Dirty Linen Food Podcast with Dani Valent

Hosted ByDani Valent

Dirty Linen is a food podcast hosted by Australian journalist Dani Valent. A respected restaurant critic and food industry reporter in her home town of Melbourne, Dani is a keen, compassionate observer of restaurants and the people who bring them into being. Whether it’s owners, waiters, dishwashers, chefs or members of ancillary trades from tech to pottery, Dani interviews with compassion, humour and courage. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in investigating pressing issues.
Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

Dirty Linen is a food podcast with Dani Valent that goes behind the scenes in restaurants, cafes and bars. Your host is food journalist Dani Valent. For 20 years, Dani has been writing about restaurants and the people who give them life. But she’s an outsider, a critic, a tourist, a fan. Despite hearing the stories and writing the tales, she’s never really understood what happens behind the scenes. Now it’s time to get stuck in, with compassion, humour and fearlessness. Dirty Linen goes deep, both in conversations with individuals and in pressing topics. Dirty Linen is an Australian food podcast produced by the Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network.

All Episodes

Enrico Cerea (Da Vittorio, Italy) – Italian spirit

Chicco Cerea is the chef and patron of three-Michelin-star Da Vittorio near Bergamo in northern Italy. The Michelin guide says the restaurant is ‘elegant without being stuffy and sumptuous...

Annette Tan (FatFuku Singapore)

Annette Tan is a cook and food writer in Singapore where restaurants are open but drinking stops at 10.30pm on the dot and ‘COVID ambassadors’ patrol to ensure people...

Prateek Sadhu – Masque Restaurant, Mumbai

We head to Mumbai, India today to talk to Masque chef Prateek Sadhu. Masque explores India’s regional food in thoughtful tasting menus, inspired by the chef’s time at restaurants...

Janice Leung Hayes (Food writer and social entrepreneur) – it all changed overnight

Food writer and social entrepreneur Janice Leung Hayes speaks to us from Hong Kong. Janice is used to packing a bag and jumping on a plane but the pandemic...

Jade George (Kalei Coffee Beirut & The Carton Magazine) – gone in the blink of an eye

Dirty Linen goes to Beirut today to Jade George. Jade is an owner of Kalei Coffee, founded by her friend Dalia Jaffal. She also publishes The Carton, a magazine...

Tomas Lidakevicius (Turnips – Borough Market)

Today we head to London to speak to Tomas Lidakevicius, who was executive chef at Michelin-starred City Social when the pandemic bit. Tomas has left behind the 80-hour weeks...

Noemi Lekube (Basque Tours – San Sebastian) – pintxos in a pandemic

Noemi Lekube takes Australian, American and Asian tourists on food adventures in the Basque country around San Sebastian. Or at least she did. Noemi talks about a San Sebastian...

Liam Tomlin (Chefs Warehouse) – the South African story

Liam Tomlin used to be an owner and executive chef of Sydney’s three-hat Banc but he now owns five restaurants in Cape Town, South Africa. We talk to him...

Jorge Curi (Madre Mia, Brazil) – surviving week by week

Our trip around Planet Pandemic takes us to Brazil, where chef Jorge Curi runs three restaurants in Pelotas, a city on the far south coast, two hours from Uruguay....

Sam Crofskey (C1 Espresso, Christchurch) – pandemic predictions

For 24 years, Sam Crofskey has been running C1 Espresso in Christchurch, New Zealand. That’s long enough to see off a couple of earthquakes and a global pandemic. We...