6 things to try this Festival de Luxe at Chadstone – The Fashion Capital

It might be aimed at kids but you better believe we saw parents giggling wholeheartedly during the Comedy Club for Kids. Led by the musically gifted comedian Josh Earl (and on some dates, the just as funny Tessa Waters), the Comedy Club is a mini comedy gala made for mini humans. As we found out, though, anyone who’s ever been a kid will get a laugh out of the A-grade line-up. They say never work with kids but in this case we found every comedian used the unpredictability of the junior audience to make their jokes even funnier.

It’s easy to spend a whole day enjoying Festival de Luxe, so we made sure to pencil in some time for lunch. Luckily, Chadstone has lined up some sweet deals with in-house restaurants where you can get a set lunch for $20 and a set dinner for $30. We dropped into one of the participating restaurants, Mama’s Bưởi, and enjoyed a hearty bowl of pho. Here, the team of chefs make the pho using an aromatic nine-hour stock (choose from beef, chicken or vegetarian) and serve it with all the trimmings and condiments. Visit the Festival de Luxe website for the full list of participating restaurants.

Ten out of ten parents agree: children are stinky. But as Kyle and April from the award-winning Children Are Stinky show taught us, there’s a lot more to kids than just smelling funky on occasion. The duo know how to work a crowd aged nine months to 90 years with a genuinely engrossing (pun intended) routine of acrobatics, circus arts and wonderfully hammy theatre that made us, the kids and the parents in the room all break out in huge grins and guffaws.