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This what what he had to say on Ladro being voted the best new restaurant in Melbourne last year: “I love that kind of reactionary vote. I mean was that a fair assessment or is it fair to compare Ladro to fine dining.I don’t care. I love the place. I’m a huge fan of that. It was a relief to me. It was an antidote to a lot of other places.
“I spend to much time fine dining. Especially when you are a chef and you come out of that background, it’s not what you want when you come out of work you want to mop sauce with your bread. You want to talk loud and havce a good time. So Ladro is very much what I wanted and needed when I was very first brought there. I’m a supporter – She is really great; she comes from a fine dining background. That’s not just happening here.
“Joel Robushon is doing a more casual operation(s) in Paris. It’s a chef led thing and I think it’s good for the world to take a little bit of stuffiness out of dining.”
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