Truffle Melbourne Festival 2022

Overview

Winter's fallen and another truffle season is upon us, which can only mean one thing — it's time to celebrate one of the world's most coveted ingredients at Melbourne's legendary annual truffle festival. Thought to be the largest celebration of its kind outside of Europe, Truffle Melbourne is back for its 2022 edition. And as always, one of the program highlights is a truffle-filled festival weekend, which hits the Queen Victoria Market from Saturday, June 18–Sunday, June 19.

In between watching some seasoned truffle hounds Trixie and Arrow doing live mock truffle hunts, you'll be able to sample a huge variety of sweet and savoury truffle-infused dishes across the weekend — think, truffle mac and cheese, truffle-topped pizza, truffled prawn rolls, truffle-infused cannoli and more. There's a decadent truffle gnocchi and truffled raclette, for those looking to sate their cheese cravings, and a new pop-up dining space where you can kick back and have truffled delights served right to your table.

Even the drinks list is a celebration of this glorious fungi, with specialty espresso martinis and other truffle-charged cocktails to star alongside wine from Tasmania's Dalrymple Vineyards.

Much-loved chefs including Guy Grossi (Grossi Florentino), Jesse Gerner (Bomba), Johnny di Francesco (400 Gradi), Matt Wilkinson (The Pie Shop, Montalto) and Justine Schofield will be throwing some kitchen inspiration your way as they host a hefty program of cooking demonstrations.

If you're in the market for some take-home truffle, there'll be plenty of stock from the country's leading growers, along with truffle-infused pantry goodies like honey and cheese.

Want more? Truffle Melbourne's pop-up shop will be slinging a vast array of fresh truffles and other products, every market day through the season. You'll find it in I Shed.