This year’s Bloody Good Dinner is set to be bloody great, with Australian-born Dave Pynt, chef and restaurateur of Burnt Ends in Singapore, heading up the annual fundraising feast.

Each year the event is headlined by an acclaimed chef, which in the past has included Danielle Alvarez of Fred’s in Paddington and Paul Donnelly and Eddy Buckingham of New York’s Chinese Tuxedo. This year the organisers have managed to snare Pynt, whose Michelin-starred barbecue restaurant currently sits at number 10 on the Asia 50 Best Restaurants list and places 61 in the coveted World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. Pynt has previously worked alongside restaurant heavyweights such as Tetsuya Wakuda, René Redzepi of Noma and Victor Arguinzoniz from Asador Etxebarri.

Pynt’s menu, which will be cooked over a tonne of native red gum, is set to include O’Connor’s strip loin with marron hollandaise and bone-marrow buns and butterhead lettuce among other finely wrought dishes. Guests will also be treated to a pear and hazelnut tarte Tatin for dessert, followed by handmade marshmallows to be toasted on the embers.

The annual event is a collaborative partnership between The Snowdome Foundation and Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision that seeks to raise money for urgent medical research for blood cancers and bone-marrow failure syndromes.

The 2019 Bloody Good Dinner will be hosted by broadcaster Hamish McLachlan and is being held at the Timber Yard in Melbourne on Wednesday 5 June. For more details, head to bloodygooddinner.org.au.

Click here to check out David Pynt’s new streetfood stall,  Meatsmith Western BBQ, which has just launched in Singapore’s Makansutra Gluttons Bay.