Private Events
Mobari Rift brings a generous dining rhythm and a refined coastal Australian atmosphere to private dining, celebration gatherings and corporate hospitality. It is a setting for guests to arrive well, settle around the table and give an occasion the time it deserves.
Plan an evening that moves naturally from dinner to conversation and hosted poker at your own private table.
The sequence is yours to shape. Hosted poker is an optional, physical-venue social activity for eligible adult groups, played in person at Mobari Rift as a recreational part of the gathering.
Reasons to gather
Every private event begins with a different reason to bring people together. These starting points help frame a conversation with the event team, without turning your occasion into a fixed package.
Birthday dinners and engagement celebrations can stay close to the table: a considered menu rhythm, drinks chosen for the moment and unhurried time to linger with the people you invited. Share the character of the occasion and the feeling you hope to create, and the planning conversation can begin from there.
For corporate hospitality and team evenings, Mobari Rift offers a polished, low-pressure setting away from the usual routine. Dedicated event coordinators can help map the pace of the occasion, from arrival through dinner and conversation, while keeping the gathering centred on the people at the table.
Group dinners may remain dining-led or become a longer evening with cocktails and a lounge transition. Flexible seating layouts can be discussed around the group’s intentions, so the setting supports shared conversation without prescribing how the night must unfold.
Adult groups
Private card lounge sessions offer adult groups a sociable hosted activity after dining, or a shared moment at the centre of the gathering. Offline poker is played in person at Mobari Rift and is recreational and social. It is always optional, with more detail set out below.
Setting the scene
Semi-private rooms provide a considered setting for groups seeking a degree of separation while remaining part of Mobari Rift’s hospitality atmosphere. They suit dining-focused occasions where shared table conversation is the main event, with the setting discussed in relation to the tone and rhythm you have in mind.
Flexible seating layouts can be discussed around the occasion: a long celebratory dinner, a conversational gathering or a structure that leaves room for a later lounge session. Dedicated event coordinators help consider the flow between moments, without asking your group to fit a pre-set floorplan.
Optional adult activity
Private card lounge sessions are an optional next chapter for adults: a physical table setting for hosted poker, conversation and social participation after or alongside the meal. Hosted poker tables are offline and in person at the venue. The experience is recreational, social and hosted at Mobari Rift’s physical card lounge.
Dining rhythm
The food and drinks conversation begins with how you want guests to arrive, gather and stay awhile—not with a fixed list of inclusions.
Custom menus can be discussed with the event team to suit the rhythm of your gathering, whether guests are arriving for a more formal dinner or settling into a longer social evening. Share what matters to the occasion through the enquiry form, and those preferences can guide the first planning conversation.
Cocktail packages can help set an arrival or conversation moment, with the final approach discussed in relation to the group and the event flow. The aim is hospitality at an appropriate pace: a welcome, a pause between courses or a relaxed transition into the rest of the evening.
Dining, cocktails and optional hosted poker can be sequenced thoughtfully with help from dedicated event coordinators, while still leaving room for your group’s own conversation. Any hosted poker discussion is for eligible adults and takes place in person at Mobari Rift, as part of a considered venue experience.
In your enquiry, mention the occasion, a preferred date, the approximate shape of the group, dining interests and whether you would like to discuss the card lounge. These details begin a conversation; they do not confirm availability. Move to the event brief.
Optional card lounge
Private poker events are hosted at physical poker tables in Mobari Rift’s card lounge, with conversation, clear table etiquette and a shared recreational experience at their centre. This is offline poker with no online component: a social, in-person activity that can be discussed as part of a wider private event.
Hosted poker tables give the gathering a welcoming structure. The host guides the pace of the table format and helps guests engage with the shared activity in a sociable way. If this feels right for your group, it can be raised during event planning alongside dining and lounge preferences.
A private card lounge session can sit alongside dinner and cocktails or be planned as its own adult-group social moment, depending on the event discussion. Poker is optional for private events, so guests can shape the evening around the parts of the gathering that feel most comfortable.
Planning together
A clear brief gives the event team useful context while leaving room for the occasion to take shape through discussion.
Start with the kind of gathering you are planning, a preferred editable date and the broad shape of the group. Approximate information is welcome; it simply gives the event team useful context for the first conversation and does not create an immediate confirmation.
A dedicated event coordinator can discuss dining focus, semi-private rooms, flexible seating layouts, cocktail packages and whether the card lounge suits the occasion. Each element remains subject to discussion, so the plan can respond to your group rather than a fixed format.
The team will respond to your enquiry to discuss suitable arrangements and next steps. Availability is confirmed by the venue, not by the form, and a preferred date, setting or menu remains part of the planning conversation until details are discussed.
Arrive for an occasion shaped around shared food, drinks and conversation. For eligible adult groups that choose it, hosted in-person poker can be an optional recreational and social chapter of the evening at Mobari Rift’s physical venue.
Preparing your brief
A little context helps the event team understand the shape of your occasion before the conversation begins.
Use these as helpful prompts, not mandatory requirements. Approximate details are enough to begin, especially while you are still deciding how the evening will take shape.
You may also mention custom menus, cocktail packages, semi-private rooms, flexible seating layouts and whether you would like to discuss a private card lounge session. These preferences guide the event conversation; poker remains an optional adult-group topic.
Send an event brief
Send an initial event brief to the Mobari Rift team. An enquiry begins a planning conversation and does not confirm availability, a date, a room, a menu or a booking.
A shared evening
Guests arrive, gather around food and drinks, and settle into conversation at their own pace. A private event at Mobari Rift is shaped around that shared time. For adult groups who choose it, an optional hosted, in-person card-lounge session can become a later chapter, always secondary to the people and occasion at hand.
Plan Your Private EventVenue access
Mobari Rift hosts adult dining and recreational, in-person card lounge experiences. Please confirm that you are aged 18 or over to continue.
