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Connoisseur Food and Design Weekend

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This November, Broadsheet are joining forces with ice cream aficionados, Connoisseur for a one-off weekend food and design market. Make your way to this Brooklyn inspired market  and indulge in food from Melbourne’s favourite Brooklyn-inspired restaurants (Bowery to Williamsburg, 5 and Dime Bagel, Nieuw Amsterdam, Shawcross Pizza) and  ice-cream flavours from New York ice-cream lords OddFellows – who have recently collaborated with Connoisseur to serving variations of their world-famous ice-cream sandwiches. All icecream sandwiches will be made with biscuits from Tuck Shop Take Away and flavours include Bed Stuy: peanut butter & pretzel with sweet cream, Coney Island: golden syrup with a butter swirl and corn nuts, Flatbush: chocolate brownie with chocolate custard, and Williamsburg:matcha green tea with white chocolate waffle cone. In true flea market fashion, there’ll also be a range of stalls where you can pick up beautiful crafted homewares and accessories from some of the best local designers such as  Arro Home , Alchemy Produx,  Cool Cactus Co,  Kitiya Palaskas,  Emily Green, plus more. The market even caters from pooches – pick up artisan dog collars from the fashionable Nice Digs. When: November 19 – November 20 …

Food Truck Park Collins Street Pop-up

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City workers now have another reason to leave their desk at lunch! As of November 7, The Food Truck Park™ have parked up to the ‘Paris’ end of Collins St. The pop up Food Truck Park™ will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner with a daily rotation of one-off culinary truck delights each and everyday from Monday to Friday. The truck lineup includes the likes of Barry’s, Greek St Food, Real Burgers, Lukumades plus many more. With astro-turfed floors, plenty of seating options and even a ping pong table, The Food Truck Park™ is your new favourite hangout for a team lunch. When: Mon- Wed 8:30am -2:30pm and Thurs – Fri 8am- 9pm Where: 80 Collins St, Melbourne Visit the website here.   

Summer Night Markets

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The Summer Night Market (SNM) are bringing the fun back to your Wednesday nights. An annual summer favourite, the SNM brings an array of great seasonal food and entertainment offerings including unique food options, deliciously refreshing drinks and a buzzing summer atmosphere to enjoy the various live music on offer. Kicking off on Wednesday 16 November with a disco funk theme, each week will bring a different theme and free music with roving entertainment.  Included in the line up for summer are That Gold Street Band, a funk and soul party band from Melbourne, The Everymen, a combo of Piano and Drums blended throughout a bottomed blues vibe and James Kenyon who threads narrative through music to re-tell Australian stories. Make sure you come hungry as there will be plenty of stalls to tempt  your grumbling belly. The Trapizzino direct from Rome by 400 Gradi  will be making it’s debut appearance or if african flavours are more to your taste, you’ll want to order The Moroccan Kitchen by MJR Tom. To quench your thirst, you can order Strawberries and cream in the Pimm’s …

Night Noodle Markets

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It’s that time of the year again. A favourite on all foodies calendar, the Night Noodle Markets! From November 10-27 for 18 glorious nights of Good Food Month, Melbourne’s idyllic, much loved Birrarung Marr will be transformed into an Asian hawker-style market where you can dine on all sorts of spicy, sweet and sour asian dishes along with thirst quenching drinks. Complete with more than 30 food stalls, a record 56 stalls three bars plus nightly entertainment, this year is set to be bigger and better than ever before.  There’ll be all the usual favourites like Longrain, Chin Chin, Wonderbao, Red Spice Road, as well as desserts from Gelato Messina and Black Star Pastry x N2 Extreme Gelato. Joining the list this year will be new stalls from Aunty Franklee, Ok-Nomi, plus more. When: November 10 – November 27; Mon-Tue 5-9pm, Wed-Thur 5-10pm, Fri 5-11pm, Sat 4-10pm, Sun 4-9pm. Where: Birrarung Marr, Melbourne Visit the Night Noodle Markets website here. 

