The female chefs firing up the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival
The female chefs firing up the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival
The female chefs firing up the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
The annual gastronomy events brings together foodies from all corners of the globe, with the hottest pop-ups run by the girls.
By Jane Rocca
THE MELBOURNE Food and Wine Festival (MFW) aka the Met Gala of local gastronomy events-has now kicked off in the foodie capital of Australia. Across 10 days, some of the world's best international chefs and local tastemakers will collaborate and dish up for MFW pop-up restaurants, activations and dining takeovers to appease our discerning bon vivants.
While the World's Longest Lunch and World's Longest Brunch remain some of the most popular events year-on-year, it's the flavourful line-up of female chefs changing the global food scene that's got people talking this year.
From the emerging pasta talent of chef Sarah Cicolini best known for her Roman restaurant San Palato who heads to Seven Seeds in Carlton, to the Thai-Chinese feast that is Palisa Anderson and Sungeon Mo at BKK, Melbourne comes to life with a cuisine reboot all in the name of sharing life skills in the kitchen.
Below, see BAZAAR's MFW highlights for the ultimate foodie.
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Best pop-ups at the 2024 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Gia X Aru
Michelin-awarded chef Sam Tran from Hanoi's most exciting restaurant Gia teams with Aru's head chef Nico Koevoets for two nights of flavoursome adventure. This is where South-East Asian flavours cross into Western territory for its ultimate wow crossover. Tran became Vietnam's first Michelin Young Chef in 2023 and is chef and founder of Hanoi's only one-star Michelin restaurant Gia which opened in 2020. It's a chance to experience her Viet refined dining through the local lens of Aru's hatted magic.
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Lauren Eldridge x Di Stasio Carlton
The Berowra Waters Inn pastry chef Lauren Eldridge brings an original take on desserts, having worked her way around the world to harness her culinary skill. Eldridge spent time in Europe, notably at Massimo Bottura's Osteria Francescana, when it was named Number 1 restaurant in the World's Top 50 Best Restaurants List. Upon her return to Australia, she's worked at Stokehouse Restaurants in Brisbane and St Kilda and former eatery, Fatto Bar & Cantina in Melbourne. This time she brings her sweet tooth to Di Stasio Carlton, teaming with the renaissance cool and art lovers, owners Ronnie Di Stasio and Mallory Wall for a night of dolce vita and Italian desserts. There'll be cocktails and savoury canaps ahead of the four original desserts on the night.
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Sydney's Porteo x Smith & Daughters
Acclaimed vegan chef Shannon Martinez welcomes Sydney collaborators to her home base, Smith & Daughters-where chef Elvis Abrahanowicz and Ben Milgate enter the kitchen for a night of sizzling smoked meats, Porteo and Continental Deli's signature. The catch is, though, the cuisine shifts from the carnivore variety to pure vegan delight, promising meaty flavour in plant-based alternatives.
Their food is incredible and it'll be interesting to see how we work together to create their style of cooking in a vegan form, said Martinez, who recently kept the kitchen alight cooking for Blink 182's Travis Barker and his wife, Kourtney Kardashian.
Martinez continued, The Portno boys cook over fire and we do as well, ahead of the night they'll send recipes and we'll give it the vegan makeover. I only do collaborations in the kitchen if it's education and I learn something new and it always has to be fun."
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Pamelia Yung x Etta
She leads the pack at Potato Head in Bali, but in Melbourne, chef Pamela Yung goes straight to East Brunswick for a night at Etta working alongside their chef, Rosheen Kaul. We are very happy to be popping up in a kitchen led by a woman, especially one that celebrates the Asian flavours I love, says Pamela Yung.
And although I am Chinese, I haven't worked in any Asian kitchen before, she said. We can expect to enjoy dishes that reflect Yung's time living in Indonesia and traveling throughout Southeast Asia. I'm excited to collaborate with Rosheen's amazing team and work on the massive grill. Hopefully, we'll create some truly delicious results together. Expect spice, heat, and aromatics, she said.
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Garima Arora x Evergreen at Crown Melbourne
Indian born chef and owner of Restaurant Gaa in Bangkok, Garima Arora became the first woman to be awarded a Michelin star in 2018 and received a second in December last year. She heads to Melbourne for a pop-up dining experience at Evergreen at Crown Melbourne, bringing her innovative fine dining Indian experience to the table. She is also one of the judges on MasterChef India and earned praise for her fusion of Thai meets Indian cuisine. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris before stints in the UK with Gordon Ramsay and Danish chef Ren Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen. She's fusing traditional with experimental all in the name of dining excellence.
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Palisa Anderson x Sungeun Mo at BKK
Sydney restauranteur and farmer Palisa Anderson from Chat Thai heads to Melbourne's BKK to cook in the kitchen with chef Sungeun Mo-together they'll share their love of Thai-Chinese cuisine. The culinary feast at BKK is inspired by Palisa's late mother Amy Chanta. An evening steeped in momentous dishes that link maternal storylines with a contemporary vision.
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