This festival, World’s Longest Brunch 2025 is a walk in the park. Literally. They’re taking two of Melbourne’s favourite treasures, The Royal Botanic Gardens and Julia Busuttil Nishimura and bringing them together for one unforgettable March morning. Grab some friends and get ready for a moveable feast like no other.
Over three stops around the gorgeous gardens, you’ll celebrate the city’s peerless breakfast and brunching culture with one of its best-loved authors and food personalities, stopping to feast on a bevvy of Julia’s favourite dishes.
Start your adventure at the Tecoma Pavilion with coffee from Melbourne legends of the bean scene St. ALi, and Julia’s cinnamon buns, raspberry and rhubarb pistachio tart and her chocolate and almond pasticcini.
From there it’s a very pleasant stroll to the Taxodium Lawn (and who doesn’t love a good taxodium – right, cypress fans?) where you’ll find some excellent savoury snacks. They’re talking chive pancakes with smoked salmon, they’re talking tomato toasts, they’re talking pea and mint bruschetta. They’re talking Ostro good times.
Feeling suitably refreshed, you’ll then wander to Dog Flat Lawn, where The Alto structure plays host to your final stop, and substantial grazing fare of the order of Persian herb frittata, roast apricots with labne, focaccia with cherry tomatoes and sweet onions, and a variety of savoury tarts.
