Introduction Chefs

Abla Ahmad
Abla opened her restaurant in the late 1970s, it has become famous for her traditional Lebanese dishes.

Beer & Food
Melbourne chefs match beer and food.

George Biron
George Biron closed his restaurant Sunnybrea, but is now about to open a winery restaurant in the vicinity of Geelong.

Silvana Palmira
After a long career cooking in her Melbourne restaurants Silvana talks to Mietta in the months before her retirement.

Greg Brown
Greg Brown, highflying chef and now baker and partner in the Browns Bakery chain, gives cooking classes for kids.

Garry Farrel
Gary Farrell will represented Australia in the first individual cooking championship to find the world's best chef.

Chef Competition
Mietta describes the trials of apprentice chefs competing in a competition of which she was one of the judges.

Chris Talihmanidis
He has worked in his native Greece, in other parts of Europe, in Melbourne, on Mt Buffalo, in the Antarctica and, for the past two decades on the coast in Lorne and at Apollo Bay.

Donlevy Fitzpatrick
Donlevy describes himself as a property developer but he has started a number of Melbourne's most important establishments.

Donovan Cooke
Was Mietta's last chef. He now runs his own restaurant est est est.

James Tan
James Tan is one of the Australia's best practitioners of the mixed menu with an Asian accent.

Dure Dara
Dure Dara, President of the Victorian Chapter of the Restaurant & Caterers Assoc., once a partner in Stephanie's Restaurant, now has interests in a number of important Melbourne cafes.

Gilbert Lau
Gilbert Lau's restaurant Flower Drum is arguably Australia's best delivering, refined food and impeccable service to those lucky enough to get a booking.

Food Festival 99
Melbourne Wine and Food Festival

Home Dinner
Herald Sun sponsored competition provides a star chef to cook the winners dinners.

Mietta's Hong Kong Staff
Mietta's Hong Kong staff have branched out into their own businesses in Melbourne.

Ivana Della Maria
Ivana prepared Italian dishes for Mietta's sister Patricia at the Queenscliff Hotel.

Jimmy the Original
Jimmy has to call himself the Original as there are so many Greek restaurants in Melbourne using his name.

Jimmy Shu
Jimmy Shu a master of the mixed Asian menu in his Melbourne restaurant, Near East and his Darwin and Alice Springs Hunaman Restaurants.

Kuni Ichikawa
Kuni is the Godfather of Japanese restaurants in Melbourne

Bill Marchetti
Bill Marchetti has run the Latin and Tuscan Grill until their closure in 2001.

Mario De Pasquale & Maccarone
Mario's was one of the first and is still one of the best Melbourne cafes - and it still serves breakfast all day.

Nouria Salehi
Nouria Salehi, whilst working full time as senior physicist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, started in the restaurant business in 1983 that she could provide jobs in order to sponser her family from Afghanistan to Australia.

Pelligrini's
The 1950s' Melbourne coffee bar is still an essential meeting place in the city.

Phu Huo Pham
Worked as a kitchen hand for Mietta's. Today he controls several restaurants of his own.

Phillipe Mouchel
Phillipe came to Melbourne to open Restaurant Paul Bocuse

Scheherezade
A Polish classic in the heart of Acland St St Kilda.

Simon Goh
Simon mixed Malaysian food and rythm and Blus together and came up with the Chinta Ria restaurants.

Jeremy Strode
Talented English chef jeremy Strode, has now left his restaurant Pomme and is chef at Langton's

Supper Inn
If its 2am and you need a quick food fix follow the crowd to the Supper Inn

Gregory Vlados
Australia's best steak cooked by the master himself.

Walter Bourke
Once a prinicipal dancer with the Australian Ballet Walter now runs Walter's Wine Bar

Or perhaps ...

Abla Ahmet
An interview with Abla Amad, the owner-chef of Melbourne\'s best Lebanese restaurant, Abla\'s

Apprentice Chefs Compete
The Daryl Cox Memorial Trophy - a judges perspective of the young chefs striving for excellence

Beer and Food
At the end of the day most chefs reach for a beer. But here they cook with it - matching food and beer flavours

Bill Marchetti 1997
An interview with Bill Marchetti, owner-chef of Marchetti\'s Latin and Matchetti\'s Tuscan Grill

Chris Talihmanidis
An interview with Chris Talihmanidis at Beacon Point. Chris has been responsible for many of Lorne and the Surf Coast\'s best restaurants

Donlevy Fitzpatrick
An interview with Fitzpatrick Donlevy who is relieved to be out of the George and back in the Dog\'s Bar.

