{"id":377,"date":"2015-03-02T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T10:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/melbourne-food-and-wine-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T00:56:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T00:56:01","slug":"melbourne-food-and-wine-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/melbourne-food-and-wine-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Food and Wine Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a city famous for its food and wine, the foodie traveller heading to\u00a0<a title=\"Expedia Melbourne Travel Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Melbourne.d178283.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.article.mfwf_040315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne<\/a>\u00a0can get overwhelmed. Where to go? What to eat? What\u2019s not booked out?<\/p>\n<p>Whether you\u2019re 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.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. This annual event puts the foodies on high alert \u2013 100s of events take place across the city over three weeks \u2013 with local chefs and big names in the global culinary world sharpening their knifes for showcase events.<\/p>\n<p>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?<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2013 bloke food galore.\u00a0<a title=\"Expedia The Langham Melbourne\" href=\"http:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Melbourne-Hotels-The-Langham.h2112.Hotel-Information?brandcid=blog.article.mfwf_040315\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Langham Hotel<\/a>\u00a0will 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\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n<p>If your kids are MasterChefs in the making, sign them up for hands on workshops in everything from raw food to dumpling making. They\u2019ll definitely get a kick out of sharing a meal and learning from MasterChef judges George Calombaris and George Mehigan.<\/p>\n<p>Visit\u00a0<a title=\"Melbourne Food and Wine Festival\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melbournefoodandwine.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne Food and Wine Festival<\/a>\u00a0for the full program of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a city famous for its food and wine, the foodie traveller heading to\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0can get overwhelmed. Where to go? What to eat? What\u2019s not booked out? Whether you\u2019re 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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/melbourne-food-and-wine-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melbourne Food and Wine Festival<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2,4,30,6],"tags":[25,32,69,10],"authors":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-destination","category-experiences","category-explore","category-food","category-oceania","tag-australia","tag-foodie","tag-melbourne","tag-tips","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Melbourne Food and Wine Festival | Expedia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/melbourne-food-and-wine-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Melbourne Food and Wine Festival | Expedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a city famous for its food and wine, the foodie traveller heading to\u00a0Melbourne\u00a0can get overwhelmed. 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