Martin Martini (@bellyoftheworldmushrooms)
Bernard Caleo, turnip soup & cinnamon chiffon cake
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MARTIN MARTINI > Entertainer, musician, artist & wild mushroom expert/hunter (Belly of the World Mushrooms) leads iconic Mushroom Meander educational foraging tours across Australia.
Where do you live most of the year?
West End/Kurilpa (land of the water rat) - QLD
What do you look for in a restaurant when you walk in?
Something not too slick, family run, one person trying to pull off a miracle either very badly or with complete ease, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, one gas flame, simple food, it has to be alive (not the food) the feeling in the room etc
What is your final meal?
Turnip soup, panfried cheese and pickled fennel sandwich, icecream (probably change my mind tomorrow)
3 guests for dinner, dead or alive?
Bernard Caleo, Nina Simone, Eddie Perfect
Martin’s Taste Maker Guide
Breakfast: Chatei Hatou, Shibuya Tokyo
Order: Cinnamon chiffon cake
Coffee: Ask for the House Blend
Lunch: Loafer Bakery, North Fitzroy
Order: Batch brew coffee, Cardamom scroll, egg & salad baguette to go
Special dinner: Anekawa, Mudgeeraba, QLD
My favourite Japanese restaurant in the country, Ask Koki for the local eel if its in season, if you are lucky he will have some of my wild foraged mushrooms out the back - he will serve these on rice in a claypot - also if you are very lucky our aged chanterelle miso or rhino foot mushroom miso might be lying about, you can't go wrong on the menu.
Casual dinner: Pizza by Kit Lacuzi > currently at Bahama Gold, Brunswick East Melbourne
Order: When we hunting Vic Porcini - order the funghi pizza - otherwise Semi-dried Pizzutello tomatoes, stracciatella, pecorino, garlic, basil pizza
Wine: Wash down with Jauma Wines, 2023 Danby Grenache
Special shoutouts
Narukiyo Izakaya, Shibuya City > when in Tokyo - Tempura + raw horse etc
Riser Bakery, Toowong QLD > Focizza or Torta Della Nonna w Yoke Kitchen Chai
Best fresh goats cheese and buttermilk I have ever tasted made by Camille Mortaud who learnt to make it from his mother growing up in Poitiers, France >> only available on Saturdays / West End Market. I drink the fizzy butter milk like it's water etc
