The Queens Gambit
A Test Of Knowledge
Are You Ready?

There are decisions that deserve a spreadsheet, three meetings and an unnecessarily long email chain. Then there are decisions like how to celebrate your team properly. The Queen’s Gambit is firmly in the second category. Created for teams who have earned something far more entertaining than another predictable dinner, this Melbourne experience trades corporate routine for private dining, Drag Queen Trivia, riverside feasting and drinks overlooking the city. The strategy is already mapped out. Your team simply needs to arrive ready to play.

The opening move places everyone inside our sophisticated Melbourne venue, where your own Private Dining Room is reserved exclusively for two hours. A cocktail for every guest sets the mood on arrival, shared tapas begin appearing around the room, and suddenly nobody is talking about what needs to happen before close of business tomorrow. With your team gathered privately rather than competing with a packed venue for space, there is room for conversations to wander, personalities to come out and the working week to loosen its grip.

Of course, we cannot allow everyone to become too comfortable. There is a Queen on the way.

Your Drag Queen Trivia host sweeps into the private room for an hour of questions, comedy and the kind of competitive behaviour that colleagues will absolutely deny at the office the following morning. Knowledge will be tested. Confidence will be misplaced. Someone who has barely spoken all evening may suddenly reveal an alarming command of obscure trivia, while your self appointed genius discovers that enthusiasm and accuracy are two very different things. Your Queen keeps the game moving with plenty of personality and playful banter before making time for photos with the team, giving everyone photographic evidence of exactly how seriously the competition was taken.

Once bragging rights have been established, the evening changes pace beautifully. Your team leaves the trivia battlefield behind and makes its way to our exclusive riverside dining destination, where a glass of bubbly welcomes each guest into the next part of the night. Settle around the table as the chef’s selection of pizzas arrives for sharing, equivalent to two thirds of a pizza per person, alongside generous shared salads and fries. Conversation inevitably returns to the trivia results, accusations of lucky guesses begin circulating and the team gets the chance to linger over dinner with Melbourne’s riverside atmosphere surrounding them.

By now, heading home would feel suspiciously responsible, so there is one final move to make.

Your team continues to our luxury riverside venue, where reserved seating is already waiting and everyone receives their choice of a glass of bubbly or beer. For the organiser, that reservation quietly removes one of the least glamorous parts of a group night out: arriving at a busy venue with a full team and discovering there is nowhere for everyone to sit together. Instead, your group can settle straight in, order another round if the mood strikes and enjoy the final stretch of the evening exactly as it should be enjoyed.

The Queen’s Gambit takes the familiar team celebration and gives it considerably more personality. A private room, cocktails and tapas lead into an unforgettable hour with your Drag Queen Trivia host before riverside dinner and a final round of drinks bring everyone together again. Perfect for EOFY celebrations, Christmas parties, company milestones or teams overdue for a proper reward, the only questionable strategy would be waiting too long to book. Melbourne’s best dates have a habit of disappearing quickly, so make your move before somebody else claims them.