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Portarlington Mussel Festival
This community festival is one of the most popular bayside holiday festivals in
Victoria attracting around 30,000 people. As you might guess the chief focus is
on the locally produced mussels,
but other attractions grow year by year including:
Live entertainment
Kids activities
Cooking demonstrations
Art & Photo exhibitions
Classic
car displays
Food & Wine producers
Products to try and buy
And
needless to say, plenty of mussels.
Congratulations to the volunteers who
make this happen each year.
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Bright 'n' Sandy Food & Wine Festival
Celebrity chefs, local restaurateurs and premium wine retailers come together to present a gastronomical feast for the tastebuds. The best of Bayside will be available for tasting and purchase. It is held at picturesque Green Point, Brighton. This is opposite the Brighton Beach Station. A free bus will also travel throughout Bayside (ring the number below for times and collection points.
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Port Phillip Mussel Festival
White Hat can thoroughly recommend this vibrant seafood festival come
street party. Enjoy mussels and other seafood cooked in a wide variety of
ways all accompanied by one of Melbourne's best free jazz festivals. Street
vendors combine with the market's own restaurants to provide plenty of
variety from the cheap and cheerful through to chef-prepared restaurant
dishes. Sit in the sun with a cold sangria and a hot mussel paella or enjoy
a craft beer with wok cooked drunken mussels.
Details at
Port
Phillip Mussell Festival
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Melbourne Tomato Festival
This recently established festival his quickly become very popular and
was initiated by the well known Grossi family to celebrate Italian food and
one of its star ingredients - the
tomato.
White Hat recommends you purchase your tickets ($25/$10)
online in
advance from the festival site as this event usually sells out. More
information at
Melbourne
Tomato Festival >>
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CERES Harvest Festival
 Multicultural
community food festival with live music, crafts, workshops, performances.
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Lara Food & Wine Festival
 Join
us in tasting an array of produce. All from over 60 of our regions gourmet
food and wine producers. Bring a rug and picnic on the lawns of the historic
Pirra Homestead. White Hat suggests you bring a picnic rug.
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Heritage Apple Festival
Join the Diggers Club team for a weekend of heritage
apple
festivities and celebrations.
Taste test and choose the best heritage
apples and pears, sample freshly pressed apple juice and cider, taste
and buy delicious baked apple pies and strudels.
For the green thumbs join garden tours and
learn about the history and making of this beautiful garden and pick-up
gardening tips at the free gardening workshops.
Book into an Apple
Masterclass with the heritage apple experts, Pete the Permie and David
Key and sample cider from local makers. Learn all about cider making at
the demonstrations.
Listen to live music at the Fork to Fork Café while you enjoy a menu
inspired by the autumn harvest and complimented by wine.
Children
activities on Sunday between 11am-2pm
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Melbourne Night Noodle Markets
The Night Noodle Markets are back, with all the sights, sounds and smells
of an Asian hawker market plus the buzz, hype and vibe of an outdoor
festival.
Times and
other details at
Melbourne Night Noodle Market.
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