Bait to Plate

Kev Collins

Well known Restauranter and co-owner of Fish D'vine & The Rum Bar in Airlie Beach. When Kev's not working he's out fishing in the amazing food bowl of the Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef Marine Park or in his tinnie in the estuaries crabbing! His blog imparts wisdom, tales and info on all things fishing and food.

Making every home cook a little bit D'Vine

Like just about every restaurant in the world these days Covid- 19 has meant we need to adapt and change the business as normal model.  Originally, we shifted quickly into the home delivery prepared and cooked meals and this space became very crowded, very quickly, and as restaurants reopened to some degree, we have looked at other ways to adapt to the current situation.

Clearly home dining is here to stay, in fact it always has been, and a bit of research indicated Australian’s collectively either host or attend a dinner party 4 million times a month. Wow. That was a surprise statistic. Coupled with our love affair with home cooking was the realisation that with food playing such a big part in the overall holiday experience, we were living in a region where self-contained luxury holidays homes and apartments are a huge part of the local market.

Typically, guests staying in hotel style accommodation, without cooking facilities, eat out every night, but people staying in fully equipped holidays homes and apartments like the option of in room dining at least a couple of times during their stay. This market is well serviced by local supermarkets and great food retailers for seafood, meats and fruit and vegetables but all these options still require a fair bit of work for the person doing the cooking, and we figured, hey, they are on holidays too..

It is also to a degree well serviced by providers and meal plan providers but it did not, to us, cater to the guests wanting to easily create a restaurant style experience, in the comfort of their own villa, holiday home or on the back deck of their bare-boat or private yacht.

 So it was that our home delivery model has adapted to become D’Vine D’livery, high end, chef prepared meals and meal plans, ready to be cooked easily by any home cook and capable of turning any dinner party or holiday meal into a special occasion at a fraction of the price of a full-service restaurant.

Our website is live, our service runs on a 365-day basis and our product range is nothing like has ever been offered before in the Whitsundays. From caviar to Wagyu steaks and 30-hour slow cooked grain fed briskets and butterfly peri-peri chicken we have added the best regionally sourced produce and product lines to our already well-established seafood supplies to make D’vine D’’livery the ideal option for anyone holidaying in the Whitsundays in villas, holiday homes and boats.

Every meal come ready to just cook, every item includes cooking instructions and every meal and meal plan of package is delivered to your door.

Making every meal and event and every memory of dining in the Whitsundays special. Visit the website on www.dliveryaustralia.com.au and look at the full video experience and please, share it with friends if they are planning to visit. It will also make your next dinner party an outstanding success while our chefs do most of the work, and you can claim all the accolades.