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NEW ZEALAND KING SALMON COMPANY
The New Zealand King Salmon Company is majority owned by the Tiong Group and the business has been in continuous operation for over 25 years. The business is based in the New Zealand’s South Island town of Nelson and employs over 440 people. They operate 2 hatcheries on the south island and 6 sea farms in the Marlborough Sounds; and has a marketing office located in Auckland. Today they proudly export fish to 13 overseas markets. The majority of their products are Kosher and Halal.
The company continues to invest heavily in research and technology to ensure the future of Regal Brand King Salmon, and has been recognised by the British Humane Society for their harvesting techniques.
The Regal Branded NZ King Salmon they supply to market are sustainably raised in the near perfect waters of New Zealand’s Marlborough Sounds. The stable temperature range and high volume water flow through the sounds together with the careful management of this environment and their fish stocks ensure that antibiotics and growth promoting hormones are not used. Regal King Salmon’s dedication to quality of product and the environment is paramount to their success.
Regal King Salmon is a flavoursome fish with a delicate texture that lends itself perfectly to many cooking styles and techniques, and has been reared to be enjoyed. As an ingredient, Regal King Salmon is recognised as the Premium Table Salmon because of the high levels of Omega 3 oils, rich colour & succulence that is maintained even after cooking; and is used by some of the world’s best Chefs and Restaurants to enhance the experience they offer to their diners.
JOTO FRESH FISH
Joto was founded in early 1998 by Jules Crocker. They were delivering seafood to Sydney restaurants from the beginning, with one van, one employee and working out of a small rented premises in Clovelly, in Sydney’s East. They were also committed to outstanding quality and service, which is still their greatest asset. With this philosophy, their reputation quickly grew and they are now Sydney’s top-end seafood supplier with a purpose built factory in Botany, a fleet of seven delivery trucks, delivering six days a week to over 80 of Sydney’s best restaurants.
Joto Fresh Fish are continuously getting enquiries from their customers, media & the general public about seafood sustainability. In truth, until recently, it has been impossible for them to comment with any degree of accuracy or authority, due to a lack of information available and knowledge in this very important area. Currently, publicly available information on sustainable fish in Australia is thin on the ground at best and more often than not presented in a selective way to suit the publisher.
Joto Fresh Fish has engaged an independent researcher to produce easy to read fact sheets for individual species harvested from the five Australian Commonwealth fisheries. It is not their intention to take a position with regard to particular species or wider sustainability but rather to present the information to our customers so that they are armed with better information when deciding what to buy or planning menus.
With public interest growing in this area almost daily – there are sure to be benefits from this program for both Joto Fresh Fish and our customers.
BERRIDALE
Berridale, a modest little farm nestled into the hills of Blackheath, is a long way from the glittering waterside views of Sydney Harbour, that are so much a part of both Otto Ristorante and Quay.. And yet the story of the little farm and the Fink Group restaurants are linked in very fundamental and exciting ways.
The story begins with a chance meeting in 2006 between Leon Fink and boutique farmer Richard Kalina. Leon was impressed by Richard’s innovative farming techniques and by his passion for rare crops. The meeting of these two has given rise to an exciting partnership. They have developed a type of a “bespoke” farming style which has produced crops not seen before such as organic white raspberries, miniature pea sprouts, miniature turnips and tiny white and red carrots.
Why buy a farm in the mountains? Richard knew from his Finnish wife and her family that everything grown at altitude tastes different and that berries love the cold. That if Australians could only taste what real organic berries and vegetables and fruit from healthy soil tasted like, they would want more. His first great passion was currents, a crop he had seen bastardized by modern day farming methods but grown properly, full of goodness and flavour.
Richard’s farming has led him into areas he would never have dreamt of in his previous career as a photographer, whose portrait commissions included The Queen, Tony Blair, Morgan Freeman and Christopher Reeves. Today, his proudest achievement is an innovative secure berry compound that combines a hail net, a bird and a rabbit fence and spans almost an acre.
LARIO INTERNATIONAL
Lario International offers its customers the highest quality artisan foods from Europe while bringing only unique products to our Australian shores.
Opening its doors in 2002 in Sydney importing food primarily from Italy, Lario is now a leading importer catering to many of Australia’s finest restaurants and selected retailers. Constantly travelling to Europe to source the most sought after and finest foods on the market, Lario knows the market and their suppliers well. Many of their suppliers are family run businesses still using traditional methods of production to create outstanding products.
Gianmarco Balestrini, the Managing Director, was born in Italy in 1968. He comes from a long line of merchants. Marco’s great grandfather was a successful greengrocer in Lake Como and his father still runs the business started almost 150 years ago. Food was always a predominant part of the day growing up in this Italian household.
He did however leave his passion for food for more than 10 years to study Biology at Universita’ Statale di Milano and made his way to Australia to complete his Master’s degree in Marine Science at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. It was from here that his love of Australia and fine foods saw him return to Sydney to live and to open Lario International.
ANDREWS MEATS
Andrews Meat Industries is a family owned company that has provided total meat solutions to the food service industry for over 40 years. Their marketing and product strategy is very much brand focused. Consequently they have forged strong relationships with some of Australia’s largest pastoral companies and producers. Securing product availability and consistency has been particularly important during what has been the worst drought in Australian history.
Smaller, more niche producers have also been an important component of this product strategy in providing restaurants with access to highly exclusive and specialised products.
Andrews is licensed by Meat Livestock Australia to process and supply, tenderness guaranteed, MSA graded beef. We are also certified by the Halal Certification Authority and have an in house Muslim delegate for the packing of Halal orders.
Our production facility is HACCP certified by NCS International and is Safe Food NSW accredited. We have also been awarded an A+ establishment rating by AUSMEAT for quality assurance.
