About this Event
Melbourne’s most exclusive Lunar New Year room is back.
The Guest of HonourA Gold Logie-nominated TV Personality, Food Critic, and Author, Melissa Leong is one of Australia's most articulate and beloved voices.
In an exclusive fireside chat, Melissa will share unfiltered insights from her new memoir, Guts. She will detail the people, events, and meals that have shaped her life – from her struggles with racism and identity as a first-generation Singaporean Chinese woman, to confronting the realities of a flawed hospitality industry, to finding her voice and doing things her own way.
Why people come back every year:
✅ Top-tier Networking: ~100 curated founders, professionals, and community leaders. A curated room where every person you meet is someone worth knowing — and they're thinking the same thing about you.
✅ Real Social Energy: a premium celebration where authentic conversations flow and connections happen naturally. The kind of night where you look up and realise 3 hours disappeared because every conversation was better than the last.
✅ Exclusive Access: an intimate, unscripted fireside chat with Melissa Leong in a relaxed setting. An intimate fireside chat where one of Australia's most compelling voices talks identity, resilience, and what it actually costs to succeed on your own terms.
✅ A conversation you can't replay: Melissa Leong in an intimate fireside setting, talking identity, resilience, and what it actually costs to succeed on your own terms. This isn't a podcast episode. There's no recording. You're either in the room or you missed it.
✅ 4 Hours of Premium Hosoi a full 4-hour session of curated canapés & drinks
✅ The compounding value: you don’t just leave with contacts, you leave with warm introductions, real opportunities, and relationships that continue to open doors long after the night ends
✅ Bonus: chance to secure one of 20 signed copies of Guts, Melissa’s new book
Ticket tiers rise as allocations sell out:
First Release $128 → Second $158 → Final $188
Thu 5 March 2026 | 6PM - 10PM | Juliet, Little Bourke St, Melbourne 3000 Dress: Formal or Traditional. Dress to impress.
Last year sold out. First Release is limited.Secure your seat now!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Juliet Melbourne, 41 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, Australia
