Mokum

The Legend of the Frikandel: Reimagined! 🇳🇱✨👇

Forget everything you think you know about late-night snack bar food. Our frikandellen are a bit different - and much more refined.
While the historical ones come with a lot of mystery, ours are crafted with prime quality pork and beef, blended with a precise mix of premium spices. You won’t find any fillers, binders, breadcrumbs, and certainly no horsemeat or mystery floor meat here. Just pure, elevated flavour. 💯

But how did this Dutch icon start out? It all began with a clever loophole...

1954: The Meatball Loophole 🧆➡️🌭
The story begins in Dordrecht with a butcher named Gerrit de Vries. He was successfully selling delicious meatballs, but a sudden change in Dutch laws meant his recipe legally contained too much flour to be called a "meatball." Instead of changing his recipe, Gerrit simply rolled the meat into a long sausage shape. A German customer suggested the name fricadelle, and a legend was born.

1958: The Industrial Shift 🚀🧪
A few years later, mass manufacturers took the creation and turned it into a skinless, factory-made snack. For decades, urban legends loved to whisper about "mysterious sweepings from the butcher's floor." While the industrial truth is a heavily regulated mix of mechanically separated meat and fillers.

The Birth of the "Speciaal" 🧅✨
Whether you like it old-school or premium, the ultimate way to eat it remains the same: sliced wide open and stuffed with mayonnaise, curry ketchup, and finely chopped raw onions.
The legendary Frikandel Speciaal!

We’ve taken a national treasure and given it the high-quality upgrade it deserves. We also pop a little bit of green on top too (controversial we know).

How do you have yours?

🇳🇱 Calling all Melbourne Dutchies! Help us shape a Sinterklaas & Christmas Market!🎄🎅

Hey everyone! We have an exciting space upstairs that we want to open up to the community, and we want to see if there's interest in putting together a festive Sinterklaas or Christmas (or both) Market here in Melbourne.

Our walls are already being transformed into an art gallery to showcase and sell beautiful works by various Dutch artists. We have a full bar and will be serving our food & drinks also.
Now we want to extend the invitation tobmake this a bigger, vibrant community event!

What we are looking for:

Local Artisan & Makers:
If you make or sell goods and want a space to set up a small stall and sell your wares, our upstairs room is yours to use!

Second-Hand & Bric-a-Brac Sellers:
Got Dutch books, traditional bric-a-brac, or any general Dutch items (brought from NL or made here with a Dutch flavour) that you want to part with?

Community Members:
Anyone who just wants to come along, celebrate, and connect!

If you are keen to stall-hold, sell your items, or help is bring this community event to life, please get in touch or leave a comment below! let's see what we can create together!

Huge thanks to Time Out Melbourne for the love!
You heard it from them: we officially have the best pancakes in Melbourne.
So, when are you coming in for a taste test?

Day-drinking? Allowed. Vodka? Half price. 🧊🍋

Celebrate International Vodka Day with us this Sunday, October 4th!
Our licence kicks in first thing in the morning, so you can join us for a cheeky drink whenever you're ready.

🏷️ HALF PRICE VODKA: Just mention this post to the team to get 50% off any vodka or vodka-based cocktail.

Doors open early. Who’s locking in a Sunday session at Mokum? 👇

Host your next party at Mokum.
*with free bubbles! 🥂🎉

We’ve got a stunning private event space ready for your next celebration.

• ❄️ Fully air-conditioned
• 🍸 Your own private bar
• 🍽️ Custom catering for any vibe
• 💸 NO room hire fee (minimum spend applies)

🎁 Early Bird Offer: Confirm your booking by 31st October, and everyone gets a complimentary glass of bubbles on arrival!

Tap the link in our bio (mokum.au) to check availability and secure your date before the end-of-year rush hits! 📲

Our new menu drops next week! 🌶️🌱 Just in time for when Spring really starts to kick in. ☀️

We’ve been busy behind the scenes playing with fresh, vibrant flavours, but we want to know: what would you like to see on the menu?

Drop your ultimate Spring cravings in the comments below! 👇👇

Small Business vs. Mega Banks: Let’s level the playing field. ⚖️👇

While the big banks continue to rake in record-breaking profits, local small businesses are fighting harder than ever just to keep their doors open.
Now, with new regulations forcing small businesses to absorb 100% of card processing fees, that gap is only going to get wider. Merchant fees might look small on a single receipt, but they add up to thousands of dollars a year that leave your community and go straight into the pockets of massive financial institutions.

We have a plan to fight back, and we need your help. 🤝

Starting today, if you choose to pay with cash instead of a card, we will discount your bill by 5%.

• How it helps you: You keep cash in your pocket during a tight economy.
• How it helps us: It completely bypasses the credit card networks, meaning we don't pay predatory surcharges.

It’s a win-win. More power to consumers, more support for independent shops, and less money lining the pockets of the super-wealthy banking sector.

Next time you visit, consider swinging by the ATM first. Let’s keep independent businesses alive! 🏪✨



Image created by Aaron Tyler Aaron Tyler

Flashback Friday ✨

3 years ago this week, we officially opened the doors to Mokum!
Swipe through to take a look at the then, the now (and a fair bit of the messy 'during' too).
Looking back at these photos, we are feeling incredibly proud of what we’ve built and how far this space has come.

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has walked through our doors, supported us, and been a part of the journey over the last three years. We couldn't have done it without this community! 🙌

From French royal treat to an iconic food of the Dutch street!

Think that the Kroket is 100% Dutch? Think again! This crispy creamy snack actually started it's life as a luxury food for French royalty with the firstwritten recipe appearing in 1691 by the chef of the French King Louis XIV.

The name comes from the French word croquer which means 'to crunch'.

It made its way to the Netherlands in the early 1830s as a fancy side dish. Almost 200 years later and it is now a staple of Dutch street food culture.

Today, the Dutch eat roughly 300 million of these per year, thats around 25 per person...

How do you eat yours?