made by stolley.
Year
current
Client
Independent
Service
Chef / Creative Director
A parallel practice. No brief, no group, no fixed room. Just the work.
© made by stolley.
Context
made by stolley runs alongside the group and launch work, and has done since before the group work existed. This is where the independent creative voice lives: not briefed, not templated, not built for someone else's room.
The Indonesian thread is the spine of it. Not fusion. Not approximation. An honest engagement with the food culture: babi guling, rendang logic, the ferment-forward, acid-bright flavour language of the archipelago, adapted for Melbourne rooms and Bali nights and a Jakarta omakase that sold out at 25 seats a night for two weeks.
Selected work
Indonesian residencies
Japfa, Jakarta — 12-course sold-out omakase residency, January 2023. 25 seats per night, two weeks. A room that knew what it was eating.
Warkop, Richmond — week-long shop takeover with an Indonesian-leaning sandwich menu.
Pop-up residencies
Little Andora · Theodore’s · Comma Food & Wine (with Matt Woodhouse).
Content direction
La Caze Mama — Producer and director on two cooking promo videos for Australia’s leading Mauritian food importer and producer. Content direction, recipe development, on-camera cooking.
Outcome
made by stolley is the independent practice: food work with a point of view, built through real rooms, real menus and real service. Not content for content’s sake.
Windsor Wine Room
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