Heston Blumenthal’s free pop-up Melbourne restaurants
by Leon Gettler
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal is opening four pop up restaurants in Melbourne in March.
The restaurants will open for one night only in separate secret locations.
Foodies will remember when Blumenthal brought his Berkshire restaurant The Fat Duck to Melbourne’s Crown Resorts for six months last year.
The offering there included dishes such as the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, Botrytis cinerea and Sound of the Sea.
The price to get in: a mere $525, plus wine.
Then, there was the Dinner by Heston where you had to pay something like $36 for a bowl of porridge.
The price for the Melbourne pop ups? Totally free. That’s right, zero dollars.
It’s all there to promote “Heston Week” on the Ten Network’s MasterChef Australia program.
According to Masterchef, each pop restaurant will “offer a completely different dining experience and will be located in a different, top-secret location in Melbourne.”
How to get there? The MasterChef Australia personality is offering some clues for fans of the TV show on the MasterChef social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter (@masterchefau) and Instagram (@masterchefau)
The clues will be revealed shortly before each opening.
Blumenthal said: “Melbourne has become like a second home since Dinner by Heston opened. Coming on MasterChef Australia over the years has always been amazing fun, but this time, out of the studio and into this great foodie city that I love, popping up with MasterChef Australia is even more exciting.”
15th February 2016
