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In partnership with Google, we’ve hunted down four truly one-of-a-kind Signature Search dishes that no food fan will want to miss. Once you’ve chosen your favourite, vote for it in the Time Out Food Awards. We’ve also teamed up with Google to create Area Guides around each Signature Search so that you can continue your search-powered journey of discovery.
Forks at the ready, Melbourne: the Time Out Food Awards are returning. At the George on Collins on Monday September 2, Time Out readers will join the stars of the local restaurant industry to celebrate the city’s best restaurants, cafés and chefs. Expect delicious canapés, Bisleri Sparkling and Still Water, refreshing ales from Gage Roads, and wine and spirits. MasterChef season ten fan favourite Khanh Ong will be your host, announcing winners in categories such as Best Cheap Eat, Chef of the Year and the coveted Restaurant of the Year award. There will also be a new People’s Choice Award celebrating signature eats worth searching for, in partnership with Google – stay tuned for details. Tickets ($55 + BF) go on sale from August 1 and will sell quickly, so mark your diary, save the date, spread the word and snap your eating adventures using the handle #foundongoogle. These awards are made possible thanks to our sponsors Google, Gage Roads Brewing and Bisleri. In association with
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Forks at the ready, Melbourne: the Time Out Food Awards are returning. At the George on Collins on Monday September 2, Time Out readers will join the stars of the local restaurant industry to celebrate the city’s best restaurants, cafés and chefs. Expect delicious canapés, Bisleri Sparkling and Still Water, refreshing ales from Gage Roads, and wine and spirits. MasterChef season ten fan favourite Khanh Ong will be your host, announcing winners in categories such as Best Cheap Eat, Chef of the Year and the coveted Restaurant of the Year award. There will also be a new People’s Choice Award celebrating signature eats worth searching for, in partnership with Google. Make sure you read our guide to unique eats in Melbourne, try them all, and get voting for your fave. Tickets ($55 + BF) go on sale from August 1 and will sell quickly, so mark your diary, save the date, spread the word and snap your eating adventures using the handle #foundongoogle. These awards are made possible thanks to our sponsors Google, Gage Roads Brewing and Bisleri. // var exampleCallback = function() { console.log('Order complete!'); }; window.EBWidgets.createWidget({ // Required widgetType: 'checkout', eventId: '64954843686', iframeContainerId: 'eventbrite-widget-container-64954843686', // Optional iframeContainerHeight: 425, // Widget height in pixels. Defaults to a minimum of 425px if not provided
By Time Out in partnership with Google For the Time Out Food Awards 2019, we are partnering with Google to discover unique dishes in our neighbourhoods. We searched far and wide to find some awesome local heroes doing great things worth searching for. The People’s Choice: Signature Searches award invites Time Out readers to discover and try these amazing eats, with the chance to win tickets to the big Time Out Food Awards event in September and more. Here’s what involved. Step one: Read all about Google Signature Searches here. Step two: Try them! Step three: Vote for your favourite and have your say, tagging #foundongoogle Vote now Further event details can be found here. In association with
In this inspiring conversation hosted by Mercedes me Melbourne, two adventurers share their stories of incredible physical feats – and the remarkable mental resilience that made them possible. The first is writer and explorer Robyn Davidson, author of the best-seller Tracks. The book and subsequent 2013 feature film detailed her nine-month solo trek through the Australian desert, undertaken with four camels and her dog. The second guest is Mark Wales, an ADF veteran with ten tours of duty under his belt. After serving as an elite troop commander in Afghanistan, he battled depression and stress disorders upon leaving the military. He applied the strategy and focus he learned on the battlefield to his recovery, and now educates others on leadership, teamwork and high performance. The duo will chat to journalist Mark Beretta about their respective journeys, and the mental fortitude required to get through them. Tickets are $10 and include a drink and snacks by St Ali.
With fabulous restaurants hailing from every corner of the globe, eating in our fair city is a reward in itself. But what if you could be rewarded just for visiting the restaurants and cafés you already love, ensuring you always get more bang for your buck on your next food adventure? Liven is a nifty mobile wallet and payment app that gives you access to a whole new world of restaurant rewards. Pay and earn at over 1,000 restaurants that already include dining institutions such as Messina, Din Tai Fung, Dodee Paidang and more. When you dine using the Liven app, you accrue a universal digital currency called ‘LVN’ that can go towards your next feast. LVN can be spent at any partner restaurant, sent to your friends within the Liven app, or donated to charity. All you need to do is enjoy your meal and pay with one simple click and earn instantly. To start eating your way toward the rewards, just search for your favourite restaurant on the Liven app, enjoy a fabulous meal and pay using Liven. To make life even easier, we’ve picked out some winners you can visit right away in Melbourne. Download the Liven app now and start eating and earning. Liven’s also slinging out $100,000 worth of food and prizes. Dine with Liven and go into the running to win a month’s free of your food faves – burgers, gelato, laksa – food-themed swag bags, and more. Every $10 spent counts as an entry, and you can earn double entries by eating at any of
Melbourne’s laneways are filled with a never-ending (and endlessly changing) collection of street art. Our painted public places are a point of pride for residents, and the subject of many an Instagram post for tourists (and if we’re honest, locals too). This August, a section of Melbourne’s CBD is getting a different sort of street art that will take over not just the city’s streets but its arcades and heritage buildings too. The Flinders Quarter Augmented Art Walk uses (as you may have guessed) augmented reality to install fantastical digital art throughout the Flinders Quarter (the section of the city bordered by Collins, Swanston, Flinders and Elizabeth Streets). It’s part self-guided tour and part treasure hunt, with the walk using augmented reality app Eyejack to let walkers discover artworks and the local stories that inspired them. On the art walk you’ll discover colourful animations that mimic the daily cycle in Degraves Place courtesy of street artist Vexta; interdimensional portals and human-size wings brought to you by digital artist Sutu (who’s also created a hypnotic, brain-like work); a hand-me-down armchair remade for augmented reality by the whimsical Chelsea Gustafsson; and a homage to the flamboyant Leigh Bowery created by Melbourne’s most creative couple, the Huxleys. Walkers will also be taken to Young and Jackson Hotel where the bar’s famous nude painting (aka Chloe) will be given a digital update. Being right next to Flinders Street Station, the p
Visiting the doctor as a kid can be intimidating, but here to assuage kids' nerves and introduce them to the world of hospital medicine is the Teddy Bear Hospital Winter Check-Up. This annual fundraising event is where children can get their teddies treated while learning about health care. It’s fun, interactive and educational, but best of all, proceeds benefit the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. For the fifth annual Winter Check-Up, five activity stations will be set up on Chadstone’s Lower Ground Floor, all manned by volunteer medical and allied health students from the University of Melbourne. Kids can pull on lab coats and check their teddies’ eyes, ears, heart and teeth before deciding which treatment they need. They’ll usher their furry patients through radiology, music therapy, speech pathology, physiotherapy, immunisation and even surgery before finishing at the photo station for a snap with their healthy bears. Between stations, roaming planes and ambulances will dispense emergency bear care. You can BYO a patient from home or purchase an adorable emergency services-themed teddy bear at the event. (We’ve got our eye on the lifesaver bear, aka Teddy Hasselhoff, with his cute little red-and-yellow swim cap.) Tickets for the Winter Check-Up are $10 per child or $20 per family. It's open 10am-5pm, Saturday August 24 and Sunday August 25, with last admission each day at 4.30pm. Visit chadstone.com.au for more information.