Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

In a city famous for its food and wine, the foodie traveller heading to Melbourne can get overwhelmed. Where to go? What to eat? What’s not booked out?

Whether you’re into degustation or casual dining, food trucks or farmgates, Mexican or modern fusion, Melbourne has something for you but you just have to find it.

Enter Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. This annual event puts the foodies on high alert – 100s of events take place across the city over three weeks – with local chefs and big names in the global culinary world sharpening their knifes for showcase events.

This is your chance to go behind the scenes and rub elbows with head chefs, bakers, pastry chefs, farmers, sommeliers and big name personalities. Why settle for a donut from Tivoli Bakery (the first bakery in Australian to replicate the cronut) when you can learn how to make your own donut with chef Michael James? Or how about a Gin Garden Party at The Stables of Como?

Learn how to cook like an Italian, drink wine like a sommelier, attend a fondue party, get shucked with an afternoon of oysters, or attend a Big Boy Brunch – bloke food galore. The Langham Hotel will be one of the festival hubs, hosting Masterclasses with a mix of local and international chefs over the weekend of March 7th and 8th. There’ll also be the Festival Artisan Bakery and Bar, a pop up bakehouse in Queensbridge Square hosted by different bakers and coffee roasters for the duration of the festival.

If your kids are MasterChefs in the making, sign them up for hands on workshops in everything from raw food to dumpling making. They’ll definitely get a kick out of sharing a meal and learning from MasterChef judges George Calombaris and George Mehigan.

Visit Melbourne Food and Wine Festival for the full program of events.