Tag: Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2017: Truly Madly Deeply Part 2

The Melbourne Food & Wine Festival is always a highlight of the year for The Plus Ones. The program hosts a carefully crafted smorgasbord of experiences, and every now and then – something truly magnificent. Truly Madly Deeply is definitely an event…

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Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2017: World’s Longest Lunch

Nothing drives home Melbourne’s food and wine obsession quite like sitting down to lunch with 1700 keen fellow diners, something I was lucky enough to experience this year for Bank of Melbourne’s 25th annual World’s Longest Lunch. The event is…

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2017

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2017: the top 8 events

Food paradise Melbourne turns into the seventh level of heaven during the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. Running 31 March to 9 April 2017, there’s something for everyone: express lunches for the CBD workers, nighttime cocktail excursions, all-day free festivals, and…

MFWF: champagne with acrobats at Truly, Madly, Deeply

I hit my peak life moment at the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival event ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’. There I was, holding a champagne flute. Above me was a beautiful acrobat entwined onto a hoop suspended from the ceiling. As I raised…

MFWF: High Tea at the Hellenic Museum

Dionysus would be pleased. This weekend my +1 and I were treated to a garden party high tea at the Hellenic Museum. The catering was flawless with tea, champagne, coffee, and frappe martinis making the rounds in-between beautifully presented courses. As part…

MFWF: Aperitif Masterclass at Collins Quarter

An aperitif a day keeps the doctor away, and it’s the perfect prescription for a lazy autumn afternoon. “On a scale from one to really good sex, this cocktail is just below really good sex.” The bartender immediately went red…

March 2016: What To Do and Where To Go

As Autumn descends upon us, we look for awesome events to distract ourselves with from the impending, inevitable cold winds and rain to come. Here are our top picks of how to stay warm, while also staying cool: Festival of Live Art (1…

Best Upcoming Events – March 2015

White Night, a New Orleans Mardi Gras Festival, jazz parties — February was great! Here’s what we’re excited about in March. Melbourne Food & Wine Festival – Sifting through the MFWF events is a herculean task, but we’ve narrowed it down to the…

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2015: The Plus Ones’ Picks

Every year we look forward to the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. For a glorious fortnight, hundreds of events elevate Melbourne from culinary capital of Australia to — we daresay — the culinary capital of the world. (Yeah, you heard us.)…