Following the success of the inaugural Serve dining festival in early 2024, Mastercard is proud to bring it back for a second year, in partnership with Broadsheet. Serve 2025 is a two-week celebration of Melbourne’s very best in food, drink and hospitality – all as the tennis brings the city to an excited frenzy. Running from January 12 to 26, Serve once again invites Mastercard cardholders to exclusive events with the city’s top chefs and venues.

Poodle is one of Fitzroy’s buzziest bistros – and it’s hosting the last of four special Serve dinners, on Thursday January 23. At $110 per person, guests can expect nothing short of the typical Poodle experience, with a menu of “zhooshed-up” European classics for Serve.

Menu (To Share)

To start:

Spanner crab & cod roe profiterole

To Share:

Poodle prawn cocktail, pickled celery, avocado & cucumber

House-made spent coffee ground & rye sourdough

Stracciatella, broad bean tapenade, buckwheat

Steak tartare, tarragon mayonnaise, soy cured egg yolk

Humpty Doo Barramundi fillet, curry leaf,

Mick’s foraged rocket Asparagus, white soy, chervil

French fries, buttermilk aioli

Dessert:

Coconut semifreddo, lime and tarragon jelly

Tickets for this priceless experience are limited and available only for Mastercard cardholders.