Step back in time with dinner and a show at the new Brunswick Ballroom
Jane Rocca
Photo: Nicole Cleary
Melbourne s newest live music, cabaret and comedy venue, the Brunswick Ballroom, riffs on the glory of the 1990s, when a dinner-and-show package fulfilled our social needs (think the former Continental Cafe on Greville Street, Prahran).
Now in the hands of food and beverage director Tori Bicknell, this northside establishment, formerly known as the Spotted Mallard, cranks it up to 11, delivering the goods on a bed-truck of 70s and 80s-themed cuisine.
There are bread trolleys doing the rounds during your dinner and show, with club sandwiches and saganaki soaked in ouzo, a dish that riffs on the venue s Greek heritage. Nothing screams mid-show finger food like hot buffalo wings served with celery sticks and blue cheese sauce, or warm pretzels dosed in parmesan and fresh lemon. A reinvented witlof salad makes the perfect encore, washed down perhaps with cocktails including th