Donovan Cooke 1997
An interview with Donovan Cooke, chef and partner in est est est, one of Melbourne\'s best restaurants.

Don Dunstan
Don Dunstan, ex-premier of South Australia, and his partner and the chef, Stephen Cheng, have opened a magnificent new restaurant in Norwood, Adelaide. It\'s called Don\'s Table

Dur-e Dara
An interview with Dur-e Dara, then a partner in Stephanie\'s Restaurant.

Garry Farrell
Next week Gary Farrell will represent Australia in the first individual cooking championship to find the world\'s best chef.

George Biron 1998
Sunnybrae has more than liesurely sunday lunches it also has fungi. Georges Biron assisted by fungus expert Dr May take you foraging. George\'s recipe for white polenta and saffron milk caps is included.

Gilbert Lau 1997
An interview with Gilbert Lau of the Flower Drum, Melbourne\'s best Chinese restaurant and one of the best restaurants in Australia.

Greg Brown
An interview with Greg Brown, ex-restaurateur and now a baker talks about his empire, his cooking classes and finding pleasure in food

Home Dinner Party
The chefs who come to your home as part of the Herald Sun Home Dinner Party are organized than that - they come well prepared so you\'ll get a great meal served to your guests and afterwards all the evidence is cleaned up and taken away.

Hong Kong to Melbourne
Interviews with a number of Hong Kong Chinese who had worked at Mietta\'s a chefs and waiters and who now own their own businesses

Introduction Chefs
Interviews with Australian chefs written by Mietta O\'Donnell for the Melbourne Herald Sun between 1996 and 2000.

Ivana\'s Pasta
An interview with Ivana Dela Maria that deals with making pasta and gives her recipes for zucchini soup and potato gnocchi

James Tan 1997
An interview with James Tan chef and partner in the Duck, just before it opened. James is one of Melbourne\'s best exponents of the use of Asian dishes with Western influences.

Jeremy Strode 1998
A look at chef Jeremy Strode\'s brand new enterprise, Pomme, the classy, chic restaurant in Toorak Road, serving fine classically based food

Jimmy Shu 1997
An interview with Jimmy Shu chef-owner of Near East in Melbourne and Haniman in Darwin. He is one of Melbourne\'s best exponents of mixed Asian cuisines

Jimmy the Original
An interview with Jim Papadimitriou - Jimmy the Original - the man who started many of Melbourne\'s best known Greek restaurants

Kuni Ichikawa 1998
An interview with Kuni Ichikawa the god father of Melbourne\'s Japanese restaurants talks about introducing Melburnians to Japanese food

Mario's Cafe
An interview with Mario De Pasquale and Mario Maccarone of Mario\'s and the Continental and the true story of the \'all day breakfast\'

Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
So many meals, so many chefs demonstrating, so many products to taste in the gastronomic marathon known as the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Nouria Salehi
An interview with Nouria Salehi the physicist who started an Afghan restaurant to provide work for her Afghani compatriots

Pelligrini 1997
An interview with Sisto Malaspina, Nino Pangrazia and Emma Sellito of Pelligini\'s, Melbourne\'s most loved coffee bar

Phillipe Mouchel 1997
An interview with Phillipe Mouchel, then chef at Restaurant Paul Bocuse in Melbourne. He is now chef and partner in Langton\'s Restaurant and Wine Bar with Phillipe Mouchel.

Phu Huo Pham
An interview with Phu Huo Pham who fled Vietnam, made his way to Australia, worked unbelievably hard and now owns several restaurants. It includes his recipe for Banh Xeo - Vietnamese Pancake

Scheherezade
An interview with George and Elizabeth Szarach of Sheherezade, a Melbourne icon in Acland Street St Kilda that still uses the original homestyle recipes which came from Poland

Silvana Palmira 1997
An interview with Sylvana Palmira of Borsato, then (1997) Melbourne\'s best Italian restaurant.

Simon Goh and Baby Thomas
An interview with Simon Goh who owns and operates the Chinta Ria Malaysian restaurants and Baby Thomas of Haveli one of Melbourne\'s best Indian restaurants

Supper Inn 1997
An interview with Grace and Steve Lau, the father and daughter team that runs the Supper Inn a Melbourne institution open until 3am daily serving good quality Cantonese food.

Vlado Gregurek
An interview with Vlado Gregurek of Vlados - the red meat specialist talks about steak and the fire that cooks it

Walter Bourke
An interview with Walter Bourke, chef owner of Walter\'s Wine Bar and other enterprises that traces his move from ballet to restaurants