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He was one day in front of the curve. @chefdavestewart shut @ascotfoodandwine yesterday. In this no-holds-barred ep, Dave reveals he's been so anxious about steering his business through the pandemic that he called an ambulance one night thinking he was having a heart attack. We spoke about leftover milk, lockdown islands, business and sanity preservation, and the fish-of-the-day revival he hopes is on the other side of this. And after we talked, he zoomed north to get over the NSW border...

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From the Premier just now.

191 cases
35 in hospital
9 in intensive care

Metro Melb has unsustainable numbers, cannot suppress and contain without taking significant steps. It will spiral out of control. We have to be realistic about the circumstances we confront. This is not over. Pretending it's over because we want it to be over is part of the problem. We have a chance to change that. We are on the cusp of something very bad.

So...

Stage 3 stay at home restrictions are effective midnight tomorrow night for 6 weeks. There's no alternative. Complacency has set in.

Restaurants back to takeaway only.

We have no choice but to take these difficult steps, evidence-based decision about next steps.

Details:

All metro local government areas and Mitchell Shire (Kilmore, Tallarook, Broadford, Seymour) are subject to stay at home from midnight tomorrow night. Mornington Peninsula is locked down. Geelong isn't. Melbourne people are not allowed to travel to regions to dine. Postcodes will be collected.

Differences to last lockdown:

- You can't leave metro Melbourne to get exercise.
- regional Vic has few cases - this is designed to keep it that way
- stay at your principal place of residence, not holiday home
- schools: Year 11 & 12 students return on Monday; specialist schools will open as normal. All other students: school holidays extended one week. Further announcements in coming days.
- towers going from hard lockdown to regular lockdown asap ...

When a person wears her heart on her sleeve (& great sleeves btw!!) it's impossible not to feel her feels too. I've caught up with @hannahjosephinegreen a few times during the bastard COVID times and if I had to use just one word to describe her (& hopefully not diminish her) it would be 'caring'. She cares about her staff, she honours her business goals at @etta_melbourne, she loves her community, she is passionate about the hospitality industry overall. She's a total gem, actually.

It was a privilege to talk to her on a pretty bad day late last week, with cancellations at her edge-of-lockdown Brunswick East restaurant making trade a marginal proposition, and occasional bouts of huggy-kissy customer behaviour adding an extra layer of peril to staying open.

Hannah is today's guest on @dirtylinenpodcast. We speak about change, stress, community and excellent chickpeas.

Listen via link in bio or bit.ly/dirtylinenpodcast 🎧

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💔 108 new cases. 3031 and 3051 (Flemington, Kensington, North Melbourne) in lockdown. 9 public housing towers in complete shutdown. Very heavy. ...

Chilaquiles is a Mexican breakfast that uses up yesterday's tortillas and fries them up with eggs and whatever else is to hand. I made a version for today's fam brunch using white corn chips, black beans and eggs, all scrambled up in a pan. I put all the fixings on the table so the chilli freaks and spice phobes could all go their own way. Chopped tomatoes, avo mashed with lemon and salt, spring onions, coriander, sour cream stirred with chipotle in adobo, dry-roasted, peeled and chopped green chilli. I was feeling fond and sweetly sad about @redtreehouse in Mexico City, a guesthouse where the ladies cook a different breakfast each morning, to eat out in the steamy courtyard. I wonder how it's going there now... #canttravelcaneat ❣️🌞🥑 ...

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Today's podcast is an in-depth chat with Tim Mann, the man who killed brunch.

His all-day cafe, bar and restaurant Grub in Melbourne's Fitzroy reopened after the shutdown without an egg or an avocado on the premises. He's used the pandemic as an opportunity to reconsider every single part of his business and to see if he can't make it work for him, not just as an enterprise, but as part of a fulfilling life that's not all eggs, avo and alt-milk.
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Put-it-on-everything soy chilli black bean sauce from @genghiskhanh is the new recipe on my site this week! 🤩 Khanh is chef at @sunda_dining, a progressive Melbourne restaurant that draws on his Vietnamese heritage and local Australian ingredients.

