Event: Breakfast on the Bridge By Brittany West - Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I’m sure there have been numerous mornings you have sipped a coffee and snuck in a muffin during your morning commute over the Sydney harbor bridge. But this Sunday October the 25th between 6:30 am and 8:30 am, 6000 people will be enjoying breakfast of a much more relaxing sort during “Breakfast on the Bridge”.
“Get ready to pack your rug and picnic basket as the bridge deck is transformed into a dazzling and unique picnic location. Regardless of whether you're one of the 6,000 take this opportunity to picnic with friends and family and enjoy Sydney's great lifestyle.”
Melbourne Cup events in Sydney! By Brittany West - Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Can’t make it to see the Melbourne Cup live? That’s okay there are plenty of Melbourne Cup events right here in Sydney…. Throw on your top hats, grab your mates and book now for November 3rd:
The Grace Hotel
Melbourne Cup 2009 at The Grace Hotel
From 12 noon. Price $79.
Enjoy a 3 hour, 3 course buffet luncheon with prizes for the best dressed man and woman.
Royal Randwick Racecourse
Dracon Melbourne Cup Day.
Gates open 9am. Price: $35.
Giant screens, trackside marquees and bookmakers make this a very popular annual party. Splash out for a bar spot, terrace or dining room.
Rosehill Gardens
Gates open 11am. Price: $12.
There will be picnic races, live entertainment, and you can book your own spot on the lawn.
Newport Arms Hotel
From 10am. Price: $85.
The hotel overlooks the pristine waters of Pittwater. They'll crank up the outdoor cinema, and the annual Ravish Fashion Parade runs until the horses set off at 3pm.
Wildfire Restaurant
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
12 noon-4pm. Price: $149.
Moet & Chandon Garden Party.
12 noon-4pm. Price: $99.
Grab a cocktail and laze on the Harbour Terrace at the Garden Party before catching the event live on a big screen, or opt for a lavish sit-down lunch.
The Ivy
From 11am. Price: $0-$95.
Downstairs is open-house with $6 beers, sausage sizzle, sweeps and screens, while the den will offer canapés, bubbles and beer on the lawn. Stay back for the post-race party.
Café Sydney
From 12 noon. Price: $150.
Melbourne has the race, but it doesn't have views like this. The charming and always fashionable Deborah Hutton will host.
Mosaic Restaurant, Westin Sydney
From 12 noon. Price: $55-$129.
Mosaic is on the level one balcony under the glass atrium of GPO. A seafood buffet, large flat screens, sweeps and lucky table prizes will make this one a winner.
The Dolphin Hotel
From 12.30pm.
The race will be projected on an entire wall, viewable from the dining room and the mezzanine.
Astral Bar & Restaurant
From 12 noon. Price: $125-$135.
Slip upstairs from the betting action of the casino to Astral to experience views of the city and a specially designed menu by Sean Connolly.
Rockpool Bar and Grill
From 12 noon.
Named Time Out Sydney's best new restaurant for 2009, Neil Perry's new venture is set in an old 1930s art deco bank with sky-high ceilings and marble columns.
Exchange Hotel
Melbourne Cup at The Exchange.
Price: $30-$65. The Members Enclosure upstairs will host a sumptuous 3 course lunch, while the Lawn Party downstairs will offer a tasty BBQ.
Cargo Bar
Melbourne Cup Luncheon and Official AJC After Party.
3 course lunch overlooking the harbour with race coverage, TAB facilities, fashion and sweepstakes prizes and The Cuban Brothers live.
Glass Brasserie
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
From 12 noon. Price: $145. Comedian Adam Spencer hosts the event with an elegant 3 course lunch designed by Luke Mangan, a fashion parade from Fernando Frisoni and lots of prizes to be won.
The Sebel Pier One
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
1-4pm. Price: $89. Seafood buffet lunch at the Front Restaurant with race coverage, sweepstakes and prizes for best dressed.
Quadrant Restaurant
Melbourne Cup 2009.
From 12.30pm. Price: $119. 5 course degustation menu with wines from Domaine Chandon. Private group bookings also welcome in the ECQ Bar.
GPO Sydney
2009 Melbourne Cup at GPO Sydney.
From 12 noon. GPO’s biggest ever Melbourne Cup with 5 dining options, fashion parades from top designers, sweeps, prizes and a big screen.
Four Seasons Hotel
Variety’s 24th Melbourne Cup Lunch.
From 12 noon. Price: $195. Watch the race on the big screens, place a bet in the private TAB, try your luck at the Casino Royale and enjoy a 3 course lunch with live entertainment.
Q Station
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
From 12 noon. Price: $99. Enjoy an exclusive buffet lunch in the Governor Bourke Ballroom with live music, fashion and sweepstakes.
