LOVE YOUR HOME - MELBOURNE POP-UP SECRET SUPPER EVENT 23 FEB

You are invited to ‘Love Your Home’ a secret supper club event in Melbourne brought to you by

Once Upon A Table Hong Kong and local friends

We are a group of friends and amateur cooks who love to cook and hold intimate, themed dinners in secret home locations for food lovers. Our aim is to put home cooking back on the menu and to tell a unique story through the menu and evening.

For our Melbourne pop-up event the theme will be ‘Love Your Home’, showcasing homegrown produce from ordinary Melbournian backyards (from our own, parents, grannies, friends and neighbors’ gardens), Melbourne CBD produce, quality Victorian produce and wine … and of course homemade dishes made from scratch like cheese and breads etc.

We are putting together a sumptuous feast of 10 courses and 4 paired glasses of wine for 20 lucky guests. The menu will be kept a secret and revealed on the day. The secret home location (no more than 8km from CBD) will be revealed the day before the event.

Here’s a sneak peak…

...Victorian sparkling wine tasting with Champagne Dame (www.thechampagnedame.com), Wood fired oven thin crust pizza with grannie’s backyard herb, BBQ Yabbies with garlicky garden herb pesto, Potted Tempura Zucchini flowers stuffed with homemade ricotta, drizzled with CBD rooftop honey and toasted spices, 3 hr slow roasted lamb shoulder encrusted with Australian bush pepper herbs and wine pairing by a professional sommelier. Hungry yet?

Our special guest will be the founder of Melbourne ‘Rooftop Honey’ who will talk a little about their passion and importance of getting bees back into the cities for a more sustainable future. Any profits will be donated to Rooftop Honey’s free Adopt a Bee program that re-homes rescued bees.

Bookings open Monday 11 February, 10am by email to onceuponatable@gmail.com

Please include LOVE YOUR HOME MELBOURNE in the title and provide name, email, phone and no. of guests (max 2 per booking).

First come, First served. Only 20 available seats so set your alarm clocks to avoid disappointment.

Cost will be $110 - this includes 10 course degustation dinner with cheese, dessert, sparkling wine tasting and 4 paired wines. Payment by electronic bank transfer required to secure booking.

The menu for tomorrow night's VENETIAN TREASURES secret diner

Cariya and I have put the finishing touches on the menu for tomorrow night's dinner. 

It will be a magical sumptuous feast! Feel free to drool....

Can't wait to start cooking tonight!

Once Upon A Table Secret Supper Club Mini Film featured in The Scene, Wall St Journal

Pretty exciting that journalist Lara Day and art director/photographer from The Scene, Wall St Journal's lifestyle publication featured Once Upon A Table in the feature piece on secret supper club dining in Asia  'Dinner is Ready Tell No-one'. 

They even made a MINI FILM of our Aperitivo Alla Milanese event that was in April this year! Check it out!

Venetian Treasures with Guest Chef Cariya Breemen

We are excited to announce 'VENETIAN TREASURES', a secret supper club dinner event inspired by the mysterious and magical city of Venice.

Venetian Treasures dinner will be held this WEDNESDAY 26th SEPTEMBER with guest chef at a secret home location in Hong Kong. 

Our guest chef Cariya Breemen is a culinary artist with a background in art and passion in food. 

Cariya is a very talented self taught cook who runs secret dinners in a Venetian Palazzo where she lives. 

Lucky for us she is visiting Hong Kong for 7 days so we thought take would take advantage of this and pull together a last minute but fabulous secret supper club event for you to enjoy!

Check our her facebook and website and drool over her dishes.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Cucina-di-Cariya/116937698386078

http://www.cariyabreemen.com/

'VENETIAN TREASURES' will be held this WEDNESDAY 26 september 7:00-10:00PM

It will be a sumptuous 8 Venetian dish menu including 4 drinks - welcome cocktail, prosecco, and paired white and red wine.

Cariya will also give a cooking demonstration of how to make your own Tortellini with porcini and truffle oil and a classic Venetian dessert Zabaglione.

The cost will be $680, please bring cash on arrival. 

As always in the Once Upon A Table spirit all the food will be homemade and the secret home location will be revealed by sms the day before the event on Tuesday.

RESERVATIONS

We have limited availability of 8 guests so if you want to be one of the lucky few please email us as

onceuponatable@gmail.com from 12 noon Monday 24 September.

First 8 people to email will get in so be quick as we usually sell out in minutes!

Bon Appetit! 

Once Upon A Table team 

Aperitivo Alla Milanese

ONCE UPON A TABLE presents 'Aperitivo alla Milanese' on Saturday April 28. Bookings open at 3 pm tomorrow Thursday April 19

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For our next event, we are celebrating the celebrated Milanese ritual and long-held social tradition: the Aperitivo.

