all together
FRIDA’S FIELD has been open for just over a year – a year marked by intermittent lockdowns and plenty of uncertainty. Yet against all odds, it’s been a year of outstanding successes for the thriving NSW Northern Rivers restaurant, and they’re celebrating those achievements with this Christmas feast.
Of their first long lunch at the end of September 2020, “We were kind of flying blind,” says owner Jeanie Wylie, who lives on the site of Nashua restaurant (also home to their 48-hectare mixed farm) with her partner, Edward Rawlings, and their three children, Freddie, 10, Evie, seven, and Arthur, five. “It’s moved faster than I imagined. We thought we’d start with some pop-ups, but when the pandemic hit, we thought, ‘OK, we’re just going to go for it. We’ll do a long lunch every two weeks and see how they go.’ They sold out really quickly. So we thought, ‘OK, we’ll do two every week.’ And again, they sold out. Then we did Friday, Saturday and Sunday all summer and
