Deep in the Weeds - A Food Podcast with Anthony Huckstep

With a successful restaurant in the CBD, two at the international airport and a role as curator of Carriageworks Farmers Market, Mike McEnearney (Kitchen by Mike) was living the food dream, but the pandemic landed like a tornado, swept him off his feet and took everything with it.

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As restaurants began to open up with limited seats again the dreaded ‘no shows’ reared its head and left restaurants reeling. Given we happily pay for tickets to the movies, footy or a concert Sali Sasi (Leigh Street Wine Room) believes it’s time to rethink the booking model for restaurants.

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A wave of new restaurants added colour, character and nuance to Brisbane’s culinary landscape, but the pandemic stopped it in its tracks. With closed borders and an industry reeling, Ben O’Donoghue (Billykart Kitchen) believes the sun is setting on the old restaurant model, and it's time to embrace a new, more viable way of operating.

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After losing everything in the bushfires and a huge drop in sales due to the pandemic. Now Prue Henschke, producer of one of the world’s best wines Hill of Grace, has found inspiration in the new shoots emerging from the remains.

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After winning multiple awards in its first year, 30,000-seat Bank West Stadium and it’s sibling venues closed their doors and stood down over 3000 casual hospitality workers. But chef Martin Dulke put his kitchens to work to help feed quarantined people returning to Australia and our frontline medical, military and police workers.

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Honey Bees are the world's most important pollinator of food crops. One third of the food we consume each day relies on pollination mainly by bees, but with storms, drought, bushfires, floods, a grasshopper plague and a pandemic for good measure, Tim Malfroy (Malfroy’s Gold) one of Australia’s best wild honey producers, discusses the impact it is having.

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As operators try to work out just when to swing the doors open, chef and restaurateur Kathryn Russack (Colenso, Kyneton) discovered a new connection with her community that has her considering a new beginning.

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After a decade launching multiple venues, the pandemic threatened to take away everything Darren Robertson and the team behind Three Blue Ducks had built. Now with the easing of travel and restaurant restrictions it could mark an opportunity to peg back what was lost and become an integral part of the community for all of their venues.

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Over a decade ago one of Australia’s best chefs Brent Savage (Bentley Restaurant & Bar, Monopole, Yellow, Cirrus) joined forces with sommelier Nick Hildebrandt to build a restaurant group of vastly different award-winning establishments. With the restaurants booming the pandemic landed and not only forced them to re-think each venue, but saw them working harder than ever before to save them.

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In the wake of the pandemic Duncan Welgemoed (Africola) saw business drop by 83% overnight, but as devastating as it was he realised it delivered a rare moment to let go of all the things that don’t matter, and create a new restaurant model as an essential business.

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