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

Ilanit Bard (Soigné Hospitality) – industry problems

Today on Dirty Linen, hospitality consultant Ilanit Bard talks about the industry problems that inspired her to launch Soigné during the pandemic. Her young business goes into restaurants to...

Jake Nicolson (Ghanem Group) – Looking Back, Looking Forward

Dirty Linen’s 2021 season kicks off with Looking Back, Looking Forward. We take stock and press on! Our first guest is Jake Nicolson, executive chef at the Ghanem Group,...

Dirty Linen 2021

Dirty Linen is putting the Summer Series on ice and getting back into gear for 2021. We want to hear from you. What are the issues you want to...

Dani’s Food Stories – an Outback Adventure.

Dirty Linen’s Summer Series takes a detour to outback Australia. Dani tells the tale of her car roll on a deserted road and the pissing-in-bottle misadventures that followed. Follow...

Ben Slack (Chief Revenue Officer – Tennis Australia) – Is is still possible for the AO to be ace?

The Australian Open is a key marker of the Melbourne summer but this year’s tennis tournament has been upended by COVID. We chat to Tennis Australia’s Chief Revenue Officer...

Sarah King (Designer – supercyclers) – sustainability, in front of us every day

Everyone wants to live more sustainably but it can be hard to know where to start. Today’s guest on Dirty Linen’s Summer Series has some ideas. Designer Sarah King...

Niki Russ Federman (Russ & Daughters, NYC) – Appetizing Since 1914.

Today Dirty Linen’s Summer Series heads back in time to New York, and an interview with Niki Russ Federman from Russ & Daughters. This iconic Lower East Side deli...

Daniel Goldstein (American Theatre Director) – Daniel Dreams of Sushi

Remember the film Jiro Dreams of Sushi? Dirty Linen chats to American theatre director Daniel Goldstein who saw the film, became obsessed with Jiro’s Tokyo restaurant, and went to...

Dani’s Food Stories (A Trip to India) – sitting on a sack of spuds

In today’s episode, Dirty Linen hops on a potato truck and rumbles down the Indian Himalaya. This story from host Dani Valent discusses the perils of wearing white jeans...

Ross Magnaye – diving into Filipino food

Filipinos are the fifth largest migrant group in Australia so why isn’t Filipino food better known, eaten and understood? On this episode of Dirty Linen’s Summer Series, we rope...