Upcoming Unique Events

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Friday 19th / Saturday 20th March - tickets limited!

Savour Culture / Taste History is an umbrella event part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festivals 'Uniquely Melbourne' program.  Spend the evening at one of Melbourne's most historic sites, the Old Melbourne Gaol and former justice precinct. Arriving at the former City Watch House, you will be greeted by a group of sergeants ready to take you through the 'Watch House Experience', winner of a National Tourism Award. Sample pre-dinner dining the way some of Melbourne's most infamous criminals did right up until the early 1990s.

Then explore the era of the Old Melbourne Gaol in the late 1800s, enjoying a fourcourse degustation dinner with matched Victorian wines. The innovative menu will pay homage to the settlers' traditional dishes and how they shaped historical and modern Australian cuisine.

Throughout the night be educated – and entertained – by a series of cameo performers who once called the Old Melbourne Gaol home, including Kelly Gang matriach Ellen Kelly. A fun night of Australian history, with excellent food and wine, plus live acoustic music from traditional jazz players from Melbourne's eclectic jazz music scene.

$174 pp includes: Canapes and Pre Dinner Drinks, 3 Course Degustation, Matched wines

Evoke emotions, and stir the senses!

Use Food as a Learning Tool   

We are all aware of what foods are good for your body, but do we know what's best for the mind?

Whether you are learning, teaching, selling or buying, this seminar will make you aware of what foods stimulate your mind and give you a competitive edge. The interactive environment pitches you against teams of others, all of which go through the seminar on a different diet reflective of what you currently receive at conference today.

A series of fun games and activities test how well your days diet works in your favour, or against you. Throughout the day you will hear from the chef a series of nutritional information and understand why food is so important as a conferencing tool.

Wine Matching to Meat Alternatives

During the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival the Wine House and Queensloft will be hosting this special event for Vegans, Vegetarians and all those with adventurous palates!

If you don't eat meat and fish or you are just plain bored of steak and Shiraz then this is an experience not to be missed. At this gourmet food and wine evening you'll learn all about how to match great alternative dishes to your favourite wine styles, including Sparkling wine, Aromatic whites, Lighter reds and those tricky big bold reds!

The Queens Loft Chef and Wine Hosue educator will take you through the flavour profiles of winning combinations as you taste for yourself specially selected food and wine matches.

The cost is $98 and includes 4 wines matched to a quirky taster and 3 sumptuous dishes and a cheeky dessert! Suits Vegetarians and Vegans alike.

To book call Gill on 9698 8000 or contact gill@winehouse.com.au 

A Dinner to Die For

Not molecular gastronomy, but a wickedly funny Murder Mystery Dinner.

Set in 1928, Lord Quinten Daventry hosts his party bash. Rumour in social circles is that he will announce his engagement to Miss Fanny. Agatha Christie in spirit – all cut glass accents, pearls, flapper dresses, army outfits and monocles – with lashings of sexual innuendo and double entendres.

The core cast include the delightfully flighty Miss Fanny, besotted and oblivious to the designs on her fortune. Uncle Bernie, former army colonel, a blustering, big-bellied chauvinist. Gertrude Glossop, much put-upon maid and the pièce de résistance has to be Nanny Maude, Quinten’s childhood Nanny. Scottish down to her brown boots, this is one of the best drag acts since Mrs Doubtfire.

Dinner guests are allocated a role and encouraged to indulge their inner artiste by dressing and behaving in character. Mingling over a three-course dinner, subplots emerge and the evening begins to gather pace and spices up into a hilarious romp peppered with murder, mayhem, disembodied limbs and suitably hysterical screams. Interactive entertainment at its best!

Curtin 'FUN' House

The Curtin House Roof Top is arguably one of the most sought after venues around the festive period. Each year Marekai develop a best suited concept for corporate events to take place during the week. Ideal for you to entertain and thank your clients or staff for a great years work.

This year we transform Curtin House into a 'Fun House'.

Roving performances and entertainment through the journey to the Roof Top, where you are greeted with interactive side show style games and activities. The Roof space itself takes on a over sized explosion of colour, life and of course, FUN.

Ask one our Event Managers to tailor this event to suit you.

Available weekdays in November and December from 12pm - 5pm. Dates are being snatched up- so dont miss out!