Red Gum BBQ’s authentic American-style restaurant in Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula, is thrilled to announce its second location, Red Gum BBQ At Home, has now opened in Seaford. Customers can expect a southern-style takeaway menu with mouth-watering rolls packed with meats including grass-fed brisket, free-range pulled pork, smoked chicken and more.
The expansion also sees Red Gum BBQ move their manufacturing facility to the new Seaford location. Available in store is Red Gum’s award-winning sauces, tasty meat rubs, and soon to launch smallgoods. Red Gum BBQ At Home is a hotspot for BBQ lovers to get everything they need from a quick takeaway to a home cooked southern feast.
Red Gum BBQ also celebrated its ten-year milestone last month. The past decade has been a labour of love for owners Melissa and Martin Goffin. Their journey began with travels across Georgia, Tennessee, South and North Carolina and Virginia as Martin’s love for BBQ and Southern food was born while visiting Melissa at home in Florida. Martin left his local government job to establish Red Gum BBQ in 2013, which later made its home in Red Hill in 2016. Melissa then left her teaching job and the couple went all in to the business.
In early 2018, Red Gum BBQ became Australia’s first B Corp restaurant. The ethical accreditation is one Red Gum BBQ is very proud of and drives decision-making across the business. Today Red Gum BBQ has become well-known and loved for continuing to create the best, most authentic Southern-style BBQ.
As co-owner and Managing Director of Red Gum BBQ, Melissa Goffin is passionate about ethical businesses and women’s advocacy. She is a founding member of the Women in Business Mornington Peninsula and believes deeply in the power of women to change the world and the need to create more inclusive social and political conditions for them to do so. Melissa is also as a founder and organiser of the Women’s March on Melbourne.
Martin Goffin is the resident Pitmaster of Red Gum BBQ. He found his inspiration through travelling around the US and uncovering family recipes. When Martin returned from his travels he experimented with various styles of barbecue, filling the backyard of their St Kilda home with smoke each weekend. During his paternity leave, Martin searched for an industrial space and found what was formerly Elgar Pittock’s garage next to the Red Hill Scout hall. It is now home to three large Texas-style offset smoker barbecues made of recycled LPG gas tanks. Ten years later, Red Gum BBQ has become a must-visit destination on the Mornington Peninsula for lovers of low and slow cooked authentic Southern BBQ.
The Red Gum BBQ team is excited to welcome customers into the new Seaford location so they can take home tasty treats for a southern-style feast at home, including the handcrafted small-batch sauces and meat rubs.
Red Gum BBQ at Home
21 Rutherford Rd, Seaford
Now open
redgumbbq.com.au