PROPERTY/ FOOD

FOOD

WELL DONE DONE WELL

HAT THIS FAMILY RESTAURANT HOW long have you been in St Ives? What do you like about St Ives?

I’ve been working at the St Ives store since we opened its doors 8 years ago in 2012. For me St Ives is home. I love the local village, the warm community and our regular customers that live in the neighbourhood and have been visiting our store for years and years. It’s a special feeling to watch the customers you first served as kids with their parents, grow up and become adults of their own. We have a St Ives family and we get to share life’s most important milestones with our customers.

Who are your most frequent customers?

Chargrill Charlie’s caters for absolutely everyone - local families that are feeding toddlers through to grandparents, that can sit around the dinner table together and be united by good quality, home-cooked style food; the local school kids and sport teams that love to come in all together for their Thursday afternoon soft serve; to the local workers and tradies that love a regular lunch time fix and everyone in between.

What is the strangest thing that’s happened in your store? Neighbourhood Media spoke with Dallia Catzel, the owner of Chargrill Charlie’s St Ives, about food, family, and feeling good about life.

Not so strange - but super fun when the whole local St Ives Rugby Club came to visit us, all of the staff got a bit excited!!

How is Chargrill Charlie’s different from other fast food outlets?

Chargrill Charlie’s offers good quality, delicious, fresh homestyle cooked meals perfect for all ages. Beyond the traditional burger and chips, Chargrill Charlie’s offers a vast array of delicious healthy salads that are prepared daily, a rotating hot bar that includes dishes such as roasted veggies, beef brisket, salmon, pad thai and curries, amongst many others, along with their classic BBQ and Portuguese Chicken cooked to serve.

Chargrill Charlie’s at its core is a family run, community driven business. We have a genuine love for our customers and look forward to the regular chats when they visit us in the store to pick up our food. For us, Chargrill Charlie’s is an extension of our local community’s dinner table.

https://chargrillcharlies.com

Free delivery For anything over $30 & within St iveS area* we uSe our Friendly inStore StaFF to deliver to your door don’t have to waSte time online & can Simply phone order in mix your grocery & alcohol delivery* Call 99839206

*(monday to Friday) *(muSt be 18+ to order alcohol with prooF oF id on delivery)

FOOD/PETS THE MIRACLE THAT IS HONEY

Bees deserve credit for creating one of the most amazing substances on Earth - honey. Lindsay Chalmers

Nexplains why this golden liquid is so extraordinary. NOT only is honey great for sweetening a spot of tea, spread- HONEY HAS DIFFERENT FLAVOURS ing on a toasted crumpet and more, it also has some incredible TEXTURES AND COLOUR properties that sets it apart from all other food products. Honey’s depth of flavour is determined by the source of the HONEY NEVER SPOILS The best loved Australian honey flavours come from:

When sealed in an airtight container, honey is Blue gum – light amber, choice forest honey one of the few foods known to have an eternal from the south. shelf life. Who knew huh? There are even reports Karri – amber honey from the forests of Westof edible honey being found in several-thousand- ern Australia. year-old Egyptian tombs. Honey’s longevity can be explained by its chemical makeup: The substance is naturally acidic and low in moisture, EVIDENCE OF HONEY BEING PRESCRIBED AS A MEDICAL Leatherwood – unique honey from the west coast of Tasmania, quick to candy and extra light in colour. making it an inhospitable environment for bacte- TREATMENT DATES BACK AS FAR Lucerne – mild-tasting honey. ria. BEES REALLY ARE BUSY A typical beehive can produce anywhere from 20 – 45 kg of honey a year. To produce a half a kg of honey, a colony of bees must collect nectar from approximately 2 million flowers and fly over 80,000km. AS ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Yellow box – pale and sweet honey from New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. Stringy bark – strong flavoured, medium amber honey from the Great Dividing Range. Ti-tree – very strong flavoured honey used mainly in manufacturing, from the north

HONEY HAS MEDICINAL VALUE Evidence of honey being prescribed as a medical treatment and south. White clover – extra white honey that candies smoothly. dates back as far as ancient Mesopotamia. Because the substance is so inhospitable to bacteria, it was often used as a natural bandage to protect cuts and burns from infection. Today, honey is still used as a natural treatment for dandruff, cuts, stomach ulcers, The darkness or lightness of certain honey varies as well. The texture can be a runny liquid, crystalised or even creamed. The older the honey gets, the more it crystalises. Crystallisation does not affect the flavour, quality or nutritional content of the honey, though it does affect colour and texture. It makes it a lighter colour and in my opinion, even more delicious. and even seasonal allergies. nectar it was made from.