History: I
have been a chef now for over 19 years, working in hotels, resorts and fine
dining restaurants around Australia.
I am now the Executive Chef at the Explorers Inn restaurant in Emerald
Queensland, where I am working hard to win my first chefs hat.
Have you always wanted to be a chef?
As soon as I left school I new I wanted to work with food.
How would you define your style?
Modern Australian, using fresh ingredients and keeping it
simple.
What is your flavour these days?
Anything that is coming into season.
Obsessive compulsive about?
Everything to do with my kitchen and the food.
Your greatest culinary inspirations?
Matt Moran and Heston Blumenthal, both great chefs and
business people.
What do you like about this business?
The travel opportunities, experimenting with food and
flavours to come up with new menu items and the people you meet through your
travels.
Most “eyebrow raising” menu item?
Grilled barramundi resting on roasted chat potatoes finished
with a strawberry cream sauce.
Signature Dish: Twice cooked bangalow pork belly with
a cherry glaze and a celery, walnut, apple, crackling salad.
Cuisine: Modern Australian
Price: Average Price For Entree & Main - $50
Address: Emerald Explorers Inn, Gregory Highway Emerald QLD
Offering impressive modern Australian cuisine, Emerald Explorers Inn Restaurant is a hidden gem just outside the centre of Emerald. Serving a generous daily breakfast buffet and a la carte menu Monday to Saturday evenings (Sunday evenings for motel guests), this relaxed venue also caters for functions and conferences. The seasonal menu might include pan seared scallops, served resting on sun dried tomatoes and baby spinach and finished with a saffron cream sauce, or the ‘Surf & Turf’ – eye fillet topped with prawns, scallops and half a Moreton Bay bug. A complimentary shuttle bus runs to and from town, ideal for visitors staying elsewhere or locals who fancy a drink with their meal.
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