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The Coffee Club presents a Speed Dating World Record

The Coffee Club and RSVP invite you to be part of our Guinness World Record attempt for the Largest Speed Dating Event in Multiple Locations. Read more »

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Coffee is a great option for a first date

Instant Love and Coffee

According to a recent RSVP survey of over 4,000 Australian singles, gone are the days of old-fashioned courtship or first dates of dinner and a movie. Today, those looking for love are more likely to meet over a cup of coffee, a reflection of how new generation singles value their time. Read more »

A recipe for romance

As the MasterChef craze swept over the nation, Australian singles have also been caught up in the hysteria of food and passion, taking their search for love into the kitchen. Cooking classes are a fun and informal way to meet like-minded singles in a relaxed environment, and flirting seems to be an ingredient in which participants have managed to drop quite easily into their classes ! Read more »

Shiraz - Our favourite grape variety

Shiraz, Syrah or 'Shee-Rahz'. Whatever you want to call it, Shiraz is the mainstay of the Aussie wine industry: It's the variety that initially put Australian wine on the map; the shining mascot of our dynamic, modern wine industry. Read more »

Organic Wine - What is it?

Organic wine: Previously associated largely with bong o playing hippies, organic products have become one of the latest & most fashionable trends in wine (and food) production, with everyone keen to embrace the clean green and sustainable message of organics, pushing it from the fringes to our supermarket shelves. Read more »

Champagne: for any occasion!

Champagne was 'invented' in the seventeenth century by a Benedictine monk called Dom Perignon, in northern France. In Australia we didn't start producing sparkling wines until the 1880s, but this hasn't stopped us enjoying it any less. Read more »

Blueberry & Ricotta pancakes

Cold Winter mornings require warm comfort food and this recipe is perfect to warm you up and keep you cosy! Why not give them a go next weekend? Read more »

Basque in glory

Two curious envelopes on the table at Mugaritz offer a choice. On one "150 min... rebel!" is typed; on the other "150 min... submit!" Inside "rebel", a card says: "150 minutes to feel embarrassed, flustered, fed up..." It sums up our mood on arrival at this gracious restaurant, supposedly 20 minutes' drive from San Sebastián, after getting horribly lost despite ringing twice for directions. Ninety minutes late, we eventually pull up at a stone farmhouse surrounded by fields full of haystacks shaped the way Monet loved to paint them. As a result of our tardiness, our meal in the spacious and slightly rustic dining room is a truncated version of Mugaritz's usual 11-dish parade, but we choose to submit and let the humour and cleverness of this remarkable restaurant lift our spirits. Read more »

Cooking classes for singles

Cheeky Food Group is famous for making cooking a fun and interactive event. Even if you usually cook Vegemite on toast! At a Cheeky Cooking class for singles, you'll learn tips and tricks on how to create dishes to die for. Read more »

Want local Food & Wine events?

We have received a lot of member requests to offer local events for Food and Wine Lovers group members. So we thought we would give it a go! Read more »

Cooking dinner for two

Ever cooked a meal for someone you were newly dating? Whilst it's not a great idea to invite someone into your home early on, when do you think would be a good time in a relationship to host a dinner for two? Cooking dinner for your date can reveal some things about your personality; and getting this personal can go a long way. Not to mention the fact that you will get to show off some of your skills in the kitchen and hopefully impress them so much they'll be asking for seconds! Read more »

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Managing your own expectation

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The exclusivity talk

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Early dating don'ts

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