LOVE YOUR HOME PRE-EVENT PREVIEW IN MELBOURNE BROADSHEET

Last Friday, the day before our first Melbourne secret supper 'LOVE YOUR HOME'，lifestyle and culture magazine BROADSHEET featured a fabulous pre-event article on ONCE UPON A TABLE. Thanks for the article Annie Reid

Wow！we were overwhelmed with the response! So great to have such enthusiastic support in a fairly new city to 'supper clubs' and my hometown, Melbourne。

Our email inbox was flooded with requests to get a spot on our table. 

We only wish we could have everyone but alas our secret home venues are intimate and can only fit 24 people in total ...3 lucky Broadsheet member were contacted last minute, boy were they excited! One reader event cancelled his Saturday night date to take the lucky last spot.

Read the feature by clicking here.

Shhhh we featured in "The Rise of Secret Tourism' in CNN Travel

http://travel.cnn.com/fly-night-rise-secret-night-out-739916

Excerpt from 'The Rise of Secret Tourism' CNN travel

In Hong Kong, underground supperclub Once Upon a Table holds monthly dinners and sells out its 15 or so places in less than a minute. Co-founder Argha Sen is a chef by night and marketer by day, but he says regular rules go out the window when you throw a secret venue into the mix.

“In marketing, the customer has to be given the right information, so he has control. We market Once Upon a Table by not giving them any control -- and seats at our table go in seconds.”

Sen describes his guests as adventurous, open-minded foodies after an experience as much as the food itself.  

“The guests are all food lovers from different backgrounds that you wouldn’t be able to meet otherwise,” says Once Upon a Table regular Karen Leung.

“And the food is amazing -- dishes are influenced by different cuisines and methods because the chefs all have full time non-cooking jobs.”

Click here to see full article

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