All posts tagged: eat

Melbourne Truffle Festival

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Ah the truffles! They’re elusive, exotic, unique – and shrouded in secrecy and mystique. But come this June, you’ll be able to learn all about the delights of this  mysterious delight including its history, folklore, stories and people at The Melbourne Truffle Festival. There’ll be all sorts of shows from masterchef demonstrations to decadent dinners and a mini festival at Prahran Market. If you’re up for more of an adventure there’s also the Truffle Hunt where you can hunt for truffles in the cold morning mist with the truffle sniffing dogs. Highlights include: Truffle Melbourne @ Prahran Markets 17 -19 June: Live chef demonstrations by our hottest truffle chefs along with truffle tastings and free specialist food photography workshops on Saturday & Sunday Truffle Melbourne’s Craft Day Out Masterclass 10 July: A whole day of truffle discovery with passionate artisan craftspeople- learn how to make truffled cheeses, charcuterie, beer and spirits in an inspiring setting with a combination of workshops and hands on classes. Truffle Melbourne Pop Up weekend @ Red Hill, Mornington Peninsula: 15 – …

A lazy brunch at Street Talk Café

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Last weekend, we crossed the river to the south side to Street Talk Café for a late, lazy brunch. Positioned on the High Street, diners have the option of sitting on the tables on the street, inside the cafe or out the back in the undercover courtyard. As lovers of sunshine, we chose the front. Opening late last year, Street Talk Café is the brainchild of Dean Fouritz and is a simple celebration of coffee and delicious, locally sourced produce, culminating in hearty, wholesome fare. Greek, Italian and Middle Eastern spices are fused in what can simply be described as flavours with extraordinary substance. We must admit that everything on the menu sounded delicious and we had such a hard time deciding, but after we heard the recommendations from Dean, we knew we had to order the Iron Mike. The dish is described  as cauliflower florets, fresh green peas, yellow lentil puree, toasted chickpeas, burnt lemon, poached eggs, almond flakes and oregano salt. A well-balanced dish in terms of texture and taste with a burnt lemon …

Italian Wine & Food Festival

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Enjoy everything that’s good about eating and dining in Italy at the Italian Wine & Food Festival. Debuting this year, the festival will bring together the best Italian cooks from Melbourne including Johnny di Francesco (400 Gradi) and Rosa Mitchell (Rosa’s Canteen + Rosa’s Kitchen) who will be headlining the show. Shop until your heart’s  content with over 200 of Italy’s finest wines plus salumi, cheese, pasta, coffee, olive oil, gelato and pastries at the Gourmet Traveller Food Market. If you want to learn how to cook authentic Italian cuisine like Nonno, there’s be demonstrations from 400 Gradi, Caterina’s Cucina e Bar, 38 Chairs, Trattoria Emilia, La Bonta, Bar Idda and Saluministi. Spend the whole day there or even make a night of it with DJs playing the best Italian vinyl and European track until 9pm. Buon appetito! When: 11am – 9pm, Sunday 29 May Where: Royal Exhibition Building Visit the Melbourne Italian Wine & Food Festival website.  

Melbourne’s Must Eat Winter Dishes

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Baby, it’s cold outside. If all you’ re craving is something hot to warm you up from the inside out, brave the cold because these winter dishes are worth coming out of hibernation for!   Pork Buns–Tim Ho Wan Join the lines at the world’s cheapest Michelin-star restaurant, because Tim Ho Wan’s world- famous pork buns are worth the wait. Oven baked gnocchi – Solarino Flavoursome balls of goodness. This pasta dish is the perfect winter comfort food. Hot & Spicy Boneless Fried chicken  – Sam Sam Crispy on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside. Ain’t no thing like a fried chicken wing. The Godfather – Hakata Gensuke If you can handle the heat, we’d recommend ordering the Godfather level 2 – it will warm you up from the inside out. Be warned, it’s super spicy! Squid Ink Tagliolini , squid & bottarga – Tipo 00 Cooked to perfection, this rustic dish is perfectly complemented  with a winter red wine. Brisket Reuben – 5 Points Deli A classic Reuben  that comes with sauerkraut, …

Community Dining at Tamil Feasts

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The We Know Melbourne team are always looking for new and exciting places to eat, places to try that are bit different, but still delicious and provide a true gastronomic experience. Last night we discovered just that! Heading out to Ceres in Brunswick we joined a community of diners who had to come to try Tamil Feasts. Tamil Feasts is a social enterprise supporting recently settled asylum seekers through the celebration of food and culture. Initially starting just over a year ago, the feasts were initially only supposed to be a one-off event, but they were so popular they had to hold more. They now serve twice-weekly feasts (vegetarian/vegan on Tuesdays, meat/vegetarian on Mondays) , prepared by four Tamil men currently seeking asylum in Australia. Our feast last night was a 3 course vegetarian banquet which started off with bhajis, a small flat cake or ball of vegetables, fried in batter. Delicious and crispy, it was the perfect dish to whet our appetite! The feast then continued to include a thali type plate serving a mixture of curries …

