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A dining experience for two is one booking that covers the table, the menu and usually a drink each, so the only job left is turning up. The range includes set-menu steakhouse dinners, long winery lunches and a feast cooked on a hot stone, with tables in every state and territory.
Dining experiences for two in the RedBalloon range come with a setting attached, like a revolving restaurant on Level 81 of Sydney Tower or a first-class compartment on the Bellarine Railway. Many include a drink each, and several add a winery tour or a soak in thermal springs before the meal.
The Infinity by Mark Best 3 Course Lunch sits on Level 81 of Sydney Tower, where the restaurant revolves slowly, and the views run 360 degrees over Greater Sydney. At the Opera House, the 4 Course Lunch and Gift seats you side by side at Bennelong's Counter and sends you home with a Bennelong gift. Midden by Mark Olive serves Modern Indigenous cuisine with the Harbour Bridge in view, and in Rose Bay the weekend Champagne Brunch at Sydney Seaplanes Lounge has seaplanes landing beside your table. Out in the Hunter, the 3 Course Vineyard Dinner with Sparkling Wine looks over Windsor's Edge Vineyard. For a straightforward dinner in the city, the shared 3 Course Steakhouse Dinner with Wine at The Meat & Wine Co comes with a glass of house wine, beer or soft drink each, and the same format runs in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.
On the Bellarine, The Q Train Private Dining Experience puts you in a private first-class compartment for a five-course degustation with a paired drink for every course. A family-owned winery nearby serves house-smoked meats at its Texas BBQ Lunch or Dinner with Wine or Spirits. On the Mornington Peninsula, Alba Thermal Springs & Spa Bathing & 2 Course Dining gives you more than 20 pools before a meal at Thyme restaurant. In the Yarra Valley, phone clues lead you to a cafe, a cellar door and a lunch with sparkling on the Mystery Wine and Dine Adventure.
Four storeys up in Brisbane, the Brisbane Vertical Dining Experience with drinks serves a grazing box and ends with a jump down the dropline. The Dapl Signature Dining Experience with Wine lets you pick two small plates, two large plates and two sides, with a bottle of wine to share, and the Seafood Banquet at Poppies Southbank brings four seafood dishes. On the Gold Coast, the Modern Middle Eastern Banquet is a Persian spread made for sharing, and at Maleny you Cook Your Own Hot Stone Meat Feast in Maleny on a sizzling granite rock.
The McLaren Vale Food and Wine Experience at Bec Hardy is a seasonal feed-me menu with a matched wine for every course. In the Adelaide Hills, a Cheese Fondue Experience with Drinks comes with ciabatta, salami, cornichons and fresh pear for dipping. Inside the Adelaide Central Market, the Tapas & Bubbles Experience pairs three regionally inspired tapas plates with a bottle of South Australian sparkling.
In Margaret River, the 7 Course Tasting Lunch with Winery Tour and Tastings at Leeuwin Estate adds a behind-the-scenes tour to a seven-course degustation with matched estate wines. Pinky's on Rottnest Island looks over Pinky Beach and serves a two-course lunch, and in Canberra, The Meat Dining Experience with Wine cooks its meats over fire. Darwin's Waterfront Seafood Dining Experience with Wine brings a seafood tower, dessert and a glass of sparkling each, and in Tasmania the Cellar Door Wine Tasting and Lunch with Wine finishes with a two-course lunch.
Most of these products are sold as a voucher for two, so the plus-one is already sorted. If you don't know their taste in food, choose the setting: a harbour view or a vineyard says what kind of evening it is before anyone opens a menu.
Or send the RedBalloon gift voucher and let them choose the venue, the date and the menu. It stays valid for five years, so nobody is rushed.
A dining experience for two is a booked meal for a pair, usually a set menu or shared banquet with a drink each, and sometimes with something added before the food arrives, such as a winery tour or a soak in thermal springs. You buy a voucher, pick the venue and book your own date.
A popular option is the Alba Thermal Springs bathing and two-course dining on the Mornington Peninsula, which pairs more than 20 geothermal pools with a meal at Thyme restaurant. For a longer evening, first class on the Q Train is a good choice, with a five-course degustation and a paired drink for every course.
Yes, on selected products. The Private Luxury Cruise and Tasting Menu at 6HEAD gives you a private Sydney Harbour cruise with your own skipper and a bottle of sparkling before a five-course tasting menu, and the Q Train's First Class option seats you in a private compartment with butler service. For other venues, check the product page for the seating arrangement.
Most cover a table for two, a set or shared menu and a drink each: a glass of house wine, beer or soft drink at the Meat & Wine Co steakhouses, a welcome cocktail and a bottle of wine at Midden, Champagne each at Sydney Seaplanes Lounge. A few leave drinks out, so read the inclusions list before you buy.
On some products, yes. The Dapl dinner in Brisbane lets you pick two small plates, two large plates and two sides, and the Bennelong lunch at the Sydney Opera House is a four-course choice lunch. Set menus, such as the Q Train degustation or the shared steakhouse dinners, are fixed by the kitchen.
Yes. The voucher covers both of you and the evening is already planned, so all that's left is the date. Book early for the day that matters: several venues need 48 hours' notice, and some, including Kobe Jones in The Rocks, Otto in Brisbane and Botanic House in Sydney, don't take bookings on Valentine's Day.
A set-menu or shared dinner suits a relaxed night with some choice, and a degustation suits an evening where you hand the whole meal to the chef. The degustation dining page has the tasting menus, and steakhouse dinners have a page of their own for a big shared grill.
Winery lunches and lunch and dinner cruises move the meal somewhere with a view, and steam train experiences put it on the rails. High tea is the daytime version, and date night ideas cover the evening around the dinner.