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Feed your curiosity at Australia’s biggest celebration of drinking and dining - 21 to 30 March.

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Aurum Poultry Co x City Larder pate (image: Bonnie Savage).

Shop

The pitch: Aurum Poultry Co x City Larder pâté

One of Victoria's preeminent cockerel suppliers links up with a master charcutier for a range of excellent forcemeats.
Tony Tan's Thai curry duck dumplings.

Recipes

Recipe: Tony Tan’s Thai duck curry dumplings

Thai. Duck. Curry. Dumplings. A delicious, happy accident from friend of the Festival and living legend Tony Tan.

Bulmer Farms' leafy greens.

Vic Grown Producer Profiles

Vic Grown: Bulmer Farms

On the banks of the Mitchell River, not far from Bairnsdale in East Gippsland, grows one of the nation’s biggest supplies of leafy salad greens.  
Tom Sarafian at Zareh in Collingwood

Eat

Tom Sarafian is opening his new restaurant, Zareh, in Collingwood

The hummus king goes bricks and mortar in autumn of 2025 – on Smith Street.
Wimmera Grain Store products.

Vic Grown Producer Profiles

Vic Grown: Wimmera Grain Store

A Wimmera farming family not only grows grains and pulses but sells them online in family-friendly pouches and also makes savoury snacks and plant-based food mixes.

A Meatsmith Christmas ham (photo: Mark Roper).

Eat

Six delicious hams to carve this festive season

It’s the moist, wonderful time of the year: ham season

Canard rôti de la Maison Bâtard (image: Pete Dillon).

Restaurants

What to order at Maison Bâtard

It’s time to go big – seriously big – at Chris Lucas’s pièce de résistance, Maison Batard.
Wood-roasted chicken, African spices, dried chilli.

Restaurants

What to order at Marmelo

Introducing the jewel in the Melbourne Place crown: Ross and Sunny Lusted’s Iberian fantasy Marmelo.
Poodle's Alex Pineo holding several wine bottles in a dining room.

Drink Victorian

Drinking Victoria: Alex Pineo

The wine list at Poodle in Fitzroy was just named one of Australia's best; here's what the man behind the magic is pouring and drinking this summer.

People

Buy the Book: Richard Hart Bread

Get hands-on with intuitive sourdough baking from the one of the world's greatest bakers.
Luke Skidmore (photo: Mark Roper).

Food & Hospitality

Talking Shop: Tipo 00’s Luke Skidmore

The restaurateur and front-of-house supremo reflects on a decade of al dente deliciousness.

Tim Read

People

Tim Read is developing Helmet, an app to help with mental health in hospitality

He conquered MasterChef New Zealand. Now, he’s taking the fight to one of hospitality’s gnarliest issues: mental health.