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The Best Truffle Menus & Dishes in Melbourne 2025
This one's for the truffle lovers.
Truffles. They’re the ultimate indulgence. Earthy, umami and intense, they’re one of our favourite culinary delicacies. From their intoxicating aroma to their complex flavour profile, truffles are a cold-season comfort like no other.
If you’re as truffle-obsessed as we are, we’ve done the delicious legwork and rounded up Melbourne’s best truffle menus and events this winter. You’re welcome.
Best Truffle Menus & Events in Melbourne 2025
Lucia Truffle Dinner
Truffle lovers, clear your Sunday. On 3rd August, Lucia will host an opulent five-course Winter Truffle Lunch that promises to enchant your senses. From 12pm onwards, guests will be treated to a Mediterranean-inspired menu that celebrates the earthy allure of seasonal truffles, crafted with finesse by Head Chef Jordan Clavaron. Set within Lucia’s elegant South Melbourne space, it’s the ultimate way to savour truffle season in style.
$160 per person
Sunday 3rd August, with bookings available from 12pm
11 Eastern Road, South Melbourne
Añada Truffle-Inspired Lunch
Fitzroy favourite Añada is hosting an indulgent Truffle Inspired Lunch on Sunday 20th July, featuring nine beautifully crafted dishes that hero the revered Victorian black truffle. Designed by executive chef Ian Ho, the Spanish-leaning menu weaves truffle through everything from scallops and croquetas to squid ink canelones and Catalan blue cheesecake with truffle honey. Kicking off at 12:30pm, the $120pp experience includes an optional wine pairing, complete with expert guidance.
Can’t make the date? Añada will also be plating up special truffle dishes alongside their à la carte menu throughout July and August. Earthy, rich, and utterly irresistible.
$120 per person
Sunday 20th July, from 12:30pm
197 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy
Truffle Brunch at NOMAD
NOMAD’s annual truffle brunch is a must for anyone who lives for truffle season. Celebrating premium produce and punchy flavour, the menu is crafted for sharing with your nearest and dearest. Highlights include creamy Scotch eggs with truffle boudin blanc and green apple ketchup, and wood-fired potato and rosemary tortillas with taleggio and truffle. Safe to say, this is no ordinary brunch.
Every Sunday until 20th July
187 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Il Tartufo — Florentino Truffle Dinner
For one night only, Grossi Florentino is hosting a five-course truffle degustation for the ages. Guy Grossi has designed an exquisite menu that heroes the rich, earthy aroma of fresh truffle across every dish. Each course will be expertly paired with wines from Levantine Hill, ensuring a seamless journey of flavour and elegance from start to finish.
26th June, 6pm to 10:30pm
80 Bourke Street, Melbourne
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Earthly Delights — Polperro Wines
This truffle event isn’t just a dinner, but a culinary adventure. Kick off the day by learning all about the fascinating world of truffles while sipping on a comforting hot truffle soup at Flinders Truffles and meeting Lucy and ENzo, the farm’s truffle hunting dogs. Watch as they skillfully track down and unearth the hard-to-find funghi, smell the soil and get your hands dirty.
Afterwards, you’ll be given a short breather to freshen up and make your way to Polperro Wines for dinner. Here, each course will be matched with Polperro and Even Keel Wines and guests will enjoy a unique, truly authentic taste of the Peninsula.
26th July
$250 for dinner, additional $120 for truffle hunt, book here
Truffle hunt 2pm to 5pm, Dinner 6:30pm to late
Truffle Hunt, 1900 Mornington-Flinders Road, Flinders; Dinner, 150 Red Hill Road, Red Hill
Balgownie Estate Truffle Dinner
Balgownie Estate’s truffle dinner is a celebration of the season’s most indulgent ingredient, set in the heart of the Yarra Valley. Held on Saturday, August 2, this one-night-only event kicks off with canapes and amuse bouche on arrival, followed by Harvey Bay Scallop’s with parmesan truffle crumb. Melt-in-the-mouth Wagyu beef wellington takes centre stage for the main, rich with flavour and encased in golden, flaky pastry. And to finish? A unique black truffle sponge cake that’ll tantalise your taste buds. Divine!
$160 per person, wine pairing additional $60
2nd August, 6:30pm to 10pm
Truffle Season at Black Cat Truffles
If your idea of winter bliss involves crisp country air, muddy boots, and the intoxicating scent of truffle, make tracks to Black Cat Truffles just outside Ballarat. This enchanting working farm delivers the ultimate seasonal experience—think guided truffle foraging with expert handlers and their spirited truffle dogs, followed by feasting fit for royalty. Choose from a Friday afternoon hunt ($75pp), a luxe six-course degustation with cider and hunt included on weekends ($220pp), or the golden-hour Afternoon Truffle Experience ($140pp) with truffle-forward grazing and warm drinks. It’s wholesome, wildly indulgent, and winter at its most delicious.
