Melbourne Good Food Month 2015: Week two creative director's picks
Every week during Good Food Month, presented by Citi, we'll bring you a snackshot of the best events for the coming week. Visit melbourne.goodfoodmonth.com.
What do you get when you combine Tasmania's hottest chef, Melbourne's wildest brewers and mussels on fire? You get the red hot smoked seafood party you need to be at. Join chef David Moyle of Franklin Restaurant and French chef Florent Gerardin as they create a traditional French eclade de moules – huge boards of mussels smoked under a stack of burning pine needles. It's the ultimate Sunday session fuelled by Moon Dog's specially brewed Love Mussel beer, epic natural wines from Sue Dyson and Roger McShane of Living Wines and likely some rock.
Moon Dog Brewery, Abbotsford, Sunday, November 15, 2pm-4pm, $50 includes mussels, potatoes, and two drinks, TICKETS
Time to take your snacking to the streets, Melbourne. The Night Noodle Markets are back with more lights, more noodles, and more Nutella than ever before. Starting Thursday and running for a record 18 nights, the riverside hawker market features three bars, 60 food stalls and trucks including Hoy Pinoy, Gelato Messina, Mr Miyagi and the all new Hawker Hall, as well as a sugar bar with cookies by Momofuku Milk Bar's Christina Tosi, and star chef Diego Munoz from Peru's Astrid y Gaston (number 14 on the World's 50 Best list) cooking in collaboration with Paul Wilson at the Lady Carolina stand.
Night Noodle Markets, Birrarung Marr, November 12-29, Mon-Wed 5pm-9pm, Thu-Fri 5pm-11pm, Sat 2pm-10pm, Sun 2pm-9pm, free entry.
FareShare and RSVP's Recipe for Love
Hey singles – go looking for love in exactly the right place. Every year, two million Australians will experience hunger while we waste 200 kilograms of food for every man, woman and child. On Thursday, November 12, and November 26, FareShare will host speed dating nights where singles will take to FareShare's Abbotsford kitchens, work together to cook for the needy, then head across the road for a free drink, put on by the National.
1-7 South Audley Street, Abbotsford, 03 9347 4666, November 12 and 26, 6.30pm-9pm, $80 tax-deductible donation. TICKETS
If you're not obsessed with bees that's only because you don't know enough about them. Meet local apiarist Peter Dyer and learn the basics of beekeeping. The seminar includes honey and bread tastings, and a jar of Backyard honey to take home.
The Honey Thief Bakery, 140 Canterbury Road, Blackburn South, 0417 887 395, November 10, 18 and 24; 6pm-7.30pm, $25.
Think you can nail the region of your bowl of pasta? The Grand thinks maybe you can. Each event they're doing for Good Food Month is based on a different part of Italy, which you'll need to figure out over five courses using your fork and some additional clues. It's essentially Carmen Sandiego applied to Italian food.
The Grand, 333 Burnley Street, Richmond, 03 9429 2530. November 10-12, 17-19; 6.30-11.30pm, $135, or $115 for Grand regulars, includes matched wines.
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.