Oh my!
It’s giveaway frenzy this week and today’s giveaway is an experience that maybe money can’t buy…because tickets to the IGA World’s Longest Lunch are almost sold out!
The Melbourne Food and Wine Festival is opening at midday Friday 2 March with its showcase event, a three-course lunch designed by hatted regional chefs George Biron (Sunnybrae), Patrizia Simone (Simone’s) and Annie Smithers (Annie Smithers’ Bistrot) with matched wines from Yering Station.
The 500m long table will be set by the banks of the Yarra under the trees of Alexandra Park – the perfect location for a long, leisurely lunch.
I attended the longest lunch a few years ago with some friends and it’s a memorable experience (let’s just say that I wore a silly hat, ate and drank under the sunshine and missed my train after falling into a tipsy snooze on the way home). You’re in for a treat!
Giveaway! Thanks to Bank of Melbourne, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival presenting partner, I have one double pass to the IGA World’s Longest Lunch to give away. To win the tickets, all you have to do is leave a comment and one lucky person will be drawn randomly on Monday 27 February as the winner. Good luck!
PS Visit the Bank of Melbourne website, share your Melbourne food tips and you could also win a year’s worth of dining for two for 12 months, valued at over $10,000.
I wonder if I could get away form work to attend this. It seems like an amazing opportunity, and I’m sure my boss would understand 😀
oh my, how lovely! i would totally take time off work for this event 😀 x
This looks amazing.
Would love to go for this
Wow – what a wonderful giveaway. This would be amazing
Would be an awesome way of celebrating my 6th year in OZ…:):):)
Looks amazing! I haven’t been to the MFWF long lunch before. Is it stacked with public servants? 😉
Ooh I was going to buy tickets to these as it’s on my birthday. Would be a great prize to win. I love Melhotornot, I use it as my guide to new places to try.
this would be good!
What an amazing opportunity. Truly a foodsters dream… can only hope it comes true!
I would love love love to go to this. I actually couldn’t think of a better way to enjoy a Friday
pick me pick me pick me pick meeee
As they say in Thailand… Love you long lunch!
This would be the ultimate! Please count me in the draw and wish me luck!!
That would be a great way to end our first month as Melbourne residents!
We’d love to go! Please pick the pensioners!!!
I have heard this is a great day out, would love to go!
i’m prematurely drooling!
I would definitely give up work the day and run a few extra kilometres that weekend to indulge!
Sounds amazing! Yes please!
I am MADE for long lunches. I think it’s in my DNA.
I’m feeling lucky!
Fantastic! Would love to experience something like that.
Pick me!
With 7 weeks before our first babies due, my wife and I are racing to some of our favourite restaurants as quickly as we can.
2 tickets to Melbourne’s Longest Lunch would help us round that off and just in the nick of time!
I’d happily make the LONG trip into town for a LONG lunch like this!
Sounds like fun! Would love the opportunity to enjoy the lunch and meet new people. I hope I’ll get lucky this time around. 😉
Imagine having lunch with heaps of people by the long table.
SALIVATING
I would definitely abscond from work for this!!
This would be the perfect present for someone very special! What do I need to do to win??!
“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.”
– Luciano Pavarotti
I would dearly love to win, I’ve always wanted to go but never could afford it…
Oh yes please I would love to go this, just hope the weather will be good.
I heart food!
What a fantastic giveaway! Yum, yum, yum…
now that would beat a packed lunch anyday!
Wooow this would be AWESOME to win! Fingers crossed 😀
Ooooh this would be great. Fingers crossed.
Would be most thankful if I won this. Would take my gem of a wife.
Reason enough to take annual leave!
Longest lunch is definitely hot, And trying to win a spot, Sure is worth a shot, I would love to attend and enjoy the best experience for a lingering lunchtime slot.
Sounds like a great day out..would love to get my hands on some tickets!
Ohh hope I win!
LUNCH! it sounds like an amazing time
How exciting to taste test the world’s longest lunch!
The Yarra river thinking it is iconic and snaking through Melbourne and the eating and conviviality it presupposes, very much, best wishes
I would love to attend world’s longest lunch!
I’d luv to kick off my first Melbourne food and wine festival @ a long lunch on the banks of the yarra. What a perfect introduction
What a fabulous prize! Thank you for the opportunity to win : )
Sounds like it will be a real effort to cater for!
fingers crossed!
Love the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, and hoping to be at the Longest Lunch
Ooh…yes please!
leaving a comment for the longest lunch, wo-oh-oh, (for the longest) for the longest lunch. Thankyou Billy Joel
I hope the longest lunch lives up to its long but much awaited wait… I wish I could attend !
Worlds Longest Lunch….Salivating at the thought!! nom nom nom
Pleeease pick me, pick me..! Sounds yum!
That sounds fantastic. Consider me commented.
That’s our 5 year anniversary! Would be a pretty special way to spend it
When I go out for dinner I always double-check I have my wallet so I won’t be stuck washing up to pay the bill… I can only imagine the cleaning needed after this extravaganza!
Love long lazy lunches!
I certainly long for this lunch!
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