all About the Mornington peninsula Flavour

The chips at Hawkes Farm are the real deal. Real chips. Not French fries, but chips. Hand-cut, triple-fried, hot and deeply delicious. They’re made from Sebago potatoes that you can see growing in neat green rows from the farm gate café.

The Hawkes family have been growing vegetables for over a century. In 1969, the family moved to the Mornington Peninsula when their market garden in Mordialloc was consumed by suburbia. Today, Richard Hawkes is the sixth generation (and his son Rupert the seventh) to grow produce for the local community, specialising in regenerative farming using cover crops and compost to naturally feed the soil.

The chips are a testament to the way the Hawkes family farm. There is real flavour — an earthiness, a sweetness — with a soft, smooth, fondant-like interior and an exterior that is slightly chewy.

Unlike factory fries, which are all about the snappy crust, Hawkes chips are all about richness of taste. The team wash and hand-cut bags and bags of chips daily (serving Saturday and Sunday), rinsing a little starch off before frying them not once, not twice, but three times. Served with a selection of house-made sauces and the traditional tomato sauce, they sit alongside baked potatoes, croque monsieur, fruit smoothies, gelato and more.

Hawkes Farm
661 Boneo Road, Boneo
Kitchen open 10am–3pm Sat–Sun
Farm gate shop open daily 8am–5pm

www.hawkesfarm.com.au