A Langham Afternoon Tea with Wedgwood

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The Langham and Wedgwood have collaborated to launch the bespoke version of the afternoon tradition – “The Langham Afternoon Tea with Wedgwood,” and last week the We Know Melbourne team went along to try it out. Now if you’ve never been to an afternoon tea and are wondering what the fuss is all about, then we’d highly recommend you book yourself in for this afternoon tea at The Langham. Upon walking up the grand staircase of the hotel, we were instantly hit with the crisp, sweet ginger flower signature scent which set the scene of the decadent events to come. Sitting down to the tea in the Aria Bar and Lounge, we were immediately offered a glass of Perrier Jouet NV Champagne and given a menu with an extensive selection of teas to choose from. It was then we started to notice all the Langham signatures, like the pink roses, the “Langham Rose” Wedgwood china, and later the Langham pink suits worn by the service stylists, reminecent of the pink Chanel suit  worn by the late, …

Melbourne Food Porn Festival

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You know them well. They’re the ones who have to take a photo of every dish before you dig in. The ones who have to get the perfect angle of every dish and when they show you their photos, you wonder why yours never turn out the same. And it turns out that the more we shoot and share our food, the more chefs keep making crazier and crazier dishes to capitalise. Everybody wins! To help showcase the most stunning foodporn images captured by photographers at some of the best eateries around Melbourne, our friends at Yelp are hosting Australia’s first-ever Food Porn Festival in Melbourne. The Festival exhibition will showcase the 40 best foodporn photos from photo-obsessed Melburnians. There’ll also be a swag of awesome prizes for the top winners, including a stay at the Adelphi hotel (plus dinner and breakfast for two), a degustation for two people at Taxi Kitchen, a coffee masterclass with St Ali’s Ben Morrow, who recently won top prize at the 2016 London. If you know someone who is food-obsessed enter them in …

Wine & Chocolate Festival – Review

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Do you enjoy wine? Do you find chocolate irresistible? If you’re anything like us, they’re are your two favourite things in life, so on Saturday we went along to the Wine and Chocolate Festival eager to indulge.   Offered a relaxing and enjoyable afternoon, the festival was held at Seaworks, Williamstown; right beside the pier with an amazing view. The sunny weather topped off an amazing afternoon along with some jazz music and DJ Mimi. There were 13 stalls of wineries, 7 food trucks + 4 food vendors. The most fun and interesting part of the festival was of course the food pairing. Who would have known that Coedo Beniaka, a Japanese sweet potato crafted beer would go so well with chocolate? All the wine/beer pairing with chocolate were designed by a chocolate master chef from Belgium, Filip Tibos, and he truly knew what choccies went with what beverage. If you were after some real food, you could find yourself right beside the pier with seven other food trucks, which the festival offered. We dined on …

Academy Kitchen & Bar

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Walking into Academy Kitchen & Bar, we were warmly greeted by the friendly waitresses and informed that we would be seated at one of the best tables in the house. It was a cooler Thursday evening and we were there to try out the new Autumn menu.  We had a choice of either picking our own dishes or leaving it up to the masterful hands of head chef, Will Manning. We of course love surprises so went for the latter. The first dishes to come out were the pumpkin gnocchi with butternut pumpkin sauce, pickled shimeji and crispy onion rings, and the salmon terrine with dill creme fraiche, saffron aioli, caperberries and sorrel.  The pumpkin gnocchi was light and  flavoursome, and coupled with the creamy butternut sauce topped with the crunchy onion rings, it felt like the perfect winter indulgence dish. In tasting the salmon, it was the saffron aioli that stood out for us and had us wanting more. Both considerable sized dishes, we were surprised that these were just part of the ‘snacks …

Wine & Chocolate Fest

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Wine and chocolate lovers you’ll be in a gourmet paradise at this year’s Wine and Chocolate Festival. Sample wines from some of Australia’s best wine producers and  nibble on some chocolate from premium local artisans. Want to learn about how  the two go together? There’ll  be plenty of experts available on the day to teach you all about quality chocolate and wine, and how the two can be so deliciously paired together. In case that wasn’t enough, there’ll also be cider, beer, liquor, cheese, gelato and  coffee  suppliers showing off their high-quality artisan products, masterclasses, entertainement plus signature coffees and cocktails created by Liquid Infusion for attendees to enjoy. A day of pure decadence! When: April 30 Where: Seaworks, 82 Nelson Place, Williamstown Visit the website here.