Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival Australia’s favourite celebration of food, drink and culture.
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Melbourne Food & Wine Festival is a statewide celebration of Victoria’s food and wine industry that attracts more than 150,000 attendees to a diverse program of hundreds of events. Run by a small not-for-profit organisation, the Festival has grown from grassroots beginnings with only a handful of events in 1993, to now being recognised as Australia’s pre-eminent food and wine festival.

Little House Wine Bar is a new local in Collingwood that’s just as much about the food as the wine, and full of fun idea...
09/06/2026

Little House Wine Bar is a new local in Collingwood that’s just as much about the food as the wine, and full of fun ideas that take things pleasingly left of centre. Can we interest you, perhaps, in a burger that brings together a hefty wagyu sausage patty, oxheart tomato pickled in rice vinegar and cheddar custard? Or what about suppli – arancini’s Roman cousin, filled with octopus Amatriciana? Centre-cut tuna, sourced directly from the ice-cold waters of Bass Strait, meanwhile, makes up one red-hot take on crudo. And for dessert? How about a pudding that takes a little inspiration from Japan and mingles it with a healthy dash of everyone’s favourite Italian artichoke amaro, Cynar? ⁠
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Do you want more? Of course you do. Follow the link for the full story on Smith Street’s most exciting new menu.
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/eat/what-to-order-at-little-house/

08/06/2026

Here’s a little BTS peek at our preparations for our new World’s Longest Dinner on 17 June, tasting the menu, and testing the wines. The menu written by Nat Thaipun, Audrey Shaw of Carnation Canteen and by HyoJu Park of Madeleine de Proust is ready to rock and we got together with the chefs to put it through its paces.

First, canapés: Nat’s kangaroo laab tartlet, Audrey’s scallops with piquillo peppers and fennel seed, and Ju’s gougères with Victorian black truffle, all paired with Lethbridge Nadeson Collis Inception sparkling chardonnay. Delicious.

Next up we’ve got Nat’s entrée, a gorgeous plate of cured Victorian snapper with kombu oil, ginger and grapefruit, paired with Entropy 2024 sauvignon blanc sémillon. Fresh, perfumed, brilliant.

For the main course, Audrey has chosen roasted aged O’Connor beef with bagna cauda, pink-leaf salad and Dutch cream potatoes, paired with Mise En Place 2024 syrah: generous, comforting, deeply flavoursome and entirely satisfying.

And then we take it on home with Ju’s dessert. She calls it a Light to Night moon blanc – a wintry play on the Mont Blanc, rendered in charcoal sablé, chestnut and chocolate mousse, cut through with a slash of blackcurrant, with an equally striking Light to Nightcap cocktail made with Marionette and The Gospel Whiskey. Just beautiful.

This is just a delicious teaser, and the real thing is going to be framed with art, music, performance and wonder – just the treat you need this winter.

Get your tickets before they sell out.
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/events/worlds-longest-dinner-2026/

04/06/2026

Little Rose, the neo-bistro from Rosheen Kaul and Joe Jones is built around the idea of Chinoiserie: whimsical, vibrant, and a European imagination of Asian culture. "It's an ode to the bistros that I love," says Kaul. "I could never do a prescriptive French bistro, because I'm not French."

The vol-au-vent is quickly becoming a must-order for new and return diners alike, and the quenelles come in a Sichuan shellfish bisque that you won’t want to miss. Little Rose, from right now until 5 July.

It’s almost here. World's Longest Dinner arrives 17 June at Chadstone and the menu is just the beginning. ⁠⁠Kangaroo laa...
02/06/2026

It’s almost here. World's Longest Dinner arrives 17 June at Chadstone and the menu is just the beginning. ⁠
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Kangaroo laab tartlet. Victorian snapper. Aged O'Connor beef. A Light to Night moon blanc, with a nightcap to see you out. Three courses from Nat Thaipun, Carnation Canteen’s Audrey Shaw and Madeleine de Proust’s HyoJu Park, canapés on arrival, great drinks from premium producers across the board, and a gift bag valued at $300 – including a copy of Nat Thaipun's “Thai” or HyoJu Park's “Madeleines”. With art, music, performance and – yes – outstanding food – this is more than just a dinner. It’s a night to celebrate. ⁠
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Tickets are selling fast.
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/events/worlds-longest-dinner-2026/

01/06/2026

It’s snack city at Box Hill Central. We’re talking wobbly soufflé pancakes, we’re talking green tea lattes with lemon foam and we’re talking plenty of moon cakes. In the final episode of In The Box, MasterChef judge and food writer Sofia Levin, and chef, author and bona fide Box Hill expert, Rosheen Kaul try them all. ⁠
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Want to explore these flavours for yourself? Get in on the action with our Crawl and Bite tours at Box Hill Central, running every Sunday from now until 5 July hosted by Flavourhood Tours. Mandarin speakers join each tour, so you can expect a full-flavoured bilingual good time. Find out more via the link in our bio. ⁠
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Atong Atem is a Dinka Bor South Sudanese-Australian artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores the ...
30/05/2026

Atong Atem is a Dinka Bor South Sudanese-Australian artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Her work explores the history of photography, the shadows of colonialism and the practices, rituals and mythology of the Dinka People of South Sudan. Her work is primarily an examination of familial archives, colonial documentation, and portraiture as world building.⁠
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Amid her multidisciplinary practice, still finds time to experience all that's great about Melbourne's dining scene. Follow the link below for where to find a great eggplant curry north of the river, and which Melbourne restaurant she thinks is absolutely worth the hype.⁠
⁠https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/people/how-i-melbourne-atong-atem/
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Image credit: Atong Atem, Studio 85, 2022, Ilford Smooth Pearl Print, 90 x 60cm or 100 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery.⁠
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Image credit: Atong Atem, Yellow Dress 2, 2022, Ilford Smooth Pearl Print, 90 x 60cm or 100 x 150cm. Courtesy of the artist and MARS Gallery.

Melbourne CBD's first dedicated gomtang house Sagye is here, and it's worth every minute of the queue. Eight-plus hours ...
28/05/2026

Melbourne CBD's first dedicated gomtang house Sagye is here, and it's worth every minute of the queue. Eight-plus hours of slow-simmering, three cuts of wagyu, and a toryeom-style rice technique that turns each grain into a supremely savoury vessel of the soup it sits in. ⁠
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Read the full story here
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/eat/sagye-melbourne/

27/05/2026

Rone brings his new immersive work Home to Chadstone's Light to Night festival, and everyone with a ticket to World’s Longest Dinner is invited to an exclusive viewing of the celebrated artist’s latest installation. ⁠
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The evening brings together three of Melbourne's most exciting young chefs – Nat Thaipun, Audrey Shaw and HyoJu Park – for a dining experience to remember. Plus, all diners leave with a gift bag worth $200 along with a cookbook from either Nat or HyoJu. ⁠
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Tickets are moving fast – book yours through the link below
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/events/worlds-longest-dinner-2026/

"This is a signature family recipe, passed down from my paternal grandmother to my mother," says Karen Martini. "When gr...
26/05/2026

"This is a signature family recipe, passed down from my paternal grandmother to my mother," says Karen Martini. "When growing up, it was always a pleasure to come home and recognise the comforting scent of these capsicums as they gently baked. In a way, it's our version of meat and (almost) three veg, just all in one delicious dish.” ⁠
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Visit our website to check out Karen Martini's recipe for baked capsicums, courtesy of her cookbook, Cook: Green.
https://www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au/recipes/recipe-martini-family-stuffed-capsicums/

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