If Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra are playing, you know it’s not your average Saturday night. On August 23, we’re throwing our first ever pasta-and-gelato dinner party inside our gelato factory at Messina HQ in Marrickville.

This is not your Nonna’s dinner. Unless your Nonna also invites Shadow Baking, Gold Street Dairy, Erin Bar and Restaurant, In The Round House, Salumi Australia, DRNKS and Byroncello to her table (In which case... can we come to your Nonna's next dinner?).

Dinner is served family-style, kicking off with a glass of something bubbly and a grazing board stacked with cured meats, house pickles, grilled curd and honey. Then it’s onto pasta with Saturday Night Pasta's new Some Like It Hot sauce, followed by our Messina family ragu served with Shadow Baking’s cult hot honey focaccia for the essential plate mop up.

For dessert, expect crostatas, zabaglione, tiramisu, and gelato with hot dulce de leche poured tableside. DRNKS are pouring all night long, finishing with a Byroncello toast.

You’ll also take home a goodie bag with Saturday Night Pasta's new pasta and sauce, plus a limited-edition tote made just for the night.

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Cured meats by Salumi Australia

Grilled Messina Jersey milk curd by Gold Street Dairy drizzled with honey

Pickles by Erin Restaurant

Saturday Night Pasta Pipette with Some Like It Hot sauce, Gold Street Dairy ricotta (made with Messina jersey milk), and lemon pangrattato

Gelato Messina’s family ragu — polpette, cotica di maiale and salsiccia

Shadow Baking hot honey focaccia

Mixed greens

To finish

Crostatas

Zabaglione

Tiramisu

Gelato with hot dulce de leche poured tableside