Melbourne Good Food Month 2015: Week one creative director's picks
Every week during Good Food Month, presented by Citi, we'll be bringing you a snapshot of the best events of the week. Book quickly or cry later. Visit melbourne.goodfoodmonth.com.au
Future of Food, with Chris Ying, Jonathan Gold and Ben Shewry
Heard of a little magazine called Lucky Peach? How about Attica, Australia's highest ranked restaurant on the world's 50 best list? This Friday, Chris Ying, editor-in-chief of the cult food magazine, along with Pulitzer prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold and top Australian chef Ben Shewry of Attica are uniting to answer the big questions of the food world. BYO questions, we'll bring the beers. Guaranteed to be the best after-work drinks of the year.
Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne, Friday, October 30; 6pm-8pm, $25 includes complimentary beer and wine. TICKETS
Crabs, mallets, beers and the Bang Bang Church of Boogaloo. From the team who brought you such events as Laneway Festival comes a Baltimore-style crab feast of epic proportions. TICKETS
1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Sunday, November 1; 2pm-5pm, $70 includes matched beer.
Let chef Ryan Flaherty build the lunch of your collective dreams. Flaherty is asking diners to send him pictures of lyrics, art, anything that inspires them, which he'll use as inspiration to build a degustation.
Mister Jennings, 142 Bridge Road, Richmond, Sunday, November 8; 12.30pm-3.30pm, $135 includes snacks, five courses, matched wines. TICKETS
The sellout event last year is back. Create your own banh mi, and learn the secrets to the perfect rice-paper roll, using age-old family recipes that have been perfected over decades.
Ba'get, 359 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, November 4-5; 6.30pm-8.30pm, $55 including a cocktail on arrival. TICKETS
Graffiti capitals of the world
Take a ride through different graffiti capitals of the world. Every weekend Easey's will host a graffiti artist from Melbourne, Berlin, New York and Stockholm who will create a work, live, while you kick back with music, drinks and burgers.
Easey's 3/48 Easey Street, Collingwood, Monday, November 2; 7.30pm-10pm, $60 includes a cocktail and two drinks (beer, wine, cider).
The Age Good Food Month 2015, presented by Citi, runs November 1-30, melbourne.goodfoodmonth.com.au
Gemima Cody is former chief restaurant critic for The Age and Good Food.