Behind the Elephant Hill Restaurant summer menu with Chef Ashley Jones

Tweet2eat heads out to Te Awanga to see what Chef Ashley Jones has in store for Hawke's Bays dining locals and visiting tourists over summer at the Elephant Hill Winery Restaurant.   

We start with the foodie equivalent of small talk and discuss grow your own herbs, mesculin and micro greens used as garnishes on the dish. Elephant Hill grows their own on-site and have recently completed their first trial of pressing their own olive oil from trees planted on the Elephant Hill Winery estate. "The trees are young so for now the oil is just used for cooking. The Village Press helped out with pressing and were great throughout the whole process so this is expected to be an ongoing activity" Ashley says. 

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