and not enough staff. but 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 re done. we re going to have to hand back the keys to the house and i don t even know how we re going to survive. we employ 110 staff. they ve all got partners, they ve all got kids, they ve got friends, so the extended network is huge and the impact on them was something that was really a heavy weight for me to carry. so he saw that there was a real opportunity there to par cook everything, have it ready to be finished at home and delivered in refrigerated boxes, and he d shifted everything.
they made this in house, they aged their meats, they used all the herbs and spices, so you re essentially getting a restaurant dish between bread so there s still the character, there s still the heritage in something like a 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. but 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,
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 2a/7, and on the face of it, it looks like it s 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. but 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.
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. but 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 re done. we re going to have to hand back the keys to the house and i don t even know how we re going to survive. i mean, we employ 110 staff. they ve all got partners, they ve all got kids, they ve got friends, so the extended network is huge and the impact on them was something that was really a heavy weight for me to carry. so he saw that there was a real opportunity there to par cook everything, have it ready
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 s 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. but 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 re done. we re going to have to hand back the keys to the house