As night falls in Milan, the locals hit the bars. Sometime after 5 p.m , the Milanese start filing into their neighbourhood watering holes in search of drinks and nibbles. They elbow their way to the bar and join in the most alluring pre-dinner scene anywhere in the world.

Colourful ( and potent ) Campari cocktails on ice, flowing Prosecco and other sparkling drinks laced with digestivi, accompanied by buffet of bar snacks: hand-sliced salumi and cheeses, crostinis smeared with anchovies and lardo and roasted veggies, freshly flipped omelettes, arancini and olives with vinegars and olive oil, even heaping bowls of polenta and ragu ... the Milanese bars pull out all the stops for the fashionistas and oh-so-stylish denizens of the city.

We love this Milanese ritual and will bring it to Hong Kong on Saturday, April 28 at ONCE UPON A TABLE but of course we will add our own gourmet twists. The bar table will heave with classic and contemporary Aperitivo and the drinks will flow. And this being a nod to Milan, we will serve up some fashionable surprises. See you there !

Date: Saturday April 28, 5 pm to 9 pm Dress code: Chic ( big dark sunglasses optional )Bookings open Thursday April 19th at 3 pm. ( be sure to be quick, as we usually sell out very fast

Enter the Dragon: Sat 3rd March

We're back!! Our next secret supper dinner will be 'Enter the dragon' Sat 3rd March.

We sold out in 40 mins. Thanks for your support foodie friends!

The night will be inspired by magical and delicious dragon themed dishes.

The cost will be $550 per head and will include cocktail, 2 starters, 2 mains, dessert and our beer guru friend Jeff will match a few boutique small brew beers.

Here's a sneak peak of some of the dishes on the menu.

'Smoking Dragon cocktail' inspired from the latest movie Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

'Kiss the Dragon buns'...five spice fatty pork belly slider buns

'Lily Mother's Dragon Fire'...a sizzling Sichuan beef chilli dish

'Puff the magic Dragon egg'...a dark chocolate egg with a magical suprise inside

Looking fwd to it!

Once Upon A Table

EATING INDIA

Argha's lip smackin' Calcutta chicken roll street snack

We will take you on a off-the-beaten track journey through the diverse gastronomic regions of India

Get you taste buds tingling with the spices and flavours of India, matched with gourmet beers.

EATING INDIA: Brought to you by Once Upon A Table. Experience the richness and diversity of Indian cuisine - from our Grandmother's recipes and age-old family traditions, to contemporary twists inspired by Michelin Star restaurants.

From melt-in-the mouth meat dishes cooked slowly for 72 hours to quick, lip-smacking street food churned out on a hot pan. Let us take you on a culinary journey of India, with dishes from different regions of the country, each dish laced with memories and deep personal connections of our OUAT chefs and each matching beer carefully chosen by our Beer Sommelier.

'EATING INDIA' will be on Saturday 19th November 7pm at a secret home location revealed the day before the event. Cost: $680 for a 6 course tasting menu including cocktail and 3 paired beers.

BOOKINGS open this Thursday 10th November 11am sharp. Book by emailing us at onceuponatable@gmail.com. First come first served. Set your alarm clocks as our last 'Twisted Tapas Tales' dinner sold out in 5 mins!

Have a sneak peak at the menu below

TO START Mumbai Margarita - Tequila, lime, mango nectar, elderflower, with a little cayenne pepper kick Tomato Rasam Shooters with gunpowder crackers - Sweet, sour and peppery tomato soup spiked with cumin, mustard seeds and cilantro Vegetable Haryali Kabab - Green Vegetable kabab with spinach, cloves, cinnamon THE MAIN EVENT Calcutta Chicken Roll DIY -From the streets of Calcutta: spicy chicken cubes with onions and green chillies, rolled in fried egg-dipped paratha lacha bread. Assembled at the table. Paired Beer : India Pale Ale

Patra ni Macchi -Parsi style fish steamed in banana leaves with coconut and coriander

Paired Beer: Japanese fishing-village Wheat Beer

Shorshe Chana -Fresh cottage cheese spiked with mustard

Palate Cleanser: Flavoured Lassi Shots

72 hour Pork Vindaloo with Indian Old Monk Rum- Goan style pork marinated in vinegar and slow cooked in rum, garlic and chillies and flambéed at the table.

Paired Beer : Brown Ale or Belgian farmhouse ale

On the side
~Cold eggplant yoghurt salad
~Rice trio : plain, lemon, cumin
~Chargrilled tomato chutney
~Mint Yoghurt Chutney

SWEET FINISH

Tricolor Kulfi: pomegranate & orange, pistachio, almonds - Indian ice-cream

Darjeeling Tea OR Indian Monsoon Malabar Coffee

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See you soon. Once Upon A Table team