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Taste of Melbourne (12-15 November 2015 - Albert Park) - 2x Tickets for $45

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Taste of Melbourne (12-15 November 2015 - Albert Park) - 2x Tickets for $45
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anastasiastarz on 23/09/2015 - 00:51 tasteofmelbourne.com.au (190 clicks)
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Taste of Melbourne in partnership with Electrolux, returns to Albert Park 12–15 November for four extravagant days of foodie fun. Whether you want to treat your pallet to over 150 award winning wines, create your own gin in an exciting new masterclass, or browse the artisan producers for gourmet foodie finds, Taste 2015 is the essential event on Melbourne’s food and social calendar. Living up to its name as The World’s Greatest Restaurant Festival, this dream event is an unmissable opportunity to celebrate Melbourne’s eclectic dining scene.

Book two General Entry tickets for $45 (save $15) by simply clicking the ticket link and entering the code YELP.

Personally I don't think it's worth it because like any festival there's lots of lines and you'd be spending around $60 to get full as it's a series of expensive snacks. Entry doesn't really include anything but admission to the area.

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  • jv on 23/09/2015 - 01:08

    2x Tickets for $45

    Does that include the food ?

    • exonerate on 23/09/2015 - 01:34
      +5

      "Personally I don't think it's worth it because like any festival there's lots of lines and you'd be spending around $60 to get full as it's a series of expensive snacks. Entry doesn't really include anything but admission to the area."

      • jv on 23/09/2015 - 02:02
        +2

        Entry doesn't really include anything but admission to the area

        What a rip-off…

  • maroon on 23/09/2015 - 08:51

    I have a 2 for 1 offer. $30 for 2, entry only. Probably won't use it, feel free to PM me if interested.

  • siraitken on 23/09/2015 - 09:01
    +2

    I went to this a few years ago.

    Entry got me nothing but access to overpriced food.

    • peeweekathi on 23/09/2015 - 09:59

      Same! I won tix and merrily went, but had the same reaction! Night noodle markets, in town, are much better! :)

  • piggyfund on 23/09/2015 - 09:36

    Have been a few times before on complimentary tickets for Friday day time. Still thought it was a rip off. The tasting plates from the restaurants, as they don't have access to a full kitchen, are usually sliders or salads. You need to spend about 60-100 pp to have a decent meal. Some people love it as it's design your own degustation and they get to try new places, it actually put me off a few places as their tasting plate was so bad. I think for $60-100pp you can have a really nice hot meal somewhere without all the crowds. Thanks OP nevertheless.

  • try2bhelpful on 23/09/2015 - 10:14

    Thanks OP for posting but agree with the others went once, haven't been back.

  • che_97 on 23/09/2015 - 11:16

    Hey guys,

    Thought i would input my 2c as i have been to the taste event in Sydney a few years back and i can agree with many of the comments here.

    The entry fee is access to the venue which doesn't include anything. I think this event would be a lot more successful if they allowed free entry.

    The other thing thats super annoying is that you have to use a closed currency called crowns. They can't be refunded.

    Night noodle markets are much better. Free entry, plenty of decent offerings (although the queues can be enormous)

    • anastasiastarz on 23/09/2015 - 16:01

      Last year for Melb you could get them refunded.

      P.S. We only go if we get free tickets, and then I use my survey rewards to buy the crowns.

  • caprimulgus on 23/09/2015 - 11:32
    +1

    i went to the Taste of Melbourne the first two years, i think (also on complimentary tickets - definitely wait for complementary or two-for-one tickets if you want to go).

    i think the festival made more sense in the first year:
    -Jacques Reymond (was one of the top rated fine dining degustation restaurants at the time, tho i didn't rate it)
    -Circa the Prince (back when it was a fine dining degustation restaurant)
    -Three One Two (the most fine dining and degustation focused restaurant McConnell has done to date, and on weekends was degustation only)
    -The Press Club (in it's original fine dining banquet/degustation format)
    -The Stokehouse (fine dining)
    -The Botanical (fine dining / fancy gastropub)
    -Longrain (fine dining / high end modern thai)
    -Grossi Florentino (fine dining degustation restaurant, still in it's heyday, before it dropped the ball)
    -Fifteen (trying to be fine dining italian)
    -Interlude (molecular fine dining degustation restaurant)
    -Verge (molecular fine dining degustation restaurant)
    -Nobu (fine dining / high end modern japanese/peruvian)
    -The Courthouse (one of the great little gastropubs at the time)

    the majority of those are fine dining restaurants, largely based around the degustation format. these are restaurants that generally would cost a lot of money to dine at, and the taste of melbourne allowed you to sample their food without having to drop that amount of serious cash.

    compare to now:
    -Circa, The Prince (reincarnated as a more casual restaurant)
    -Gazi (completely dumbed down press club)
    -Luxembourg Bar & Bistro (on the more casual end of the McConnell empire, cf Three One Two / Cutler & Co)
    -Mamasita (one of the originators of the fancy casual dining movement)
    -MoVida (upmarket tapas, but still relatively casual)
    -Pastuso (fancy casual peruvian)
    -Pei Modern (fine dining bistro)
    -Royal Mail Hotel (fine dining degusation restaurant, interchange with Interlude - same chef)
    -San Telmo (fancy casual south american)
    -Supernormal (on the more casual end of the McConnell empire, cf not Three One Two / Cutler & Co)

    as you can see, this line-up is far more skewed to (fancy) casual dining. only one restaurant i would really call a fine dining degustation restaurant (Royal Mail Hotel), two if you count Movida. i would "pei" Modern too (HA), but that is more a (high end and excellent) bistro than a fine diner.

    now this is perfectly fine, to reflect the melbourne dining scene, which has moved towards casual dining - it is, afterall the "taste of melbourne". but when the prices are as high as they are, and the offering is less, it no longer makes sense. the point of the original taste was that one could taste dishes from restaurants that might otherwise be cost prohibitive to experience - you could try things without shelling out hundreds of dollars on a degustation, or try Nobu's miso black cod without shelling out $50 for one dish. you'd spend a lot of money, but at least you got an experience you couldn't otherwise get without spending way more money!

    but now that they are mostly more casual restaurants, you can just go to those restaurants to sample a few dishes relatively cheaply. you'll probably pay MORE to do that at the festival than you would if you just ducked in to those restaurants for a quick nibble (which you couldn't really do with the restaurants in the first year). this festival no longer makes sense, it just makes dollars! (and lots of it!!!)

    as you can tell, i'm pretty keen/interested in food. at the first Taste of Melbourne i ate EVERY SINGLE DISH available (yes, all 39 dishes)!!! but i have absolutely no interest in this festival, if that tells you anything…

    there are some great restaurants on the list, but i'd rather just support those restaurants and dine at the restaurants themselves (in their own setting)!

    • anastasiastarz on 23/09/2015 - 16:04

      O.O How much $$$ did you spend?

      • caprimulgus on 23/09/2015 - 17:13

        i don't want to know…way too much! aha. :)

        from memory, it was somewhere in the vicinity of $350-$400, just for food!!! add drinks and tickets (i went twice, but i believe one ticket was free and one ticket was 2-for-1) and it was probably somewhere in the vicinity of $400-$500! yikes!

        as i said, way too much!

        but, i did enjoy it thoroughly, eating 40 dishes (pretty sure i ate one dish twice!) over the two days - my own two day long degustation, aha! plus a bunch of drinks/cocktails and free stuff. i don't regret doing it in that first year, but the line-up of restaurants has never interested me to do that again! :)

    • King Tightarse on 23/09/2015 - 22:56
      +1

      Great and interesting post.

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