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Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Want to try new foods? Do like me and make your own food festival

This way you can abandon the bamboo spoon and queues for the loo and actually sit in a seat.

  • Terry Durack
Richard Hart likes to break rules with his baking.

‘The world’s best baker’ brings his rule-breaking baked goods to Melbourne

The former head baker of San Francisco’s Tartine, Richard Hart, is giving Melburnians a taste of his famous pastries and breads at a week-long pop-up.

  • Emma Breheny
Dim sims get a cheffy makeover at Dim City.

From budget to blow-out: Our pick of this month’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Free tacos, pie parties with DJs, wine bar crawls by tram and more: get ready for a tasty 10 days with this guide to what’s on at the festival, kicking off March 21st.

  • Good Food team
The “Benny Nest” (eggs benedict on kataifi pastry).

Your March hit list: Hot, new and just-reviewed places to check out this month

Greek and Lebanese brunches, Southeast Asian and South Indian suburban gems, plus our top picks of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival program.

St John’s first restaurant in Smithfield is known for its stark and understated dining room.

‘They’re restaurant royalty’: Trailblazing London eatery coming to Melbourne

Chefs love it – but so do artists, bankers and everyone in between. It has created dozens of iconic dishes. What’s in store when this decades-old favourite comes to town?

  • Emma Breheny
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The dim sim: created in Melbourne, now loved all over Australia.

Is the Melbourne-invented dim sim Australia’s greatest snack?

The dim sim is this city’s most famous dish, and next month it’s being celebrated at a free event. But these will be like nothing you’ve had before.

  • Emma Breheny
Motokichi Yukimura of Kyoto’s Kichi Kichi

How to nail the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival if you’re from interstate

From free tacos to cult wine, an Indian feast in the mountains and a famous British restaurant, this is a guide to the country’s most exciting food festival.

  • Myffy Rigby
Julia Busuttil Nishimura will prepare the World’s Longest Brunch in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Everything you need to know about the 2025 Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Australia’s preeminent food and drink event runs March 21-30, featuring fabulous food across Victoria.

Julia Busuttil Nishimura will cook the World’s Longest Brunch.

Julia, Curtis and St John: Get set for a huge Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

March means fabulous food, whether it’s an epic brunch in lush grounds, world-famous chefs cooking with hometown heroes, or tributes to the humble dimmie.

  • Emma Breheny
Pasta carbonara from Sarah Cicolini, a young gun chef from Santo Palato in Rome.

Star Italian chef Sarah Cicolini spills the secret to making classic carbonara even better

Four easy tips (and one great recipe) to raise your carbonara game. And no, there is no cream to be seen.

  • Roslyn Grundy

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