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Last Tickets! Comfort Food Cabaret: A Mid-Century Menu
Sat March 29, 2025 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm AEDT
$140Event Navigation
Australia’s singing cook, Michelle Pearson, joins the Robin Boyd Foundation to present her multi-award-winning musical food sensation with a mid-century twist. She’s joined by award-winning modernist historian Stuart Symons for this exclusive event that celebrates Robin Boyd’s famed Walsh Street House.
Step inside the modernist delight that houses the Robin Boyd Foundation and enjoy a three course comfort food inspired tasting and musical cabaret featuring nostalgic culinary classics and Pearson’s hilarious and heart-warming storytelling through song with a three-piece band.
With a focus on what dining and food service in Melbourne looked like in the 50s and 60s, Symons and the Robin Boyd Foundation provide the historical context to complete this immersive mid-century food experience.
Inclusions:
- Food*: Canapé on arrival, three-course food tasting cooked and served as part of the performance.
- Beverages: Gin cocktail or non alcoholic mocktail on arrival; Water available throughout. Beer, wine or soft drink can be purchased throughout the evening
- Opportunity to explore the house and take photographs at your leisure
If you have special dietary requirements, please email us at info@comfortfoodcabaret.com
This event is generously supported by Four Pillars Gin, Konpira Maru Wine Co & Molly Rose Brewing and is features in the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival 2025.
To process the gift voucher, please purchase the general ticket and email us the guest’s full name and event date via information@robinboyd.org.au. We will send you a gift voucher via email.
Prior to your visit, please note:
- Attendees must be 18 years or over
- No external food or drink permitted
- Large bags and backpacks will need to be checked in at entry
- Stiletto or pointed heels are not permitted due to our cork flooring
- Tickets are refundable up to 12pm, Monday 24 March
- Tickets can be exchanged, as long as the purchaser advises us of the attendee name
Michelle Pearson
Creator, Co-writer + Producer, Comfort Food Cabaret
Michelle is a distinguished and award-winning cabaret performer, singer and creative who is recognised by her powerful and soulful sound, moving interpretations of songs and engaging storytelling in cabaret and theatre. Michelle is an accomplished producer, event manager and publicist (with formal qualifications in both) and also works as a cook and caterer.
Born and living in South Australia, Michelle is well known for her hit music and food sensations, Comfort Food Cabaret and Just Desserts which weave together cabaret, storytelling, live music and cooking.
Michelle is also known for the multi–award-winning Australian musical theatre piece, Down Under: The Songs That Shaped Australia which has toured all over Australia and recently been performed in Edinburgh.
Stuart Symons
Modernist Historian and Creator of Modernist Adelaide
Stuart is a mid-century architecture historian, the founder of Modernist Adelaide and the author of Modernist Adelaide: 100 Buildings 1940s–1970s. Unique to Adelaide, Stuart’s city walking tours, house tours, exhibitions, presentations, media articles and an active online community provide broad reach to a diverse audience, raise public appreciation and debate on the retention and reuse of the city’s heritage fabric, and contribute to the economic growth of the city through heritage tourism.
Stuart was awarded the City of Adelaide Prize Commendation 2021 and South Australian Emerging Historian of the Year 2019. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians and Docomomo Australia.
Photos: Comfort Food Cabaret; Mike Lam