Messina Milk Bar

Overview

When you're feasting your way around 2024's Vivid Fire Kitchen, don't forget to save room for dessert. It wouldn't be a stall-filled Sydney food event without Gelato Messina making an appearance with an array of special sweet treats, and the chain's latest pop-up doesn't disappoint. At Messina Milk Bar, old-school dishes get the brand's creative twist, sprinkling nostalgia on heartily.

If a warm Milo fudge sundae made with Messina's gelato doesn't take your tastebuds back to simpler times, sipping on a spider should. On offer from 6–11pm daily until Saturday, June 15 at The Goods Line, the first features Milo mud cake, cereal milk gelato, Milo fudge, choc-malt mousse and Italian meringue put under the torch, and costs $12. The second pairs creaming soda with vanilla gelato for $10.

Also a must-try: $10 gelato choc bars in four flavours, all riffing on beloved fellow sweets as Messina adores doing. Choose between the chain's take on freckles, Bounty, Fantales (RIP) and Biscoff, or head back four times to give them all a whirl.

Vanilla or strawberry milkshakes ($12 each), plus cups of Wagon Wheel, Ritz and finger bun gelato ($8 each), round out the Messina Milk Bar selection. And if you're suddenly thinking "should I just have dessert for dinner?", you already know the answer.