During lockdown, Sunda’s takeaway menu included a barramundi dish with a heat-and-eat sauce that completely rocked my world. I couldn’t believe how tasty this spicy, salty, funky, rich sauce was so I had to ask Khanh for the recipe. He told me it comes via his mum and was his favourite comfort food dish when he was back home with her in Sydney. 

It’s so good on fish and greens but you can also eat it plain with rice, or on chicken, tofu or eggs – it’s a magic potion that may just change your life. This makes a decent batch that will keep for a month. It makes me so happy to have this sauce in the fridge.

Sunda is open for dine in, takeaway and you can also find their food on @providoor 👍 ...

Oh man. Postcodes going into stage 3 lockdown from Thursday until at least 29 July: 3012, 3021, 3032, 3038, 3042, 3046, 3047, 3055, 3060, 3064. Restaurants back to takeaway only. ☹️ #savehospo ...

When a table of 20 no-showed at @cherrytreehotel, manager Toby Kingsley felt he needed to explain that it was more than an inconvenience. It meant the whole dining room was empty.⁣
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So he revved up the pub's van, blared @theangelsbandofficial 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (No Way Get **** etc)' through the loudspeaker and drove over with the eftpos machine...⁣
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Wrapping up the first week of @dirtylinenpodcast with two great chats. Thanks for listening, either now, then or into the future. I appreciate the ear-time! Link in bio🎙️⁣
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This ep includes a chicken parmie rundown that has rocked my world!⁣
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Also featuring fantastic insights from @ganeevbains @ish_restaurant ⁣
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Broth 4 Ever! @auntyfranklee specialises in bak kut teh, a pork rib "tea" beloved throughout Malaysia and Singapore. The basic formula is pork on the bone boiled in a herbed broth but there are countless variations by region, family and brainwave.⁣
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Fiorn Lee grew up in Sabah on rich, dark Hokkien-style BKT. Her Melbourne renditions are delicious and fortifying and at the moment she's doing this intense black garlic version that looks like it would keep every ill at bay. ⁣
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I chatted to Fiorn for my story about Melbourne's restaurant recovery. Like everyone, she's innovating, targeting deliveries to Malaysian neighbourhoods and changing her operating hours to accommodate new diner behaviour. “I used to close between 3pm and 5pm but during lockdown we opened every day between noon and 8pm,” she says. “We are still doing that because I find that people working from home don’t have a routine anymore. We have people wanting to dine at 4pm, which would never have happened before.” Partly it’s a blurring of daily rhythms but Lee thinks it’s also an instinctive spacing. “People don’t come out when they think it’s going to be busy,” she says. “They are naturally spreading themselves out.” Full story via link in bio. ...

Episode 4🎙️👂Caterina Borsato is a legend of Melbourne hospitality. Her city basement lunch lair @caterinascucinaebar is a favourite of lawyers and business folk. It's a true 'if these walls could talk' kind of place. She's stared down recessions, curveballs and crises aplenty in the 25 years she's been here but COVID19 has pushed her to her limits - and beyond.⁣
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@dirtylinenpodcast is a new food podcast discussing the issues the hospitality industry finds hard to talk about. We stick to one topic for a week - launch week is "when the rules change". And change they did...⁣
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Author, farmer, and Yuin man Bruce Pascoe's horrible summer included fighting the Victorian bushfires, which destroyed fencing, sheds and crops on his East Gippsland property, and being subjected to a demoralising round of identity politics.

But after a dreadful start to 2020, Pascoe's autumn rallying culminated in May, in the form of a heavy, dark brown bread. The loaf was made with an indigenous grain, grown on Pascoe's farm and milled – he thinks – for the first time in 200 years. The sturdy bread was one renaissance; the naming of the grain – mamadyang ngalluk or "dancing grass" – another.

Link in bio to my @goodfoodau story. Speaking to Bruce Pascoe is a privilege. I loved writing this story.
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Pic @magabalabooks / Matthew Newton ...