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Hot Chocolate Festival

Hot Chocolate Festival

If you love hot chocolates, then this festival is for you! Returning for it’s third year, The The Yarra Valley Chocolaterie will be the hottest way to indulge this winter, showcasing  31 different hot chocolate flavours in 31 days. The menu will be changed on a weekly basis and if last year’s flavours (salted caramel, nutella, pina colada, turkish delight) are anything to go by, we would say that if you weren’t already obsessed with chocolate, you will be after this. Get ready to indulge! When: 1st – 31 August 2015 Where Yarra Valley Chocolaterie Visit the website here. 

Meat Fish Wine

Are you game?

This September, Meat Fish Wine are teaming up with Hopkins River Beef and Fowles Wine for a one night only event. Embark on a culinary journey exploring the differences between wild game and farmed meat through 6 delicious course tasting menu accompanied by matched wines. To top of the night, Meat Fish Wine Head Chef, Malcolm Wright and hunter gatherer Matt Fowles, from Fowles Wine will provide the entertainment, battling it out as they present the qualities of meat from the wild and the farm. When: 7pm,Thursday, September 6. Where: Meat Fish Wine, 31 Artemis Lane Cost: $125 pp. Find out more here. 

Glow Festival

Glow Winter Arts Festival

Light Up After Dark with the return of Glow Winter Arts Festival. Melbourne’s inner south is warming up for a 10 day artistic feast with the return of the second annual Glow Winter Arts Festival from 13 to 23 August. Taking over the suburbs of Prahran, Malvern, Armadale, Toorak, Windsor and South Yarra, the festival will feature  everything from comedy clubs to cinema, theatre, roving performers and live music. Whether you’re young or old,  you won’t get bored with Glow Winter Arts Festival diverse and exciting program of 50 events. When: Thursday , August 13 – 23, 2015 Where: Southside Cost: Varies Find out more here. 

Delhi Streets

Delhi Streets

Colourful, vibrant and aromatic. That’s three words we would use to describe India and that’s exactly what Delhi Streets bring to the table. Their modern, colourful space tucked away in Katherine Place is full of India pop memorabilia, including everything from Bollywood posters to Indian branded furniture and table settings. Although the actual space is small (seats 28 people), the atmosphere is constantly buzzing. Grab a seat at the bar and watch your meal being cooked in the kitchen! The menu is full of a range of vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes traditional dishes like biryanis, pakoras and puris, all at a very reasonable price. We opted for the thalis, and although when they first brought it out, we thought we were going to have order more, we can assure you, the dishes are just the right amount of food. Flavoursome, cheap and just right. We Know Melbourne tip: We’ve got to warn you, we’ve tried to go a couple of times for lunch only to be met by long lines at the door. We …

Electric Fields Festival

Be transported to the bright lights of Hong Kong, Seoul and Bangkok in a celebration of Asian food and culture.  This weekend Electrics Fields, takes over Highpoint Shopping Centre with a three-day festival packed full of ‘Asian-city-inspired’ live music, entertainment, delicious food and game shows.  And if that wasn’t enough to inspire you the festival will also hold a K-POP (Korean Pop) EXTRAVAGANZA headlined by Australian pop star and winner of The X Factor Season Five, Dami Im at 11am on Friday 31 July. Other highlights include: The Whacky Japanese Super Fun Happy Game Time Show including Sumo Wrestling and Wasabi Roulette Street food carts hosted by Highpoint’s new retailers sampling delicacies and new flavours from their exciting menus When: Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August 2015. Where: Highpoint Shopping Centre, Level One, 120-200 Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong Find out more here.

Sunset Yoga

Sunset Yoga with Lucienne Shanti

Relax and enjoy a Vinyasa Yoga Class at The Swanston Hotel, Grand Mercure. Mats supplied. When: 6pm – 7pm: Thursday 13th August in our Alchemy Room. (Book by 7 August) Thursday 20th August in our ON15 Room. (Book by 14 August). Cost: Gold coin donation. RSVP: kerstyne@erdigroup.com.au, (bookings essential)

The Literary Collection Dinner with Robyn Annear

MGallery Hotels with The Wheeler Centre presents The MGallery Literary Collection series. The Grand Hotel Melbourne invites you to the next in the series of delicious. literary evenings. with special guest, proclaimed Australian author, Robyn Annear. Robyn Annear was born in Melbourne in 1960. As a historian and author, she spends her time on her property in Castlemaine writing and researching. She is best known for her books Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne and A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne, Robyn Annear is also the author of an unpublishable novel set in the city in 1893. Champagne & canapés on arrival 4 Course dinner and wine $125 per person RSVP: Call 1300 361 455 or grandhotelmelbourne@accor.com Find out more here: http://bit.ly/1R0KWzh

Bowie is

Win a sleepover and two tickets to David Bowie Is!

We are offering you the chance to win a David Bowie Experience! Stay overnight at our Swanston Hotel, Grand Mecure this September and enjoy two free passes to the David Bowie Is Exhibition at ACMI. All you need to do is enter below and tell us in 25 words or less your fave David Bowie song and why? THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Terms and conditions here.

Get baking with Katherine Sabbath

Ever wanted to learn how to make an Upside Down Icecream Cake? This August, celebrity baker, Katherine Sabbath will show sweet enthusiasts how to make her signature Upside Down Ice Cream Cake at two marvellous cake demonstrations at The Tea Salon in the Emporium Melbourne. Get all her tips and secrets about her inventive baking techniques and what inspires her colourful cake creations. Where: The Tea Salon, Emporium Melbourne When: Friday, August 14th from 10am to 12pm and 6pm to 8pm Cost: $45 pp. Find out more here. 

Red Spice Road

Red Spice Road

Recently some of our We Know Melbourne team got to visit well known South East Asian restaurant Red Spice Road in McKillop Street. The first thing that strikes you about this place is that it is a large venue but cleverly divided into separate zones each with it’s own feel and style. The obvious starting point ti at the McKillop street bar where we enjoyed a nice glass of wine and probably the standout dish of the night being an amazing appetizer of spiced duck ball on a wafer of fresh, chilled watermelon. The duck was quite spicy but combined with the watermelon it was just right! We toured the other sections of the restaurant which included the appropriately named Long Room which is home to a couple of very long communal tables which are a signature feature of Red Spice Road to encourage the feeling of shared eating that the owners feel is central to the Asian dining experience. There’s also a courtyard, function rooms and the very stylish Lantern Room which featured some …