Make The Albion Hotel part of your Melbourne Cup plans this year. The Melbourne Cup Luncheon menu offers two courses for $55 or three courses for $70, and each includes a glass of bubbly or a middy of beer.

Start with oven-baked Camembert with grilled plums, prosciutto and honey, or jalapeño cream cheese stuffed prawns with sweet chilli dipping sauce. For mains, choose slow-cooked beef osso buco on creamy polenta, grilled chicken supreme with asparagus and bacon, or grilled Atlantic salmon with a prawn bisque sauce. Finish with a chocolate and hazelnut pudding or a vanilla and lavender panna cotta.

Bookings are recommended. Call the Albion Hotel to reserve your table.