Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Melbourne & Surrounds

28 February 2014 – 16 March 2014

Melbourne Food & Wine Festival is one of Victoria’s premier event, a global celebration of the world’s ocean and river fare with over 200 events, across 17 days. Guided by the best seafood chefs, join exclusive behind-the-scenes tours, mingle amongst lively street parties or secure a place at an exclusive dinner and much more.

Thousands of foodies will converge at The Festival Hub on the banks of the Yarra River featuring a floating barge bar, open kitchen eatery and skyline community space on Queensbridge Square inspired by water’s cyclical journey with three levels of installations. The menu at the open-kitchen eatery will be designed by a local chef collective including Florent Gerardin (Silo by Joost), Daniel Wilson (Huxtable & Huxtaburger) and more – and will take the tradition of Chinese yum cha dining and apply truly global flavours from east to west while embracing a range of water-based cooking techniques.

World’s Longest Lunch – 28 February

A festival favourite, the World’s Longest lunch gathers 1,500 foodies at one 500 metre-long table to kick off the first day of the Festival along the banks for the Yarra. The three-course lunch menu will be designed by Jacques Reymond, Adam D’Sylva and Stefano de Pieri and inspired by the world’s waterways as the lifeblood of food and wine.

Langham Melbourne Masterclass – 8-9 March

Learn from and taste the creations of the new wave of young gun chefs alongside global greats of the kitchen as they share their connection with the world’s most precious resource.

Other Highlights…

Melbourne’s hottest restaurants will bring you exclusive dining experiences.

Matt and Andrew McConnell join forces for Blood is Thicker than Water, a street party between Casa Ciuccio and Cutler & Co with water and blood-inspired dishes.

Darren Purchese from Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio takes over the historic Johnston Collection for decadent desserts.

At Swan Lake’s Sweet Seduction; chef Frank Camorra and food writer Richard Cornish will talk foodies through a gastronomic tour of southern Spain.

From the secrets of Spanish seafood to tales of nuns making moreish doughnuts (A Gastro-Tour of Spain, MoVida Aqui), and the world-famous Nobu

Matsushisa will create a menu influenced by his 25 restaurants across the world for The Master and The Prodigy (Nobu, Crown Melbourne).

New for 2014, the Flemington Grazing Trail & Cellar Door combines the best of Victoria’s wineries, craft breweries and artisan producers with Group 1 racing on Flemington’s Super Saturday race meeting (8 March), offering trackside wine tasting and gourmet produce picnics just outside the city.

Regional Weekend, 14 – 16 March

Foodies are invited to tour through Victoria over Regional Weekend (14 – 16 March) with all Festival events taking place out in the regions. The weekend kicks off with 22 Regional World’s Longest Lunches at spectacular locations across the state including Queenscliff Harbour on the Bellarine Peninsula, among the vines at Elgee Park vineyard in the Mornington Peninsula, and overlooking the ocean in Inverloch, Gippsland.

Water MasterClass - the Festival’s famed outdoor MasterClass experience - moves to regional Victoria for 2014 with a progressive experience for 50 guests culminating in a spectacular feast at Campbell Point House on the Bellarine Peninsula (15 March). Aaron Turner (ex-Loam, Drysdale) returns to Australian shores to join Peter Gilmore (Quay, Sydney) and the UK’s Michelin-starred Nathan Outlaw (Nathan Outlaw Restaurant, Cornwall) for fly fishing and fish smoking workshops, plus hands-on mussel and oyster demonstrations with seafood farmer Lance Wiffen (Sea Bounty, Portarlington).

This is just a small taste of Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2014. The full program can be viewed at melbournefoodandwine.com.au.

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