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This 113-year-old Mapleton fixture will have you heading for the hills
Delicious Magazine | By Alison Walsh
26 AUGUST 2022
What do you get when the growers of the country’s best organic vegetables take over their local pub? Chicken schnitzel with premium veg of course.
At $34, this is unlikely to be the cheapest schnitty around, but the massive hunk of golden crumbed free-range breast perched atop a nest of creamed potatoes, teamed with frighteningly fresh broccolini and carrots and lapped by a prodigious puddle of chicken sauce is something of a triumph.
Mapleton Public House transforms a Sunshine Coast institution into a paddock-to-plate pop-up
The Weekend Edition | By Sara Weckerle
26 AUGUST 2022
If you needed another excuse to pack up the car and head to the Sunshine Coast, consider this it. Local owners of The Falls Farm in Mapleton, Ben Johnston and Jess Huddart, have purchased the 113-year-old Mapleton Tavern, and are currently transforming the venue into a paddock-to-plate paradise.
The Falls Farm Team Is Transforming a 112-Year-Old Hinterland Tavern Into a Destination Paddock-to-Plate Pub
Broadsheet Brisbane | By Matt Shea
19 AUGUST 2022
From running Josephmark, an internationally recognised design business, to tilling the soil at The Falls Farm, an award-winning south-east Queensland specialist grower that supplies some of Brisbane’s best restaurants – including Essa, Agnes and Gerard’s Bistro – to now buying a country pub. Such has been the 18-year twin career path of Ben Johnston and Jessica Huddart.
Paddock to plate: farming family takes pub grub into the future at historic tavern
Sunshine Coast News | By Caitlin Zerafa
27 JULY 2022
With the dream to one day open a restaurant of their own where they could share the knowledge of regenerative farming with diners, the husband-and-wife duo jumped at the opportunity to take over the landmark pub.
Bringing in former Spicers executive chef, Cameron Matthews, the refreshed menu will capitalise on what is grown at the farm and include prime rib steak and roast potatoes, house-made calamari and honey miso carrots.
‘Worth the drive’: Sunshine Coast pub offering unforgettable chicken schnitzel
The Courier Mail
26 AUGUST 2022
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