Dear Members,
Over the past year it has been a joy to be entrusted with finding venues and food options that meet the expectations we have become accustomed to.
Ballarat continues to deliver new and varying restaurants providing a multitude of choices, however, whist this is fantastic for casual dining, it is not easy to source venues that cater for our formal protocols.
Unfortunately, during the year, we lost a couple options, that being The Canberra and Primavera. Special thanks to Wayne Spring for all wonderful dinners he hosted at Primavera over the years.
On the bright side, we enjoyed dinning at some alternative venues, Bibo and The Turret, with some others I’m hoping to secure in the next 12 months.
The highlight of the year was our Dinner at the Mallow, hosted by the culinary team from Peasant, to celebrate the 80th year anniversary of W&FSB in December.
During the past year from March 2025 to Feb 2026 we had our regular 11 diners, ex January.
196 Diners – Ave 17.8 (LY 218 Diners – Ave 19.8 per dinner)
15.9 Ave Members per Dinner (LY 16.7 Ave Members per Dinner)
21 Guests – Ave 2.1 per Dinner (LY 34 Guests – Ave 3 per Dinner)
$124 Ave cost per head – same as LY
While attendances have been down this past year, we have been able to keep the average cost consistent with the previous average.
“Buon Appetito!”
Anthony Singleton
10th March 2026
