Long lunches, scrumptious spices and foodie feasts by the dozen will be on the table when Eat Drink Westside serves up some of the west’s finest food.
Now a central part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (March 16-25), Eat Drink Westside will feature more than 30 events as a mouth-watering array of food, drink and social occasions highlights the west’s diversity and growing culinary charm.
The World’s Longest Lunch will leave the Melbourne CBD for the first time in its history, bringing 1700 diners together around a 500-metre long table along the Footscray riverfront.
The Regional World’s Longest Lunch will also call the west home when a four-course lunch, matched with wines, heads to Werribee’s Shadowfax Winery.
Other events will include a progressive dinner, a communal Ethiopian banquet at Konjo and “classic curries” served up in Sunshine.
Coffee, cocktails and craft beer will be flowing all festival long.
A focus on fresh and local products will be driving the menu when Copper Pot chef Ashley Davis designs a three-course Sunday roast sourced entirely from the gardens of neighbours.
Melbourne Food and Wine Festival chairman John Haddad said he is excited to be showcasing the west as part of the festival’s 26th year.
“The 2018 program will celebrate our love of food and wine while exploring how the way we eat
impacts the liveability of our communities both now and in the future,” he said.
“We encourage you to taste the enticing range of events on offer in the 2018 Eat Drink Westside program.”
For details and bookings, go to: melbournefoodandwine.com.au
