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WAW gathering

Highlights from the inaugural WAW Gathering in Melbourne.
Ben Shewry, WAW gathering

Highlights from the inaugural WAW Gathering in Melbourne.

Le Chateaubriand‘s Iñaki Aizpitarte and team planning their WAW Gives dish in the Melbourne Star Observation Wheel.

Photography: Colin Page

WAW founder and Attica chef Ben Shewry walking Berta‘s O Tama Carey and Biota‘s James Viles through Rippon Lea Estate.

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Nahm‘s David Thompson takes the stage.

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Iñaki Aizpitarte with journalist and culinary impresario Andrea Petrini.

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Peter Gilmore of Quay.

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Roy Choi of Los Angeles food-truck empire Kogi.

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Ben Devlin of Esquire, Jeremy Strode of Bistrode CBD and Scott Huggins of Magill Estate.

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Ceramic artist Kris Coad.

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Ah spring spring / how great is spring! / and so on: a dish of Dutch cream potatoes, baby turnips and spring garlic in kapenta broth by Nahm‘s David Thompson, Berta‘s O Tama Carey, Huxtable‘s Daniel Wilson and Bistro Dom‘s Duncan Welgemoed.

Photography: Colin Page

Omar Coles of Helping Hoops.

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“Sober crab”, from Ben Greeno of Momofuku Seiobo, Daniel Patterson of San Francisco restaurant Coi, Finnish journalist Kenneth Nars and Lyon-based writer Andrea Petrini.

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VG + LH cocktail from Bar Americano‘s Matt Bax.

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Maggie Beer

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After-party antics at Attica.

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