Tag: Italian

Tools For After: A Festival of Ideas

Tools For After is a new six-week festival that celebrates Italian ingenuity and asks the question: what are the tools we will need to face the future? With the world currently experiencing some of the worst global warming related catastrophes in…

Rocco’s Bologna Discoteca Dishes Up Italian Food with Flair

Rocco’s Bologna Discoteca was born out of a lockdown pop-up passion project. Emilio Scalzo and Zoë Rubino collaborated with head chef Josh Fry to serve meatball subs for takeaway from their Gertrude Street bistro Poodle. In the process they created…

48h

48h Pizza & Gnocchi Bar Elsternwick Launch

48h has established itself as a as a premium pizza and gnocchi bar in South Yarra. Now they have expanded to open a new branch in the bayside suburb of Elsternwick. The Plus Ones were invited to the official media…

italian food and wine

Melbourne Italian Wine and Food Festival

The Italian Wine and Food Festival was held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton Gardens. Gathered were Italians known for their various culinary fields, whether it be wine from the many regions of Italy, pasta, ciabatta bread, truffles, salami,…

Melbourne Salami Festa 2016: meat lovers, unite

Meat lovers of Melbourne, unite! The Melbourne Salami Festa is here for you. I took it upon myself to spend an afternoon stuffing my face with all things salty, meaty, and Italian. My senses were ignited as I meandered through the…

Italian Jewels, Bulgari Style at the NGV

If there’s one thing the Italians are good at, it’s everything. From their prosciutto to their pistachio gelato, their scooters to their renaissance artists, there seems to be nothing the Italians can’t nail. But nothing — not even endless panini —…

Monthly wrap: our favourite events of June 2016

Melbourne always seems to have the widest variety of events possible. In June 2016, we party-hopped between a new fashion label launch party (with the video to prove it), got a taste of Italy in Carlton (no, not on Lygon…

Eat’aliano by Pino brings Italian flair to Windsor

A great north south divide exists in Melbourne. My boyfriend (and plus one for this event) proudly claims ‘Brunswick till I die’ and feigns feeling physically sick any time we have to cross the river. I’m definitely not quite so…

Jurassica

‘Jurassica’: a magical story of the experience of migration

World premiere Australian play ‘Jurassica’ is the story of a journey through the experience of migration. It is a reflection about the idea of home, which is not a stable concept, but it constantly changes significance with new experiences and…