Relishing our Region with Pantry in your Pocket 2025
Prepare to meet passionate producers of the region for a festival of downright deliciousness! Jodie Cameron opens Queensland’s Sunshine Pantry as part of The Curated Plate.
Local flavours are cooking and brewing with the return of the Sunshine Coast’s premier homegrown festival – The Curated Plate which runs from 25 July to 3 August 2025.
Presented by Sunshine Coast Council, enjoy paddock-to-plate dining, fresh local produce, brews, unique farm stays and so much more, from the ocean to
the hinterland – there’s a bounty of experiences waiting to be discovered with every event featuring local produce as the star of its show.
The region is home to more than 900 passionate producers and makers and Queensland’s Sunshine Pantry – a joint initiative of Food & Agribusiness Network (FAN) and Visit Sunshine Coast supported by Sunshine Coast Council, Noosa Council, Gympie Council and Tourism Noosa – brings together the best of best of our regions’ local produce and producers to tell their stories, not only through food but experiences.
To start your journey into ten delicious days of incredible food and drink experiences, what better way to start your gastronomical adventure than at Queensland’s Sunshine Pantry Twilight Market at The Station SC, Birtinya on Friday 25 July from 4pm to 8pm!
Celebrating all the local flavours, meet the producers, makers, distillers, brewers, bakers and chefs who bring the produce to our tables for an evening of mouth-watering flavours, local creativity, and good vibes!
This is your chance to explore the Pantry and fill yours as you taste, sip, and savour the very best of the Greater Sunshine Coast Region at one of the Coast’s most accessible venues.
Relish the creative spirit of the greater Sunshine Coast with the regions’ top producers and makers sharing their stories along with demonstrations, tastings and activities for the kids adding to the flavour-filled fun!
This FREE event is an opportunity to connect and taste gourmet goodies from decadent chocolate, boutique brews, cheeses, sustainably-managed meats, to honey, locally-roasted coffee, sauces, spirits, tea with purpose, fresh produce, healthy elixirs, wellness and skincare – and so much more!
Hear the stories, sample the flavours, and fill your pantry and your heart with homegrown love!
At Hello Sunshine Magazine, we love connecting the community through storytelling – whether that’s the timeless magic of print; insightful chats on our Everyone Has a Story: Conversations from the Sunshine Coast & Noosa podcast; at events; or sharing a locally-sourced or lovingly created drink or meal!
We are proud to once again be partnering with FAN and Visit Sunshine Coast to produce the mini-edition Pantry in Your Pocket to help you discover and sample some of the local champions on display – and a tempting taster of some of the amazing local flavours to be discovered as part of Queensland’s Sunshine Pantry.
Pantry in Your Pocket offers a way to connect and reconnect with the local producers, distillers, makers and experiences. Even if you can’t make it
to the event, you can find the guide online so you’ll have all the local pantry faves at your finger-licking fingertips!
Read on for some of our favourite flavours!
