Wild Harvest Cooking School
9am to 2pm, year round. Price on application.
Join us at the Chef’s Table and celebrate a culinary journey on King Island. Immerse yourself in the gourmet experience at Australia’s award-winning restaurant Wild Harvest, with Head Chef Ian Johnson.
Our all-inclusive package includes seeing our stunning flora and fauna in our purpose-built 4WD. We meet local producers and forage for special ingredients, which we will use in the cooking school during the experience.
Together we will create a three-course lunch with matching wines, celebrating local crayfish or King Island beef. An example: an entrée velouté crayfish, followed by a lemon butter saltbush crayfish, to delight your senses.
This experience includes
- Return transfers from your accommodation to Wild Harvest
- Guided 4WD trip to forage for local ingredients
- Cooking guidance during class
- The lunch your class has created
- Matching wine
- A Wild Harvest gift
Detail
- Wild Harvest Cooking School accommodates groups of 4 to 12 per class
- Operates year round
- Bring suitable clothing and shoes, and a camera
The longer story
King Island Wild Harvest Cooking School offers a unique food experience. King Island is known as the Gourmet Island. Ian Johnson, head chef, follows the food trail and seasons of King Island, renowned for its crayfish industry, abalone, grass-fed beef, lamb and pork, and its iconic King Island Dairy, to mention a few.
This grassroots experience starts on board our all-purpose, purpose-built four wheel drive shopping trolley. Foraging the foreshore, a hands-on experience by all. Chef Ian explains each element as it’s gathered for the cook. Our short drive through the countryside builds the story of our producers, island life and everything pure.
Arriving at Wild Harvest, pulling on your aprons, learning, working together, prepping, cooking, plating, then onto the Chef’s Table, a true dining experience matched with Tasmanian wines.
It’s a sea to table, paddock to plate experience. Come and share in the cooking secrets of Wild Harvest restaurant, voted number one in Australia by People’s Choice.