Melbourne Cup 2026

Back a winner this Melbourne Cup Day 🏇🥂

Join us at Collegians Wollongong for a race day lunch worth dressing up for — with champagne on arrival, a delicious buffet lunch and dessert, live music, sweeps, best dressed, lucky door prizes and plenty more! 

📅 Tuesday 3 November
⏰ 11am–3:15pm
🎟️ Tickets $75

Round up your race-day crew, pop on your best spring look and get ready for an afternoon of food, fun and Cup Day excitement. 

Buffet Menu

Chicken scaloppini with lemon thyme crème

Grilled salmon on herb couscous with fried capers beurre blanc

Slow roasted lamb with cranberry jus

Basil pesto orecchiette with tomato & rosemary prangrattato

Roasted chat potatoes

Steamed greens

Pear, parmesan, pickled onion & roquette salad

Classic Greek salad with sea salt, lemon dressing

Dessert (alternate drop)

Vanilla bean panna cotta with clotted cream & balsamic strawberry compote

or

Warm dark chocolate fudge brownie with vanilla ice cream