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For the first time since 2019, chefs from across the country have met in the ACF Culinary Challenge Arena at Fine Food Australia, this years line up included, TSBE Most Outstanding Chef, Lakanto Most Outstanding Pastry Chef, Tabasco Team Challenge, Yum Cha Challenge, Tabasco Apprentice of the Year & Nestle Golden Chef’s Hat Award. The ACF competitions give chefs a
Fine Food Australia visitors had the pleasure of watching passionate young chefs showcase their culinary skills at the Nestlé Golden Chef Awards. The Nestlé Golden Chef’s Hat Award competition has been developing the Next Generation of Chefs since 1965. The culinary competition provides a platform for emerging talent to benchmark themselves against their peers, learn from leading industry experts and experience
Caterina Borsato has served traditional Italian fare to the barons of Melbourne’s business world since 1995. As the founder and face of her self-named restaurant, Caterina and her team are renowned for consistently razor-sharp service and exceptional food. So how did Caterina’s underground CBD dining room not only survive the pandemic lockdowns, but re-emerge even stronger? “During the darkest hours
The foodservice industry celebrated their night of nights with more than 370 guests at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne on Tuesday, 9th September. “The turnout, recognition and well-deserved accolades, especially given the recent unprecedented times our industry has faced, has been nothing short of extraordinary. This year we also included the inaugural Chairperson’s Honour Award, which recognised those unsung heroes among
Around 1,500 pies were entered across 20 categories into the 33rd Official Great Aussie Pie competition, which took place at Fine Food Australia 2022. Whittlesea Bakehouse in Whittlesea, Victoria took out the best Plain Meat Pie accolade, whilst The Little Red Grape Bakery in Sevenhill, South Australia went home with best Plain Sausage Roll. “The calibre of pies and sausage
More than 670 Australian and international exhibitors were out in force representing the food industry, featuring thousands of new product innovations, technology and service ideas from areas including catering equipment, bakery, front of house, food products, beverages, hospitality and retail technology, meat and seafood, packaging and more. As the biggest food trade event in the Southern Hemisphere, over 100 top
They’re the insider tips from Jo Barrett, the award-winning chef behind the hottest new eatery on the Great Ocean Road, a hyper-local and diligently sustainable bar and restaurant in Lorne’s bowling club. Jo opened Little Picket in the bowlo clubrooms on August 20 with her partner David Osgood (a craft beer expert) and her best friend, chef Louise Daly. News
Mick Nunn loved being a chef. But in 20 years of cooking with some of Australia’s best restaurants, he most loved making terrines, pates, and sausages. So Mick turned his passion for smallgoods into an award-winning charcuterie business that makes 22 different types of Italian and French smallgoods. Today, Mick employs 10 people at his Ballarat smallgoods studio, supplying retail
“There’s wild food everywhere,” says Elijah, who at 30 has already built an impressive cooking career on foraging at NOMA Australia, Aria, Quay and Lume, along with four years managing a major restaurant group in China where he won multiple awards and accolades. “We go out as a team at least twice a week and forage all over Victoria. It’s
Written by Wendy Hargreaves Australia’s most celebrated chef has partnered with Melbourne chocolate house Koko Black to create 10 chocolatey renditions of his most celebrated dishes. And the restaurant’s iconic “Simple Dish of Potato Cooked in the Earth in Which it Was Grown” was the most challenging of the lot for Ben and Koko Black’s Master Chocolatier Remco Brigou –
