Month: June 2015

What has our Craft Beer Ambassador been up to?

As you may or may not know, Simon James is our hotels’ Craft Beer Ambassador. You might imagine that a Craft Beer Ambassador’s job is a fairly easy one mainly consisting of checking out new beers and visiting beer festivals. And you would be right! That is exactly what Simon has been doing for the last month. InMay Simon was a guest of the Great Australian Beer SpecTAPular held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton. This year’s festival was a great success with 16,200 people attending the 3 dayeven which is 4000 more than last year. This increase can no doubt be at least put down to the fact that Simon attended this year’s event obviously giving it more prestige. Simon has also been hunting down the latest Craft Beer hotspots to recommend to guests. Recently he took a hand picked crew of staff members to try out the just opened Boilermaker House (less than 5 minutes walk from the hotel in Lonsdale Street). The verdict was a unanimous thumbs up from all involved. …

Scandinavian Film Festival

Published by We Know Melbourne

Back for it’s second year, the Scandinavian Film Festival returns to Melbourne with a fantastic line-up of dramas, comedies and thrillers from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland. The festival will open with the hilarious and quirky Here is Harold: “A Norwegian road movie about a man who sets out to kidnap the founder of IKEA. For over 40 years, Harold has been running a successful business, “Lunde Furniture”. But this comes to an end when IKEA decides to open a new superstore right next door to his small furniture shop. In mounting anger and desperation, Harold wants revenge. He arms himself with a pistol and sets off for Älmhult, Sweden, in order to kidnap his Nemesis, the founder of Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad. But unfortunately, Kamprad is quite happy to be kidnapped.” Don’t miss your chance to see the full repertoire of twenty-two features hand selected from the final titles at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. When: 9 July – 26 July 2015. Where: Palace Cinema Como; Palace Cinema Brighton Bay See the full program here.

Winter Night Markets

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Returning for it’s fourth year, the Winter Night Market kicked off on Wednesday. Despite the extra chill in the air that night, the market still packed a crowd. Under the sheds there were a wide range of stalls from street food to craft and design, and of course mulled wine. It could of been the fact that the weather seemed extra cold that night, but the line up for food was never too long (unlike the summer markets) and there was always a seat available. Our favourite stalls of the night would have to be Smoke City Burners (for all the meat eaters), Little Mushroom Co (for the vegos) and of course the mulled wine stall. (We were too full to try the deep fried oreos from Taki’s Balls!). The Winter Night Market runs every Wednesday until August 26. Read more here.