For us, alfresco means enjoying the sights of your backyard and surrounding scenic vistas, as well as the smells wafting from the grill. Bringing together tastes of complex flavours with sounds of excited conversation. And of course, it is feeling the power and control of your BBQ beneath your fingertips, like a culinary maestro.
Pictured: The Kalamazoo Hybrid Fire Grill
In this guide, we’ll show you the best and latest in alfresco living, from the world’s greatest alfresco brands, to the products that are revolutionising outdoor entertainment. The below tips will guide you in creating an alfresco area that's suited to your needs.
Step 1: Embrace a Theme
When looking to create your perfect alfresco area, consider the wider style of your home and the feeling you wish to evoke when you or your guests enter the space. The perfect alfresco area blends the best of indoor and outdoor living to create a fusion of comfort and escape. Does the warmth of natural wood call to you? Perhaps you wish to integrate your appliances so they can be hidden when not in use? Do you prefer open space? Or do you wish for no specific theme? Complement or contrast, display or blend, play with colour or keep it simple. Your alfresco area should be a delight to your senses.
Pictured: Wolf Built-in BBQ & Wolf Built-in Single Burner Module
Step 2: Choose a Complementary BBQ or Grill
An important consideration when designing your alfresco area is your choice of cooking appliances. Are you going to need a gas connection for a natural gas BBQ? Would you like to smoke different types of fruits, veggies and meats? Want to mix things up by incorporating a pizza oven into your space? At Winnings, we have a great range of barbeques to suit your personal cooking style and aesthetic.
Kalamazoo Hybrid Fire Built-in Grill
With the harmony of bronze, steel and flame, the Kalamazoo Hybrid Fire is versatility refined. Smoke, grill and bake with any combination of gas, wood or charcoal cooking, creating meals or snacks to satiate every appetite. Provided by the cast-bronze Dragon Burners, the expansive temperature range allows for rapid searing, low and slow, and anything in between. From a satisfying reverse-seared tomahawk steak, to decadent cinnamon whiskey pineapple, the Hybrid Fire puts control in your capable hands.
BeefEater ProLine 6 Burner LPG BBQ
Pictured: Beefeater ProLine 6
There’s beauty in simplicity and an elegance in the functional minimalism that the BeefEater ProLine offers. Six burners spread heat evenly across the cast-iron grill and hotplate, creating a feast for all to enjoy. This BBQ will suit everyone from the engaged entertainer to the creative culinarian.
Wolf Built-in Natural Gas Grill
Pictured: Wolf Built-in BBQ & Wolf Built-in Single Burner Module
Fresh air, the Australian sun and the Wolf Built-in Natural Gas Grill — a combination to elevate not only your flavours, but the entire cooking experience. Four individually controlled burners provide independent temperature control throughout the grill, maintaining consistent heat distribution across the surface of the Wolf. Let rich aromas suffuse your alfresco area and release your inner masterchef as you flip, slide and serve your favourites.
Kalamazoo Artisan Pizza Oven
Backyard entertaining and dining don’t have to be relegated solely to grills and outdoor cooktops. Incorporate new flavours into your alfresco area with the addition of a Kalamazoo Artisan Pizza Oven, which replicates the characteristics of a traditional wood-fired oven. The Artisan offers precise control and adjustment of temperatures, courtesy of the hollow core cooking deck and dual burners.
Step 3: Add Accessories: Sinks, Taps, Beverage Centers, & Fridges
Pictured: Sub-Zero Indoor/Outdoor Fridge Drawer
The alfresco experience must go beyond choosing the right BBQ or smoker. Complete your space with the addition of storage cabinets, a stylish sink, and a beverage fridge for storing your favourite drinks or cocktail ingredients. Keep your aesthetic vision intact by integrating these elements into the surrounding space. Hide your fridge or storage space behind a facade constructed from your choice of material, whether it’s a homey wood, darkened glass, stainless steel, or something entirely different.
Step 4: Control Your Climate
A source of hearty warmth in winter and a cosy backdrop in summer, a fireplace or fire pit can bring a mellow atmosphere to your outdoor dining. Enjoy the clean-burning presence of flickering flames with a bio-ethanol or electric fireplace, capturing the essence of a wood-burning fire as you wine, dine and recline.
Step 5: Entertain With More Than Just Food
An alfresco solution complete with outdoor entertainment turns special occasions into extraordinary experiences. Imagine serving guests with a barbecue feast on match day. Or enjoying a dinner and a movie alfresco-style under the stars.
The Samsung Terrace Outdoor TV and Soundbar range has been specially designed to provide your entertainment needs in your alfresco space. Compared to conventional indoor TVs, the Samsung Terrace TV delivers a brighter display and anti-glare technology for clear images even outdoors.
