Who is Erin?
Originating from our popular degustation concept Messina Creative, the restaurant has evolved and been reimagined into a savoury à la carte menu, wine & cocktail bar where we feature gelato in all of our dishes. Taking its name from our dairy farm, Erindale, Erin sources all fruits, veggies, milk & beef from the farm.
Book a table online or just walk in!
1 Rich St, Marrickville
@erinatmessina
0489 951 972
BTS Messina Tour + Dinner at Erin
BTS tour + dinner at Erin
Give the Messina lover in your life (or yourself) an unforgettable night out. Go behind the scenes with a Messina factory tour, followed by dinner at Erin, the full farm-factory-plate experience.
Your evening starts with a welcome drink and factory walkthrough, before heading to Erin for a four course dinner featuring exclusive Erin dishes and an one off Messina dessert.
New March and April dates are now live, booking link below.
Get in quick, these always sell out fast!
New Opening Hours for 2026
We're back from 15 Jan, with new opening hours for the new year. Thurs - Sat from 5pm each week.
Dinner Set Menu
Enjoy a curated set menu of our dishes, each incorporating a gelato or sorbet element. Carefully composed to highlight balance, creativity, and the best of the produce from Messina’s Erindale farm.
$89 per person for 5 courses. Minimum 2 guests.
Bookings recommended. Walk-ins welcome.
Take a peek at what we're serving
These are our most recent IG posts which is a nice little snapshot at what's on the menu currently + a bit of BTS at Erin - if you want to follow us, that would be nice too :)
What Happened to Messina Creative?
For long-time Messinaverse fans, Messina Creative has meant a lot of things over the years. Some knew it as our R&D department, others remember it as the Darlo test kitchen where we pumped out bespoke sundaes. Then came the Creative Department—our world-first gelato degustation, led by Remi Talbot, serving just 16 people a night.
When Remi moved on to Shadow Baking, we relocated to Marrickville, where it ran for the last two years with rave reviews.
However, despite its success, we knew it wasn’t the easiest experience to access. With all the restrictions around bookings, plenty of people missed out, and that didn’t sit right with us.
So after a long break (and with the addition of Go Amano, ex-Lumi and Sepia), we decided to strip away the barriers and turn Messina Creative into something more people could actually enjoy.
And so, ERIN was born.
Our new restaurant and bar, with a touch of gelato in every dish. It keeps everything you loved about the degustation, just in a more approachable format.
ERIN isn’t your standard dinner or dessert -it’s both, combined into a one-of-a-kind dining experience, with the same meticulous attention to what we do best… making beautiful, tasty things.
To recap:
✔ No bookings required (but you can book)
✔ À la carte + set menu options
✔ Savoury & sweet dishes with gelato elements
✔ Amazing wine and cocktails
✔ Open Thursday, Friday & Saturday, every week
But why ERIN?
We named it after our dairy farm in Erindale, Victoria. Recently, we started growing fresh produce there to enrich the soil—and as a bonus, we ended up with loads of fresh ingredients to use in our kitchen.
Yes, another farm-to-table restaurant… yawn, we know. But we promise this one is different!
Oh, and if you were wondering what happened to Snackbar, that concept has now been rolled into ERIN, meaning you can still drop by for just a scoop, a wine, or a snack without committing to a full dinner.