Elegance hits Eat Street as designers & chefs unite for a cause
Successful bidder at the Eat Street 2010 live auction, Rebecca O'Brien, and four of her closest friends, enjoyed lunch with Eric Bana at the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins No35 restaurant.
A touch of elegance hit the streets on Tuesday 8 June as Australia’s leading chefs and fashion designers gathered for the Sofitel Melbourne On Collins' annual night of giving, gourmet and style, to raise funds for the Australian Childhood Foundation (ACF).
More than $150,000 was donated to the Foundation after 700 guests enjoyed tastings from over 40 top restaurants including The Press Club, The European, Fifteen, Maha Bar and Grill, Il Bacaro and Taxi, and wineries. There was also top entertainment, celebrity appearances and high fashion.
Eat Street highlights
- Unlimited tastings of superb signature dishes and vintages delivered by over 40 leading Melbourne restaurants and Australian wineries.
- The traditional Chef’s Auction with John Savage, Sofitel Melbourne OnCollins, Scott Pickett, The Point and David Dallai, Il Bacaro offering themselves to lucky punters, was a huge success.
- Leading designers including Alice Mccall, Gwendolynne, LifeWithBird, Kirrily Johnston, Megan Park, Mimco, Richard Nylon, Sass and Bide, Willow, Yeojin Bai displayed their one of a kind designs. Click here to see some of the stunning designs.
- Neighbours star Stefan Dennis was a brilliant MC
- Eric Bana donated himself as a lunch companion
- One lucky guest won a trip to Paris for two including accommodation at a luxury Sofitel hotel.
Eat Street is an annual event that has raised more than one million dollars for children’s charities in nine years. For the fourth year in a row, the Australian Childhood Foundation has been the beneficiary of all funds raised, which will go to providing specialist counselling to abused children to help them recover from the trauma of abuse, neglect and family violence.
