Tokar Estate Now Offering Meals At Home With Free Wine and Delivery

Like many hospitality-based businesses, Yarra Valley based winery Tokar Estate has established an offering to help take the restaurant experience home though a new offering – Rita’s Pantry. 

Named after the matriarch of the Winery- Rita Tokar, celebrating European values of great food and generous portions, the menu has been curated by head Chef – Maria Kabal. Offering a premium experience that is prepared in house at the winery from scratch that you can plate within 20 minutes with minimal preparation. 

In its pilot phase, the initial offering will offer four complete meal options presented in convenient vacuum-packed serving sizes for one, two or for a family, and includes generous portions of proteins and flavoursome sides that simply need to be placed sous-vide in water to heat or boiled in the case of pasta. The menu will rotate fortnightly with new offerings.

The offering is priced at $55 for single serves, $110 for double serves or $200 for family portions and includes:

• Pine Mushroom Tagliatelle
• Pressed Lamb Shoulder, Broccolini, Almonds & Parsley
• Confit Duck Leg with White Bean Cassoulet
• Chermoula Chicken, Spiced Cauliflower and Freekeh Salad, Pine Nut and Pomegranate

In addition to the prepared meals, the team have also curated a Pantry Essentials Box in a bid to support local suppliers and ease the pressure of shopping in centres. For $45 the box includes: 

• 2L St David Dairy full cream milk (or an alternate premium plant-based milk for those lactose intolerant)
• ½ Dozen Eggs (sourced from a farm in Devon Meadows)
• 200gr. Tokar Estate Home Made Pasta
• 1L Tokar Estate Chicken Stock (bones sourced from a producer in Bendigo)
• 200gr Premium Beef Mince (sourced from Gippsland- first batch is Wagyu Beef)
• 200ml Tokar Estate Napoli Sauce
• 1 loaf of Tokar Estate Sourdough Bread

An option to build up the box for an additional $35 doubles the eggs to an offering of a dozen, the stock to 2L and the Napoli Sauce to 400ml, and increases Pasta and Mince to half a kilo – ideal for families.

All packs come with free delivery, with the first 150 orders receiving a free bottle of Tokar Estate Wine. 

Daniel Tokar of Tokar Estate said the offering was there in an effort to continue opportunities for the team. “The lockdown has hit the hospitality industry hard. Because we employ so many locals, and their local families in our kitchen, cellar door and restaurant we wanted to find a way to ensure they have a job that complies with regulations and continues to offer them some security. Our team will be delivering, packing and preparing these products in line with the government regulations and food handling best practice – hopefully this can continue through the lockdown.” 
 

“We have significantly reduced the costs of the offerings, despite the process and ingredients being exactly the same as a dine-in experience so that this is an accessible option to all, this allows (we hope) for more orders and thus more work for our team.  We have also changed some of our suppliers to be local wherever possible.” Tokar said. 

Orders will be taken online via the webstore at to https://tokarestate.com.au/, over the phone at 03 5964 9585 or via email bookings@tokarestate.com.au. Credit Card Payments only.