The best high-end eats and treat at the Formula One Australian Grand Prix 2024
Sip champagne, eat at a posh Melbourne restaurant trackside, and end with a bump of coffee caviar. Here’s how to live like a superstar at the Formula One Grand Prix.
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Turbocharge your tastebuds with these high-end eats and treats at this year’s Formula One Australian Grand Prix.
Bistro Guillaume
The chef behind popular French restaurant, Guillaume Brahimi, is taking revheads to Paris at the Aus GP via Crown’s 330 Club. The trackside marquee will showcase the best French fare, such as Brahimi’s famed creme brulee and confit duck, alongside lobster rolls, beef bourguignon and profiteroles.
330 Club
Ging Thai
Another fiery Crown fave, Ging Thai, is bound to heat up the track. Chef On Saengyojanr is playing with fresh and fierce Thai flavours, including massaman beef curry, pork bao buns and beef and salmon salads.
330 Club
Taste Society
In an Aus GP first, high-end Melbourne restaurant Society is being transplanted into circuit inside the Marriott Bonvoy Lounge. Overlooking the F1 Paddock, the intimate 35-seater venue will prepare a two-course menu, curated by executive chef Luke Headon. Start with the signature Society scallop crumpet, followed by your choice of smoked wagyu striploin, King George whiting gribiche drizzled in Sauce Americaine or fluffy parmesan gnocchi tumbled with mushrooms and truffle.
Marriott Bonvoy
Tasman
What happens when you mix Tassy produce with an Italian mentality? A VIP menu crafted by the culinary director of Hobart’s luxe Tasman hotel Massimo Mele.
Lounge guests can indulge in a three-course feed, which begins with burrata drizzled in peperonata (sweet peppers and onion), currants and pine nuts, followed by eggplant ravioli filled with stracciatella cheese, finished with toasted marshmallow topped lemoncello gelato from the Marriot Bonvoy cart.
Marriott Bonvoy
Coffee Caviar
Clever caviar bumps will be buzzing around the caffeine-fuelled Lavazza Atrium. Inspired by world-best chef and Lavazza partner Ferran Adrià, the high-level dessert combines espresso with a Scottish seaweed to form spheres with a likeness to the fancy seafood delicacy. Coffee Caviar will be served chilled, by the tin, consumed on the back of your palm like the real deal.
Lavazza Atrium
St Hugo
When it comes to drinks,St Hugoreturns as the event’s official wine partner, with chief winemaker Peter Munro pouring his latest vintage inside the luxe Marriott Bonvoy lounge. VIP guests can sip single vineyard drops, including Aussie lad Daniel Ricciardo’s DR3 range — which includes a shiraz and cabernet sauvignon.
Marriott Bonvoy
The Atlantic Group
The invite-only marquee, located on turns 9 and 10, is catered by The Atlantic Group with a bounty of trackside snacks and drinks at the ready. Think spanner crab salad, Wagyu beef brioche burgers and a DIY s’mores station. Cocktail maestro Clinton Weir is behind the signature ruby rose martini. Not your vibe? Mercedes-AMG Grandstand ticket holders can also refuel the tank from their dedicated food truck park occupied by A1 Bakery, 400 Gradi and Ca Com Banh Mi Bar.
Mercedes-Benz AMG Lounge
Idle Hour Vodka
If wine isn’t your thing,Idle Hour Vodkais shaking up impressive race-ready cocktails such as the ‘lift and coast’ blood orange and rhubarb smash, the ‘rumble strip’ mandarin cosmopolitan and the ‘jump-start’ grapefruit and pomegranate sour.
Also available to Paddock Pass or Marriott Bonvoy guests.
Marriott Bonvoy
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