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Jude Mayall at Outback Chef
I have been thinking a lot about native food recently. But not as much as Jude Mayall, also known as the Outback Chef, thinks about native food. She is a passionate advocate for eating the food grown on the land we walk on and she has been supplying chefs, home cooks, distillers and manufacturers with…
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Daniele Piras at Vaporetto & Squid Inc Bali
Ideally I would have chatted to Daniele in Canggu once he is there in April and working as head chef at Squid Inc., but, you know, Richmond is fine. Really. But make a note of Squid Inc. for your next trip to Bali because you will be in excellent hands. Daniele Piras was born in…
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Will Meyrick at The Street Food Chef
When I spoke to Will, it was 7 o’clock in the morning in London. He was eating a peanut butter sandwich and drinking Lapsang Souchong tea and I could hear his children running around in the background. Will Meyrick has a lot going on. He has seven restaurants under his belt in Indonesia, produces a…
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Darren Robertson at Three Blue Ducks
When I rang Darren Robertson, he was sitting out by the bins at the back of Three Blue Ducks at The Farm in Byron Bay, on a break before lunch service; a good reminder that being a celebrity chef is not all beer and skittles and you don’t get to be as well-loved as Darren…
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Trevor Perkins at Hogget Kitchen
Trevor Perkins is a passionate advocate for eating locally and sustainably. Local for Trevor is West Gippsland where he cooks overlooking the vines at Hogget Kitchen. On the day I visited, the countryside was shrouded in a smoky haze from nearby bush fires, a reminder of our footprint on this land that was so well…
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Paul Wilson at Morgan’s
I drove to Sorrento on a hot summer’s day and sat out on the terrace at Morgan’s, rosé in hand and with a beautiful view of the beach and bobbing boats in the bay. I ate grilled snapper with a snow pea tendril salad. It was delicious. I have been wanting to talk to Paul…
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Mo Zhou at Gaea
Mo Zhou didn’t start out wanting to be a chef, but a gap half year at Uni opened his eyes to Europe and food other than the Chinese food he had been brought up with. A stage at Attica and then roles at Vue de Monde and The Press Club further inspired him and he…
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Nic Backhouse at The Stables at Stones
I was recently lucky enough to be invited to Corner Inlet for the first of many more to come gatherings supported by GoodFish (Sascha Rust) and the Australian Marine Conservation Society. It was a wonderful opportunity for conversations between chefs and the fishers of Corner Inlet, where commercial fishing has been carried out with integrity…
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Rory Greenwood-McNeair at Galah
C.S. Lewis was definitely onto something when he had children entering other worlds through a wardrobe. But Galah goes one step further with creating a bottle shop as an entrance to a super cool loft bar. Native Australian floral ingredients, feature bark hangings and retro Scandi-ish furniture is already a great start. Then there’s the…
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Jeremy Raven at Drumplings
Drumplings is one of those places where you walk in and the dining space is cool, kinda edgy, you already know that the food is going to be delicious because, well, cheeseburger dumplings, how could it not be? Then you walk out the back and it’s all artificial grass and street art and basically an…