Before she was one of Australia’s top restaurant critics (including six years as chief critic at The Age Good Food Guide) Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you where a diner should never go.

Tickets are $95 for four-course meal, cooked by Pope Joan’s own Matt Wilkinson and Vanessa Mateus, with matched wine. Find booking information on the Pope Joan website.