Abla Ahmad
Abla opened her restaurant in the late 1970s, it has become famous for her traditional Lebanese dishes.

Beer & Food
Melbourne chefs match beer and food.

George Biron
George Biron closed his restaurant Sunnybrea, but is now about to open a winery restaurant in the vicinity of Geelong.

Silvana Palmira
After a long career cooking in her Melbourne restaurants Silvana talks to Mietta in the months before her retirement.

Greg Brown
Greg Brown, highflying chef and now baker and partner in the Browns Bakery chain, gives cooking classes for kids.

Garry Farrel
Gary Farrell will represented Australia in the first individual cooking championship to find the world's best chef.

Chef Competition
Mietta describes the trials of apprentice chefs competing in a competition of which she was one of the judges.

Chris Talihmanidis
He has worked in his native Greece, in other parts of Europe, in Melbourne, on Mt Buffalo, in the Antarctica and, for the past two decades on the coast in Lorne and at Apollo Bay.

Donlevy Fitzpatrick
Donlevy describes himself as a property developer but he has started a number of Melbourne's most important establishments.

Donovan Cooke
Was Mietta's last chef. He now runs his own restaurant est est est.

James Tan
James Tan is one of the Australia's best practitioners of the mixed menu with an Asian accent.

Dure Dara
Dure Dara, President of the Victorian Chapter of the Restaurant & Caterers Assoc., once a partner in Stephanie's Restaurant, now has interests in a number of important Melbourne cafes.

Gilbert Lau
Gilbert Lau's restaurant Flower Drum is arguably Australia's best delivering, refined food and impeccable service to those lucky enough to get a booking.

Food Festival 99
Melbourne Wine and Food Festival

Home Dinner
Herald Sun sponsored competition provides a star chef to cook the winners dinners.

Mietta's Hong Kong Staff
Mietta's Hong Kong staff have branched out into their own businesses in Melbourne.

Ivana Della Maria
Ivana prepared Italian dishes for Mietta's sister Patricia at the Queenscliff Hotel.

Jimmy the Original
Jimmy has to call himself the Original as there are so many Greek restaurants in Melbourne using his name.

Jimmy Shu
Jimmy Shu a master of the mixed Asian menu in his Melbourne restaurant, Near East and his Darwin and Alice Springs Hunaman Restaurants.

Kuni Ichikawa
Kuni is the Godfather of Japanese restaurants in Melbourne

Bill Marchetti
Bill Marchetti has run the Latin and Tuscan Grill until their closure in 2001.

Mario De Pasquale & Maccarone
Mario's was one of the first and is still one of the best Melbourne cafes - and it still serves breakfast all day.

Nouria Salehi
Nouria Salehi, whilst working full time as senior physicist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, started in the restaurant business in 1983 that she could provide jobs in order to sponser her family from Afghanistan to Australia.

Pelligrini's
The 1950s' Melbourne coffee bar is still an essential meeting place in the city.

Phu Huo Pham
Worked as a kitchen hand for Mietta's. Today he controls several restaurants of his own.

Phillipe Mouchel
Phillipe came to Melbourne to open Restaurant Paul Bocuse

Scheherezade
A Polish classic in the heart of Acland St St Kilda.

Simon Goh
Simon mixed Malaysian food and rythm and Blus together and came up with the Chinta Ria restaurants.

Jeremy Strode
Talented English chef jeremy Strode, has now left his restaurant Pomme and is chef at Langton's

Supper Inn
If its 2am and you need a quick food fix follow the crowd to the Supper Inn

Gregory Vlados
Australia's best steak cooked by the master himself.

Walter Bourke
Once a prinicipal dancer with the Australian Ballet Walter now runs Walter's Wine Bar