All Entries in the "Chef’s Life" Category
Attention! Present… food!
Hard-working mother-of-two Morgan Ross helps feed an army during her workaday life but when she goes home, it’s a rarity if she even picks up a pot or pan in the kitchen. Morgan, or to use her correct title – Sergeant Ross – has been the chef in the Australian Army Catering Corps for almost [...]
Australian chef working in Moscow
Meet Jonathon Curtis, a young Australian chef working in Moscow. BISTRO caught up with Jonathon for a cup of coffee. Jonathan tell us little bit about yourself… I’ve been passionate about food from a young age and after attending school in France, I was sure food was what I wanted to do. I started working [...]
Clear vision for success
What makes a restaurant successful? There are as many different answers to this question as there are successful restaurants.
Royal Mail Hotel – molecular gastronomy with an Australian accent
Meet Dan Hunter, Executive Chef of the Royal Mail Hotel’s restaurant and bistro. A hotel with a name reflecting the past, and a restaurant whose chef combines old-fashioned values with the latest gastronomic trends, the Royal Mail has taken out the 2009 AHA Award for Best Restaurant, (Country). Nestling in the foothills of the Southern [...]
Watershed moment – Chef of the Year Daniel Fountain
Last year, Fountain was named the AHA National Chef of the Year for his former role as head chef at Darling Harbour’s Watershed Hotel (now, he manages no less than seven venues for J&J O’Brien).
Convert your kitchen skills to TV GOLD!
These local foodies have gone from top chefs to hot celebrities, by converting their chef recipes and kitchen skills to TV gold. Who says you can be too hot for the kitchen?


