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Wine talk: How to order wine at a restaurant

Reviews, VineyardsBy Chrissie MathesonAugust 3, 2018Leave a comment

Stick to these five steps every time you order wine and it will go from what once felt like shooting darts with your eyes closed to hitting the ball out of the park and into another stratosphere. Your dinner companions will be chanting your name as you make your way around the bases.

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Chef Talk: We go Straight To The Source with Tawnya Bahr

Chef Talk, Hospitality Talk, Markets & Fresh ProduceBy Chrissie MathesonJune 21, 2018Leave a comment

“Collaboration underpins it all. Life is relationship based, the soul of any business”

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Chef Talk: Nick Filsell, unapologetically himself.

Chef Talk, Hospitality Talk, RestaurantsBy Chrissie MathesonJune 12, 2018Leave a comment

“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?”

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Chef Talk: Sam Burke, meet the meat man. There’s so much more.

Chef Talk, Hospitality Talk, RestaurantsBy Chrissie MathesonJune 6, 2018Leave a comment

“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.”

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Chef Talk: Rhadia Hursey – culinary school and making a difference

Chef Talk, Hospitality Talk, RestaurantsBy Chrissie MathesonMay 25, 2018Leave a comment

“Probably by next year I’ll be phasing out of the private chef market and into the health and wellness in the corporate world. Funny how life pushes you into a direction, and then you suddenly go, “Oh yeah! Something from 8 years ago set me up on this path!”

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Review: Go South for South on Hampden

Modern Australian, Restaurants, ReviewsBy Chrissie MathesonMay 15, 2018Leave a comment

A final face lift for what must have been a quaint old lady has breathed fresh life into this corner store. And don’t miss the courtyard bar.

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Wine talk: Cool wine in a cool clime

Reviews, Wine BarsBy Chrissie MathesonMay 1, 2018Leave a comment

“I don’t care where it comes from, if it’s a really good wine, we’ll find a home for it.” Tim at Cool Wine uses his Tasmanian connections to underpin the main stock base of his business, and finds it’s incredibly exciting to watch what began as a cottage industry expand exponentially. 

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Review: Osaka Izakaya and turning Japanese

Japanese, Restaurants, ReviewsBy Chrissie MathesonApril 15, 2018Leave a comment

Alex at Osaka Izakaya wants to survive. That’s a great goal, and one hopes that he thrives as well.

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Review: The Lounge, Ruben and Michelin continue the story

Restaurants, ReviewsBy Chrissie MathesonMarch 26, 2018Leave a comment

Ruben Koopman always appears calm and relaxed. But underneath, there must be a brain and imagination that never stops. And the detail at The Lounge, always amazes.

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Review: Rockwall in Salamanca is never between a rock and a hard place

Restaurants, ReviewsBy Chrissie MathesonMarch 19, 20182 Comments

And as always, Rockwall is as alive as Donald Trump’s sex drive. So I take my hat off to those guys slamming out food like line cooks at an American county fair.

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Christine Matheson is a former chef & restaurateur with more than 20 years experience in the hospitality game.

Today she is an author, restaurant consultant & food critic known for her brutally honest and entertaining restaurant reviews.

Now a resident of, arguably Australia’s foodie capital, Tasmania, Christine gets to flex her food muscles as a judge at the annual Royal Hobart Show Fine Food Awards and is currently working on her 3rd book about her incredible times in the food industry.

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