The Mitchen with Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr

A day before they won the award for best bar food (and gained a hat!) in this year's Good Food Guide, we went to Continental in Newtown and recorded an episode with Elvis Abrahanowicz (Porteno, Bodega, Continental) and Jake Smyth (Mary's, The Unicorn). In this super fun episode we discuss the pressure of running multiple beloved and busy venues, compare Father's Day hangovers and talk about what it's like to live and work in Newtown these days. The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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The 2016 edition of Gourmet Traveller's Australian Restaurant Guide has just been released, so we sat down with Pat Nourse, Gourmet Traveller's chief restaurant critic and deputy editor, plus two of the people from the restaurant Pat named number one in the country: Momofuku Seiobo's general manager Kylie Javier Ashton and executive chef Paul Carmichael.  Together we discuss the importance of restaurant reviews and guides (and the difficulties faced by putting one together), the challenges Paul had to overcome when taking over the kitchen at Seiobo and which is the best state for dining in Australia (hint: it's not NT). - The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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Levins and Mitch speak with Adelaide's Duncan Welgemoed, who was previously on the Live From Rootstock episode of The Mitchen, briefly chatting to us as he cooked an entire cow over coals. This time he doesn't roast any livestock BUT he does cook up a few incredible tales, including how he opened his acclaimed restaurant Africola (and why they're making the change from South to North African cuisine) AND some completely insane stories from his life as young South African chef trying to get by in the UK with no money. Great yarns, great dude, great ep. -- The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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We're super excited to announce that Sydney's Lord Mayor of Wine, Mike Bennie, will be hosting an episode of The Mitchen about wine once a month! We're even more excited to announce that we FOUND MIKE EGGERT! The two Mikes and Levins gather around Mike Bennie's business table with every intention of talking about wine but end up talking about beer for 40 minutes before a surprise interruption by Tom Egan of Jed Wines, who's brought with him a selection of Argentinian wines for us to try. Are we really gonna do this every month? It's gonna get messy. - The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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The Mitchen is back with new episodes going up every Tuesday! This week Levins and Mitch head to Redfern's Moon Park to speak with two thirds of the owners, chef Ben Sears and sommelier-manager Ned Brooks. One of our favourite restaurants in Sydney, Moon Park's incredible modern Korean food will only be available for another month when they shut their doors in September. We talk with Ben and Ned about how they got started, what Korean food means to them and the ongoing problems that come with running your own restaurant. - The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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After falling in love with his philosophies on tea, food and life in general, we invited ourselves over to Arthur Tong's warehouse, where he runs his tea business Teacraft. Arthur treats Levins, Mitch and Ghostboy Cantina's Toby Wilson to eight courses of tea - including whites, blacks and blends. It's the most relaxed episode of The Mitchen ever! Listen as the lads slurp away while discussing Teacrafts' origins, the essential purchases you need to make to become a tea wizard, Mitch's recent food travels in the UK and Europe and Toby's plans for Ghostboy Cantina at Tio's. - The Mitchen is a podcast about food in Sydney, hosted by Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr. Get in touch with us to ask us a question or tell us to start reading something we're missing out on. Email us at [email protected] or find us at facebook.com/themitchen. If you like what you hear, please leave us a nice review on iTunes!

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Levins and Mitch catch up with Toby Wilson, who opened up Ghostboy Cantina, a not authentic Mexican taqueria inside a Chinatown food court earlier this year. We talk Mexican food in Sydney, the best food court spots and fried chicken. Mitch lets us know why he's headed to the UK for a bit and Levins talks about The Dip popup going down at Automata this weekend.

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We're back with another BBQ episode! The last one was about Alabama BBQ, this time we go whole hog with Rodney Scott from Scott's BBQ in South Carolina and Morgan McGlone (Belle's Hot Chicken, Harpoon Harry). Rodney came to Sydney to smoke a whole pig or two with Morgy and found a moment to chat with us about all things slow and low. Get in touch with The Mitchen at facebook.com/themitchen

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We recorded a live episode in front of an audience at the MCA Artbar at the end of April, with special guests Pat Nourse (Gourmet Traveller), Lee Tran Lam (The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry, Good Food), Dan Hong (Mr Wong, Ms G's) and Giovanni Paradiso (10 William St, Fratelli Paradiso). Over the course of a pretty manic hour we have a carbonara battle, play a round of celebrity heads, ask each other a few hard hitting questions and get heckled by the audience for swearing too much. Thanks so much to Kate Scardifield and everyone at the MCA for setting it all up!

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Last week Mitch, Levins and Dan Hong sat down with Perth producer Ta-ku at Golden Age and spoke about getting into cooking, the food they eat when they're heartbroken and how they all know each other.Plus: Levins reveals the details of our very special, first ever LIVE EPISODE of The Mitchen, happening next week at the MCA Artbar!Buy tickets to see us LIVE at http://www.mca.com.au/events/artbar-april-2016-curated-kate-scardifield/

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