Deer Milk Ice Cream

Chefs Vaughan Mabee (Amisfield, New Zealand) and Vince Trim (Mona) will bring their shared love of unorthodox ingredients and mind-bending dining to life, with a collaborative menu designed to challenge and surprise.

Thanks to the combined efforts of Trim and Kirsha Kaechele (Mona's other half), feral Tasmanian deer is now (legally) on the menu and this year you’ll find it strung up, fire-roasted and sliced to order, alongside an array of wild edibles like wakame furikake, long-spined urchin, wallaby and wattleseed. Dessert goes rogue, too: finish with Mabee’s signature deer milk ice cream drizzled with deer blood caramel.