Built up from the earth, Docklands will offer you locally grown and sourced food, cooked by chefs from our neighbourhood with dishes developed around tasty, earthy flavours. Come and relax by the cooling waters of Victoria Harbour over lunch while being entertained with live music and performers – all in a place we have created for you by removing 2.3 million cubic metres of earth!

Ex Masterchef finalist, Dani Venn, will join us on Saturday with a series of cooking demonstrations learn some handy tips to become your own Masterchef at home. Vendors are: Costco, Le Cirque, Va Bene, Platform 28, Burger Monster, Pok Pok, Hanging Rock Winery, Broo, B&B Gozleme, Wagners Fine Foods, Bianco Latte and Tellurian Wines.

A free ferry service will run from Federation Square to the Harbour Esplanade site during the event see below for ferry times:

 Ferry service proudly sponsored by

For those not so tempted by the earthy flavours and in need of some toe-tapping, jiving and jazz, the Docklands have also created a tent village and riverside venue for another Melbourne Food & Wine Festival event – Yarra’s Edge Picnic and Jazz.  This event will be hosted at the Yarra’s Edge with  local produce,  wine, beer and cider tastings, quality jazz performers from across Melbourne. Performers include a variety of bands who have recently competed at the prestigious Mt Gambier Generations in Jazz Festival. A Yarra Loop Ferry will be available to this event for a small fee.