Cooked: Open Grill

In a small dog park, Long Prawn once saw a businessman eating a freshly cooked steak straight from a public BBQ. No plate, no worries, just a hot serve of grilled meat for one, then back to the office.

Certainly, the public BBQ is something special. It'll grill a lunch for one or a feed for the masses. It's a place for multicultural, multi-culinary collision; snags alongside seafood and seitan, pots of rice, urns of rose tea, fatty lamb skewers or naughty but nice honey soy chicken thighs. The public BBQ is a genreless hotplate where the simple instruction 'apply heat and eat' sears together offerings from across the globe, gluing us together in a way that only food can.

In honour of this special food space, a lively public BBQ space has been built in the middle of Fed Square. It'll be a place to gather and grill, with food, performance, and conversation on the menu. COOKED makes space for divergent ideas and an unbagged BBQ for people and cultures to break bread.