sandwich or a bahn mi but you get a really holistic experience of a chef s skill. this is lygon street, it s also known as melbourne s little italy. it s known for restaurants like this that are busy 24/7 and on the face of it, it looks like it has really bounced back after the pandemic. there s people everywhere, eating, drinking, enjoying themselves. if you look a little bit closer, you see things like this, where half of this restaurant is now closed because there still aren t enough customers and not enough staff. yet melbourne has also seen a huge amount of creativity from those in its restaurant scene, adapting to the problems they faced. people like shane delia, who is a much loved chef in melbourne, he has a restaurant called maha and several other venues, he saw a massive opportunity in lockdown because the fine dining restaurants were finding it really hard to pivot into takeaway. i remember sitting with my wife
melbourne s little italy. it s known for restaurants like this that are busy 24/7 and on the face of it, it looks like it has really bounced back after the pandemic. there s people everywhere, eating, drinking, enjoying themselves. if you look a little bit closer, you see things like this, where half of this restaurant is now closed because there still aren t enough customers and not enough staff. yet melbourne has also seen a huge amount of creativity from those in its restaurant scene, adapting to the problems they faced. people like shane delia, who is a much loved chef in melbourne, he has a restaurant called maha and several other venues, he saw a massive opportunity in lockdown because the fine dining restaurants were finding it really hard to pivot into takeaway. i remember sitting with my wife on the couch thinking, we are done. we are going to have to hand back the keys to the house and i don t even know how we are going to survive. we employ 110 staff. they ve all got partner