This year's Garden & Artfest winds up with the Long Lunch where TV3's Mike McRoberts will speak about anything but gardens.
What more excuse do you need to put on your prettiest summer dress and spend a relaxing Sunday afternoon lunching and listening?
The $75 ticket includes delicious fare produced
by the Tauranga Club's head chef, Kendall Grant, originally from Dunedin, who has made his way to the Bay of Plenty via an Italian restaurant in Canada's Whistler ski resort and work on luxury superyachts cruising the Caribbean and Mediterranean.
"Long Lunchers" will be served a glass of bubbles on arrival, then canapes and breads, followed by a buffet with choices of meat dishes, pastas and salads, and finished with decadent deserts, coffee and tea.
It would take a long lunch to cover the highlights of Mike's career of over 25 years, during which he established his reputation for reporting from some of the world' most dangerous places.