Sir Stamford Circular Quay
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
From 12 noon. Price: $125. Seafood buffet lunch with specially priced drinks, fashion parades, fun sweepstakes, jazz music and live race coverage.
Rydges Parramatta
Melbourne Cup Function.
Extensive seafood buffet in the Triple Crown Ballroom or restaurants with TAB facilities, big screens, sweepstakes, live music and Fashions on the Field.
Sydney Glass Island cruises and events.
Sydney Glass Island
Melbourne Cup 09.
12.30-4.30pm. Price: $130. Cruise around the harbour with all the glitz and glamour of the races with a buffet, drinks package, sweepstakes, Calcutta and fashion prizes.
Vagabond Cruises
Melbourne Cup Day Sydney Harbour Cruise.
1-4pm. Price: $70. 3 hour cruise with buffet lunch, live race coverage, sweepstakes and prizes for the best and most outrageously dressed.
Bundeena Bowling Club
Melbourne Cup Day Luncheon.
From 12 noon. Champagne on arrival and a buffet lunch with sweeps, prizes and raffles for the glamorously dressed.
Hughendon Hotel
Melbourne Cup Lunch.
12 noon-3pm. Price: $60. The champagne will be flowing on arrival with a delicious 3 course lunch, sweeps, prizes, mystery trifecta tickets and TAB facilities available at the Light Brigade around the corner.
Not sure what to wear for the big day click
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Look your best this Melbourne Cup Carnival By Brittany West - Wednesday, October 14, 2009
And they’re racing! As we gallop towards one of the biggest events of the year, it becomes increasingly more important to secure that perfect Carnival outfit.
Events kick off this coming Saturday, Oct 3 with the Melbourne cup carnival preview day featuring the turnbull stakes, with the main event to follow on the first Tuesday of November. This event has become a highlight of the year for all Australians and visitors alike since 1861, with race day becoming a public holiday in Victoria in 1877.
Hundreds of thousands of people gather at the track in excited anticipation of the finish. Not to mention the prizes for Australia’s most affluent horse-race, with the owner of the winning horse receiving AUD $5.5 million for last years race, and the 18 carat gold cup itself carrying a wopping value of AUD $125,000.
Not everyone comes for the racing though, many people attend for the carnival atmosphere and women flock for the chance to see and be seen in their one-off carnival outfit. “Fashions on the Field” has become one of, if not thee most important fashion event of the year, definitely accomplishing it’s job of attracting women to the sport of racing. Due to the overwhelming success of the event, it has also become a national
fashion competition between the states of Australia, awarding winners with large cash prizes in many categories including “best dressed man” and “best dressed women.”
Look your best by the track or at your Melbourne Cup luncheon with unique fashions from Italy and rest assured you will be the only one in that beautiful
Armani dress,
Cavalli suit or sleek
Gucci shoes!
Dress in Dreams, bringing Italy to Australia! By Brittany West - Friday, October 02, 2009
Have you ever wished you could experience the charm of the Italian Cinema but Rome is just to far away? You may be in luck! Dress in Dreams is planning to bring “Make up me a Star” to Australia.
Dress in Dreams is happy to present the “Make up me a star” event opening October 13 at this years fourth Edition of the Rome International Film Festival. The exhibition focuses attention on a world left unexplored yet so important, delving into the role make-up artist’s play in the worlds classic films. “This project has not only the ambition to create a glamorous moment in Rome. Its mission is to point out the importance of an essential profession of the silver screen: the make-up artist. The one that turns a beautiful woman into a diva.”
Out and out Oscar sets, will captivate guests, while having the opportunity to watch the unpublished videos and backstage photos. They will see how famous actors/actresses are turned into the characters of movies like the recent success Australia and Moulin Rouge, directed by renowned Buz Luhrmann.
Just imagine making your way back stage at the Hotel Bernini Bristol where renowned make-up artists work their magic on you, before attending the gala dinner on the terrace of Museo Carlo Bilotti, for the exhibition’s inauguration. Being welcomed by Vice-Mayor Mauro Cutrufo, who is reviving Rome through cinema with renowned director Franco Zeffirelli. Zeffirelli, has teamed with world acclaimed tenor, Andrea Boccelli and screen siren, Monica Belluci to present: a beautiful video featuring the eternal city’s best-loved tourist spots. The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and Piazza Navona while also, showing contemporary Rome at its best.
Elisabetta Cantone of Dress in Dreams in Association with “assessorato comunale al turismo di Roma” (local Rome tourist board) and Gennaro Autore of Voi, are planning to present a little piece of Rome right here in Australia.
Stay tuned for more information or visit
www.dressindreams.com
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