Dirty Linen chats to Manpreet Singh from Richmond's Ladyboy Dining in the wake of Victorian Premier Dan Andrew's easing of restrictions - including the limited opening of Melbourne restaurants from November 2. The next step doesn't go far enough for everyone but Manpreet is feeling positive and getting ready to welcome back diners.

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Paul Kasteel owns Hoo Haa bar in Windsor. It's upstairs on Chapel Street and has a drinking and DJ focus so sedate outdoor dining is far from a straightforward proposition. It's costing Paul $2000 a week to open for takeaway right now so he's understandably desperate to open safely. While he's waiting for clarity, there are a million things to think about and be overwhelmed about each day.

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There are lots of people who are ancillary to the hospitality industry - people like food writers (hello!) and photographers - hello, Kristoffer Paulsen. We talk about image-making in general, and focus on three key pics from Kris's portfolio: George Calombaris (pre-pandemic, mid-scandal), Victorian Premier Dan Andrews (pre-hotel quarantine) and Attica chef Ben Shewry (between lockdowns).

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Rabih Yanni owns Botanical Hotel in South Yarra, an iconic pub that looks after a huge, invested community. Rabih is finding solidarity with other prominent restaurateurs through the pandemic and hopes that progress towards common goals will continue to knit the hospitality industry together on the other side of lockdown. Meantime, he's feeling the tough times and looking forward to better times: Melbourne will get through this.

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Renowned Melbourne chef Philippa Sibley reckons this year has been one of the best, as well as one of the worst. She's appreciated the creativity of those around her and the opportunity to try new things herself. At the moment, she's excited about Take3byPS, her new mystery dinner delivery service. She's also feeling optimistic about a good summer in her job at city mainstay The European. Also this is the episode where I find my word nemesis: coulibiac. (I have said it 1000 times since this recording!)

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Mary-Louise McLaws is a Professor of Epidemiology, Hospital Infection and Infection Diseases Control at the University of NSW and a Member of the World Health Organisation ad hoc Infection Prevention and Control for COVID-19. We talk restaurants indoors and outdoors, and she tells us how business owners can improve safety for diners and staff.

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Today on Dirty Linen we chat to Omnia chef Steve Nairn about how sad it is to skip asparagus season and how difficult it is to plan reopening when you have no idea what the rules will be. We also dip into Steve's impressive CV to learn about grouse-plucking in Scotland and alphabetised everything at Eleven Madison Park. Fine dining is dead! Long live fine dining!

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Dan Sims' pandemic started with a cancelled cheese festival and 1.5 tonnes of cheese to move, and continued with some big questions about the place of mass gatherings in a COVID-normal world. How on earth might you do a wine festival without spittoons, for example? Dan is a hospo guy from way back but he's just as concerned about the place of the arts in a vibrant Australia - is there a way for creative industries to be stronger together?

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Christo Christophidis owns Ripponlea Food & Wine in inner-city Ripponlea and Mocha Jo's in outer-suburban Glen Waverley. As president of the Glen Waverley trader's association, he's been pandemicking since January when the area's Chinese community weathered early COVID impacts. We talk about finding the fire and remembering why you lit it in the first place, getting the bricks out of the boot of your business and how you get out of the mire and back to the magic.

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Mary-Jane Daffy is a veteran cafe opener, owner and adapter in Melbourne's south-east. She's launched a bunch of new businesses at Carter Lovett in Elsternwick over the past six months and is wondering which will persist as we creep out of lockdown. MJ is a clear thinking pragmatist with strong views on hospo's pre-COVID problems - we talk staffing, wages, prices, surcharges and community. She's a gem.

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