Nick Connellan

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Mountain Culture Brewing Has Bought Fox Friday. What Now?

2 weeks ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

Two of Australia’s Most Hyped Breweries Become OneIt’s one of the biggest moments in local craft beer history. Craft brewing’s initial decades were defined by a sense of optimistic rebellion. Big Beer had conditioned the nation’s drinkers to accept bland, mediocre brews – and the upstarts were going to fix the situation with Real Beer, was the thinking. Then came the buyouts.
Inside One of the World’s Largest Soy Sauce Factories

2 weeks ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

The minibus rumbles up to the red light, stops, and lurches on its suspension as we crowd over to the right-hand windows, gawking at the sheer scale of the city alongside us. More than 3000 fibreglass silos – each 10 metres high and algae-green – stretch further than we can see, interspersed with roads, spindly exhaust stacks and blocky white buildings. The residents? Trillions and trillions of tasty microbes that will end up on dinner tables all over the world.
Two-Ingredient Beurre Monte Sauce Elevates Any Dish

3 weeks ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

You know Curtis Stone’s easy smile after 15 years watching him spruik the goods for Coles. But before the chef ever stepped into a TV studio, he trained under the revered Marco Pierre White, going on to run the show at White’s Soho restaurant Quo Vadis. And for the last decade, Stone’s operated Maude and Gwen, his one-Michelin-star restaurants in Beverly Hills and Hollywood respectively.
Star Melbourne Ice-Cream Brand Luther’s Scoops Opens a Third North-Side Store

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

The original Luther’s Scoops shop in Brunswick was broken almost from the day it opened, in early 2021. “We outgrew that pretty quickly, which wasn’t hard to do, given the size of it,” founder Christian Williams tells Broadsheet. “And we couldn’t get three-phase power without upgrading the whole block, which would have been hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Melbourne Chef Mo Zhou Says This Salted Honey Croissant Is “Unreal”

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

Mo Zhou grew up in Zhengzhou, a large city in northern China. His family moved to Melbourne when he was a teenager, and he finished high school here. Then came that age-old conundrum: what to do in life? He didn’t have the marks to enrol in medicine or law, so he chose something safe and reliable: business. Everything changed a couple of years into his degree, when Zhou took a six-month spin through the UK, France, Germany and Italy and discovered a nascent passion for food.
Yarraville Restaurant Eleni’s Kitchen & Bar Set Alight - Again

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

Eleftheria Amanatidis’s family has been running restaurants in Yarraville since 1971, including the suburb’s first Greek eatery. She and sister Natalie Amanatidis carried on that legacy in 2018, when they opened Eleni’s Kitchen & Bar on Anderson Street. In June last year the Greek restaurant was damaged by an arson attack and closed for more than four months to be rebuilt. Police charged a 35-year-old man, who is still due to appear in court. Now the business has been targeted again.
It Sure Seems Like This Is Curtains for Fitzroy North’s Pinotta

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

“I sound really clichéd, but we really wanted to open a good local restaurant that’s popular not for just 12 months,” Heidi Modra told Broadsheet the year after opening Pinotta in 2011. “We want to be here for ages, we want to become part of the landscape.”Well, mission achieved. Over the past 14 years the little Italian restaurant that could has become a treasured institution for Fitzroy North residents, almost as integral to the village as Piedimonte’s. Modra’s loved her time, but she’s tired.
The New Chef at Molli in Abbotsford Is a Fermentation Master

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

With 24 openings to his name since 2006, Nathan Toleman is one of Melbourne’s most prolific and successful restaurateurs. But even the founder of juggernauts like Top Paddock and Higher Ground sometimes gets it wrong. So it was at Molli, the 10-month-old restaurant he’s just relaunched in Abbotsford with a new team and a more approachable, everyday concept.
The Deeds Brewing Site in Glen Iris Will Live On – Thanks to a Stomping Ground Co-Founder

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

The demise of the multi-award-winning Deeds Brewing was a major blow for Melbourne’s beer scene. Actual beer aside, the brand’s Glen Iris taproom, designed by Splinter Society, was one of the most striking in recent memory. “They did an amazing fit-out,” says Steve Jeffares, co-founder of The Local Taphouse and current co-owner of Stomping Ground in Collingwood and Moorabbin.
Five To Try: New Melbourne Bars We Drank at in March

1 month ago | broadsheet.com.au | Nick Connellan

Suze, Fitzroy NorthFounding chef Ellie Bouhadana may have moved on, yet Hope St Radio’s focaccia remains one of the hottest breads in town (grab the recipe here). But if you’ve been following chef Steve Harry since his last gig, Fitzroy’s Napier Quarter, you know his focaccia with house-made agrodolce belongs in the same conversation. Of course it’s on the menu at Suze, the Hot-Listed wine bar Harry and front-of-house veteran Giulia Giorgetti opened last month.