Celebrity chef Pete Evans will head the kitchen at $3m Port Lincoln restaurant and winery development
CELEBRITY chef Pete Evans will be the executive chef at a $3 million Port Lincoln restaurant and vineyard.
But owner/developer Peter Teakle says Evans’ controversial “paleo way” will not be a factor in the menu, which will instead focus on local produce.
Evans, who will regularly visit the former Delacolline Winery site, now rebadged Peter Teakle Wines and complete with a heli pad, joins a stellar consulting team including Andrew Pike of Pikes Wines as viticulturist, and David O’Leary of O’Leary Walker as winemaker.
“We have extraordinary produce on the Eyre Peninsula, seafood, pork, lamb, and wine, and that’s what we will be concentrating on. I’m not familiar with paleo, and don’t understand it,” said Mr Teakle, who heads a global printing empire started by his grandfather in Adelaide in 1903.
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Mr Teakle, who has been involved in the wine industry, particularly in wine labelling, for 40 years, is renowned for generous support of business and community projects, and is rumoured to have spent more than $6 million in and around Port Lincoln over the past year.
He has purchased a 3ha farm adjacent to the 27ha vineyard now including an extensive vegetable garden and 200 fruit trees which will help fulfil his dream is to showcase Eyre Peninsula food and wine to well-heeled diners. The cost of a dinner was expected to be about $100 for three courses, plus wine.
Mr Teakle said he planned to spend $1 million each on the restaurant, the vineyard and equipment.
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He said Evans would not hold a financial interest, but had been employed as a consultant executive chef.
“Pete Evans will be in charge, and two of his chefs will be working here,” he said of the 120-seat restaurant, which the chef would visit six times a year “to do promotional dinners”.
Mr Teakle said he met the controversial paleo[1] chef and MKR[2] star on a fishing trip off Hamilton Island about six years ago, “and we have been mates every since”.
It was envisaged the team would also be involved in a follow-up project at the Limani Motel on the Port Lincoln foreshore.
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