Enjoying a meal on the Colonial Tramcar Restaurant is guaranteed to be a highlight of your visit to Melbourne. The Colonial Tramcar Restaurant is one of Melbourne's star attractions, offering a sightseeing tour with a difference and two essential Melbourne experiences taking a tram ride and eating great food.

Highlights

  • The unique experience of seeing Melbourne by tram and enjoying fine food along the way
  • The tram's luxurious fittings and period details make the ride a journey into the past
  • A romantic dinner for two with a difference
  • Choice of lunch and two dinner sittings
  • Maitre d', wine waiter and silver service waiters to cater for all needs

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You'll glide through the city streets and on to South Melbourne, St Kilda, Prahran and Malvern aboard the Melbourne Colonial Tramcar Restaurant, your privacy assured with one-way windows. Melbourne's tramcar restaurant-on-wheels is painted a distinctive glossy burgundy and is especially fitted out in velvet and brass like the luxurious Pullman-style European trains of the past.

You'll be welcomed aboard your 1948 Melbourne tram restaurant by a smiling maitre d' and be served by a friendly, professional team of silver-service waiters. Choose from a four-course lunch aboard Melbourne's tramcar restaurant, an early three-course dinner or a more leisurely five-course dinner later in the evening. Delicious meals featuring fresh local produce are prepared onboard the tram, and a wide choice of alcoholic beverages is available from the fully stocked bar.

Melbourne's Colonial Tramcar Restaurant has all the modern conveniences you'd expect to find in a first-class restaurant. It is air-conditioned, heated and fitted with piped music to make your Colonial Tramcar Restaurant experience truly memorable.


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Schedule Details

Colonial Tramcar Restaurant Tour of Melbourne

Colonial Tramcar Restaurant in Melbourne

Departs:

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Departure Point: Tramstop at Normanby Road, South Melbourne, near the Crown Casino Departure Time:

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Duration:

Varies

Return details:

  • Early Dinner returns to original departure point at 7:15pm
  • Late Dinner returns to original departure point at 11:30pm
  • Lunch returns to original departure point at 3:00pm
  • Melbourne Cup Breakfast concludes at Flemington at 9:45am
  • Christmas Day Lunch returns to original departure point at 3pm
  • New Years Eve Dinner returns to original departure point at 12:30am

Tour and Pricing Options

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Tour options:
Late DinnerCode: 5CD
5-course Dinner (appetizer, entree, main, cheeses & dessert). Includes beverages from the fully stocked bar (Australian wine, beer, spirits, soft drinks, tea & coffee). Departs at 8:35pm
From USD $129.20 Pricing details
Early DinnerCode: 3CD
3-course Dinner (appetizer, main & dessert). Includes beverages from the fully stocked bar (Australian wine, beer, spirits, soft drinks, tea & coffee). Departs at 5:45pm
From USD $82.22 Pricing details
LunchCode: 4CL
4-course lunch (appetizer, entree, main & cheeses). Includes beverages from the fully stocked bar (Australian wine, beer, spirits, soft drinks, tea & coffee). Departs at 1pm
From USD $88.09 Pricing details

Additional Information

Inclusions:
    • Air-conditioned tramcar tour
    • 4-course lunch or 3-course early dinner or 5-course late dinner
    • Unlimited drinks (open bar)
    • GST (Goods and Services Tax)
Exclusions:
  • Gratuities (optional)
  • Hotel pickup and drop off
Additional Info:

  • Confirmation will be received within 48 hours of booking, subject to availability
  • Vegetarian and Gluten free option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • Smoking is not permitted
  • The Colonial Tramcar Restaurants consists of 3 traveling tramcars with a maximum capacity of 36 passengers in each. There are booths for 2 or 4 people in each tramcar. Maximum total capacity is 108 people
  • Children under the age of 5 years are NOT permitted
  • Note child prams or similar are NOT permitted on board the tram
  • Children's menu are not available however, if given plenty of notice meals may be simplified. This must be advised at time of booking.

Itinerary:

The Colonial Tramcar Sample Menu:

Appetizer:

  • Chicken liver and cognac pate crowned with a port wine and pink peppercorns
  • Roasted red capsicum dip served with assorted crisp bread

Entrees:

  • Kangaroo loin brushed with lemon myrtle, thyme and honey, served on a vegetable and chive frittata with bush tomato chilli jam
  • Tasmanian ocean trout pan seared and served on julienne vegetables with a soy ginger reduction

Main Courses:

  • Grilled chicken fillet served on a Mediterranean vegetable risotto with pesto, shaved parmesan and a roasted tomato sauce
  • Victoria farmed eye fillet of beef resting on a potato and herb rosti, with seasoned vegetables, onion marmalade and rich beef jus

Cheeses:

  • Selection of Australian cheese served with fruit bread and water crackers

Desserts:

  • Warm sticky date pudding topped with butterscotch sauce served with cream
  • White chocolate and passionfruit parfait with praline and vanilla raspberry syrup

Beverages:

  • Wines - selected Victorian red and white wines
  • From the bar - Beer, Whiskey, Brandy, Gin, Vodka, Bacardi Rum and Dry Vermouth
  • Coffee and tea
  • Liqueurs - Port, Cognac, Drambuie, Dom Benedictine, Cointreau and Tia Maria

Important note:

  • The above choices are subject to change. The number of courses available will depend on which dining option you choose.
  • Children's menu are not available however, if given plenty of  notice operator can simplify meals. Must be advised at time of booking.
Terms and Conditions:

If you cancel at least 15 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
If you cancel within 14 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 per cent cancellation fee.

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5 star rating: Highly Recommended

We had a fantastic night and would love to do it again.

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Paul M, February 2012

5 star rating: Highly Recommended

This dinner was a Christmas gift to my parents. We have been giving them this gift for about 4 ...  Read more ›

 

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