Eight Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2017 Events You Can Still Get Tickets To
Burger parties, pub food pop-ups and Italian discos.
Eight Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2017 Events You Can Still Get Tickets To
Burger parties, pub food pop-ups and Italian discos.
From this Friday, Melbourne's annual celebration of all things wining and dining rocks into town, with this year's Melbourne Food & Wine Festival promising as tasty a lineup as ever before. From epic sit-down dinners with a low-waste approach, to a food truck burger face-off, there's something among this smorgasbord
of events to suit every palate and budget. Time to break out the stretchy clothes and feast yourself silly — here are ten MFWF events you can still grab tickets to.
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What happens when some of Melbourne’s most beloved burger bosses go head to head? Well, you can find out, when the likes of Beatbox Kitchen, Mr Burger, Royal Stacks, Sydney’s BL Burgers and more all descend on the Welcome to Thornbury lot for this year’s new and improved Burger Invitational. It’ll be an evening of fierce foodie competition as each vendor vies for burger glory — plus, one lucky burger fan will score themselves a year’s supply of burgers from their favourite.
There’s a range of tickets to suit varying degrees of burger obsession, from the $16 Burger Starter Pack, which includes entry, your choice of burger, and an exclusive t-shirt; through to the group-friendly Party Pack, with burgers and booze for four people.
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For the past five years, Maurice Terzini (Icebergs Dining Room and Bar) and Giovanni Paradiso (10 William Street) have won over Sydneysiders aplenty with a taste of all things Italian at their annual Italo Dining and Disco Club. Now, it’s Melbourne’s turn, as the legendary, disco-fuelled celebration takes over Melbourne Food and Wine Festival‘s House of Food & Wine hub on Friday, March 31. On the menu will be a modern twist on those classic Italian flavours so ingrained in
On the menu will be a modern twist on those classic Italian flavours so ingrained in suburban Aussie culture, so expect to revel in expert iterations of tiramisu, backyard pizza, lasagna, calamari fritti, and much more. In true Italian style, it wouldn’t be a party without some free-flowing drinks — here, in the form of Cynar, Rosso Antico, spritzes, and even some backyard-style drops from local winemaker Owen Latta. Rounding out the fun and sending you dancing through the evening, will be disco-heavy DJ sets from the likes of Andee Frost, András, Pjenné and Dreamcatcher.
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This year, the heart of all the MFWF action can be found at The House of Food and Wine, a laneway haunt decked out with lounge areas, dining rooms, and even a gallery space. Across all ten days of the festival, this little spot will play host to a lively program of sit-down dinner feasts, rollicking parties, and tasting sessions. Meanwhile, as artist-in-residence, designer-illustrator of Good Food Crap Drawing, Anna Vu, will be plating up a feast for the eyeballs, showcasing her food drawing style, and each day adding a new work inspired by the festival dishes she’s eaten.
And of course, expect all kinds of culinary goodness from the on-site bar, which will open daily from midday until late. Here, chef Morgan McGlone (Belles Hot Chicken) will be dishing up a range of small plates that nod to some of the past festivals’ food legends, while sommelier Mark Protheroe (The Recreation) has curated an all-Victorian wine list, including a couple of Patrick Sullivan low-intervention wines, crafted especially for this year’s MFWF.
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This year, MFWF’s ever-popular Crawl ‘n’ Bite series will provide even more opportunities for culinary exploration, with a whole new crop of roaming food and drink tours. Sink your teeth into the tastiest of Fitzroy and Collingwood, and discover just how diverse these foodie hotspots are, with the Smith and Johnston crawl. On Wednesday, April 5, this guided journey will have punters enjoying a bite and a drink at French-leaning Hell of the North, stylish gastropub Fitzroy Town Hall Hotel, and vivacious taqueria Hotel Jesus, across one adventurous evening. Six ticket options are available for the tour — choose the starting time and location that suits you best and get crawling.
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It just wouldn’t be a celebration of Melbourne food culture without a big ol’ BBQ feast and this year’s MFWF is set to play host to a very special, low-waste porcine project. For a while now, the sustainable food warriors at Grown & Gathered have been raising a pig on scraps from the Fancy Hank’s kitchen and grain by-product from their local brewery.
Fast forward to April 3, and this little pig is going the whole hog, as the Fancy Hank’s team prepares a feast using the entire animal, cooked over charcoal and open flame. That’ll be teamed with a hearty spread of sides, salads, and preserved goodies from Grown & Gathered’s own cookbook, natural wines from their farm, and even a brand new seasonal beer from a Melbourne brewery.
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Here in Melbourne, pub grub is something we hold pretty dear to our hearts, and it’s that love affair that’s set to be the star of the show at the inaugural Smorgasburb celebrations. Hosted by Sand Hill Road — the same guys behind some of your all-time favourite pub feeds — this promises to be one tasty afternoon. They’ll be pulling together the likes of Bossam pork belly tacos from the Terminus Hotel, a sardine katsu brioche sandwich from the Prahran Hotel, kombu- cured cobia from the Garden State, and the Bridge Hotel’s toasties. It’s all being served up against that iconic backdrop of the Bridge Hotel’s interior laneway, and teamed with a hefty drinks list worthy of any great pub sesh. Pre-purchase your tickets and you’ll get tokens to use on food and drink on the day.
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If you’ve got a few things booked in for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, counteract all that vino with a spot of beer and cider appreciation. Gracing the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre’s front lawn this Saturday and Sunday, the South Wharf Craft Beer Weekend will find you swapping your Shiraz and your Sav Blanc for a bunch of award-winning Aussie brews, as part of the festival’s River Graze program. Kick back on the grass and launch your MFWF experience with the help of some expertly crafted sips, a lineup of live tunes, and a selection of gourmet fare.
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These days, the west has got some serious swagger. The Doggies showed us when they took out last year’s premiership flag, and now a group of proud locals is driving the message home, with their West is Best street party. Join American-style BBQ joint Up In Smoke in celebrating some of the finest eats and drinks from this side of town, across an all-inclusive afternoon of local beers, wines, and food in the beer garden. On the bill, rising brew stars Hop Nation and West City, wineries like Witchmount and Mt Macedon, and foodie faves 8Bit and Andrew’s Choice.
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