Book Now: Full 50-Event Program Revealed for Dine Out 2026

July is almost here and that means the return of Dine Out, Broadsheet’s annual food festival celebrating Melbourne’s top culinary talent. In partnership with Mastercard and Doordash, we’re staging 50 new events across the city from July 20–26.

We released the first half of the program earlier this month, including events by Clover x Harriot, Masses Bagels x Yang Thai, Dua x Nimbo and more. Now here’s the rest – and we’ve saved some of the best for last. Book your spot for ticketed events now, and add the many walk-in specials to your hit list.

Even in the world of high-end cheffing, cooking over naked flames is a particular skill. It’s one that Sydney-based chef Isobel Whelan-Little mastered as part of the opening team at famed London restaurant Brat, which holds a Michelin star. Back in Sydney, she ran the kitchen at LP’s Quality Meats and now holds the role of culinary director at the ever-cool Ace Hotel, which includes overseeing in-house restaurant Kiln and its wood-burning hearth. On July 20, Whelan-Little is heading south to cook with another fire master: Old Palm Liquor’s co-owner Almay Jordaan. Together the duo will prepare a genre-bending, fire-kissed four-course dinner, starting with Old Palm’s famous woodfired flatbread with toum and its coconut-creamed lentils with tomato and curry leaf. Book here.

In other Sydney x Melbourne collab news, Baba’s Place co-owner and head chef Jean-Paul El Tom is popping down on July 21 for an exclusive one-off dinner with the one and only Tom Sarafian at his Collingwood restaurant Zareh. Their menu will roam the Levant region by way of barbeque baharat lamb necks, silverbeet mahshi (a stuffed, simmered vegetable dish) and stuffed carrots with taqlya (a flavoursome North African garnish). Update: this event has sold out.

On July 25, Alejandro Saravia’s Farmer’s Daughters is hosting Sydney’s Yellow, arguably the finest plant-based restaurant in the country, for a meal celebrating the incredible bounty of Gippsland. The following night, Junda Khoo’s Ho Jiak is putting on a luxurious Chinese Malaysian feast with Sydney chefs Sun Ming and Sam Young, featuring abalone, oysters, steak, duck and more.

Local collaborations abound, too. On July 22, lock in for larb tostadas, plus tacos loaded with Isan pork belly, crispy fish with green mango relish and Thai beef al pastor, as Hot Listed Chinatown restaurants Taqueria Sin Nombre and Boon Chouu put on the Thai Mexican dinner of your dreams.

If you’re looking for straight-up Thai, make for Brunswick’s Bar Spontana on July 23, where head chef Pipat “Noomie” Yodmunee is inviting in friend Oak Kunnalok, head chef at Lexy. Together the two southerners will share the flavours of home on a $96 set menu, including obscure regional dishes rarely seen in Melbourne. Expect pork, seafood, turmeric and lots of chilli. Bookings are essential.

On the same night, roaming izakaya Nama, by chef Geoff Marett (currently at Benchwarmer and formerly of Hong Kong’s renowned Yardbird), is swinging into the kitchen at Curtin House Mexican restaurant Mesa Verde. Marett and head chef Jacob Green will together prepare a menu that explores the similarities and contrasts between Mexican, Japanese and Cantonese cuisines. Across four courses and seven dishes, try creations such as crispy fried wonton tostadas layered with spanner crab, corn, miso butter and melted cheese.

Also on July 23, an evening of very hard decisions, is a one-off degustation by Dessert Masters winner John Demetrios. He’s taking over the kitchen at Armadale wine bar Auterra, where he’ll employ the techniques he learnt at Stockholm’s Michelin-starred Oaxen Krog – plus Vue de Monde, Omnia and Yugen in Melbourne – over five precise, aesthetically pleasing courses of nothing but dessert.

