged fruit ice cream, fascinating stories and farm flavours for a one-of-a-kind dining event.
Throw a few things in a bag, leave the city behind and arrive at a slower pace to savour all that The Tweed has to offer.
When: 22–28 OctoberWhere: The Tweed regionTickets: Select events have limited tickets available here.
