French champagne. A pop-up CBD location. In a suite with floor to ceiling views of Melbourne. Could this have been any more enticing to a Melburnian? Add in a major twist: the chef for the evening was trained at The…
Melbourne, undoubtedly the best city in the world and scientifically proven to make you grateful to be alive (by a sample size of my friends), really only has one tiny problem – it’s almost impossible to find a café to…
If there’s a tea that I love more than anything, it’s chai. So I was bragging all over town when T2 (who know how to throw a good event) invited me to their Chai Championship. An entire evening devoted to one…
World Class Cocktail Week put on dozens of jaw-droppingly cool cocktail events in Melbourne and Sydney from 25-31 May. Melburnians could choose anything from a whiskey degustation to a Bloody Mary brunch. The Plus Ones opted for the Chocolate + Rum…
Check Out The Team’s New Events Here After a long week at work I was very excited to be venturing south of the river on Saturday for an event littered with some of my very favourite words in the title: rosé,…
The title says it all really. Does anyone ask for average food and wine? After 15 years of exhibiting, the Good Food & Wine team know how to put on an exhibition. Imagine hundreds of incredible Australian and international proprietors giving you…
May 2015 was filled to the max with art, tea, and shenanigans with fairies. You know, the kind of month that makes you realise all over again why you love living in Melbourne. Here are some of The Plus Ones’ highlights:…
As a Scot living in Melbourne, there are plenty of reasons for me to feel at home in this fair city. Living near Edinburgh Gardens, a shared love of fish and chips or generally anything fried, and in particular the…
If you’re a huge craft beer aficionado/aficionada, you don’t refer to it as the Great Australasian Beer SpecTAPular. You just call it ‘GABS’. And you’ve already download the app. What is GABS? It’s a celebration of craft beer. Basically, hundreds…
As far as I’m concerned there cannot be enough fine wine and great cheese places in Melbourne. Shifty Chèvre fits this most glorious of bills. The Shifty team, Tom, Noemi, and Alex, saved a prime location on Brunswick Street from becoming…