8-11 Sept 2025 | ICC SYDNEY, DARLING HARBOUR

Foodservice

He’s one of Melbourne’s hottest next-gen chefs. Just how did Sunda’s Khanh Nguyen become so successful so young?

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

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

The Melbourne born-and-bred chef spent his formative years cooking in the subterranean venue when it was called Ezard, a fine-dining institution closed without fanfare by chef Teague Ezard in the blur of 2020’s pandemic lockdowns. Now Brendan’s back in the iconic space under the Adelphi Hotel giving Melburnians a local

Callebaut NXT will be the key ingredient in Kirsten’s vegan chocolate tart (pictured), a multi-layered creation that’s 100 per cent dairy-free. With a chocolate shortbread casing and a layer of date cake, Kirsten’s tart is topped with a smooth chocolate mousse and aquafaba meringue dipped in marbled milk chocolate. “There’s

Choosing the right type of cooking oil for your commercial kitchen is an imperative decision as it directly affects your finished product. But how do you choose the right one for your business and ensure that you get a steady supply of it? Cookers is the first name which comes

It’s fair to say the global pandemic turned the restaurant and bar industry on its head, forcing venues to quickly adapt their business models to stay afloat. Bound by seesawing limits on the number of people allowed in a space and even whether people were permitted to eat indoors, the

Offering people incentives to stay with your business can bring great benefits and help enhance your reputation as an attractive place to work. But there are other ways to do it than just through a competitive salary. Here are five ways to reward and retain employees: 1. Create opportunities to

By Wendy Hargreaves In the long shadow of Melbourne’s pandemic lockdowns, the award-winning chef has launched two new dining venues and a thriving gelato business, all while adapting his acclaimed CBD restaurants for the home retail market. And this month, the MasterChef regular got his own TV show, co-staring in

Mayer’s Fine Foods is one of Australia’s longest established importers and distributors of gourmet foods. Established in 1957, the company has a wealth of experience and has thrived over many decades. Of course none of this experience prepared the business for the many long months of COVID and its impact