Every Wednesday is Gnocchi Night: your choice of three dishes featuring our handmade gnocchi, served with a salad and a glass of red or white wine for $40 per person.
Melbourne Writers Festival has officially launched its full 2024 program with a bevy of local and international literary talent bound for Melbourne this May.
Returning to venues across the CBD and surrounds from 6–12 May, this year’s blockbuster bill is brimming with Pulitzer and Booker Prize highlights, New York Times bestselling authors, first-time guests and MWF exclusives from around the globe.
The Moat is thrilled to partner with the Festival once again, offering up a space for pre and post event conversation paired with fine food and wine. Stay tuned for more information, including our exclusive Festival cocktail!
The full program of more than 50 events featuring almost 100 of the world's most exciting writers is on sale now.
Flowers bring beauty, joy and sustenance. The cultivation of flowers is a creative gateway, allowing us to discover profound and surprising truths about ourselves. Everyone needs flowers in their life.
This February, join plant lover and author Jac Semmler as she uproots what we know about gardening, and digs into the perennial importance of flowers in our homes, communities and cities.
Over a three-course flower-inspired menu curated by The Moat, Semmler will discuss the relationship between beauty and practicality in gardening, investigate cultivating gardens in the face of climate change, and share her thoughts on the role of plants in our lives.
With a focus on abundant flora, Semmler’s book Super Bloom and its companion, The Super Bloom Handbook, offer a how-to guide for gardening that emphasises the critical role flowers play in our lives.
All tickets include a three-course plant-based meal and a glass of wine on arrival. Gluten free options available.
Photos by Sarah Pannell
"Be drunk with love!"
Join us for a love affair this Valentine’s Day.
Book now to delight your partner with a beautiful Italian dinner in the sublime surrounds of The Moat. You’ll enjoy sparkling on arrival, followed by a romantic three course meal.
The Moat is delighted to partner with the Melbourne Writers Festival once again.
For 2023, the Festival has chosen the theme I’ve Been Away For A While.
As always, we invite you to join us at The Moat before and after your Festival events to drink, dine and debrief.
What can we learn from fungi? In her latest book, Underground Lovers, ecologist Alison Pouliot delves into the dazzling lives of fungi to unearth the mysteries and potential of this often-unseen world.
This February, join Alison Pouliot for a surprising and informative evening exploring the science and wonder of fungi.
Over a mushroom-themed menu at the Moat, Pouliot will create an interactive fungus display, investigating the role of fungi in our ecosystems, their curious forms and ways, and how they are deeply entwined in our lives.
Join us on Thursday 16 February for an intimate wine dinner with The Wine Depository and winemaker Greg Clack from XO Wine Company.
XO Wine Company is a boutique winery hand-making small batch (sometimes just one barrel) wines from the Adelaide Hills and McLaren Vale. Kate and Greg use their experience in commercial wineries to combine practical with minimal intervention and artistic flair. The result are pure wines, with a bit of funk, that taste of the variety and site.
Tickets are limited; gather your wine drinking friends and book your seats now.
"Be drunk with love!"
Join us for a love affair at the Moat.
Book now to delight your partner with a beautiful & romantic Italian dinner in the sublime surrounds of The Moat.
Valentine’s dinner includes bubbles and oysters on arrival followed by a three course set menu for $100 per person.
Please notify us of any dietaries 24 hours prior to arrival and we can sort an alternate.
Every Wednesday is Gnocchi Night: your choice of three dishes featuring our handmade gnocchi, served with a salad and a glass of red or white wine for $40 per person.
Celebrate the end of the year at The Moat before we close for the holidays!
Join us on Friday 23 December for a very special Christmas Menu Finale.
You’ll enjoy three courses starting with our stracciatella, followed by your choice of our handmade pasta and finishing with our tiramisu, for $40 per person.
We're thrilled to be a part of The Wheeler Centre’s Spring Fling!
Stop by to try our special Spring Fling cocktail featuring Furneaux’s Untamed Gin, or join us for our Spring Fling Express Meal: a plate of our tagliatelle puttanesca and a glass of wine for $30.
We’re thrilled to be a partner of the Melbourne Writers Festival once again! The theme for this year’s festival, featuring celebrated writers from Australia and around the globe: Ambition.
Join us at The Moat before and after your Festival events to drink, dine and debrief! We’ll be open from midday until 10pm every day of the Festival.
Every Wednesday is Gnocchi Night: your choice of three dishes featuring our handmade gnocchi, served with a salad and a glass of red or white wine for $40 per person.
Make this Valentine’s Day one to remember in one of Melbourne’s most intimate and romantic spots.
Join us for a night of love on Monday 14 February.
Enjoy our love cocktail on arrival, designed to get the romance flowing!
Then, you and your special someone will dine on a three course menu, created by our chef especially for Valentine’s Day!
Our Valentine’s Day experience is just $100 per person - book your table for two today!
Every Wednesday from 6pm, join us for Pasta al Forno - your choice of two pastas, a salad and a glass of wine for $30.
From 18 November, dine with us on Thursdays, spend between $50 and $500 and receive 30% off your bill thanks to Melbourne Money, a City of Melbourne initiative!
Introducing our Aperitivo Festival, a celebration of sparkling spritzes, spuntino and socialising - book now!
We’re thrilled to be featured in Broadsheet x City of Melbourne’s ‘Melbourne’s Must Eats’ guide, highlighting can’t-miss dining specials in the Melbourne CBD and surrounds.
Every Tuesday through Friday between April 12 and May 9, join us for lunch at The Moat and indulge in one of our two $30 specials:
Roasted artichokes and fresh king prawns with a daily house-made pappardelle pasta with a hint of garlic, black pepper and chili, married to a 2019 Grecanico from Politini Wines in the King Valley, or
Pesto alla Genovese - a traditional Genoa baked pasta with fresh handmade lasagne sheets, green beans and potato, from our chef Monica Mazzucchelli’s hometown - paired with Conde Estate small batch Sangiovese from Heathcote.
As always, all our pastas are handmade fresh daily in our kitchen.
Book your Melbourne’s Must Eats lunch experience at The Moat!
Valentine’s Day is on its way and we’ve got a “great atmosphere for a date night” (thanks, Zomato!) - so why not treat your sweetheart to a romantic dinner at The Moat on the biggest date night of the year!
Book now and dine from our full a la carte menu on Valentine’s Day - click here to book or call our team on 9094 7820.
On 20 February, buy dinner for someone in a fire-affected community by dining at The Moat. We’ll donate half of our dinner proceedings to World Central Kitchen's Feel Good Food program currently operating in Mallacoota.
This Valentine's Day, treat your special someone to a special something at The Moat with our romantic Feed Me menu.
