Collaborate.
Year
Ongoing
Client
Various
Service
Chef · Collaborator
Open to working with chefs, restaurateurs, content producers and brands. Pop-ups, residencies, guest chef nights, kitchen consulting, content direction. The format is less important than the fit.
© Collaborate.
Sustained chef relationships
COVID lockdown was two years cooking Indonesian at home. Making my wife feel at home, learning to cook what I actually wanted to eat, investing in myself. That period produced the signature ijo chilli oil, a run of crafted set menus, working knowledge of branding, and the La Caze Mama consultation. Coming out of lockdown, helped relaunch Eazy Peazy. Then kept building: own projects, own profile, pop-ups in Bali and Jakarta, exploring Melbourne. Not a gap. Building my name instead of someone else's.
The Melbourne chef relationships aren't cameos. They're sustained working relationships built on trust and craft.
Atsushi Sakai, Future Future, Fitzroy (2021 to present). Long-standing. Five-day weeks, all stations including the pass. MFWF cover. The kind of relationship built in service, not conversation.
Diana Desensi, Bar Bambi & Daphne (2024 to 2026). Bar Bambi relaunch: kitchen systems, training, standards. Three-month stabilisation at Daphne (Etta Group).
Matt Woodhouse, Untitled, Richmond (2023). Post-opening stabilisation. Standards, recipe setup, station build.
Mischa Tropp, Avani, Tucks Winery & Toddy Shop (2023). Second chef at Avani. Ran Tucks solo for a weekend. Residency extended two months on the strength of it. Day-one kitchen at Toddy Shop, first Sunday solo.
Collaborative work
Festival collaborations
MFWF x Makan — Things We Like to Makan with Tasia & Gracia, March 2024. Indonesian menu built alongside.
Suzie Q x MFWF — collaboration with Brendan Pang. A full room.
Elsie’s Mischa & Friends — guest chef alongside Tom Sarafian, Matt Woodhouse, Harry Mangat and Mischa Tropp (2024).
Guest chef nights
Mantis Bali — collaboration dinner, December 2022. The venue’s highest single-night covers to date.
Chef Archie (@archiepelagic) — collaboration omakase, January 2023.
Cooks CC — guest chef menu, January 2023.
Warkop, Richmond — guest chef collaboration (babi guling banh mi).
Open to
Guest chef nights · Multi-day residencies · Pop-up takeovers · Kitchen consulting (systems, COGS, menu) · Content direction · Brand collaborations · International work.
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