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Google PodcastsArlsan Mukhtar (Assistant Manager) – protecting but not protected.
Today Dirty Linen speaks to Arslan Mukhtar, ex-assistant manager at Red Spice Road. Arslan is now a frontline worker in hotel quarantine. The podcast is a great chat but...
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.
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Sungeun Mo (Chef) – utterly betrayed.
Today Dirty Linen speaks to Red Spice Road’s ex-head chef Sungeun Mo. Mo worked for the restaurant for four years and was well along the path to permanent residency...
Christian Price (Restaurant General Manager) – the shock of a re-opening
Dirty Linen stays on the topic of Red Spice Road via a chat with ex-group general manager Christian Price. Christian had the tough job of telling his team they...
Laura Dauphin (Events and Reservations Manager) – left out in the cold
Dirty Linen talks to visa worker Laura Dauphin, previously events and reservations manager at Red Spice Road, a Melbourne restaurant which liquidated in May 2020, then announced its reopening...
Jesslyn Chhua (Jack the Milkman) – Silver linings
Dirty Linen chats to Jesslyn Chhua, who opened Jack the Milkman in Murrumbeena just as Melbourne locked down. Weirdly, it’s been pretty good timing and her second cafe is...
Peter Gunn (IDES, Melbourne) – refinement, balance and trust
Dirty Linen heads to IDES in Melbourne to talk to chef and restaurateur Peter Gunn. The pandemic has been tough but it’s also been an opportunity. He’s learnt a...
Barb Dight (Cicciolina) – big changes
And we’re out of lockdown! Victorian restaurants are reopening after a five-day circuit breaker. We talk to experienced restaurateur Barb Dight from 27-year-old Cicciolina in St Kilda. Barb and...
Di Keser (Hardware Societe) – it’s OK not to be OK.
LOCKDOWN #3 Last time we spoke to Di Keser, she was bunkered down in Barcelona with her husband and dogs. Today she’s locked down in Melbourne, having just completed...
David Strange (Metung Hotel, East Gippsland) – state-wide lockdown frustrations
LOCKDOWN #3 grinds on and we head to Metung in East Gippsland for a chat with publican David Strange. He’s frustrated that regional Victoria is closed down for a...
Lisa Slaughter (Ripponlea Food & Wine/Mocha Jo) – finding things to be grateful for
LOCKDOWN #3. Melbourne is in the middle of a snap “short, sharp” five-day (fingers, toes & eyes crossed) lockdown, called on the eve of a super busy weekend for...