Bookings essential
150 Howards Road, Wattle Flat
Plant-Based Truffle Degustation Lunch at Green Man’s Arms
Fitzroy’s beloved plant-based pub, Green Man’s Arms, is dialling up the decadence for truffle season with a one-off five-course lunch on Saturday 12th July — and it’s set to be a flavour-packed plant-based affair. Chef Johnny Ly is dishing up some of the pub’s most creative work yet, with truffle woven through faux gras canapés, seared king oysters, lion’s mane “short rib” and even a white truffle semifreddo. At $90pp, it’s a steal. Plus, you can choose beer or wine pairings, in true pub fashion. Earthy, indulgent and seriously moreish, this is one for all food lovers (plant-based or not).
$90 per person
Saturday 12th July, 12pm
418 Lygon Street, Carlton
La Vetta x Flinders Truffles Dinner
For one decadent night only, La Vetta at Marnong Estate joins forces with Flinders Truffles for an evening that places the prized fungus centre stage. Crafted by Executive Chef Greg Feck, the truffle-laced menu is a celebration of winter’s most luxurious flavour, paired with Marnong’s estate-grown wines for a true expression of place. Expect a refined multi-course feast featuring seasonal showstoppers — including a standout Ruby Reserve Wagyu Flank — all served against the estate’s sweeping panoramic views. A soulful, sensory experience where truffle and terroir reign.
$205 per person
Wednesday 23rd July
2335 Mickleham Road, Mickleham
Truffle Night at Matilda 159 Domain
South Yarra’s Matilda 159 Domain is firing up the hearth for its annual truffle dinner — and this year’s feast is shaping up to be unforgettable. On Thursday 31st July, guests will be treated to a decadent four-course degustation where winter truffles steal the spotlight. Expect refined, flame-kissed dishes layered with deep, earthy flavours and the option to elevate each course with matched wines.
Intimate, elegant and wildly indulgent, it’s one of Melbourne’s must-book winter rituals. Dietary preferences are welcomed with notice. Adults only. Bookings essential.
$175 per person
31st July
159 Domain Road, South Yarra
Truffle Degustation — Bottarga Brighton
Available for the entire month of July, Bottarga’s truffle degustation menu is a culinary journey that delves deep into the rich, earthy flavours of the season, featuring inventive dishes that highlight Australian truffles in their most luxurious forms. From delicate bites to hearty, pungent mains that emulate its unique flavours through scent, each dish is carefully thought out… and it shows.
$160 per person, additional wine pairing $90 per person
3/124 Martin Street, Brighton
Truffle Trail — Queen Victoria Market
This isn’t your standard winter truffle affair. Held over two special dates in July and August, the Queen Victoria Truffle Trail is a deep dive into all things truffle — rich in flavour, history, and indulgence. Wander through the historic market halls on a guided tasting tour, uncovering the fascinating origins of the prized fungi while sampling truffle cheeses, salumi, honeys, oils and more from expert stallholders.
It’s an immersive, aromatic journey — one designed to satisfy curious minds and truffle-loving palates alike. A must for gourmands chasing the season’s most luxurious flavour.
$99 per person
12th July and 16th August, 10am to 12pm
Queen Victoria Market, Melbourne
Best Truffle Dishes in Melbourne 2025
Truffle Enhanced Ballotine Chicken — Malin
Malin’s beloved ballotine chicken is already a hallmark of refined comfort, but its winter incarnation — elevated with seasonal Manjimup truffles — borders on the transcendent. Poached to perfection and delicately perfumed with truffle, the chicken arrives alongside vin jaune and earthy mushrooms, each element deepening the dish’s complexity.
The nutty lift of the wine, the umami-rich mushroom, the warmth of the bird — it’s a study in elegant restraint and layered flavour. Shaved to order and rich in seasonal theatre, this is a dish to savour — slowly, reverently — no matter how tempting it is to devour.
687 Rathdowne Street, Carlton North
RIPE Cheese’s Truffle Toastie, Queen Victoria Market
This is no ordinary toastie. Each winter, the legends at RIPE Cheese craft Melbourne’s most indulgent handheld delight: a golden, melty truffle toastie laced with cheddar, mozzarella, truffle honey and a whisper of black truffle salt. Just when you think it can’t get any dreamier, they finish it with a generous flourish of freshly shaved Australian black truffle. It’s rich, gooey and gloriously aromatic, and best devoured fresh from the press as market life bustles all around you.
June through August
Queen Victoria Market
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