Chef Talk: Christian Heidenreich – a chef with no regrets
Meeting Bill Clinton is a highlight in a career full of them. Christian’s story unfolds as a massive journey, with no regrets. Cheers!
Chef Talk: Paul Rifkin leads our future leaders
Advice? There’s always something that’s going to happen – that’s not right, every day, but you have to make sure that you know why you’re in it, and you have to know where you’re going with it.
Travel: Penang highlights and cheap eats
In Penang highlights, there’s a lot of take aways for western business in these lessons from a hot steamy place far from home.
Chef Talk: We go Straight To The Source with Tawnya Bahr
“Collaboration underpins it all. Life is relationship based, the soul of any business”
Review: Urban Greek, yassou!
Poseidon rules here, a benevolent dictator, so it just makes sense that to put extra effort into training your floor staff to move quickly with authority, turning tables.
Review: Dainty Legend Chinese Kitchen
How refreshing. After having recently read so many posts on Social Media about the appalling service in Tasmania, here we were in a kind and welcoming environment that put the hospitable back into hospitality.
Chef Talk: Nick Filsell, unapologetically himself.
“In this industry, 30% is really hard and 70% is fun, and the crazy thing is we spend more time kicking ourselves up the arse about the 30% than enjoying the 70%. Isn’t that nuts?”
Chef Talk: Sam Burke, meet the meat man. There’s so much more.
“Hospitality is very pressured, with hard long hours, and it’s important that you have some sort of hobby or interest outside of your work that burns that stress, gives you an outlet and releases the pressure so you live to cook another day.”
Review: Great pub grub? The Fern Tree Tavern
Fresh country air, an unpretentious place like grandma’s comfy chair – that’s the Fern Tree Tavern. And long may it last.
Travel: Malaysia, cheap eats and dim sum
Malaysia cheap eats and a blissful dim sum offering in the heart of Georgetown. Penang rocks.