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Good Food Guide Awards 2020 #poweredbykounta

Kounta

restaurant, a 10 seat restaurant serviced and cooked by the two chefs, no complexity, just joy. An eponymous 16-seat restaurant within a subterranean space on Melbourne’s Bourke Street. The Fogartys, together with their children John, Mark and Anna, planted the first vines, making the vineyard a true labour of love.

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A Fool’s Choice

EATER

Donovan’s first job at McCormack’s Margot Café is a far cry from her time at her first steady restaurant job at TradeWinds, a “22-­seat Italian cigar den housed in a double-­wide trailer on a dirt hillside corner” in Valparaiso, Florida. She came up in the era of Kitchen Confidential lore. And she behaved like it.

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MRM People & Places: Game On at Walk-On’s and Gingerbread Houses for Humanity

Modern Restaurant Management

” Gunderson began her career in the Napa Valley in 2001 after moving from Colorado to California to work as an intern at Robert Mondavi Winery. I am also excited to continue to work with Director of Vineyards, Don Munk, Senior Winemaker Alison Frichtl Hollister, and all of the very talented, hard-working members of our winemaking team.”