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Morris Danzen Catanghal at Buono & CMD Supper Club
I caught up with Chef Morris Danzen Catanghal at a Boodle Brunch during the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. A boodle brunch is based on a traditional Filipino way of eating: food laid out generously on banana leaves, eaten together, by hand. It’s casual, communal, and built around connection, and for Morris, it’s a reflection…
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Abi Marquez Lumpia Queen
This chat is with someone whose joy is absolutely infectious: Abi Marquez, the Lumpia Queen herself. If you’ve ever fallen down one of her irresistibly fun cooking‑video rabbit holes, you’ll know exactly why she has captured the hearts of millions. She brings a kind of bright, generous energy to the kitchen that makes you feel…
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Jonathan Brincat at Noni, Malta
After a few years working across Australia, Asia and London, Maltese chef Jonathan Brincat went back home to Malta to cook his own food, his own way. He opened Noni in Valletta, a restaurant built on the flavours he grew up with and refined through years in other kitchens. It has held a Michelin star for…
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Sam Field at Molly Rose Brewing
Sam Field is head chef at Molly Rose Brewing in Collingwood, but his way into kitchens started much earlier as a 13-year-old kitchen porter in England, working after school and learning by watching. Since then he has cooked in pubs, fine dining venues, cafés and now one of Melbourne’s more interesting brewery kitchens, where the…
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George Calombaris at Auto Greek
George Calombaris is back in Melbourne with Auto Greek, a pop-up at Bar Yarra in the Ovolo Hotel in South Yarra. A week in, the room is full of familiar faces and new ones too. For George, the project feels a little like bringing the band back together. In this conversation he reflects on nearly…
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Axel Archenti at Bottega
Axel Archenti arrived at Bottega in 2017 on a working holiday visa and never left. He broke down three goats at his trial, worked his way through the kitchen, and became head chef in 2023. It’s his first head chef role, and he has embraced it. Axel cooks Italian food with an Australian accent, celebrating…
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Jean-Baptiste Dumas at The Hospitality Cup
Hospitality is a team sport. You feel it most on a busy service, when everyone’s tired, slightly wired, and relying on each other to get through the shift. Jean Baptiste Dumas, JB to his friends knows that world well. He worked at France Soir for years, and noticed something familiar: the same people who thrive…
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Aidan Robinson at Chic de Partie
I love getting to check back in with someone I’ve spoken to a few years on. When I last spoke to Aidan Robinson from Chic de Partie Cake Couturier in 2022, he was figuring out life after Dinner by Heston. Now his cakes have found their way to Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan and Yungblud, yet…
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Aitor Jeronimo Orive at Basque Txoko Pop Up, Nobody’s Baby Bar
I sat down with Aitor Jeronimo Orive, who’s in Melbourne right now for pop-up Basque Txoko at Nobody’s Baby in South Yarra. He was born in Madrid, raised in Australia, trained in Valencia, and went on to work in Michelin-starred kitchens in Spain, the Basque Country, London including Nerua, Mugaritz, and The Fat Duck before…
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Nick Deligiannis at Bar Sophia
Nick Deligiannis and I last spoke almost three years ago at Audrey’s in Sorrento, in the thick of summer service and seafood season. Now he’s at Bar Sophia in Glen Iris, a Greek wine bar built around one key limitation that’s also its best feature: a woodfire oven and no stoves. We talk about how…