The next day in South Yarra, three Lebanese titans are reviving the Three Habibis, a ’90s collaboration that originally included the late Greg Malouf. This time round, Rumi owner Joseph Abboud is on board, to cook alongside Abla’s and Bacash on a menu covering seafood and the best of home-style Lebanese backed by 80 years of combined experience. Bookings are again essential.

An event guaranteed to sell out soon is Carnation Canteen and Bread Club’s stand-up brunch on July 26. After school, lots of French kids famously enjoy a sandwich of chocolate and butter for le goûter (afternoon snack). It’s on the menu at Breakfast Bread Club, in the form of Bread Club’s ficelle slathered with butter and topped with Hunted and Gathered Chocolate. There’ll also be vol-au-vents with a seasonal filling by Carnation Canteen, and an assortment of classic viennoiserie direct from Bread Club. Each ticket also includes espresso service and two glasses of champagne.

On July 21, Southbank party bar Marmont and glamorous South Yarra restaurant Yugen are putting on two separate special events entirely in-house. The former is a three-course dinner for $50 – absurdly good value, even if you took out the fresh, in-season black truffles that are going into every course, including a truffle anglaise dessert. Yugen, meanwhile, is putting on a set menu all about seafood cooked with Japanese techniques. Think braised abalone, scallops, garlic-dressed crab, bluefin tuna cuts and heaps more.

That’s it for the one-off ticketed events, but if you want to play it by ear, there’s plenty more to put on the list. You can also catch exclusive dishes available only during Dine Out at Good Days Collingwood, Dingo Ate My Taco, Ho Liao, Pidapipo, North Fitzroy Arms, Billy Van Creamy, Gai Wong, Mork Chocolate, Dao Noodle, Alt Pasta Bar, Tarts Anon and Tori’s. A few highlights from this group include birria burritos, wine-and-cheese ice-cream, blue cheese hot chocolate, Guinness sticky date pudding and char siu pork jerky sliders.

The good folks at Baker Bleu, Kori Ice-Cream, Santito, Mission District, Eat Pierogi Make Love and Cordelia are going even further, putting on special mini menus for some or all of the week. Santito and Mission District are crossing Mexican flavours with Aussie nostalgia for dishes like Tim Tam horchata, for example, while Cordelia is putting on a snack menu with chef Michael McAulay of Yiaga.

Dine Out 2026 full program
Alt Pasta Bar
Baba’s Place x Zareh (sold out)
Bacash x Rumi x Abla’s
Baker Bleu
Bar Carnation
Butter Days Bakery
Carlton Wine Room
Carnation Canteen x Bread Club
Circl x Warabi
Clover x Harriot
Dao Noodle
Dingo Ate My Taco
Dua x Nimbo
Eat Pierogi, Make Love
Etta x Chauncy (sold out)
Figlia
Frankie’s Tortas and Tacos
Gai Wong
Geralds x Naga Dining
Good Days
Grana
Ho Liao
Isobel Whelan-Little [Syd] x Old Palm Liquor
John Demetrios x Auterra
Kori Ice-Cream
Marmont
Masses Bagels x Yang Thai
Michael McAulay x Cordelia
Minimum Wine x Billy Van Creamy
Mission District
Molly Rose
Monforte Viennoiserie
Mork
Mr West x Satu Jiwa
Nama x Mesa Verde
Oak Kunnalok x Bar Spontana
Omnia x G McBean
Pebble x Doju
Pidapipo x North Fitzroy Arms
Poodle
Rocco’s Bologna Discoteca
Santito
Sid Ahuja [London] x Mischa Tropp
Stokehouse x Enoteca Boccaccio
Sun Ming [Syd] x Young’s Palace [Syd] x Ho Jiak
Suze
Taqueria Sin Nombre x Boon Choou
Tarts Anon
Tori’s
Yellow [Syd] x Farmer’s Daughters
Yugen

Broadsheet’s Dine Out festival returns from July 20–26, 2026 in Melbourne and July 27–August 2, 2026 in Sydney, with 100 events across the two cities.

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