Hospo CheckIn
Turnip CheckIn #72 is Zackary Furst, head chef, Bar Liberty and winner of Good Food, Young Chef of the Year Award Victoria 2022. 1. What have you found comforting in times like these? In these times, I’ve not so much found some comfort but more rediscovered the comfort I have,
Amenity waste; it's a thing. We all chat about food waste in restaurants and cafes but what about amenity waste... Toilet paper, hand soaps, hand towels and/or dryers, do restaurant have access to products that can help them cut down on amenity waste. Baresop is a plant-based powder that, with
Last year, saw Megan Griffey and chef Jenna Abbruzzese, business partners and owners of Hawthorn cafe Our Kitchenette, make the permanent change from a cafe to retail and ready-made meals, online and in-store. The pair have stocked the shop with fresh meals prepared by Jenna as well as beautiful tableware and ceramics, selected
Scarf Community partners with restaurants and other hospitality businesses to run Scarf Dinners and provide meaningful training, mentoring and paid work experience to their participants who are from refugee and migrant backgrounds. So what happened in this - their 10th year - when those restaurants and business had to shut
Victorian winemakers, Matt & Lentil Purbrick of Minimum Wines, have been in Italy for just about all of 2020, making wines and getting their heads around the world we now find ourselves in. We checked in to see how they’re going. 1. What have been the biggest challenges this year
Michael and Christian Dal Zotto of Dal Zotto Wines in the King Valley are working through 2020 as best they can and slowly coming out the other side feeling strong. The family-owned business and Australian Prosecco pioneers base the culture of their operation on their team and customers. So, while having
Julian Hills, chef and owner of award-winning Navi Restaurant in Yarraville is looking forward to welcoming diners back into his small dining room in November. Like everyone, he’s had a hard year trying to find balance, support his staff and find other revenue streams, including Navi Bakery that sold out
Chef Paul Cooper is a doer. When restrictions set in earlier this year, the chef/owner of Bianchet Bistro and Providore in the Yarra Valley set about developing ideas he’d been considering for a while and he has established Yarra Valley Ketchup & Pies and Progress Food (a whole food meal
Andrew and Mary White have owned and operated much-loved CBD cafe, Cafe e Torta in the Royal Arcade for 20 years (this year!) as well as tea house, Royal St Collins. As plans to celebrate the 20 birthday had to be postponed in light of COVID-19, the couple are remaining
2020 has handed winemakers Tessa Brown and Jeremy Schmölzer - of VIGNERONS SCHMÖLZER AND BROWN in Beechworth - an unusual combination of factors. They welcomed their second child - beautiful! - but the summer bushfires brought about the complete loss of their first significant crop from their own vineyard, and