Punchbowl Canteen

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Burrowed in the industrial streets of Port Melbourne, is the vibrant and colourful Punchbowl Canteen. Opened in what was the old Salfords Lords Club, the cafe has transformed the old warehouse space into a striking space full of pops of colour. Covering the back wall of the cafe is a giant 10 foot mural by acclaimed Australian illustrator and designer, Leah Bartholomew bringing an overall warmth to the open area. The food is all about rustic, wholesome flavours, with a focus on keeping it simple but doing it well. Head Chef, Elizabeth Milroy’s twist on traditional dishes adds to the unique vibe of the whole cafe. Previously working at St Ali and Fitzrovia, upon dining on the food her unique touches are evident through dishes such as the Korean Fried Chicken Burger with Kim chi slaw and fries, Pumpkin Doughnuts cinnamon sugar with whipped yoghurt and freeze dried mandarin, and the Fish Cake Scotch Egg radish, pear, chard and shaved beetroot salad, curry mayo. The coffee comes from Fitzroy roasters, Industry Beans and on the menu are the …

Red Spice Road turns 9

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Red Spice Road are celebrating their 9th birthday this month and to celebrate they’re giving away free wine to September babies! All guests need to do is fill in the registration form here, and show the confirmation email along with ID to claim their Birthday bottle of wine when dining at either Red Spice Road McKillop St or QV. In addition, there is also $3000 worth of prizes to be won! One Grand Prize valued at $2000: Exclusive dinner for you and 7 friends in the comfort of your home, served by no other than Red Spice Road’s Executive Chef John McLeay. Two Major Prizes valued at $450 each: $200 Red Spice Road dining voucher, champagne, wine and cookbook / $200 Red Spice QV dining voucher, $100 Spa & Wellness voucher, wine and cookbook. When: September 2016 Where: Red Spice Road Visit the Red Spice Road website.

Taste Melbourne

Taste of Melbourne

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Foodie friends unite! Taste Melbourne returns to Albert Park this November with all of Melbourne’s hotspots for you to try. A favourite annual event for all Melbourne foodies, the festival will run from November 10 – 13, with over 80 artisan producers, craft beers, wine tastings, live music, inspiring talks and interactive masterclasses. Buy your tokens at the ticket desk and eat your way across the park. Each restaurant will offer a choice of three delicious dishes, plus their limited edition ‘icon dishes’. When: November 10 – 13 Where: Pelican Lawn, Albert Park Visit the Taste of Melbourne website. 

Cake Bake & Sweets Show

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Indulge, experience and be inspired by the greatest baking, dessert and entertaining show on Earth this October at the Cake Bake & Sweets Show. The show will take place over 3 days and will be filled with hundreds of demonstrations, hands-on classes and interactive workshops catering to all skill levels. Learn new techniques, get top tips and baking advice, shop for the latest supplies.  Leave the diets at home, this show will be filled with everything from cakes, pastries and chocolate, to breads, savouries and other delicious temptations, so whether you’re a home baker, cake decorator, home cook, baking professional or simply a foodie with an appreciation for deliciously tasty food, your eyes (and your bellies) will be in for a treat at the Cake Bake & Sweets Show. A great day out with family and friends! When: 10am – 5pm, 21-23 October 2016 Where: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Pl, South Wharf Visit the Cake Bake & Sweets Show website.

A Chocolate Roadtrip

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All Melbournians know, a road trip to the Yarra Valley is nowhere near complete without a cheeky little stop on the way home to the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie (& Ice Creamery) to stock up on edible Christmas presents, random gifts or even just something fabulous to eat on the drive home. There is even SIMPLY GINORMOUS bowls of chocolate drops at the front entrance, so you can go a little ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and have good old taste of the wares for FREE. Now, Victoria’s other world-renowned road trip, The Great Ocean Road is about to get its very own chocolate stop, when the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery opens its sweet, sweet doors on September 17. In a similar (yet bigger and better) set up to its sister site in the Yarra, the Chocolaterie sits on 15 acres of landscaped grounds kitted out with an orchard, kitchen garden, scent-sational (see what we did there…) lavender maze and a play area for the kids. The promise of ‘abundant’ free tastings, over …