The Mitchen with Andrew Levins and Mitch Orr

We back! Mitch and Levins head to the Noma Australia site as the staff pack the restaurant away into boxes before heading back to Copenhagen. We catch up with Noma team leader Katherine Bont and restaurant manager James Spreadbury, plus meet a handful of Noma chefs from Australia, America, Italy and Brazil! 

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We made it to 25 episodes so we had to go BIG to celebrate - so we saved up all our money and got the biggest star we know: DAN HONG. Merivale's golden child himself, from the kitchens of Mr Wong, Ms G's, Lotus and El Loco, sitting at the Mitchen table answering the millions of Hongy realted questions that needed to be answered. This episode also marks the return of Darren Robertson from Three Blue Ducks in Bronte and Byron, and we talk about burgers, hot sauce, T.O.Y.S., managing two restaurants at once and Mitch's new business venture, ending the episode with some thrilling glad wrap and apron talk.Find us at http://facebook.com/themitchen

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Ahead of the Keep Sydney Open rally this weekend, we invited Keep Sydney Open's Tyson Koh to come onto the show to talk about how Sydney's lockout laws have affected Sydney's nightlife and small business. We're also joined by Ed Loveday, Mitch's business partner at ACME, who recently closed his bar The Passage, thanks in part to the lockout laws.If you love going out in Sydney and don't want to see more rules brought in that will give us even less to do at night, please join us at the Keep Sydney Open rally this Sunday afternoon from 12:30pm at Belmore Park. For more info head to Facebook.com/KeepSydneyOpen2014.

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Mike Baird locked us out of Mitch's kitchen this week so we recorded it in the sunny Harmony Park in Surry Hills and invited special guest Louis Tikaram (EP & LP, Los Angeles; ex-Longrain), Jemma Whiteman (Pinbone) and Jordan Toft (The Coogee Pavillion) to join us in the sunshine. This week we talk about those dang lockout laws and what went down at 10 William St last weekend, point out our favourite places to eat in LA and find out what Pinbone cooked in Indonesia.

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We try to do a listener feedback episode without any actual listener feedback. Whoops. Mitch talks up his episode of 'Chef's Night Out' and Mike gives a little preview of the Pinbone takeover of 10 William St.

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A brand new episode all about BBQ! Ahead of The Sydney Barbecue Festival this weekend, we invited Alabama pitmaster Chris Lilly (Big Bob Gibson's Bar-B-Q) to come tell us everything he knows about that slow smoked good stuff. Also joining us is singer Joyride (performer of many hit songs including The Mitchen theme!), who is teaming up with Levins to judge a BBQ contest at the festival this weekend. Smoke it up.

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We celebrate our 20th episode by letting Mike take over as host, leading a long conversation about tea and coffee with some of Sydney's experts: tea distributor Arthur Tong from Tea Craft, Dan Yee, owner of Artificer Coffee Bar & Roastery and Daniel Jackson from Edition Coffee Roasters. Together we discuss what allured our guests to the world of coffee and tea, the nerdier side of coffee lovers, cooking with teas and coffee beans and some cool newer methods that we weren't completely familiar with. Pour yourself a cuppa, tune in and feel deep disappointment with your cuppa as you hear about all far superior hot drinks our guests are the masters of.

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We're back at The Mitchen table after a short break and have filled every seat with a diverse lineup of guests! Joining Levins, Mitch and Mike is American chef Ryan Harris from The Proper Sandwich in Napa Valley, plus two Australians now living in America: winemaker Erin Pooley, behind Napa Valley's Wei Chi Wines and Emily Levins, who's been working in the New York restaurant scene over the last three years. We're also joined by the C in ACME: 2015 winner of the Citi Service Excellence award Cam Fairbairn.We talk about the Napa Valley restaurant and wine scene, that recent damning review of Per Se in New York, eating ham over Christmas, Australian food that's missed the most while living overseas AND we debut a brand new regular segment that's too hot for iTunes!  

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We invited Sydney food power couple Naomi Hart and Gregory Llewellyn to The Mitchen table to look back at their massive 2015, in which they opened The Gretz Bar in Enmore, put out their first cookbook Fried Chicken and Friends and continued killing it at their American restaurant Hartsyard in Newtown. Over the course of 45 minutes we swap Christmas lunch recipes, discuss the changing face of Newtown's late night dining scene and find out that Gregory is a closet magic fan.

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We head to Sydney's Automata for a chat with head chef Clayton Wells, who was last heard on our first episode! Also joining us is Jillionaire from Major Lazer, who is best known for DJing, yelling on the microphone at festivals and running a record label, but before all that he used to run a restaurant in Trinidad and is currently involved in opening a Trinidadian restaurant in Brooklyn.Jillionaire lets us know about all of the amazing Trini food that we can't get in Sydney, Clayton lets us know what the first few months of Automata have been like and all five of us have a big old sook about the current state of late night dining in Sydney.

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