Super yachts, seafood and bottomless champagne: Inside Queensland’s most lavish lunch

The coveted White on Whitehaven event will return this weekend, transforming the Whitsunday’s pristine Whitehaven Beach into a glamorous restaurant and party zone for three days.

The White on Whitehaven Long Lunch will attract some of Australia’s wealthiest. Picture: Supplied.

Super yachts, seafood and bottomless French champagne – Queensland’s most lavish lunch is here again.

The coveted White on Whitehaven event will return this weekend, transforming the Whitsunday’s pristine Whitehaven Beach into a glamorous restaurant and party zone for three days.

The $500 per head luxury spectacular will include bottomless Laurenti champagne, Grainshaker and Diablo cocktails, airconditioned boat transfers from Airlie Beach, live bands and a grazing-style lunch featuring 200 dozen oysters, 22 sides of salmon, 50 eye fillets of beef, 40kg local barramundi, 100kg of prawns and 100kg of bugs.

“It’s not that much more expensive than a flash night out in a restaurant and you’re getting a once in a lifetime experience,” said event organiser and owner of Airlie Beach restaurant Fish D’Vine Kevin Collins.

White on Whitehaven Long Lunch by Fish D’vine will feature hundreds of kilos of seafood.

The Friday and Saturday lunches sold out in just days, with guests from Sydney, Melbourne and Tasmania among the first to buy tickets, while there are still a handful of seats available for Sunday’s event.

Mr Collins said the lunch would attract some of Australia’s wealthiest, with a number of guests pulling up to the festivities in three super yachts, including a 48m vessel.

“A lot of people do this because it’s an absolute bucket list experience,” he said.

While the second half of the 2021 event was a washout with bad weather, Mr Collins said the weather was looking picture perfect for this weekend and there would be sufficient cover if things turned wet.

“We moved the event from May to September and September and October – they’re always the best two months of the year for weather, and we want to showcase the best of what the Whitsundays can be,” he said.

Tickets to the event can be booked at fishdvine.com.au/white-on-whitehaven